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Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown review - fabulous exploration and combat


Ubisoft ditches its normal formula and finds the ideal way to bring gaming's original Prince back to life. Our review o…

It's a promising sign that Ubisoft is starting to let a series' soul dictate the ultimate structure of a game, rather than pouring its molten life into the same open-world mould. For sheer flourish, I became quite fond of an elaborate overhead attack that did massive damage to anything above me, but my standard, that I relied on pretty criminally during some encounters, was an ability that put down a healing area on the map that I then tried to stay within as I booted various baddies around. | Image credit: Ubisoft/Eurogamer Adding to traversal - and providing that classic metroidvania gear-gating - are unlockable skills that tend to be fairly standard ideas for the genre but delivered with flair.

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