Following
some
leaks,
Ubisoft
has
announced
The
Rogue
Prince
of
Persia,
a
new
game
due
to
launch
in
Early
Access
on
Steam
on
May
14.
No
other
platforms
have
been
revealed
yet,
but
it’s
likely
that
once
it
exists
Early
Access
it
will
launch
on
console,
too.

The
game
is
being
developed
by
Evil
Empire,
a
development
team
that
splintered
off
from
Dead
Cells’
developer
Motion
Twin
with
the
goal
of
supporting
Dead
Cells
post-launch.
It’s
no
surprise
that
The
Rogue
Prince
of
Persia
takes
a
lot
of
inspiration
from

Dead
Cells,
including
the
rogue-lite
design.

The
art
style
is
striking
and
radically
different
from
any
of
the
other
Prince
of
Persia
games
we’ve
seen,
including
the
recent
and

excellent
Prince
of
Persia:
The
Lost
Crown.
The
gameplay
harks
back
to
the
side-scrolling
days
of
the
franchise,
featuring
randomly
generated
2D
levels
where
you’ll
fight
and
platform.

IGN
has
already
had
a
chance
to
go
hands-on
with
the
game.
In
their
write-up,
they
said,
“The
Rogue
Prince
of
Persia
may
not
look
exactly
like
Dead
Cells
–
it
swaps
the
latter’s
16-bit
sprites
for
a
stylised
sheen
more
befitting
a
Saturday
morning
cartoon
–
but
it
certainly
plays
like
Dead
Cells.”

They
did
note
key
differences
between
The
Rogue
Prince
of
Persia
and
Dead
Cells,
though.
For
example,
the
Prince
is
more
acrobatic,
able
to
wall-run
with
a
squeeze
of
the
left
trigger.

They
ended
their
preview
by
saying,
“There’s
no
question
that
Dead
Cells
walked
so
that
The
Rogue
Prince
of
Persia
could
wall-run,
but
although
its
fundamentals
may
be
familiar,
the
greater
freedom
of
movement
and
striking
art
style
of
Evil
Empire’s
new
adventure
has
certainly
made
me
keen
to
explore
it
more
and
experiment
further
with
its
various
weapons
and
buffs.”

This
will
be
the
second
Prince
of
Persia
game
released
this
year,
but
it’s
not
all
good
news
for
the
franchise.

According
to
Insider
Gaming,
the
troubled
development
of
the
Prince
of
Persia:
Sands
of
Time
remake
is
worse
than
we
thought.
In
a
report
they
published,
Insider
Gaming
claims
that
the
Remake
has
been
completely
remade
following
it
switching
developers,
and
footage
they
were
shown
indicates
a
game
far
away
from
being
ready
for
public
consumption.