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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (GameCube)

from: Ubisoft

February 20, 2004
The arrival of the technology that has made it possible for developers to create fully fledged 3D third person action adventures has, I think, been somewhat misinterpreted by developers over the last decade or so. Because the technology is available, they seem to feel that they always have to use it. Thus every game that is released has to be massive and allow the player to wander everywhere, as in real life.
There are those of us, however, that, while appreciating the many brilliant games that this approach has yielded - the fully imersive game-as-alternate universe titles such as the "GTA"s, as well as more obvious examples like "Zelda: Ocarina of Time", there are still those of us that occasionally crave something simpler, more readily ... Read More: