Ubisoft earlier this month announced the cancellation of a swathe of in-progress games, one of them being the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake, and although that game will likely never see the light of day as a complete product, pre-alpha workshop presentation snapshots from March 2024 have leaked online, giving fans of the series a glimpse at what might have been. The footage shows off the titular character in a number of environments, including in the middle of several parkour moves—a system that was meant to be getting a big update with the remake—and a handful of refreshed, expansive environments and character designs for both the prince and Farah. Objectively, some of the game assets look better than others, but this is to be expected from a 2024 version of the game, however, it’s clear a lot of work has gone into modernizing the visuals, environments, and character designs.
In other words, they’re digging deep in the nostalgia bin to avoid having to create something new
The Sands of Time remake was announced years ago and a lot of players were really looking forward to it, it was one of their most popular games. That talked about it a couple times in recent years, but they announced its cancellation the other day.
There was also the hope of reviving the franchise, since the alternative was no PoP at all after Lost Crown and Rogue apparently didn’t make enough according to the bean-pushers.
I liked the '08 game a lot more, and I’m not super fond of the designs they’re showing in this leak, but it’s clear that they were treating it as a decent remake but not AAAA graphics, just a nice upgrade making it look 10 years old instead of 20 years old, and the higher-ups want more of the next gen visuals slop so they called this “doesn’t meet our standards”. I’m sure they wanted a big return on investment for all the years they’ve been talking about this remake.
Nothing bad with a remake of a classic.
Just think of it as a well-liked movie that was only available on DVD but it is getting a pristine Blu-ray release.
Nothing wrong with that.
Ubisoft’s other work is where the real problem is.
