It is unclear whether or not the events of Prince of Persia 2 are canon in this game. Now the Prince must make his way through the palace and capital city to save the Princess and Sultan and escape Assan’s kingdom. Assan is furious that the arrangement was broken off when the Prince was allowed to marry the Princess and wants revenge. It turns out that the Sultan and Assan had arranged for the Princess to marry Assan’s son Rugnor. During a banquet, Assan turns his guards against the Sultan’s envoy, killing the guards and throwing the Prince into the dungeon while trapping the Princess and Sultan in the palace. Some time after the final defeat of the evil vizier Jaffar, the Sultan is invited to the kingdom of his brother Assan. gameplay screenshots are from the PC version. It was released as Arabian Nights: Prince of Persia. Although they managed to fix some issues, the port was rushed out before it could be fully patched. The company Red Orb, a subsidiary group from Brøderbund, helmed the project and later went about creating a console port for the Sega Dreamcast. The game received a lukewarm response, and it was heavily criticized for a series of technical bugs. But in the brief time Mattel owned it, they made use of the Prince of Persia franchise and released Prince of Persia 3D. This decision that had serious business consequences for the toy manufacturer, and within a very short time, Brøderbund’s IPs were sold to various companies, mainly Ubisoft. In the late 90s, the company that owned Prince of Persia, Brøderbund, was bought out by Mattel. Prince of Persia did not escape that awkward period of early 3D gaming. The Sands of Time would go on to form a trilogy of fantastic games, and for most gamers, this was what the first 3D Prince of Persia game would be, but that is not really the case. That addition was so simple, but so perfect for this series that is helped make the game a classic.

However it maintained the brutal sudden death gameplay, but balanced it out with the inclusion of the ability to turn back small amounts of time to undo your mistakes. The emphasis was put on more intricate parkour based platforming and there was no countdown timer.

It changed a lot of the conventions from the previous games. This action puzzle platformer is, to my mind, a shining example of bringing a 2D game to life in 3D. At the turn of the century, the French based gaming company Ubisoft revitalized the Prince of Persia franchise with The Sands of Time.

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