Prince of Persia, The Sands of Time, is the fourth game in a series of efforts derrived from Jordan Mechner’s original work. I haven’t played one of them since “Prince of Persia” of about 20 years ago, like you see above. It is pretty much the same game. It isn’t perfect, it’s repetitive and annoying. Like I said the same game as the original. However if you like exasperating platformers, and there is a whole sector of gamers that do, then this is the prince of them. What it has going for it for one thing is the adherence to the gameplay style of the twenty – something game that I remember. For years after in forums people bemoaned the lack of platformers and side scrollers. I couldn’t figure out why since I was happy with 3D worlds at the time, such as Oblivion. Gaming nostalgia came my way eventually, but not for this genre. Hence Prince of Persia brings back memories. A small cottage on Cape, a river – fed salt marsh and my trained seagull. Oh yes and how frustrating and anger inducing that game was. But it kept me up all night which is what I needed it to do waiting for calls on the late shift. It has very nicely done graphics. It isn’t as detailed as it could be in terms of the character models. The environments are deep has an over all feel similar to Assasins Creed. Though the color palates are more varied. They do a red and beige desert that doesn’t wash into an over saturated blare of reds like Wet. Nor does it have the bland over exposed coloring of Assasin’s Creed. Gameplay is solidly a series of platforming and puzzles. There are traps set all about. All of it works very well. He wall climbs nibly. But that is pretty much it. The story is bland. It’s pretty thin and the Prince seems to be more of an errand boy than a ruler. Open the door, shut the door, climb here, shimmy there. Ok, yawn. There is one unique factor, that comes in handy when your character plummets. The Sands of Time is a time warping device that will turn back time. As you advance the Prince gets Piper from Charmed’s ability to freeze time. Then he could slow down streams of water to make ice and turn back time on crumbling rocks. All this messing with the time space continuum results in a short game. If you’re the type to “get it” once you pass the learning curve there are those who claim they finished it in ten hours or less. Overall it left me feeling as if I wanted something more from the game. It needed a new twist, or more hot women or just something. What it does it did well enough, but it just wasn’t great. I give Prince of Persia the dance of the 7 veils out of 10.