No demo planned for Prince of Persia 4
- Posted July 14th, 2008 at 04:28 EDT by Mike Harradence
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Ubisoft has confirmed that it has no plans to release a demo of its upcoming fourth instalment in the Prince of Persia franchise.
Speaking with Eurogamer, Producer Ben Mattes stated that a demo is "Not planned,” adding, "Doing demos of open-world games is a technical challenge; plus we're not convinced we need to. It's a brand that has some history, some built-in fan-base and we can benefit a little bit from that. Whether you like Sands of Time, Warrior Within or Two Thrones, chances are you're going to love this game because there are elements of all of those in it."
Mattes observed that many game demos are of poor quality, and as a result do more harm than good to the game’s overall success.
"There's just so many awful demos,” he said. "Let's face it, releasing a demo when you also have an E3 version to put together, and you're beta etc... It's not the kind of thing that' s going to allow you to put together a really polished demo.”
"There's a reality of production we have to live with which means if we did put together a demo there's a potential that it wouldn't be at the level we want it to be. Then what are you doing? You're doing your game a disservice by putting it in players' hands before it's ready. Nobody wants that."
Prince of Persia is due out on PlayStation 3, PC and Xbox 360 later this year.
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Emo-Mercenary |
Clarky-132- 4:34am BST - July 14th, 2008
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Suppose he's right, I wasnt really looking forward to a demo anyway. More time to work on the game.
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Guamdude 671 |
bblas- 4:46am BST - July 14th, 2008
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Ehh like Emo said he's right I guess. Never really played Prince of Persia before. But if its anything like Assasins Creed I may be picking it up.
PSN: bblas feel free to add
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Traveler1990 |
NightHawk17- 8:53am BST - July 14th, 2008
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these companies are really killing me with this nosense about sand box games not being able to have a demo, and for some reson it's always ubisoft first with that naruto game, then assasins creed, now this. Saint's row released a demo and it was a sandbox game; all you have to do is have the demo in a closed off area and toss a few battles and a puzzle in and wallah demo complete
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d3athscyth3 |
natakou- 10:39am BST - July 14th, 2008
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ok am I like the only person here who remembers HAZE..& the hype surrounding it..yea let's say this POP is haze 4 a min..and we went out to buy this game n it turns out to be garbage...i understand it's hard to create a demo n all seeing you guys are stressed for time n all..but on the other hand it's my $60 that's gonna be payin for that... psn id-natakou let gods rule!!!
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InfernoReaper |
GrimDarkling- 11:50am BST - July 14th, 2008
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Technical challenge of open-world games...like Burnout Paradise?
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AnalogueAutomat |
AnalogueAutomat- 1:05pm BST - July 14th, 2008
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PoP was still best on PC in 2D. This is just stupid..
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mikeghtmare |
mikeghtmare- 1:13pm BST - July 14th, 2008
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He is right, PoP is a well known game, and gameplay should be about the same, it always has (with some improvements), but really no demo is needed.
@Traveler1990:
You clearly have no idea of development process. You make it sound so easy but I've got news for you... it isn't as simple as you think and for a well known game such as this it would be a waste of developmen power to work on a demo.@d3athscyth3:
Haze was a new IP, PoP is well known, you cannot even compare. Nobody asked for a MGS or a GTA demo, why, because these are well known franchise that you don't really need a demo for. -
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Denali2 |
NEJI64- 1:47pm BST - July 14th, 2008
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i suppose hes right if this game have the fist PoP elements in it and play like Assassins Creed this game don't need a demo. since its the same team behind both franchise i trust this game wont be no less then those four games. but i doubt this type of game flop like HAZE, this type of game is UBIsoft type of game. No demo is cool besides its plenty of well none free rome games that don't have a demo like GTA V.C - GTA IV. for the same reason he said "chances are you're going to love this game because there are elements of all of those in it."
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