CTotW: Jade Princes
She’s a Hispanic resistance fighter-photographer with green lips, and star of a cult hit (if poorly selling) video game “Beyond Good and Evil”, and she’s back. All hail Jade!
Destructoid has the roundup of Ubisoft’s announcements, which include a great deal about Far Cry 2 (an FPS), the announcement of a new Prince of Persia game for Christmas, as well as the announcement of Beyond Good and Evil 2. Jade is one of my favorite characters (possibly my favorite female player-controlled character). She’s witty, strong and passionate; that and she has a mysterious past that’s not completely explained in the first game. I mean, while it does wrap up the major story line, BG&E ends with Jade rocketing off into space, after who knows what, trying to find out what the larger story is, and if her parents are alive (and how they are certainly involved.)
I’ve played it through twice now, which is a rarity. One of the few other console games I feel similarly to is Prince of Persia:Sands of Time (which is a stronger, more innovative game than BG&E). The new PoP, according to Kotaku, is not going to be in the trilogy started with Sands, and it looks strikingly different. It’s interesting to see that they say they are going to include “stuff that worked in Assassin’s Creed” as part of the game. I’m not sure whether to be happy or cautious about that, since AC was supposed to be a spiritual successor to Sands, and I’m not sure it succeeded.
Still, fairly interesting and exciting news from Ubisoft, enough to distract me from 4e, anyway. Oh… and for those interested in trying out Sands, or the original Beyond Good and Evil, both are available for PC on GameTapкомпютри втора употреба.
7 Comments on “CTotW: Jade Princes”
BG&E2? Sweet! Thanks for the news. And um, which Generic Joe is this? I know 2, possibly 3 candidates.
If this is the “Joe” I think it is…you are in big trouble, mister, and you know why.
I only know about the band, and me. And I’d have reason to be in trouble, which is why I was a bit coy, I guess.
Been awhile since I’ve talked to folks, and we’ve been in Ohio for years now, after we left Charlotte.
I know a guy who did a comic ‘Joe Generic’ that showed how stupid some game rules are (in some DC Heroes, I think, a normal person could not pick up a glass of water because the target DC to grab and grapple the glass was too high).
So yes, you & I are going to be having a long talk. And James wants to know how you are, too.
Ok, I hadn’t heard about that, it might be worth looking for.
But that’s why I added the “Tortuga” (that and I like turtles).
There’s no other Joe Tortuga out there (at least on google), generic or otherwise.
And, other than the fact that I’ve mostly cut myself off from the people in my life since I moved to Columbus (something I’m trying to fix), this is one of the best parts of my life so far.
You have my email address. Use it.
I am glad that you’re happy, even if you are so far away. Um. When did you move to Columbus? I’m thinking that we just missed each other at a couple Origins.
We moved here in early 2003, I think. Sounds right, it was right after SexyWife and I got married (which was a little over a year after 9/11). I’ve only been to Origins once since we were here, though, and that was last year.
May go this year,it’s a bit like RenFaire: paying to shop:)