Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, produit par Ubisoft et développé par Ubisoft Montreal et Ubisoft Singapore, est sorti le 18 mai 2010 en Amérique du Nord et le 20 mai en Europe. Le jeu marque un retour à la trame entamée par Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time et constitue le titre de quatre jeux distincts aux histoires différentes, le jeu principal étant disponible sur PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 et Microsoft Windows, tandis que les trois autres sont exclusifs au PlayStation Portable, au Nintendo DS et au Wii. L'intrigue principale suit le Prince chevauchant à travers le désert pour rejoindre son frère Malik et apprendre le leadership auprès de lui ; arrivé au royaume de ce dernier, il le trouve attaqué par une armée cherchant à ouvrir les salles au trésor renfermant « l'Armée de Salomon », une force de créatures de sable. Malik libère cette armée via un sceau magique, et les deux frères conservent chacun une moitié du sceau les protégeant de la transformation en statues de sable qui frappe le reste du royaume. Classé dans les genres aventure, plateforme et hack 'n' slash, ce volet utilise le moteur Anvil et propose une histoire principale bouclable en environ six heures, avec un temps de complétion estimé à quatre heures et demie. Le titre affiche un score Metacritic de 75 et une note agrégée de 74,80, pour un prix de 9,99 euros. La presse a salué son récit et son gameplay, Game Chronicles évoquant une captation totale du joueur par l'histoire et les antagonistes, et GamePro y voyant un retour en forme de la franchise et l'un des meilleurs épisodes de plateforme. Certains joueurs sur Metacritic jugent l'entrée médiocre avec un scénario superficiel, tandis que d'autres la considèrent comme sous-estimée et appréciée malgré un parkour différent des anciens opus, et un avis positif sur Steam y voit un bon souvenir regrettant l'arrêt du développement de la série par Ubisoft.
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Avis des critiques et joueurs
Critiques de la Presse (Metacritic)
« With an interesting story and unique villains and ancient lore, you will be hopelessly captivated from start to finish each and every time you play this game. »
« The Forgotten Sands is more than just a return to form for a long-running franchise: it's also one of the most gratifying platforming epics to come along in ages. »
« With solid platforming and tricky puzzles it's a long-awaited return to form for the Prince. [Aug 2010, p.92] »
« Slick, challenging gameplay with brilliant pace, marred only by the average combat. [July 2010, p.88] »
« While it misses the mark of nailing the same sense of magic and wonder of the original trilogy, fans who had missed this style and approach in 2008's Prince of Persia offering should welcome this new-yet-familiar adventure with open arms. »
« Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands successfully manages to represent the great platforming gameplay and level design of the first Ubisoft game: unfortunately it will end in less than eight hours, and this is its main shortcoming. »
« If this were a novel or comic, it would be utterly without merit or point, filling in a gap that didn't exist before its creation and serving only to kill time. As a game, it's another run through comfortable and familiar ground, and serves to remind people why the Prince of Persia series is so universally beloved. »
« The best part about Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is that it's a lot of fun. »
Avis des Joueurs (Metacritic)
« Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is a fairly mediocre entry in the franchise. The graphics were decent for its time, but the story is shallow, and the characters are entirely forgettable. While the combat is well-designed, the overall difficulty is too low, making encounters feel unchallenging and **** platforming sections, however, are the game’s saving grace. They are well-crafted and provide a good level of challenge, capturing the essence of what makes Prince of Persia **** the end, The Forgotten Sands is a passable game, but it fails to leave a lasting impression. »
« Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands is an underrated game. The parkour isn't quite like the older titles, but I still enjoyed it a lot. The gameplay feels a bit different, but it's fun overall. Looking back at 2010 and the games of that era, The Forgotten Sands stands out as an overlooked gem and a great way to pass the time »
« I forgot this game even existed so at least the title is accurate. When I think of pop I usually think of parkour and fighting at most 4 or 5 enemies at the same time, however in this game you'll be fighting hordes of hundreds of peope for some reason. Also the prince looks nothing like the prince from older games. »
« I love the parkour puzzles they have its some of the best I have ever seen with it consistently getting harder and funner as you progress through the game and how it consistently uses things even from older abilities you got from the beginning of the game into the later stages and while that might sound normal a lot of games don't do that now and while the combat is basic it's fun until you get to the giant bosses then it just amounts to get beneath them and dodge every now and then and the story while predictable is still good »
« It is just as good as the sands trillogy, the criticism of it being a placeholder for a movie that released the same year or weak fighting mechanics are completely unnecesary and not even deserved, this title on its own even is quite a good enough game and i absolutely consider it a cult classic. it didnt got the praise it deserved due to poor timing and marketing practices, dont let these things push you away from experiencing almost the last of this amazing action adventure games franchise. it is great to go back to these older titles even more since the release of a new prince of persia the lost crown a while ago to see where the series was at not so long ago »
« It's a fun game with great gameplay. A mix of the previous titles with fresh ideas. It's not completely bug-free and could do with 60 FPS on console, but it's definitely worth playing. Unless a bug prevents you from progressing. I wish there would be a new 3D Prince of Persia or just remaster this one with some bug fixes. I would buy it again. »
« En PS3 o en PSP, un 8.5 sin problema. Historia y alcance técnico diferentes, pero sobradamente divertidos. »
« Been playing this on Series X. Just completed it. Absolute quality action puzzle platformer and I don't usually like platformers much. You occasionally jump a different direction than intended due to camera angles but nothing major. A really enjoyable game. It's not too challenging that you're sick of your life repeating the same bits but it's also not too simple. It strikes a really nice difficulty balance allowing a steady rate of progression. I highly recommend it. You'll get a good 3 days play from it, so at £3 can't complain at all. »
