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Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown shows a user score of 9.3/10 on the platform. Compared to major Ubisoft hits, this score is significantly higher. Recently, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora became Ubisoft’s best-rated game among modern releases.

However, it still ended up falling behind major hits like Assassin’s Creed 2 and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. Looking at the scores, the following are some of Ubisoft’s best-rated games on Metacritic by user scores.

• Assassin’s Creed 2 – 8.8/10
• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood – 8.4/10
• Assassin’s Creed 4 – 8.2/10
• Splinter Cell Chaos Theory – 8.8/10
• Far Cry 3 – 8.4/10
• Rayman Legends – 8.8/10
• Prince of Persia Sands of Time – 8.7/10

Despite the gaming giant’s rich legacy, we have been unable to find many Ubisoft games rated 9/10 or higher by user scores, so Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown beats past games by a fair margin.

Personally played this and gotta say, it's a gem. Wonderful what Ubisoft can do when it's not focusing on the same, old, formulaic stuff à la Far Cry, etc.

 

[March Climber]

The Rayman Legends/Origins dev teams are too good for Ubisoft.

It's going to be a sad day if Ubisoft ever decides to choose them to cut for budgetary reasons.

 

[Thief1987]

Well, I thought that Ubisoft Montpellier is lost after Ancel's departure, but seems like they are feeling very good even without him. Good thing, because it's the only Ubi's studio I have any interest in.

 

[phant0m]

Game is dope. You should buy it if you like metroidvanias, irrespective of if you follow the IP or not.

 

[bender]

That's a pretty crazy stat considering the quality of the titles in that list.

 

[xrnzaaas]

It's probably gonna go down when more reviews are added. Not that I'm butthurt or something, but AC2, SC Chaos Theory or Rayman are INCREDIBLE games and they deserve very high scores.

 

[AREYOUOKAY?]

His ugly hairstyle knocks off a point or two. Not my prince.

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

His ugly hairstyle knocks off a point or two. Not my prince.

This. It's plain ridiculous and fugly.

 

[AREYOUOKAY?]

This. It's plain ridiculous and fugly.

This is the true prince.

 

[Big Baller]

 

[March Climber]

His ugly hairstyle knocks off a point or two. Not my prince.

This. It's plain ridiculous and fugly.

This is the true prince.

Good thing the protagonist in Lost Crown isn't the prince. He's saving the Prince. It's been in every trailer since the beginning. Once again...

 

[Vyse]

Game is great!

 

[Moses85]

This is the true prince.

This

 

[AREYOUOKAY?]

Good thing the protagonist in Lost Crown isn't the prince. He's saving the Prince. It's been in every trailer since the beginning. Once again...

Wooow….. How was I supposed to know a game with the title “The Prince of Persia” doesn’t even star the prince this time around??? I should have never skipped over the trailer to miss out such important plot points of a modern Ubisoft game that apparently isn’t broken in some form or another. This absolutely changes everything and I should forgive the concept artist responsible for such hair design sins.

This

This is how they would sell more copies of the game.

 

[March Climber]

Wooow….. How was I supposed to know a game with the title “The Prince of Persia” doesn’t even star the prince this time around???

You would have known in the first few seconds of nearly every trailer where he states "I'm here to save the Prince" quite vocally. If you know of this game enough to come into the thread and complain, then you've probably watched the trailer, or read a review, or watched a youtube video, or even just looked at the game's page. The literal setup of the story is spoiled within seconds no matter where you look. It's not even an 'important plot point' like you're stating, it's the beginning of the game.

Regardless, they're doing a 'Legend of Zelda' where the protagonist is going to save the person who's name is on the title.

Also, I hope I don't blow your mind here, but this guy...

...is also not a prince. He's a random thief. If anything, you should be more mad at PoP 2008 because there was not even a prince who was present and instead it was a princess. But I guess this new form of criticism doesn't work retroactively because 'those were the good old days'

 

[The Cockatrice]

I heards its a good challenging metroidvania. Im prolly gonna get it as well, but Infinite Wealth releasing in 2 days so prolly after that.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

Regardless, they're doing a 'Legend of Zelda' where the protagonist is going to save the person who's name is on the title.

That's absurd!

I always loved playing with Zelda! That can't be real!

 

[Shake Your Rump]

Regardless, they're doing a 'Legend of Zelda' where the protagonist is going to save the person who's name is on the title.

You made me consider of how often games do not reference the main character.:

Metroid
Halo
Metal Gear Solid
Diablo
Hades
…

 

[cormack12]

Ubisoft announce Prince of Persia open world adventure game.

 

[Mozzarella]

Userscore LUL

 

[havoc00]

what about the sales numbers?

 

[AREYOUOKAY?]

You would have known in the first few seconds of nearly every trailer where he states "I'm here to save the Prince" quite vocally. If you know of this game enough to come into the thread and complain, then you've probably watched the trailer, or read a review, or watched a youtube video, or even just looked at the game's page. The literal setup of the story is spoiled within seconds no matter where you look. It's not even an 'important plot point' like you're stating, it's the beginning of the game.

Regardless, they're doing a 'Legend of Zelda' where the protagonist is going to save the person who's name is on the title.

Also, I hope I don't blow your mind here, but this guy...

...is also not a prince. He's a random thief. If anything, you should be more mad at PoP 2008 because there was not even a prince who was present and instead it was a princess. But I guess this new form of criticism doesn't work retroactively because 'those were the good old days'

Actually I liked reboot PoP.

1. He didn’t look like hot garbage.
2. He earned the right to be called that. I liked Aladdin so what’s not to like about that concept? This “Princess of Persia” is far less embarrassing than the one you’ve described for this game.
3. The game itself didn’t look like a low budget shovelware at the time. Unfortunately it was ignored which is why they can’t afford good graphics anymore.

Your “UMM ACTUALLY” does you no good this time around.