Wednesday, November 03, 2004
America is stupid
Canada is clearly where it's at. Don't worry, I won't bore you with political rants. This is a video game site. Rather, I will dazzle you with news from the far north. In the vast expanse of space located somewhere north of New York is a tiny building known as Prince's Shanty. Here, Ubi Soft Montreal employees are finishing up Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. Before this newest bit of information was leaked, I was certain this would be the best one player game released this year. Now, I have a feeling this game will, in fact, be a dinosaur who craps brownies.
PoP:WW has a Live mode. That's right; you can go online with the new PoP. That may be a bit misleading. You can't actually go online and compete in a battle arena with other Prince's from around the world. That would not only be stupid but very, very lame. What you can do sounds even cooler.
There are two modes that you can play through and post your best times online. The first is a combat mode. You are faced with a million or so wanna be Prince Killers and have to finish them off as quickly and disgustingly as possible. Feel free to decapitate Ned The Evil Killer or use Raul as a human body shield. Sounds pretty awesome.
Even better than that, though, is a time trial through an obstacle course. Clearly, the best parts of PoP were the puzzles. Platforming in 3D has never been more fun. Now there is a mode that revolves around getting past various traps as quickly as possible. This should be ridiculously fun.
The only problem is the control. I was planning on getting the PS2 version because the first was flawless. I wouldn't want to risk playing on the Xbox controller and having a lesser experience. But these two modes are exclusively on the Xbox. Oh, dilemma of dilemmas. I'll probably end up getting the Xbox version now, but I'm not too happy about this whole exclusive thing. PS2 is online after all. Why isn't this in both versions?
Anyway, yay for this game and yay for life. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to apply for citizenship in Spain.
PoP:WW has a Live mode. That's right; you can go online with the new PoP. That may be a bit misleading. You can't actually go online and compete in a battle arena with other Prince's from around the world. That would not only be stupid but very, very lame. What you can do sounds even cooler.
There are two modes that you can play through and post your best times online. The first is a combat mode. You are faced with a million or so wanna be Prince Killers and have to finish them off as quickly and disgustingly as possible. Feel free to decapitate Ned The Evil Killer or use Raul as a human body shield. Sounds pretty awesome.
Even better than that, though, is a time trial through an obstacle course. Clearly, the best parts of PoP were the puzzles. Platforming in 3D has never been more fun. Now there is a mode that revolves around getting past various traps as quickly as possible. This should be ridiculously fun.
The only problem is the control. I was planning on getting the PS2 version because the first was flawless. I wouldn't want to risk playing on the Xbox controller and having a lesser experience. But these two modes are exclusively on the Xbox. Oh, dilemma of dilemmas. I'll probably end up getting the Xbox version now, but I'm not too happy about this whole exclusive thing. PS2 is online after all. Why isn't this in both versions?
Anyway, yay for this game and yay for life. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to apply for citizenship in Spain.
// posted by Tom @ 11:44 AM 
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