Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Rewindable time removed failure friction and made flowing acrobatic traversal readable.

Released 2003 Developer Ubisoft Montreal Publisher Ubisoft Platform PlayStation 2 Genre Action-adventure Era Broadband & the console shooter

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Checkpoint Respawn ~~1984~~Chained Combo Strings ~~1991~~Analog Free-Roam 3D Movement ~~1996~~Player-Controlled Bullet Time ~~2001~~

Directly influenced

Assassin's Creed ~~2007~~

The Prince of Persia series in this dataset

1989

Prince of Persia ~~1989~~

2003

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