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Prince of Persia: Sands of Time free download for Ubisoft's 30th birthday

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Quake 20th anniversary is coming up soon. I'm away on holiday with no PC access. I'm a bit sad I'm going to miss out on the inevitable surge in people on Q1 servers. Anyone here still plays Q1? If you're in the right timezone you can sometimes find a few random chaps on the public servers.

I actually played a couple of months ago and I'm not as good as I remember being, although that might partially be age.

I was having trouble loading this page, just saw a white screen, but I was able to get the game by going to Ubisoft Club directly, e.g. https://club.ubi.com/#!/en-GB/ubi30

I love this game. The storytelling is fantastic and the framing device is really clever and unique.

Even though the final boss fight is extremely lackluster the game has maybe the most enjoyable ending I've experienced.

No, that's not how it happened ;)

I loved this game back in the day. Downloading even though I need to sign up, just for the memories.

Sands of Time was pretty fun, but it kind of felt too easy (rewinding every mistake). My favorite was the original DOS Prince of Persia, which was one of my favorite games back then!

Wasn't there a limit to the number of times you could rewind time and you had to collect some items/defeat enemies to get more rewinds?

yep - you don't get infinite rewinding :O

Brought back great memories, such as "prince.exe megahit 13"

Oh my god, you just activated part of my brain that was not in use for over 25 years, incredible that i still remember that.

Oh boy.. I forgot just how bad the controls were for this thing.

Hey, you're running and jumping, imma gunna move the camera to give you a panoramic view! Whoops, that just change you to running in the wrong direction so you missed the jump. Silly me!

any mirror?

Gah UPlay login required.

There 'aint no such thing as a free lunch.

Yeah, that's likely the real reason for this. It's an excuse/hook for them to try and get more people onto the widely-hated UPlay. :(

People treating uplay like an STD almost makes me believe in market forces and rational consumers.

Any caveats with creating a fake one?

Of course it is... It adds it to your UPlay account. What do you expect, for them to give it away on Steam?

Expected to be able to download it.

I guess putting a DRM-free installer on a website is too lowbrow for them.

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