Everyone loved Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Which is why the new Prince of Persia – out next week – is ostensibly a sequel to everyone’s favourite Prince of Persia game. And it’s really good. Wanna win it?
Thanks to Ubisoft we have EIGHT copies of Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands to give away this week. That’s four copies on PlayStation 3 and four on Xbox 360.
We also have EIGHT Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands official Prima guides as well, pictured. So you win the game and the guide. If you win, that is.
We’re giving away one game and guide today and every day for the next six days.
How do you enter?
Easy. It’s limerick time once more. All you have to do is write a Prince of Persia themed limerick in the comments below. Normally I give you the opening line, but this time you’re free to choose your own. Just make sure the limerick is about the Prince of Persia!
Entries for today’s draw will close at midnight tonight. No multiple entries please – but you may enter tomorrow’s draw using a new limerick or perhaps a haiku. Make sure you leave a valid email or comment via Facebook Connect.
And yesterday’s PS3 winner is:
Andrew Costanzo! His limerick read:
If the Prince falls, he does not deter,
He can reverse time so it won’t occur,
Grabs the dagger in hand,
…Oh no, out of sand!
Where is Elika when you need her?
Also, a quick shout out to FatShady, Stone, Badger, Stevorooni, Anthony Zonaga, Gerard, Ross Colvin, dxyl and Michael for all making me laugh.
Oh wow, yay!!
Good luck to everyone elses limericks. I can’t wait to read some more awesome ones.
well done mate – very nice limerick
Ah looks like I wasn’t the only one who liked it after all – well earnt!
There once was a persian prince
who really made bad guys wince
At leaping adept
and through dimensions he stepped
shifting time to avoid being mince
The Prince walks around with a swagger
But the swords on the wall make him stagger
Too bad for the Prince
For they surely will mince
You’re lucky you have got the Dagger
the prince with his sword did advance
he moves with such grace like a dance
he runs along walls
to avoid any falls
cos he hates getting sand in his pants
There once was a guy stuck at work
Who on Kotaku would lurk
Prince of Persia loot
Would make him go W00T!
And count as a business perk
If I could turn back time,
For I’ve slipped on some slime,
I’d not call upon Cher,
But the Prince with long hair,
And back up the wall I would climb.
the prince felt an annoying itch
in his groin whilst scaling a cliff
but without a hand to spare
a thought through the despair
“never again flirt with a witch”
there once was a man named prince
whose act failed to convince
for he sung red corvette and purple rain
over and over again
after that we haven’t seen him since.
What about N.E.W.S. and the album named after the street number of his ridiculous mansion?
What’s up with that wild Prince’s vest?
Just armour to cover his chest?
If he got hacked at the shoulder,
Then Persia may smolder,
So why doesn’t he cover up the rest?
I have to admit I already entered a similar limerick yesterday, but I think it got lost somewhere in the interwebs, so I’ll attempt to repeat myself 😛
The prince’s tale is one of frustration
that comes from his love of narration
Farah asked how he knew her name
to which his reply then became
An endlessly looping explanation
Of the prince whom it’s said is a Persian,
I profess he has quite the aversion,
To monsters of sand,
Who plague his fair land,
And putt him off wearing his turban!
PS3 version.
Persia has been through the wringer
Lucky the prince is a swinger
More like trapeze
Not a bowl full of keys
That would be more Jerry Springer
With dagger in hard, he fights foes,
So nimble, so quick on his toes
Not afraid of great heights,
Hard to keep in your sights
To the walls, look up high, there he goes!
Fail >_<
Can't edit… should read: "hand“, not “hard”.
His dagger is hard, and it shows,
He has a slight fetish for toes
Not afraid to wear tights,
He’s got breasts in his sights,
To the bed, under doona, he blows!
A dirty limerick is the best kind of limerick.
That reminds me of the Sean Connery impersonator on SNL’s Celebrity Jeopordy.
“I cut cut an album of dirty limericks just so I could be here tonight”
“We need a new prince, ” went the call.
“whose acting will win over all.
“He needs to be charming,
“his looks and sword disarming!”
So really? Jake Gyllenhaal?
POP looked really good for the 360
so I went and bought it for about 50
after five hours of play
I returned it later that day
hopefully this one won’t be so shitty
The Prince made his way through some traps
The tower was dangerous without maps
If the Sultan came home soon
He’d fall into a pit of doom
The architect should be fired with slaps
Chesty Jake is getting irate
Tamina’s period is late
He’ll use the time dagger
And regain his lost swagger
No more baby? Well played mate
360
There once was a Persian prince
That desperately needed to piss
with no place to unzip
he tryed to stop time but ran out of time
and now hes covered in it
Deftly the prince does attack,
Rarely is he taken aback,
Rendering all foes asunder,
Leaving him time to wonder,
How to get the sand from betwixt his crack…
There once was a Persian Prince
who had a bit of a mince
“He is so Gay”
the people did say
And no one has heard from him since
A blade did sever my prince
Severed flesh and bone with a wince
Despite the powers of time
Water is the best healer for mine
Homeopath advertising has never been better since
The Prince was a man without wife
Loving girls while in a single life
If forced to commit
To a marriage permit
He’d rewound time back with his knife
To Ubisoft I can’t connect,
As I have terrible Internet.
PoP, DRM-free
On Xbox 360
Is my best -and only- bet.
The prince got sick of the sand.
He no longer thought Persia to be grand.
He decided to franchise reboot.
To a first person shoot.
But got stuck as DLC in Rockband.
I like this one. Great work.
There were three prince games not overlooked
The gaming world they quite shook
But they need updating dramatically
‘Cos you can’t automatically
Upload your achievements to facebook.
Back in ’08 was a prince,
Whose royalty was not evidenced.
They ditched this great game,
For more of the same,
And the Persian has not been seen since.
I agree, I really liked the 2008 game! I can only hope the reimagined UFO game is as good as the reimagined PoP.
As a Persian prince, one is known,
To lay a legal claim on the throne.
Yet if one wants to be king,
Well this game is the thing,
And it’s one, one must play on one’s own.
There once was a prince named Xerxes
Whose influence spread like herpes
When spartans did cease
His advance into Greece
He melted their faces like grilled cheese
Thanks for the shout out David. Nice to know my work here is appreciated. It sucks however, that was my A material. I feel any other entry that I submit would just be letting you down…
Oh well, here goes…
There was a game about a Persian Prince
1989 was the year that in which
It was the First Motion-Capture Animation in a Video Game
An announcment in the Guiness book of world records confirmed the same
and Wikipedia jokes work well in a pinch!
The Sands of Time had a wonderful prose,
The Prince jumped, ran and killed foes,
But one little niggle,
Caused my sister to giggle,
Why is he removing his clothes?
There’s a dagger with magic sand,
that makes time rewind in your hand,
There was this prince guy,
thought he’d give it a try,
There’s a dagger with magic sand,
“With the dagger that can bend space.
I will end all evil I face”.
Yet, he fakes to be bold,
Being emo and cold,
All to undress some hot chicks lace.
there once was a man named Jordan
who made a prince game that wasn’t borin’
little did he know
it would become a hollywood show
and ubisoft would make the game a sure thing
There once was a Prince called Jake
His accent was obviously fake
The Prince comes from Persia
Not middle class suburbia
The casting, it was a mistake!
The prince needs to help a djinn
With protection sphere, pillar and sand ring
Time is written anew
With motion control thrown in too
Wii arn’t sure he knoticed a thing.
“What’s this?” The good player does wonder
As the prince tears a person asunder
“Where’s the story?” He asks
“Some harrowing tasks?
Or the guy with a spoon from down-under?”
The prince, feeling hip; full of swagger,
Went out on the town with a straggler.
Halfway through the bad date,
He learned of his fate,
And realised he’d forgotten the dagger.
Persian prince brawls in
Zoroastrian palace.
Poor lost donkey Farah.
The Sands Of Time, at percentage 83
An annoying puzzle is presented for thee.
Picking random doors will certainly deprive
Enter 4,7,3,1 and finally 4,9,5
To find Farah and a Bath Scene, much glee!
😉
Fasten seatbelts tight
Your set cushions float gently
Prince Of Persia yeah!
There once was a Prince of Persia,
Who defied the law of inertia,
The wall-running freak,
His moveset so chic,
A time wielding one man militia.
Time rewinds when the dagger’s employed!
Onto spikes he just couldn’t avoid…
But then slipped down a hole
Hit the ledge at a roll,
The prince leapt across the dark void,