Customer Reviews

Prince of Persia: Rival Swords

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This was my first Prince of Persia game. Given the relative dearth of great adventure games on the PSP, I thought I would give this acclaimed franchise a try. However, I must say I'm embarrassed when I walk by the PoP:RS game case that sits collecting dust on my bookshelf. I'm embarrassed because of how many times I killed the poor prince before finally abandoning him and his "The Dark Elf formerly known as Prince" alter-ego to their convoluted (and heavily self-narrated) fate. Many things about this game were cool: 1) some of the action was cool; 2) some of the fighting (though often confusing) was fun (there were some great moves); and 3) the animation was great. However, the combination of nervous, unforgiven platforming (that requires long complex series of rushed, precise, and delicate jumps and leaps and drops and stabs), which I assume to be a staple of the PoP series with the inability to control the camera (which may be a fault of the PSP version?), meant that lots of times, it was almost impossible to guide the character jumping from beam to beam without being able to see where he was going next! So, my poor Prince character died thousands of times over, as I would simultaneously try to figure out where he should be going, what precipices he should jump to, and what puzzles he should solve while jumping into blind spots. Poor guy! I liked the story line, and many parts of the game were fun, but having the character fall to his death several times ever fifty feet made the overall experience more frustrating than fun. The idea of the franchise, at least in my mind, is that the prince is very acrobatic and stealthy and is moving swiftly through the game to make things right, not that the prince can rise from the grave infinite times to retry the same jump, swing, balance, stab, jump combo over and over again.

If you are big fan of the age-old Prince of Persia on PC, this wouldnt be such a disappointment. It has decent graphics even on PSP. Nice plot and cool interactions along the way. But this is the explorer kinda game, not so much of fast fast action and quick fun.... But the coolest part of the game is time recall...

I have a collection of good PSP games and this one is really good. I can't play the game as much as I would like to because I work but when I get the chance to play I just can't stop playing because its that much fun.

Maybe this is just not my game, but i loved the "Sands of Time". The PSP controls are just too... complicated. It also wasn't engaging or long enough.

Let me start by saying I love most Prince of Persia games and I would probably like this one to if it were for the camera! How am I supposed to play a game when the camera is facing backwards 1/2 the time? And I know I could re-center the camera but I never really had this problem with other PoP games (sands of time comes to mind).

Having said all this I have loaned the game to a friend to doesn't mind the camera at all so maybe it's just me.

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My grandson really wanted this game. He was very excited about getting it and loaded it onto his PSP successfully. When he tried to play it it would not play.
Thinking it was a defected game I returned it and got another one. Once again the same problem. If there is some secret to getting this to work it should be
included in the instructions. We are currently waiting for a response to our email from the help department. Are they all defective in which case have a recall or is it just a poorly made product. Either way your child may be very disappointed and you are left making returns

this game starts a bit boring u don't get a weapon for a good 15 minutes and then its dissapointing to only get a dagger. the puzzles are fun, enemies get harder, bosses are ugly, for all the nerds there are teleportation portals, and a good story line. takes about ........ uh......... maybe 12 hours to clock. that works for me. on hard it took me three days:-). blood looks pretty real for a psp game made in 07, but the graphics are just Ok.

Rival Swords was my first POP game and it ROCKS!!! It so much fun to play, and watching the Prince flip and do stunts is awesome. Its really neat when he turns into the dark prince, and hes really powerful. Onyl downfall is sometimes the voices are slightly delayed and sometimes the camera angle is hard to see. Other than that this is a great game. I would recommend this game to anyone!!!

This is a remake of the Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones... it was good on the other consoles, and it is just as good here!! It is particularly good on the PSP. You won't regret it!!

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