Nintendo Wii Media | Prince of Persia: Rival Swords (Update)

By Jorge Ba-oh 18.12.2006 32

Update: Ubisoft have confirmed the existance of the Prince of Persia Wii port, now known as Rival Swords (which was rumoured for the DS earlier this year after being trademarked). The game makes extensive use of the Wii Remote and Nunchuck for some classic Prince of Persia action.

More screens can be found in the screens album below.

Here are some official details, courtesy of Ubisoft:

About Prince of Persia Rival Swords

The Prince of Persia makes his way home to Babylon, bearing with him Kaileena, the enigmatic Empress of Time, and unspeakable scars from the Island of Time. But instead of the peace he longs for, he finds his kingdom ravaged by war and Kaileena the target of a brutal plot. When she is kidnapped, the Prince tracks her to the Palace

Box art for Prince of Persia: Rival Swords
Developer

Ubisoft Montreal

Publisher

Ubisoft

Genre

Adventure

Players

1

C3 Score

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Reader Score

Rated $score out of 10  9/10 (1 Votes)

European release date Out now   North America release date Out now   Japan release date TBA   Australian release date Out now   

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RufDogRacing is offline. RufDogRacing 16.12.2006#1

So it's a port of a last generation game with Wii-controls tacked on?

You know UbiSoft may be supporting the Wii with loads of their respected series, but I haven't really seen any games that are unique to the Wii yet.

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jadnice is offline. jadnice 16.12.2006#2

Is it just me or is Ubisoft turning out to be the biggest Wii supporter with the worse games... Whats the point??

If this trend continues with bad ports and terrible games designed for the Wii then its safe to say come 2007 sales for the system will drop dramatically and it will be Gamecube all over again......Just sad.

 
Laurelin is offline. Laurelin 16.12.2006#3

This may or may not be a good idea. It may be good when I can check the control scheme they made up for it.
I am a bit concerned about the controls, how it may be possible to turn the free-form-fighting into wiimoting. you see, the Wiimote is on the one hand very accurate and easy to point and move the character at, but on the other hand that can be a downfall, because you are too accurate and may develop a kind of bustle or hectic rush: you are very easy from one move gone to the other if you know what I mean.
Imho this port may rise and fall with the control scheme they come up with.

Another point is, that almost every Nintendo-fanboy owns at least one PoP and often this last chapter, but I congratulate Ubisoft to find a control scheme, that works with such a button-smasher and hopefully they can prove, that a very classic game-play can work with Wiimote and Nunchuck. For this sake I hope it works and turns out beautiful and hope it's going to be a success.
Let'S hope they blow us away with great graphics, too...


but I haven't really seen any games that are unique to the Wii yet.

*cough* Red Steel *cough*

I hope they come up with great games, I hope Wii doesn't follow Gamecube in terms of 'success' (but though I like my Cube and got pretty games for it!).

( Edited on 16.12.2006 12:18 by Laurelin )

I find your lack of faith disturbing!
 
Ph00p is offline. Ph00p 16.12.2006#4

What a downer! First Rayman Wii is some sort of minigame game and now they're porting a game that was mehdiocre to start with, damn they're really loosin cred.

 
irfy is offline. irfy 16.12.2006#5

Is it me or does the gamecube graphics look better than wii?

 
Laurelin is offline. Laurelin 16.12.2006#6

It's just you. It's called suggestion.

I find your lack of faith disturbing!
 
Darkflame is offline. Darkflame 16.12.2006#7

oh, frell off ubisoft.
What cheap arse c*nts you are.

Two Thrones was a truely amazing game (mehdiocre it was not...that was the second game), however theres no way Im buying it again.

Its almost as Ubisoft is trying to support us bad stuff so they can withdrawl later claiming low sales.

( Edited on 16.12.2006 14:48 by Darkflame )

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JoshSL is offline. JoshSL 16.12.2006#8

Ugh, just give it a rest Ubisoft, all we need is a DIRECT PORT of a game that was released a year ago...

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Spydarlee is offline. Spydarlee 16.12.2006#9

I missed this one (assuming it was on XBOX too?) but loved Sands of Time (I think :lolSmilie so I'm still fairly hopefull this could be good, even if it's not wildly innovative...


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The Croft is offline. The Croft 16.12.2006#10

Suprised? No
Could i care? No


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Nintendo Lad is offline. Nintendo Lad 16.12.2006#11

Yawn....nobody will buy it because it's OLD.

 
MIS is offline. MIS 16.12.2006#12

This 3rd party issue has always been a problem for Nintendo (as well as being it's biggest asset).

Ever since the Mario 64 on the N64 - it's like 3rd party developers have given up the ghost.

Hopefully, the Japanese SoftCo's won't be as lazy.

 
dojo is offline. dojo 16.12.2006#13

Prince of Persia revelations on the PSP was quite a good game but with one analog stick it was quite different. Hopefully they don't mess this up.

 
Azuardo is offline. Azuardo 16.12.2006#14

Ugh, I love the PoP series to bits, but I'm disappointed to hear this news. I wanted a whole new game in the PoP series, not a fricking port of TTT. Sure, the Wii would be well suited to the Prince's swinging chain weapon, but that really isn't enough to make me want to purchase the game again. I'd much rather have a brand new game.

Let's just hope they bring out another PoP game after this one.

 
Mason is offline. Mason 16.12.2006#15

Just what Wii needs - another port. I hope they've got more original games in the works if they're planning on supporting the system so much, cheers Ubisoft.

 
The Croft is offline. The Croft 17.12.2006#16

If were to port any game why not? Beyond Good & Evil. I haven't played it and apparently it is amazing haven't read a bad review of it and it's not like they can be called money whores because it flopped harder than a 100 year old penis.


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Powdered Water is offline. Powdered Water 17.12.2006#17

Ph00p said:
What a downer! First Rayman Wii is some sort of minigame game

That's not fair. Rayman RR on Wii isn't that bad. It is a collection of mini game but very entertaining one at that.

As for PoP on Wii... no comment for now.

 
Darkflame is offline. Darkflame 17.12.2006#18

"If were to port any game why not? Beyond Good & Evil. I haven't played it and apparently it is amazing haven't read a bad review of it and it's not like they can be called money whores because it flopped harder than a 100 year old penis."

Just buy the cube version.
Porting it to the Wii will add NOTHING to the game.

BG&E is fantastic, and dosnt need a lame cash-in version done of it.

Just get the original, probably for

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Negatio is offline. Negatio 17.12.2006#19

i will only buy it if the story was revised and the controls are good but at this stage i think there's no chance of that happening.

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Crazylurch is offline. Crazylurch 17.12.2006#20

Very boring. Make one especially for the Wii (i.e. totally unique with new story) and I will elevate it to just boring.

do something else.

Woooooooo!!!
 
Pointfex is offline. Pointfex 17.12.2006#21

Oh great more dross dragging the Wii down to an early grave.


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Tman!! is offline. Tman!! 17.12.2006#22

personally i think this could be quite a good move for both Wii and Ubisoft becuase i think Ubisoft are judging whether or not to bring the new PoP to Wii then there obviously going to want to experiment to see if the controls work and if they do and this game then its more than likely that they will bring a new PoP to Wii.


 
Dr_R is offline. Dr_R 18.12.2006#23

So when Ubisoft said they wanted to be like EA this is what they meant!

Very, very, very lazy!

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JoshSL is offline. JoshSL 18.12.2006#24

IMO, Rayman RR on Wii is the proper version of the game, but in any case, Ubisoft are milking it, & making it their territory...

Sure hope Konami/SEGA/Capcom/Hudson/Namco/Good company can get in there & sort it out. Looking very dull for Wii because of Ubisoft though.

Oh how I beg it's not gonna be GameCube part 2...

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GR781 is offline. GR781 18.12.2006#25

This is all very predictable though- I mean, nintendo's own philosophy was to avoid lumping developers with big costs; their whole business plan was to make more money through these cost saving means- avoiding HD, powerful graphics processors etc.

The logical extension of this is that developers save even more money by updating old games with new controls. We're going to see a lot of this- if you just don't buy those games, then it might not happen.

 

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