Any true video game fan has had his or her heart broken many times over by the dreaded video game adaption. Too many times have these conversions to films trashed our favorite franchises.

So as a defense mechanism, we lower our expectations. We assume they'll all suck. But the more I see and read about Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time movie, the more I think this one has a chance to not be a complete bomb. Here's my reasons:

1. The script wasn't written by some hack. Jordan Mechner, the guy who created the entire Prince Of Persia franchise back in the late 1980s was one of the team who put pen to paper.

The gaming blog Kotaku was blessed with the opportunity to sit down with Forgotten Sands level designer Michael McIntyre and preview the game. The resulting post offers some salivating screenshots, which can be found in the gallery and, some appetizing nuggets of info. Such as:

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Hellooooo! Welcome to Prince Of Persia Guide, a fan-made site made to gather every morsel of info, screens and videos related to the game Forgotten Sands. This game looks great so far and promises to restore the venerable Prince Of Persia franchise to its former glory.

We'll also follow the upcoming Prince Of Persia movie, which frankly, we're not as sold on yet. But hey, we've only seen a couple trailers so far. We'll give it a chance and track information everything on it we can as well.