And by the look of the character design, the concept artist has been spending more than a few holidays there himself. Leaving aside for now that the music in the background sounds like someone teased a cat's bollocks with pliers for a few minutes while throwing ball bearings at a piano keyboard, the setting seems to have shifted from historical Persia to somewhere between Final Fantasy X and XII. And it seems the new Prince of Persia is going to take all that and piss boiling oil into its eye sockets. But overall the characters were solid, and the time controlling gameplay worked crazy well with the sudden death platforming, to the point that now I feel my fingers unconsciously groping for the rewind button every time my toast lands butter side down. Okay, so the combat in game one was a basket of farts, and game two stumbled a bit when the prince went off his angst medication. I'll pause for a moment so you can all go find your socks that just blew off. So here's why all ye should abandon hope for the shiny objects being held up for us to gawp at.įirst up, Prince of Persia, now I thought the Sands of Time trilogy was the best game series of the last console generation. But since the eventual quality of most games is going to be essentially determined by spinning a roulette wheel where numbers one through thirty have all been smeared with pus, I thought I'd better fly in and point out that we're still living in a cruel corporate-run society that treats you like a wallet mounted on the back of an entranced magpie. And of course, a gaggle of upcoming game trailers were wheeled out to stir up excitement. Nintendo have proudly announced their intention to make the Wii do what it was always supposed to anyway, while Microsoft and Sony busily compete to see who can rip off each other's consoles the most. So an appropriately mediocre E3 has limped past for this mediocre year in gaming. To put it in another, less stupid way, if you go by the evidence of the last 10 years and just assume that the new Sonic the Hedgehog is just going to be the usual punnet of snot, then you won't get your heart rebroken. Films starring Morgan Freeman would have you believe that hope is your magical shield against the tribulations of life, but the games industry has collectively taken that shield and shoved it up our arse so many times it's probably time we started leaving it at home. And frankly, I find it harder and harder to understand why any gamer wouldn't be a cynic at this point. A cynic can be described as someone who doesn't hold out hope that anything in the future will be good.
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