Prince of Persia: Epilogue

 Xbox 360
Metascore
67

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Eurogamer Portugal
    70
    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.
  2. Xbox Achievements
    70
    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.
  3. Boomtown
    60
    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.
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  5. Xbox World 360 Magazine UK
    60
    Features superior platforming, but we don't appreciate having to pay to see the game's "true" finish. [June 2009, p.95]
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  6. Meristation
    50
    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.
  7. Eurogamer
    50
    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.
  8. GameShark
    50
    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.

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User Score
6.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 10
  3. Negative: 3 out of 10
  1. HagenM
    Mar 6, 2009
    7
    POP Epilouge is a good DLC. It gives us some new gameplay, added to the story, and it's cheap. Really the only bad thing is that the POP Epilouge is a good DLC. It gives us some new gameplay, added to the story, and it's cheap. Really the only bad thing is that the ending was pretty weak and had no substance.… Full Review »
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