You can grab Sands of Time on GOG for $10 or on Steam for $10. In this week’s Pixel Boost, we take Sands of Time up to 2560x1440. Sands of Time is just as fun today as it was a decade ago, but to get it running at a modern resolution, you’ll need to do a little tweaking. It’s easy to trace the platforming in Assassin’s Creed back to Ubisoft’s work in Prince of Persia. 14 years later, Sands of Time defined platforming for a new generation of 3D games and balanced challenging puzzles and environments with the Dagger of Time’s rewind ability. The original Prince used rotoscoping to push forward 2D animation.
Has there ever been a better franchise reboot than Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time? Ubisoft took a groundbreaking PC game in the original Prince of Persia (first released on the Apple II in 1989, eventually ported to every platform imaginable), brought back original creator Jordan Mechner, and made something groundbreaking all over again.
