Yesterday, we informed you about the registration of a new domain for Prince of Persia. While this registration now appears to be bogus, Ubisoft had been working on a Prince of Persia game back in early 2010s. This PoP was called Prince of Persia Redemption, was cancelled in 2011, and you can find below 3 minutes of gameplay footage from it.
Now in case you’re wondering, this is a real and not a fan-made game. Andre Belleau, former technical assistant and graphic designer at Ubisoft, has confirmed it. What’s also funny here is that this video has been live for eight years, without anyone noticing it.
Prince of Persia Redemption was a reboot of the series. While we don’t know why Ubisoft has cancelled it, the game would hit PC and old-gen consoles in 2010-2011.
But anyway, this gameplay video will give you an idea of the game’s graphics and combat mechanics. It looks cool, so again we are puzzled as to why Ubisoft decided to cancel it.
Let’s at least hope that the French team will reveal a new Prince of Persia game sooner than later.
Enjoy!
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Assassins of Persia?
Honestly though, looks like it tried to be everything. Lots of Uncharted in there, some God of War, Assassins Creed, and in the least Prince of Persia.
Love the series but kind of glad this didn’t make it out…
It’s a game from 2012 I guess, so expectations should be moderated
And a vertical slice as well I hear
Prince of Persia came before Uncharted and God of War….. Assassins Creed, Uncharted and God of War were inspired by Prince of Persia and similar games.
I hate that lazy parcour mechanics from assasins creed. When i want to jump i press a f@cking SPACE at the right time not this auto jumping boring crap. Thank god they canceled this trash.
looks much better than the games released the last 10 years or so but it looks like this was faked and scripted to death.
i agree with it being fake and scripted but it doesn’t look good in any way.
trash like all other pop games.
I would play any Prince of Persia game before I’d play any Assassin’s Creed game.
ME too
It honestly looks too good for a 2010/2011 game, but yeah doesn’t feel much of a prince of persia, still better this than any assassin’s creed game.
Ubisoft registers new POP6 domain.
Fans: Finally, Ubisoft is making a new PoP game! They have remembered the Prince, blah, blah …
Ubi Skunkworks: Umm, we have been at it for years. We made the Prince ride a city atop a flying Kraken, once made him co-op with Altair and later, Bayek and even once rebooted him to Prince of Arabia. *sigh*
Uploader: Should I upload the Splinter Cell playlist too? …
uploader is probably ubisoft employee who kept video unlisted(meaning you can see it only if you get the link from uploader or someone who already got the link) until it was 100% certain that project will never see the light of day.
Obviously pre rendered, but it’s nothing but a God of War clone without any semblance of personality.
Forgottten Sands already felt extremely influenced by God of War and this just proves that they wanted to go that way with this.
I’m glad it didn’t happen honestly, a good thing for Ubisoft as well probably considering what happened to Castlevania Lord of Shadows.
OMG, that was so cool!
oh come on it looked kind of decent especially when we see the crap ubisoft gives us lately…
let me guess why they cancelled they did not figure out how to make this as a “game as a service” and could not monetize the hell out of it?
It just looks like a God of War clone
Plus it’s pre rendered footage so the final product would be even more disappointing.
yea it was a pre rendered pitch, so yea the final product would look worst but god of war clone is not a bad thing,especially when the fighting system in the pop trilogy was kind of…shit,as long as they did not forget to put as much platforming and puzzles as prior pop games.
anyway a wasted potential for something that could be maybe not great but good
Nah, I’d rather have nothing else than a clone of something that already exists.
That was pure 2010s, “X thing is popular so lets make it like that”
Wait, did Ubisoft re-use that destruction of the city in AC Rogue?
The music at least is pretty good, it sounds a bit like what Greg Edmonson would do.
Wtf, this looked great.
Doesn’t feel like the IP they were going for.
why did Ubisoft cancel it ? cuz Assassin creed happened
Wow almost like a finished game. Freaking AC sh*t. We want Pop no AC sh*t.
OMG, can’t believe we’re stuck with Assassin’s Creed games that don’t have anything to do now with assassins. This looks amazing and has so much more personality than any recent Ubisoft game. A shame it had to be canceled.
Been saying that for years. An assassin’s game that have nothing to do with assassins. Now it turned into Assassin’s Creed: Wild Hunt
“It looks cool, so again we are puzzled as to why Ubisoft decided to cancel it.”
More simple to understand it’s impossible. Forgotten Sands was met with average critical, and poor financial, reception, which for them means no interest, and they had Assassin’s Creed a game with similar enough gameplay, making crazy high numbers.
They simply dumbed PoP for Assassin’s Creed.
I saw absolutely nothing impressive about this. It’s full of QTEs, it borrows the time mechanic from Forgotten Sands and has mobile graphics and UI.
I’m seeing PoP design, AC/PoP08 traversal, god knows what that combat system was, a QTE version even worse than PoP08, Uncharted spectacle and a hint of God of War at scale.
What even was this. They don’t have the budget to do full scale destruction at normal budgets for 8+ hours straight.
I don’t think this would’ve been anywher close to the awesomeness of the previous trilogy… or the reboot from 2008. Even to this day, those games are great! I recently played PoP:SoT…what a game! Planning to play the rest sometime soon…
Would really like a proper new game faithful to the franchise at it currently stands, with modern visuals/sound, and classic gameplay elements.
Ubisoft:”This is full of masculinity,so we decided to cancel it because we cant insert playable female character and that would hurt our company recent standard”…
This gives me some serious Assassins Creed vibes… it had some cool moments, but thats all scripted so >_>
No wonder they wanna make unique games that dont copy each other. If you take away some of the things and ask me what game was that, id probably say AC.
Too much floaty magnetism in the jumps and I don’t like the ability to stop in the middle of a wall run and cling to flat walls. But who knows how “final” those moves were.
Man I miss the times when so many AAA games back then were about trying to sell their products through exciting promotions like this, even if it is entirely scripted. Nowadays it’s all about just trying to see how much they can whine us up, thus creating more division among the community.