Loved this game back on PS2 and almost bought a few times on Steam but I was worried it would have dated badly and might sour my nostalgic memories. I was completely wrong, game still looks great (played 1080p) plays smoothly and is still probably the finest 3D platformer ever made. Combat is simplistic and enemy waves are annoying but it's not difficult and thankfully doesn't constitute much of the game-play.

It is a fixer-upper though, some good Steam guides to follow but I needed to download a patch for modern resolutions, edit a few ini files, lock frame-rate to 60, manually set up controller in-game and then still had to get creative with Steam Input so I didn't need to revert to keyboard and mouse in menu's as well as adjusting left stick deadzone (works best with cross type). Also the voices are too low so you should set music and sound effects to like 60% or so, leave voices on 100% and then crank the volume.

Works perfectly then though, completed game 100% with no other technical problems or crashes. Well worth both the money (even off sale, though obviously better to wait on one) and time spent getting it to work well.

i never played the prince of persia series, and have always wanted to. and i was glad to get to play this one for the first time.

i think the best i can really say is that, it is a fun game, i enjoyed it for the most part. the combat did kind of start to drag on a little especially when enemies can just block and screw up any momentum you had or were trying to gain. that alone made combat feel really slow, especially when some types are just easier to do a dagger and instant kill on.

the camera is absolutely the final boss of this game, constantly flipping around, trying to make combat more interesting by providing different angles, but ultimately becoming obscured by walls, pillars, or hanging fabric. it all started to build on me being tired of the game when you have to fight a horde or enemies on an elevator like 80% of the way through the game, from there on, i wanted to beat it and see the rest of the story, but i was kind of tired of nothing but tanky enemies who block constantly.

overall, i would definitly recommend playing this if you never have before, but it do got some problems.