New Prince of Persia to have Live Component

IGN is running a story regarding the upcoming Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. The Xbox version of the game will have downloadable content and leader boards thanks to Xbox Live. The leader boards will cover two self-contained competetive types of play: Timed Missions and an Arena. Info also available on the official site.

Good.

[McKinney83]

I always hated how the first PoP had a big "LIVE ENABLED" sign on the front of the box, but the only feature was "Voice Chat".

Cover can be found Here [xboxcovers.net]

Re:Good.

[McKinney83]

Ahh!
I ment Friends, not voice chat.
All friends does is tell you if your friends are online.

May I be the first to say...

[kgbkgb]

So what?

Is this really considered Slashdot-worthy? This is something that has been done with plenty of other non-multiplayer games.

Re:May I be the first to say...

[Grey Ninja]

I already used my last mod point, or I would mod you up. There's nothing really new or interesting about this story. For one, the online components just kinda bite. For another, they've been done before. For another, the game is coming out on 4 systems, and I highly doubt that the Xbox version is going to be the one most people want.

Not really

[Have Blue]

It's downloadable content and online rankings. There is no mode involving more than one player at a time. Which is understandable, considering the things the game does with time.

OURMT

[August_zero]

Forgive my cynicism, but I've heard this "Downloadable content" shtick before.

While a good idea in theory, with only a few exceptions, developers just don't ever deliver on that promise, and why should they? The X-box just doesn't have the user base to justify extra hours of development for things that only about a quarter of the user base is even going to bother with. The only reason I even have Live anymore is beause I forgot to cancel it, and whole my circle of friends is hardly a representative sample of gamers, of the dozen or so that bought into it at launch, I am the only one that still has an account.

At this point printing "Downloadable Content" is akin to listing "Scene Selection" on a movie DVD as a special feature.

Re:OURMT

[hollismb]

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. It depends on the game. Ghost Recon: Island Thunder, for example, had more content download (for free) than shipped with the actual game, pretty much. I guarentee that we'll be seeing many downloadable maps for Halo 2 as well. As for Prince of Persia, I'd guess there may be just a handful of these maps, not unlike Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, which just had two.