The Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands interview on UGDB talks with Thomas Simon, Lead Game Designer on Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, the upcoming platformer sequel. The conversation reveals Steve Jablonsky (Gears of War 1 and 2) will compose the game's soundtrack as various aspects of the project are discussed. Thomas also assures them the game will be more challenging that the last PoP, which almost played itself: "I can assure you that the game is challenging. However, we didn’t want the game to be unnecessarily frustrating and our design focus was to introduce new gameplay elements simply and then ramp up the complexity as the player learns. This enables us to increase the difficult level smoothly, minimizing frustration. While the earlier levels might be simple, the difficulty level increases throughout the game and becomes very challenging. In fact, I think that even veterans of the series are in for quite a surprise. :)"