Prince of Persia 3D (1999)
Prince of Persia 3D is a 1999 adventure video game made by Red Orb Entertainment and The Learning Company.
The Prince returns, now rendered in full 3D for the first time, navigating trap-laced palaces and desert ruins on a mission to rescue a captured princess. Developed by Red Orb in 1999, this third entry in the series trades the side-scrolling precision of its predecessors for a third-person camera and combat-forward design. The acrobatics remain: timed jumps, sword fights against palace guards, and crumbling ledges demand patience. It carries the same pulpy sword-and-sorcery spirit as the originals, even if the leap to polygons was rougher than anyone hoped.
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What is Prince of Persia 3D about?
The Prince returns, now rendered in full 3D for the first time, navigating trap-laced palaces and desert ruins on a mission to rescue a captured princess. Developed by Red Orb in 1999, this third entry in the series trades the side-scrolling precision of its predecessors for a third-person camera and combat-forward design. The acrobatics remain: timed jumps, sword fights against palace guards, and crumbling ledges demand patience. It carries the same pulpy sword-and-sorcery spirit as the originals, even if the leap to polygons was rougher than anyone hoped.
When was Prince of Persia 3D released?
Prince of Persia 3D was released on 17 September 1999.
Who made Prince of Persia 3D?
Prince of Persia 3D was made by Red Orb Entertainment and The Learning Company.
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Fans of the swashbuckling aesthetic will find the 2010 film Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time covers similar ground, with desert palaces, dagger-and-acrobatics action, and a self-aware sense of adventure. The film adapts the later Sands of Time continuity rather than this one, but the tone and setting rhyme closely.
Warrior legends pulled straight from ancient myth
Prince of Persia 3D sends its hero through trap-laced palaces on a rescue mission out of pulp legend, and these picks draw from the same well. Sands of Time carries the acrobatics to the screen, The Song of Achilles retells the Trojan War's greatest warrior, God of War and The Witcher 3 stage blade-first battles against monsters and gods, and Vikings dramatizes warrior culture with the same unglamorous grit.
Acrobatic heroes who turn movement itself into a weapon
Getting through Prince of Persia 3D's palace is as much about timing a jump as swinging a sword, and that acrobatic instinct shows up elsewhere. Attack on Titan's soldiers swing on gear through monster-infested cities, Avatar's benders flip and dodge through elemental combat, Kamen Rider's stunts double as fight choreography, and the Turtles and Kenshin turn sewers and streets into obstacle courses mid-swordfight.