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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time PlayStation 2 User Reviews
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Dec 3, 2025
S+(10/10) A Timeless Masterpiece! Sands of Time is magical, with something so special that I keep coming back to play. The Prince of Persia Sands trilogy as a whole is timeless — I honestly can’t choose a favorite among these three legendary games.
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Oct 6, 2025
This is the game that ultimately saved the Prince Of Persia franchise, as Arabian Nights/PoP 3D gave the series a bad name. Luckily, Ubisoft picked it up from the gutter and made an absolute masterpiece of it. You want adventure? PoP: The Sands Of Time. You want fighting? PoP: The Sands Of Time. You love puzzles? PoP: The Sands Of Time. 5/5 stars.
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Sep 30, 2025
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time – Score 7.8
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English: "A groundbreaking adventure for its time, with fluid parkour mechanics and a charming story. The Sands of Time introduced the iconic time-rewind feature, which still feels fresh. However, combat can be repetitive and lacks depth, and the camera sometimes becomes frustrating. Despite its flaws, it remains a memorable and important title in action-adventure history.
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"Italiano:"
Un’avventura rivoluzionaria per la sua epoca, con meccaniche di parkour fluide e una storia affascinante. Le Sabbie del Tempo hanno introdotto il celebre potere di riavvolgere il tempo, che ancora oggi sorprende. Tuttavia, i combattimenti risultano ripetitivi e poco profondi, e la telecamera a volte diventa frustrante. Nonostante i difetti, resta un titolo memorabile e importante nella storia degli action-adventure."
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PlayStation 2
Jul 29, 2025
A beautifully animated and innovative platformer that still holds up. Combat and camera issues keep it from greatness, but the rewind mechanic was groundbreaking
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PlayStation 2
Apr 21, 2025
This reboot of "Prince of Persia" is a classic action-adventure. The story takes the form of an "Aladdin"-like fairytale. But the combat pulls much inspiration from "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". The gameplay is a great mix of sword fights, puzzles and platforming. Visually, "Sands" is a stunner, but the frame rate can get choppy on the PS2. Overall, this was one of the best games of 2003. I would rate it with a 9 out of 10.
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Mar 25, 2025
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a timeless classic that redefined action-adventure games in the early 2000s. Its innovative time-rewind mechanic, fluid parkour movement, and elegant combat system made it stand out instantly and inspired many future **** game’s platforming is smooth, intuitive, and incredibly fun—leaping across walls, swinging on poles, and navigating traps feels like an acrobatic puzzle. The Dagger of Time adds a brilliant twist, letting you rewind mistakes and adding strategy to both movement and **** story is surprisingly heartfelt, with great narration, charming characters, and a well-paced journey that keeps you engaged. The art direction and atmosphere still hold up, even if the visuals are dated by modern standards.Combat can get a bit repetitive at times, but it’s a minor flaw in an otherwise outstanding adventure.Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a beautifully crafted and innovative experience that still shines today.9/10
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PlayStation 2
Mar 21, 2025
I never get tired of this game. In my opinion, one of the greatest PS2 games of all time!
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Aug 22, 2024
I realy love this game i beat it 2-3 times every year ican't get enough of it!!
everytime i run the game i join its world from the menu only
its the greatest of all times and even the best game of assassins creed can't get a half of its greatness!
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Nov 15, 2023
Not good. The main feature, the capability to go backwards in time, is almost useless, as the amount of times you can use it befire running out of sand is super low. Not as precise as it should be, and the third boss is nearly imposible to kill, totally ridiculous beast that kills you in less than 20 seconds no matter how you try. Good idea, terrible execution
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Jul 18, 2023
Nice update of the influential platform game with pretty visuals, responsive controls, fluid movement and interesting environments. The rewind option is also a nice inclusion that prevents frustration from setting in at the trickier sections. One of the best platformers for the PS2.
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Jun 15, 2023
A very entretaining, fun and challenging game, if you like Prince of Persia, it is a must play.
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Mar 16, 2023
This reboot of Jordan Mechner's 2D platformer is a great success. It takes the form of an "Aladdin"-like fairytale with moves straight out of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". The game is visually beautiful and very artistic. While the combat can get repetitive, it doesn't ruin the experience. "Sands of Time" mainly consists of platforming segments and they are great fun. Fans of the original POP will love this. I would rate it with a 9 out of 10.
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Dec 5, 2022
This is a fantastic game even for 2022. Just play it again. Plaaaaaay ittttttttt
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Aug 2, 2022
It’s alright, definitely not the best Prince of Persia game in my opinion. The story is good and this is the beginning of the Prince of Persia trilogy witch has the best Prince of Persia game.
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May 23, 2021
One of the best on the PS2, no doubt! Gorgeous graphics, accurate gameplay, great soundtrack! Low difficulty, but nothing to get in the way! The only thing he sins is the fighting mechanics, which looks like Aquaman from GameCube and XBox, is not as good as a GOW, or Bayonetta for example, but the fights are still epic! Without a doubt this is one of the best in history.
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Mar 28, 2021
The Greatest game of the sixth generation of gaming. It needs no introduction. as it pioneered some elements such as free-flow combat , puzzle and parkour that inspired other great franchises such as assassin's creed and the arkham series.
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Jan 4, 2021
Muchos recuerdos de un excelente juego en una de las mejores consolas de la historia
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Dec 1, 2020
Back in 2003 My big Brother bought this game with his friend and came to house install and start play this game. Me, my brother and his friend mouth is opened because Graphics was magnicifent! Gameplay was so good. Walking at walls,flip,jumping up from enemys and best thing is recall time! People must play this game exept If you like classics.
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Sep 13, 2020
One of gaming true masterpieces. Some of the most interesting and fun puzzles and traversal puzzles in any game ever. A beautiful story of a Persian war monger and a Indian princess who are enemies but have work together and eventually bond to save the land. The voice acting dosent have the accents of the place of the world they are in and is all the better for it. The Prince sound like a posh Noble and Farrahs voice is just adorable and really endears you to her character. Ive heard people say like they say in many older games the Movement and Combat is clunky, but just like games like Silent hill, the controls are clearly intentional and with a small learning curve that is missing in modern games it all works great.
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Jun 24, 2020
Dubitatif à l'idée de le commencer, et pourtant oh combien prié par la presse et les joueurs, j'ai finalement terminé le jeu et voici mon ressenti, ma critique personnelle et pas objective du tout Le point fort du jeu c'est le gameplay : plateforme et combat. L'animation pour chaque mouvements et super propre, fluide tout ce que tu veux, et les combats m'ont fait transpirer plus d'une fois, on a seulement quelques combos, plus les capacités de remonter le temps et de le ralentir; celle-ci m'a été inutile vu le nombre de fois avec laquelle je suis décédé en l'utilisant; Surpris par la difficulté de certains combats, même au sol tu te fais tabasser, obliger de parer et impossible de se relever en le faisant, c'est presque darksoulien à ce niveau (les contre-attaques sont de la partie) Putain j'ai été déçu par le gameplay parcours/plateforme, au début sympathique, puis ensuite complètement défiguré par le level design du pauvre, on se demande beaucoup trop de fois où on doit aller, et tu sais que tu t'es trompé parce que t'es en train de tomber/mourir/de te faire empaler. Pour un jeu aussi couloir ça ne fait que frustrer le joueur et rallonger la durée de vie amèrement. Entre combats et parcours, on a des énigmes basiques et qui sont là, elles font leur taff, et ne casse pas le rythme du jeu pour moi. Mon gros point noir c'est un mélange entre la technique du jeu, et le fait que je ne saches pas jouer, en gros les input donnés par le joueur ne sont pas ce que le perso fait, on entre pas en symbiose, en "animus", et ca c'est nope. Combien de fois j'ai dû recommencer pour cause de mauvaise compréhension du jeu ? Trop.... Après un nombre incalculable de saut de la fois qui s'est mal passé, j'ai pris le walkthrough d'ign et j'ai regardé c'est par où la suite. Alors y'a aussi le problème du joueur derrière la console qui sait pas jouer, et c'est peut-être le cas, mais là c'était trop présent, souvent le problème c'est la caméra en position latérale de sécurité. Le scénario c'est du basique vu, le prince doit sauver son royaume et c'est tout. La pseudo amourette entre lui et la princesse c'est artificiel, mais bon c'est marrant. Une fausse pépite.
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Jun 23, 2020
Best videogame of all time. It is also the most artistic of the POP trilogy, with a more complex plot (real love story) and more beatiful graphics than the other games. And the soundtrack... BEST VIDEOGAME SOUNDTRACK OF ALL TIME. Listen to "Time Only Knows" and you will see!
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May 10, 2020
Very good game, still i think the second part is much better in the action part but in story this one is better.
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Mar 31, 2020
Straight out of the pages of a fairy tale, this Ubisoft reboot of Prince of Persia showcases phenomenal level design in the platforming segments even if the puzzles and combat aren't as impressive. This is the prince at endearing best.
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Dec 19, 2019
For mi this is one of the best game ever made, any list that don't include this masterpiece, is wrong, period.
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PlayStation 2
Jul 24, 2019
+ Story
+Parkour +Level design
+Characters+Soundtrack -There are only two bosses
-Lack of side characters
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PlayStation 2
Jul 6, 2018
One of the best games that i played.I just love everything about this game. 12/10. If they do a new POP i hope is this good
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May 17, 2018
A damn good game done extremely **** beginning of what Uncharted, Tomb Raider, and other 3d action platformers
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Mar 19, 2018
prince of Persia the sands of time is a remake of the 1989 prince of Persia after you finish the sands of time you unlock the original prince of Persia. This game starts off good enough, but this game becomes very repetitive because the whole game is in this one castle and it gets very boring. the story is very good but it movies very slowly and goes on for far too long. this game is about ten hours long but so little happens to break up the repetitive gameplay. this game is a platformer and for the most part, the platforming is good. the selling point of the game is the sand of time which in the game is a dagger which can either go back in time or slow down time. the combat is good at the beginning but becomes very repetitive afterward. there are only five enemy types and nothing is done in the whole game to break up the repetitive combat. The game could have been a lot better if it was not so repetitive. all it had to do was make the castle more interesting. have the story move on a bit quicker and add something to the combat. but this game is very fun at the beginning and at the end. 7 at of 10
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Aug 16, 2016
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a third-person action-adventure puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Ubisoft. + Good Story + Good Gameplay + Rewind Time
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Jul 27, 2016
Revolutionary gameplay and amazing graphics for 2003, which impact can still be felt today. The huge budget set an example for modern AAA games. There are some minor problems I won't mention here since other reviewers covered them. You just simply HAVE to play this game. The ending is actually quite satisfying too. You will be surprised.
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May 17, 2016
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has got to be one of the best Prince of Persia games ever made and arguably confirmed to have a movie that'll never be better than the video game in any taste of quality.
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Apr 22, 2016
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a third-person action-adventure puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Ubisoft. + Good Story + Good Gameplay + Rewind Time
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Jul 27, 2015
Meraviglioso videogioco che, dopo anni di assenza dal mondo videoludico, ha fatto tornare in auge la celebre saga di Prince of Persia e l'ha inoltre introdotta nel mondo delle tre dimensioni. Prince of Persia: Le Sabbie del Tempo è uno spettacolare action in cui, nei panni di un agilissimo Principe, ci ritroveremo ad affrontare un'entusiasmante avventura a base di acrobazie, combattimenti, enigmi e straordinarie fasi platform. Intriso di magiche atmosfere fiabesche in stile Le Mille e una Notte, Le Sabbie del Tempo è un vero gioiello videoludico che col suo gameplay semplice e coinvolgente ha influenzato molti videogiochi usciti successivamente.
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Jul 25, 2015
Потрясающая персидская сказка,которая запомнится как нечто светлое и доброе в геймерской душе. Отличный геймплей,который не надоедает на протяжении всей игры,в сочетании с не мудрёным,но все же интересным сюжетом заслуживают наивысшей оценки. PS. Жаль про остальные игры серии такого не сказать...
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