Prince of Persia 3

KdjaCL

Seems i missed 2 i meant to get it but now theres a part 3 out, jesus they spewing them out. Anyone played it etc?


kdjac

Royale with Cheese

No I ain't played it yet but it's the last part of a trilogy, hence the spewing. 2 was good, but lacked something that was there in the first one. Also had a massive glitch that advanced you 50% of the game, but circumstances meant you could go no further. It meant you had to restart the game. Happened to me, didn't know what the hell was going until I looked it up on the internet. Shocking that such a massive glitch was let into the final version of the game.

im...LOST

wrote:

Also had a massive glitch that advanced you 50% of the game,Shocking that such a massive glitch was let into the final version of the game.

:eek:
Where was that glitch?At the start,middle or end?

Royale with Cheese

im...LOST wrote:

:eek:
Where was that glitch?At the start,middle or end?

Basically after about 20% or so of the game you suddenly turn into the sand wraith, like just between cut scenes it happens. After that it's impossible to complete the game, entering certain areas will trigger cut scenes you're not supposed to see until much later on in the game and once you save (like I did unfortunately, I didn't even notice what had happened) there's nothing you can do but restart. Since I was so pissed off I didn't bother restarting and didn't play the game for about 6 months. Got bored during the summer and dug it up. Glad I did.

Sarky

I am looking forward to 3. I thoroughly enjoyed the first ones, even despite 2's angry Emoprince with a totally different voice.

sweetie

It was glitchy and the changes in the prince and the music etc.
weren't good but it was still an ace game. Managed to complete it but never
got the alternate ending. The new fighting moves were ace too. Have ordered
the new one on play with a voucher discount. Reckon it'll be xbox game of
the year with far cry, chaos theory and half-life two.

Royale with Cheese

sweetie wrote:

It was glitchy and the changes in the prince and the music etc.
weren't good but it was still an ace game. Managed to complete it but never
got the alternate ending. The new fighting moves were ace too. Have ordered
the new one on play with a voucher discount. Reckon it'll be xbox game of
the year with far cry, chaos theory and half-life two.

The alternate ending really changes the story line. PoP3 starts where the alternate ending left off. People who never got it will be seriously confused.

Sarky

The "real" ending is a bugger to get. Very hard battle, I thought.

Royale with Cheese

To be fair having 2 endings was a really stupid idea considering they knew there'd be a sequel. Not particularly smart.

madrab

whats the difference between the 2 endings?

Royale with Cheese

Ok my memory isn't fantastic but I believe it's something like this...

In the normal ending you kill Kaileena and then flee the Island on your own. In the alternate ending you don't kill Kaileena, you kill the Dahaka and you leave the island with Kaileena. Something like that. Basically in one Kaileena dies and in the alternate one she doesn't. Third game starts with the Prince and Kaileena sailing together towards the Prince's homeland.

IceHawk

Royale with Cheese wrote:

To be fair having 2 endings was a really stupid idea considering they knew there'd be a sequel. Not particularly smart.

At least they don't try to cover it up like Knights of the old Republic 2. That got ridiculous. Looking forward to PoP 3, but I'm only halfway through Sands of Time. I'll probably wait until I finish Warrior Within before I go for the third one.

[EDIT] By the way, why is it being called Prince of Persia 3? By my reckoning, it's the sixth one. Are we just ignoring PoP 1, 2 and 3D now?[/EDIT]

Sarky

I can't speak for 1 or 2, but 3d NEVER HAPPENED.

AnCapaillMor

Really liked the first 2, and have just ordered 3. Never bothered with the alternate ending, think i'll give it a go now.

Crucifix

The first one charmed the pants of me, but I never played numero 2. I might try and pick it up on the cheap at some point, and maybe do the same with the latest installment.

Zillah

IceHawk wrote:

At least they don't try to cover it up like Knights of the old Republic 2. That got ridiculous.

What do you mean?

sweetie

Will have an extra copy of PoP3 soon. Preordered it a while back and the the girlfriend lets it slip that she has bought it for me too. Any takers at 35 euro?

chrislad

I'd do a trade for Battlefront 2 or Far Cry

Otherwise, I'll trade them in tomorrow.

BlitzKrieg

To be fair having 2 endings was a really stupid idea considering they knew there'd be a sequel.

you think thats bad.

check out shadow the hedgehog

10 alternative endings in the game, complete them all to unlock the final level, which ignores the last 10 endings completely...makes no sense at all

Royale with Cheese

sweetie wrote:

Will have an extra copy of PoP3 soon. Preordered it a while back and the the girlfriend lets it slip that she has bought it for me too. Any takers at 35 euro?

Yeah €35 sounds good to me. Pm if you want to sell.

sweetie

Royale with Cheese wrote:

Yeah €35 sounds good to me. Pm if you want to sell.

Pm sent

tman

IceHawk wrote:

[EDIT] By the way, why is it being called Prince of Persia 3? By my reckoning, it's the sixth one. Are we just ignoring PoP 1, 2 and 3D now?[/EDIT]

erm... it's not actually called Prince of Persia 3.
"Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones" is the official title. play.com and co have taken to calling it "Prince of Persia 3: The Two Thrones" even though there's no mention of the number 3 on the box...

humanji

Sarky wrote:

I can't speak for 1 or 2, but 3d NEVER HAPPENED.

There are six games:
Prince Of Persia in 1989
Prince Of Persia 2: The Shadow And The Flame in 1996
Prince Of Persia 3D in 1999
Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time in 2003
Prince Of Persia: The Warrior Within in 2004
Prince Of Persia: The Two Thrones in 2005

You can find them if you do a search in Gamespot

Steven

jomanji wrote:

There are six games:
Prince Of Persia in 1989
Prince Of Persia 2: The Shadow And The Flame in 1996
Prince Of Persia 3D in 1999
Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time in 2003
Prince Of Persia: The Warrior Within in 2004
Prince Of Persia: The Two Thrones in 2005

You can find them if you do a search in Gamespot

I don't think you understand. 3D NEVER HAPPENED!

Don't make me unlock room 101

Sarky

Bah, drag up a nicely repressed memory of a gaming travesty, why don't you?

Anyway, I saw it on sale today. The special edition seems to be a fiver extra, and contains the previous two games. Not bad...

humanji

Steven wrote:

I don't think you understand. 3D NEVER HAPPENED!

Don't make me unlock room 101

Sorry, correction:


There are five games:
Prince Of Persia in 1989
Prince Of Persia 2: The Shadow And The Flame in 1996
Nothing of consequence happened in 1999
Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time in 2003
Prince Of Persia: The Warrior Within in 2004
Prince Of Persia: The Two Thrones in 2005

You can find them if you do a search in Gamespot

chrislad

Royale with Cheese wrote:

The alternate ending really changes the story line. PoP3 starts where the alternate ending left off. People who never got it will be seriously confused.

Not really. It basically shows you the ending for the first film, and says that it never happened, that the story got confused, and that the Prince destroyed the amulet of time etc.

I saw both endings but I thought they tidied it up well for the start of the 3rd one. Only a bit into it now, but it seems like more of the same. Which is good.

evad_lhorg

there is a limited pc version which includes all three games of the trilogy. pretty good price at 60euro for what youre getting

super_furry

Picked it up for €28 on the Xbox in Xtra-Vision, Firhouse last night. I think it may been priced up wrong because the PS2 version was €60.

Branoic

Zillah wrote:

What do you mean?

KOTR could have ended in a number of different ways depending on what the player did. KOTR 2 tries to deal with the story of the previous game and its possible different endings, and the acrobatic dialogue they pull off in places to achieve this is hilarious. Thats just what you get for doing a sequal when one player's experience of the original game is likely to be completely different to another players

evad_lhorg

super_furry wrote:

Picked it up for €28 on the Xbox in Xtra-Vision, Firhouse last night. I think it may been priced up wrong because the PS2 version was €60.

whoa you lucky git. think that was a wrong price yea

Zillah

Branoic wrote:

KOTR could have ended in a number of different ways depending on what the player did. KOTR 2 tries to deal with the story of the previous game and its possible different endings, and the acrobatic dialogue they pull off in places to achieve this is hilarious. Thats just what you get for doing a sequal when one player's experience of the original game is likely to be completely different to another players

The way they did it is at the start you have the opportunity to "program" the game as to what happened during your experience of the last game. Theres a conversation when you first let...uh that scout guy...out of the prison. You tell him what happened in the last game.

Branoic

Zillah wrote:

The way they did it is at the start you have the opportunity to "program" the game as to what happened during your experience of the last game. Theres a conversation when you first let...uh that scout guy...out of the prison. You tell him what happened in the last game.

Yeah I know that, the conversation with Atton - it still didn't seem to quite cover everything though, and many of the conversions, especially with Kreia (sp) seemed intentionally vague so they could apply to whatever it was that happened in the last game. They had a good stab at it though.

Anyway, to get back on topic - I started playing Two Thrones yesterday - seems good, but while I played the other games on the PS2, i got this one for the PC and the keyboard / mouse control is throwing me a bit. Can anyway recommend a solid but cheap gamepad I could get? It is very unlikely that I would ever need it for any other game apart from this.

Blisterman

jomanji wrote:

There are six games:
Prince Of Persia in 1989
Prince Of Persia 2: The Shadow And The Flame in 1996
Prince Of Persia 3D in 1999
Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time in 2003
Prince Of Persia: The Warrior Within in 2004
Prince Of Persia: The Two Thrones in 2005

You can find them if you do a search in Gamespot

Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow And The Flame, came out earlier than 1996. I remember getting it on Floppy disc.

yawnstretch

Really enjoying this game so far (played the 1st one and skipped the 2nd one) - damn though - if I'd known there was a special edition with 1 and 2 on it!

:mad:

humanji

Blisterman wrote:

Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow And The Flame, came out earlier than 1996. I remember getting it on Floppy disc.

I was just going by what GameSpot says, I couldn't be arsed searching the web for the full details, so I took the lazy mans route

Kiith

Branoic wrote:

Anyway, to get back on topic - I started playing Two Thrones yesterday - seems good, but while I played the other games on the PS2, i got this one for the PC and the keyboard / mouse control is throwing me a bit. Can anyway recommend a solid but cheap gamepad I could get? It is very unlikely that I would ever need it for any other game apart from this.

why not get the ps2 adaptor thing from play.com. the one that lets you use your ps2 joypad on the pc. here it is....

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=rts&page=title&r=PC&title=114167

spooky donkey

I liked the first one finished it, the second one never really grabed me. I`ll try the third hows its like the first.

chrislad

The third is a lot more like the first one than the second. The emphasis is more on puzzles than combat. In fact, a lot of the enemies are weak and really, there's little point to them as they are taken out easily unless there's a group of 10 of them and you've no sand. The one thing I miss is being able to hop over them, and stab with the dagger and suck the sand out of them.

I finished it yesterday and I loved it. Then again, I love the series. I really hope to see a next gen game soon enough, but it could be a different prince as this one had his story wrapped up nicely.

IceHawk

Yeah, this one is being advertised as the end of a trilogy. I presume if the game sells well they'll make more of them, though,

KdjaCL

Good game so far also never got the 2nd, but im stuck at a certain part just cant see where im supposed to land


kdjac

Zapp Brannigan

It's going very cheap on play.com

Might pick it up after Xmas.

rainbow kirby

super_furry wrote:

Picked it up for €28 on the Xbox in Xtra-Vision, Firhouse last night. I think it may been priced up wrong because the PS2 version was €60.

Holy crap... I should have noticed that! I live 30 seconds walk from that Xtravision and I was in there yesterday...

Royale with Cheese

Ordered the ps2 version today on play.com for £17.99, real bargain. Turns out it was a pricing error and has now gone back to being £29.99. My order went from processing to packing and now back to processing. I'm pretty sure I'm within my legal rights to demand that they sell to me for that price.

Basq

Royale with Cheese wrote:

I'm pretty sure I'm within my legal rights to demand that they sell to me for that price.

Nah.. those sites always have clauses in case of pricing errors.

Play.com T&C's wrote:

If an error is discovered in the price of the goods that you have ordered, we will inform you as soon as possible. In the event that you order an item and the price published on the Site is incorrect for any reason, we will contact you to let you know the correct price and ask you whether you still wish us to fulfil your order at this price. We shall be under no obligation to fulfil an order for a product which was advertised at an incorrect price. We shall give you the option of confirming the order at the correct price or if you so choose, to cancel the order altogether. If you cancel and have already paid for the goods in the circumstances described in this clause, we shall refund the full amount in accordance with these Terms.

Best of luck anyways though!

Royale with Cheese

basquille wrote:

Nah.. those sites always have clauses in case of pricing errors.

But when I went to buy a tv for £2.99 last year I was told they wouldn't sell because both parties knew it was a pricing error because the price was so ridiculously low. That was the only way they were legally able to get away without selling me the tv. In this case I just thought it was a good deal, it being a pricing error never occured to me.

Right I'll let you know if they post it anway. Probably doesn't help my account was suspended for a few days during that £5 vouchers incident.

Basq

Royale with Cheese wrote:

In this case I just thought it was a good deal, it being a pricing error never occured to me.

See above.. if they do realise it was a pricing error, they'll inform you and give you the option to buy it at full price or not!

Read on Boards recently that it happened someone else recently on Play.com regarding the Godfather Trilogy.. ordered it at the special price of £14.99 and they upped it back to £22.99 and tried to charge him full price even though he bought it when it was at the reduced price.

Still, best of luck!

Royale with Cheese

Well it was posted this morning at the price of £17.99. Excellent. Maybe they either didn't notice or let me away with it as I was ordering another game as well.

eyerer

Royale with Cheese wrote:

Right I'll let you know if they post it anway. Probably doesn't help my account was suspended for a few days during that £5 vouchers incident.

lol:v:
what did you do with £5 vouchers?

like your name and sig btw

AnCapaillMor

Gotta say i like it, some nice new moves etc, backdrops\scenery are astounding again.

Sarky

Picked the Special edition up in Game for a good 20 quid less than the marked price. Not sure if it was a sale or just an incompetent cashier. Either way, I'm not going to complain...