Prince of Persia is an action-adventure and platforming video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and
published by Ubisoft. It was released on December 2, 2008 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and on
December 9, 2008 for Microsoft Windows. It is scheduled to be released for Mac OS X in March,
2009.
The game is set in ancient Persia, although the exact century is not revealed. In the game, the
player assumes the role of the Prince, whose name is not revealed in the game. The Prince is
accompanied by a girl named Elika, whom he met after a large sandstorm diverted him from his course
and he ended up in a mysterious land. Players traverse many different environments using the Prince
s acrobatic abilities to scale walls and even crawl on the ceilings. Throughout the journey, players
combat various enemies as they attempt to cleanse the land of corruption. The game s storyline and
setting borrow heavily from Zoroastrianism.[7]