Friday, September 5, 2008

Prince minus the eyeliner

So the new word on the street is that the prince is no longer a angry little kid. OK he was never a little kid but you know what I mean. It seems that over at gamespot they have a sweet lowdown on the new game. To those of you who have yet to see the trailer from Leipzig I would recommend it. Granted it's more of a showcase of some of the basics and the art which has gotten the most amount of attention so far. If you have seen any of the trailers so far you'll know why so many people have been drooling over even just the first few trailers when it was just a picture of the prince and Elika. Though in the article they bring up some really interesting nuggets of information.

One of the main points the article touched on was that this story will be outside of the main story arc of the sands of time trilogy. This means that you will be introduced as not so much as a prince per say; but more of a man who is setting off to find and acquire his own riches. The article goes on to talk about some of the inspirations for the new "prince" to give you a better feel of who the prince will be like. Some of the names thrown out are Han Solo and Lo "Dark Cloud." If the name doesn't ring a bell that's OK. It just means you where not caught up in the Crouching Tiger hidden Dragon mania that hit the states. It was called the greatest movie of all time by Al Roker. So you know it must be true. Yeah, so anyway sorry for that tangent.

The game is said to focus more on acrobatics than combat, we'll see what they mean by that. I highly doubt this will turn into a circus show but personally I like the idea of focus on acrobatics just by watching the trailer you can see why. If you watch the video you can see the princes new partner Elika. She is there to help the prince out in a multitude of ways. Just name a few of the cool things she can do to help you out are if you ever are to get lost while roaming Elika will help guide the way to your next goal. another one of the very helpful things she will do is give you that extra little distance when trying out some of the more interesting acrobatic moves in the game. Though one thing I did notice was that Elika seems to also be a pretty good fighter as well. The last thing you'll notice that the end of the demo she can heal parts of the world around her.

It turns out she is being very well received those who have played the game already. One of the things they like about her is when you are on a ledge and have to get by she will just drop down and the prince will garb a hold her and move her to the other side. Also on top of that Ubi has said that they plan on making her un killable by the AI.

With all of this I only hope that Ubisoft can pull most of it off.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey man, keep it up. You're getting noticeably better now.

I would recommend reading other previews and features to get a feel for sentence structuring and grammatical usage. Some of your sentences read strangely. In fact, one of the best methods is to read everything aloud to yourself as you do these. It really does help.

Other than that, just keep it up! It's like an RPG, you'll just keep leveling up your skill as you do these. Eventually with enough practice and some luck, you'll get paid to do them.