Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown’s full launch is correct across the nook, however a free demo of Ubisoft Montpellier’s new metroidvania is playable now.
Described as a “customized” demo by Ubisoft, it contains “rigorously chosen” sections from all through the sport. It additionally options early unlocks of time powers and amulets as a way to exhibit Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown’s essential gameplay options with out spoiling its story, which sees the sport’s protagonist, Sargon, trying to rescue the titular Prince of Persia as time itself begins to unravel and monstrous foes seem. For the reason that demo jumps between totally different sections of the sport, progress made within the demo won’t carry over to the complete sport.
The demo is on the market to obtain on practically each platform Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown will likely be launched on: Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Change, and PC through the Epic Video games Retailer or Ubisoft Retailer. The demo is just not, nevertheless, out there on Amazon Luna, the place gamers must wait a little bit longer to play Ubisoft’s newest. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown will launch on all of the platforms talked about above on January 18, with those that buy the deluxe version or subscribe to Ubisoft+ capable of play early beginning on January 15. Preordering the sport will unlock a pores and skin for Sargon impressed by the Prince’s look in 2004’s Prince of Persia: Warrior Inside.
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown would be the first new sport within the franchise since 2010’s Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. In GameSpot’s Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown evaluate, we known as Ubisoft’s new metroidvania-inspired tackle the sequence “assured and impeccably crafted” and one which makes it really feel “as if the sequence has discovered its new style dwelling.”
As soon as The Lost Crown releases, Ubisoft will nonetheless have one other Prince of Persia title, a remake of 2003’s The Sands of Time, within the works. The sport was first introduced in 2020 however has since been delayed indefinitely. Growth on the challenge extra lately shifted from Ubisoft Pune and Mumbai to Ubisoft Montreal, and no new launch date for the sport has been introduced.