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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not as good as POP1, 24 Mar 2005
Well, to tell you the truth, i've stopped playing this now. I got bored, as it wasnt how i expected it to be. I'd hoped for it to be a true sequel to POP1, swinging along like a monkey. Unfortunatley, it isnt truly like this
Firstly, ill start with the good points. It is still truly awesome going to high places, like in POP1, and the fighting is improved (still repetive, but improved). Also, when you start playing, you will be impressed with the fighting, it is good at the start, with enough combos to make soul caliber feel insecure.However, now the bad points. The main one being the cynical attempts to make it 'cool' for the GTA generation, with heavy metal, instead of mid-eastern music, and the fighting. You walk into a battle, jump over someone, break his neck, jump over somone else and slice his head off. The camera goes into slo-mo, and blood squirts everywhere. Your left thinking, "this isnt POP?"
Because, apart from his acrobatic skills, and convenintly placed bars, there is little to distinguish this from the original POP:TSOT
There are also lots of bosses, some which can make you quite jumpy, as they blast through a wall, like a time keeper, in which you have to run for your life from. The original POP was a pleasure to play, no frightning parts at all. This has exploding dogs flying at you, and great troll creatures.
Another thing, as the developers attempted to make the game less linear, they have implemented time travel, to take you back to the past. It is brilliant in theory, but extremly confusing in pratical, with a crap map given to you, which is like navigating a B road in English country with nothing but a map of the UK.
All-in all though, not an extremly bad game...just...i would have expected better, following the amazing prequel.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The PRINCE returns, and he doesn't look happy!, 15 Aug 2005
Prince of Persia Warrior Within is one of the best games i have ever played! and it deserves it space on my shelf next to 'The sands of time and TLoZ the wind waker. The game is set eight years or so after the sands of time, and follows the prince as he invades the island and fortress of time, in a bid to kill the Empress of time and stop the sands from ever being created. If he succeeds then the 'Dahaka' the incarnation of fate (a very nasty incarnation) will stop pursuing the Prince, and stop its efforts to consume him.
While many have criticised this game, i have to disagree with them. Yes it does have a very heavy metal soundtrack, but it only ads to the action, sets the scene and is hardly noticable if your focusing on jumping form ledge to ledge, dodging blades and spike pits, running along walls, swinging off ropes, sliding down poles and killing multiple enemies, al within three minutes!
Yes, the fighting is repetitive, but better than the Sands of time's combat. With the 'free-form fighting system' implemented, it means the Prince can perform any attack easily, with different combo's. the Prince can also steal enemies weapons and use them or throw them at an enemy.
The platforming element is back aswell, though much easier and straightforward than TSoT the platforming still takes careful execution, otherwise death is certain. though thankfully, the Prince still has the power to control time, which is used to greater effect this time, forcing you to use the 'slow time' move to jump through spinning blades in the mechanical tower, or to get to a door in time before it closes.
But the best part of the game has to be the chase scenes. At certain points, the Prince will be attacked by the 'Temporal enforcer' the 'Dahaka', and the screen will lose colour, becoming black and white, the closer it gets. The chase forces you to use all your platforming skills very quickly, without much time for wondering if its the right thing to do, because take too long and the beast will consume the Prince making you start the chase again until youv'e made it to a warp portal.
The graphics are brilliant and jaw-dropping once again, with lush gardens and cold rusty walls, in each of the two towers, all giving a severe sense of vertigo.
There are actual bosses this time around, all with unique moves and different difficulties.
Overall PRINCE of PERSIA warrior within is a masterpiece of a game. brilliant from start to finish. make sure you buy it now! and preorder PRINCE of PERSIA 3 while your at it!!!!! it looks great!
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
More of the same... PLUS MUCH MUCH MORE!!!, 8 Dec 2004
I just bought Prince of Persia Warrior Within and at first was a little disappointed due to the first Level (Intro Level). It instantly felt like the whole format of the game had been changed to a slash'em'up and was no longer the same Prince of Persia as the first. Then you realize that the intro level is there to help you get used to the new combat system that have been added since the original game, no longer do you have to always kill the enemies with a final blow from the dagger of time (you can just strangle them instead... or throw their own weapons at them... or slice their throats... or sweep a few legs... or throw them over edge of... well... everywhere!). Add this to the new enemies that seem to have smarter A.I. (sometime it is scary how much they seem to dodge your attacks but slowing down time helps with that, hehe take that!), much darker levels that see you back to the acrobatic puzzling greatness (new acrobatic moves too) that made the first Prince of Persia a classic, and you will not be disappointed... (runs off to play Warrior Within)Oh... and the graphics are not too shabby either. Put simply, if you like the first Prince of Persia you will love Warrior Within.
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