Prince of Persia: Epilogue Critic Reviews

Epilogue offers nice entertainment to prolong the Prince of Persia experience, and that lasts around 2 hours. In terms of duration its cost is very questionable but its gameplay is an interesting challenge, a fact that the original lacked.

If you're after more antics with the prince and princess, then I would recommend this additional content, as a worthy addition to the game. If you're still up to your eyeballs in the original then I would say hold off until you've fully exhausted the game first.

Feels more like a prologue than an epilogue because the story has no end. It is fun to play and puzzles are better than in the original game.

Prince of Persia Epilogue is very short experience with an ending that's less intriguing than that of its retail counterpart. The new additions are nice, but this is really just for fans of the first game who want a little more. And I do mean just a little. This shouldn't take any seasoned POP player more than two hours to beat.

Epilogue should have, probably and more rightly, been found in the boxed game, published during last holiday season, but the ones who loved last year's most intriguing couple of characters’ adventures, will play this pack without asking themselves too many questions.

Most devout fans of this adventure will certainly feel an urgent necessity to know the events after the end of the game but will not find anything of significance or mandatory here.

Unless you absolutely thought Prince of Persia was one of the great games of last year, it’s truly hard to recommend the Epilogue to you. Sure the new level is great and the story is as we’ve come to expect from the series, but after the short 2 hour burst, there is nothing left to do.

One of the Achievements to nail in Epilogue is to complete it in under two hours. So, you’ve paid 800 points for two hours of additional content that, on balance, isn’t really all that good, and does little with the narrative save to clumsily set up Prince of Persia 2.

Features superior platforming, but we don't appreciate having to pay to see the game's "true" finish.

The Epilogue for the latest Prince of Persia game is out, in DLC fashion. Fun gameplay, great visuals and interesting story, but it reuses many enemies, it lost the sense of freedom and, above everything, it's too short and quite expensive for what it offers.

Is it harder? Absolutely—but it's also not nearly as much fun, the witty banter between the Prince and Elika is gone, and the ending leaves the player, and the Prince, wondering just what all of the effort was for. Combine that with the short play time (about two hours) and the recycled enemies and you're left thinking that your ten bucks could have been better spent elsewhere.

Epilogue doesn't even have the grace to live up to its literary title. There's no closure here, just a finite story extended by transparent and clumsy means. The conclusion, when it comes, so blatantly leaves you hanging for Prince of Persia 2 that you wonder why the game itself couldn't have ended this way.