The Prince also has quite a few special attacks. As you make progress through the game, you'll earn upgraded attacks so if you hold down a button, you get a different result than if you tap it, showing the evolution of the character as you go. During the demo, we witnessed a "shockwave" attack where an energy bubble expands from the Prince, and an extremely fast series of attacks where the Prince hits multiple enemies with small explosions all around, so it's clear there will be different maneuvers to add variety to your attacks.

When you don't want to rely on special attacks, the game allows quite a bit of environmental interaction, which ranges from doing spinning attacks around pillars to kicking off walls to propel yourself into enemies, and this is where the combat shines. One of the signature features of last year's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was that the Prince could use the environments to move around in unique ways: running along walls, jumping from platform to platform, etc. Now the combat has been fused with this interaction, so players can push themselves off walls to dive into enemies, run up walls to do spin attacks on the way down, and use the environment to their benefit in combat.