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Prince of Persia 4 revealed!

Silver Mirror | 13 days 3 hours ago | News | PC Playstation 3 
It was only a few days ago that Prince of Persia 4 was officially announced but already we are getting tons of info. The plot is apparently about the Prince stopping the evil deity Ahriman, the gameplay has been described as a move away from God of War and more towards Soul Calibur, but the most shocking piece of news is that the graphics will be cel shaded!
The new Prince of Persia 4 game for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC will feature cel-shaded graphics! The new iteration in the Prince of Persia (PoP) series is aiming for an artistic and “more poetic” vision in its overall presentation. The 140-headed development team is hard at work on finishing the game by the end of 2008.

Ubisoft describes the storyline: “The new game’s plot will return to the Arabian Nights and Persian mythology, specifically retelling the legend of twin good and evil deity brothers Ohrmazd and Ahriman. According to myth, Evil Brother (Ahriman) was once imprisoned within a magic box after a battle between the twins turned ugly, but he is accidentally unleashed upon the world when the box is opened by an unsuspecting desert bandit. As Ahriman ravages the world, the thief (i.e. the Prince) must rise to his destiny as a true hero by correcting his mistake and setting things right in the world. Progress is shown by trees growing, life flourishing, and the land returning to health in real-time as Ahriman’s evil is re-sealed by the Prince in mystical wells.”
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    Linkin Park Fan | 13 days 3 hours ago | reply
    Sweet, but Im not to sure about the new style of gameplay. I don't understand how it will be more soul calibur? will it be more 1vs1 type of fights?

    And this might sound stupid, but what does it mean by cell shading?
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    Oogity_Boogity_Boo | 13 days 2 hours ago | reply
    Cell shading is an art style seen in games like The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and Okami. That style is cell shaded.
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      Linkin Park Fan | 13 days 2 hours ago | reply
      Oh, eewww. Nothing against that. It works for Okami, but for Prince Of Persia? Unless Im missing something.
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    The_Don | 12 days 23 hours ago | reply
    So more like Soul Calibur? Cell shading? That is not the PoP I grew to love since the original game.
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    Final Blade | 12 days 23 hours ago | reply
    Sounding like PoP is making changes, bad changes on the next one. I hope none of this is true, cause if it is, its not sounding appealing at the moment.
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    reaver11 | 12 days 20 hours ago | reply
    Changes or not, the game sounds very interesting. Seeing the land [re]flourish in real time sounds really cool. But the cell shading? I'm not sure about. I'd have to actually see some gameplay footage to opinionize whether it'll be a bad move or not. You never know. They may do something really neat with it.
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    MusiKon | 12 days 18 hours ago | reply
    Looking at those pics, I actually don't mind the cel shading. It's the combat system that has me worried, as that was half the game for me (the other half being the platforming/acrobatics).
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    Subtle Demise | 12 days 16 hours ago | reply
    As long as they don't ditch the acrobatics, I'll be happy. Of course not ditching the acrobatics includes incorporating it into the combat, even if the combat has changed.
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    Existenz | 12 days 10 hours ago | reply
    Cell shading to me states a developer is being lazy, i mean these days in the age of filters cell shading is an easy task and mean they have to do very little on anything in the world because no matter how low res it is they have the excuse "It's cell shaded it's not meant to be", i am not a huge fan of it. The onle game i like in that art style is XIII since it was following a comic.
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    StarJet | 12 days 9 hours ago | reply
    Wonder how the plot will turn out to be. I just hope a PSP and Wii version will come out. (With extra content like Rival Swords. )
    I just loved PoP Revelations and Rival Swords coz of the extra content. (And I don't have a PS3 or XBOX360 anyway. )
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    Revenger of Wastelan | 12 days 6 hours ago | reply
    Looks cool, but even if the gameplay doesn't sound so great, I bet it will be, they aren't stupid.
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    Final Blade | 12 days 6 hours ago | reply
    They need to change the fighting styles back to what they used to be, but make them more fluid. I mean the past ones was slow in comparison god of War. This isn't sounding very good to me, i have a feeling this game won't live up to anything.
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    Akashi | 11 days 22 hours ago | reply
    This game looks awesome, it will definitely be on my list.
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    Subzer0 | 10 days 22 hours ago | reply
    Oh wow. This will defintely be one of my most anticipated games yet. Hopefully they don't change alot from the old PoP series other than the combat style.
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    TokyoXplorer | 6 days 4 hours ago | reply
    this does not sound appealing tome in any way possible at the moment.The cell shading looks cool,but the idea of soul caliber fighting style scares me.What does that mean anyway?One on one combat?
    If so i will not buy this game when its released,and im sure alot of dedicated pop fans will feel the same way about this as i do.I'm a MASSIVE fan of all the pop games and to see it turned upside down in every possible way of gameplay will really upset me.Please,please,please dont do this to so many of your adoring fans Ubisoft....

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