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weber_dubois22At the dawn of this console generation, Ubisoft had been working on a Prince of Persia game set in the modern day - but scrapped it before it was ever announced.
The Prince of Persia series had quite a good showing last console generation, but sadly has been mostly forgettable this time around. While Forgotten Sands was set in the middle of the last-generation Sands of Time trilogy, and Prince of Persia (2008) had a more fantastic feel to it, Ubisoft had toyed with another setting for the Prince: the present day.
Speaking with Xbox 360 World, former Ubisoft artist Jonathan Jacques-Belletête - currently the art director at Eidos for Deus Ex: Human Revolution - said that Ubisoft had originally planned to start the Assassin's Creed franchise on the PS2 and Xbox. After that original Creed was canceled, "[Ubisoft] wanted a spin off for Prince of Persia. We had some awesome ideas with that too ... in contemporary time."
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The Prince of Persia series had quite a good showing last console generation, but sadly has been mostly forgettable this time around. While Forgotten Sands was set in the middle of the last-generation Sands of Time trilogy, and Prince of Persia (2008) had a more fantastic feel to it, Ubisoft had toyed with another setting for the Prince: the present day.
Speaking with Xbox 360 World, former Ubisoft artist Jonathan Jacques-Belletête - currently the art director at Eidos for Deus Ex: Human Revolution - said that Ubisoft had originally planned to start the Assassin's Creed franchise on the PS2 and Xbox. After that original Creed was canceled, "[Ubisoft] wanted a spin off for Prince of Persia. We had some awesome ideas with that too ... in contemporary time."
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