Prince of Persia: Warrior Within

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User Score
8.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 595 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 498 out of 595
  2. Mixed: 68 out of 595
  3. Negative: 29 out of 595
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  1. WhataGame
    Jan 22, 2010
    2
    This is an awful game. I wanted to kill the developers and myself after playing it for 10 minutes. Imagine Sands of Time only with everything good about the game stripped out and replaced with incredibly bad controls, camera, enemies, ambience, sounds and music, cutscenes, characters, dialogue, story. This gets a pity vote of 2 simply because it is the sequel to sands of time. This is the This is an awful game. I wanted to kill the developers and myself after playing it for 10 minutes. Imagine Sands of Time only with everything good about the game stripped out and replaced with incredibly bad controls, camera, enemies, ambience, sounds and music, cutscenes, characters, dialogue, story. This gets a pity vote of 2 simply because it is the sequel to sands of time. This is the only possible reason I can see to give this game more than 0, unless you are 12 years old and/or have never played another video game in your life. This game will make you wish you were doing anything else more fun such as sandpapering your wrists or cleaning a sewer. I am amazed that the same people who made sands of time managed to squeeze out this turd of a game. Save yourself the trouble and pretend this game never existed.… Expand
  2. FranzF.
    Jun 25, 2006
    0
    Several minutes of unskippable movies lead to game sections in which you can get away with clicking a couple of buttons in frenzy. Then you're forced to sit and spend several more minutes with unskippable and uninteresting videos. At least they look good. Graphics are the only good thing about this game. I've no idea what the critics were thinking back then but this is a piece Several minutes of unskippable movies lead to game sections in which you can get away with clicking a couple of buttons in frenzy. Then you're forced to sit and spend several more minutes with unskippable and uninteresting videos. At least they look good. Graphics are the only good thing about this game. I've no idea what the critics were thinking back then but this is a piece of shit covered with ice cream. Looks like westerners still buy these makeshift stereotypical fantasies related to an eastern world that never existed.… Expand
  3. PaulL
    Jan 14, 2009
    4
    Warrior Within is entertaining but does not live up to Sands of Time. It is a mediocre game that lacks polish. And it is very, very buggy. Very. Very. Buggy. Story - the premise behind the plot is sound, but the execution is corny and clumsy. Gameplay is identical to Sands of Time, save for a few combat features (throwing, picking up secondary weapons, new "combos", swining around Warrior Within is entertaining but does not live up to Sands of Time. It is a mediocre game that lacks polish. And it is very, very buggy. Very. Very. Buggy. Story - the premise behind the plot is sound, but the execution is corny and clumsy. Gameplay is identical to Sands of Time, save for a few combat features (throwing, picking up secondary weapons, new "combos", swining around vertical poles). This works well and is mainly why the game was entertaining for me. The additional combat features helped add some variety over Sands of Time combat. Graphics - you'd expect Ubisoft might put a good deal of effort behind making the prince look decent as you'll be spending the entire game staring at the guy. But no. Also, it'd have helped if the prince in the cutscenes and prince in game resembled each other. Environment and enemies are mediocre. Audio quirks (bugs?) in the game will frustrate you as music for what should be a heart-pumping fast-paced portion of the game whispers softly. Think of the problem SoT had with dialogues and apply it to music. Oh, and some dialogue may cut out as they did for me. If you are set on buying this game, I recommend you read up on all the fatal bugs (bugs that prevent you from finishing the game) to avoid doing anything that trigger them in game. The game apparently did not go through much testing. You will find that at some points in the game some surfaces turn white. This is not game-stopping, but it is disconcerting and annoying. Bugs too numerous to count. Yet Ubisoft has not released a patch for Warrior Within. This may be a testmant to how messy the code is. Or how little they think of their customers. I definitely recommend saving your time and money by not purchasing this game. If you must play this game, find a friend who has it.… Expand
  4. bosnian
    Apr 6, 2012
    3
    Game is extremely buggy, could be due to it being a bad port. But even when it works, it fails to resemble the Sands of Time which is a much much better game in every aspect.
  5. Vic
    Apr 7, 2007
    1
    Bought this game today. Pros: + nice graphics, Cons: - frustrating gameplay - prepare yourself for constant reloads. I mean it - every 20 seconds or so, right from the beginning. Verdict: Forget it, spend your time on something FUN, not frustrating.
  6. warriorwithinsucksass
    Aug 23, 2009
    0
    This game is the definition of ratshit. Its like the creators decided to take everything that was good about the first game, piss on it to blow out its circuits, and make another superfluously gory game which has barely any puzzle solving and has a story that makes every single episode of scary movies plot look like the god father, if i could go below 0 i would. Also if i could chop off This game is the definition of ratshit. Its like the creators decided to take everything that was good about the first game, piss on it to blow out its circuits, and make another superfluously gory game which has barely any puzzle solving and has a story that makes every single episode of scary movies plot look like the god father, if i could go below 0 i would. Also if i could chop off my foot to prevent this game from bieng created, well, i wouldn't do that, that's retarted, but its still a horrible game.… Expand
  7. Ggdograa
    Dec 23, 2012
    4
    Does nothing to improve the problems with the original and only makes them that much more prevalent, even ruining the visuals of the first game with an ugly grey/brown color palette. The combat is horrible, the controls are borderline broken and any sense of pace or enjoyment you get from the platforming segments are broken up by un-skippable cut-scenes and mini movies that occur ever 60Does nothing to improve the problems with the original and only makes them that much more prevalent, even ruining the visuals of the first game with an ugly grey/brown color palette. The combat is horrible, the controls are borderline broken and any sense of pace or enjoyment you get from the platforming segments are broken up by un-skippable cut-scenes and mini movies that occur ever 60 seconds, which feel the need to show you the layout of the entire area, completely removing the thrill and satisfaction you may feel from discovering the solution yourself. These games have aged terribly and I did not enjoy my experience with this at all. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone.… Expand
  8. dneogy
    Jan 24, 2015
    4
    This game is disgusting.The quality of the graphic is poor.The whole story line of the game is meaning less.
    I will say that buying this game is a total waste of money.
  9. dggt
    Dec 8, 2018
    4
    So overated, all game it's just one big backtracking, 20 hours of gameplay in 1 same location
  10. Dream_Diver
    Nov 4, 2022
    0
    Compared to that incredibly beautiful game as the first part, it's just a piece of **** No style, combat is ruined, it's no longer an adventure, but a slasher.
  11. Hassbrow
    Nov 1, 2020
    4
    This game changes everything imaginable about the character and feel of the Prince of Persia: The clean Arabian environments are gone in favor of dark, muddied Post-Industrial Gothic themes with an abundance of iron phallisades and walls of sheer sandstone (ironically); the music is slower and grungy, featuring mostly generic metal with one gamely fellow trilling 'Warr-i-eeerr' through aThis game changes everything imaginable about the character and feel of the Prince of Persia: The clean Arabian environments are gone in favor of dark, muddied Post-Industrial Gothic themes with an abundance of iron phallisades and walls of sheer sandstone (ironically); the music is slower and grungy, featuring mostly generic metal with one gamely fellow trilling 'Warr-i-eeerr' through a phaser pedal the guitarist hadn't used since losing his cherry to a goat; speaking of which, the 7 years of accidentally pressing rewind time after making it to 3rd base must've affected our prince because the previously cocksure and naive chad has become a selfish vengeful brooding chinless shoe-gazer who displays fits of uncontrollable rage and depression with a penchant for knife collection and self-harm.

    I hate this incarnation of The Prince of Persia® almost as much as he hates me, and the world, and everything and everyone in it, and his mom.

    But... once I'd mentally substituted the prince for Alucard and the world from Brütal Legend, I was somewhat freer to enjoy the game. The combat is good even by today's standards - you soft-lock onto enemies, can dodge, counterattack, grab, slit throats, bounce off walls and throw weapons, and for when you just want everything dead, can slow time then explode into angsty yellow shockwaves of contempt for the foreshortened lives of the pathetic bottoms being thrown at you... sorry, where was I...

    The adventuring is mostly good. Difficulty increases well, the boss fights are balanced, the platforming is on-point. I did get irrevocably stuck in one area - and worse - saved my game. Luckily, I saw this coming and had backups on hand, but I played along to find a 10 minute long never ending loop.

    Still, such issues are to be expected when an alienation of metalheads armed with spraypaint and stencils are given the reins to Mechner's Opus and a year to zhuzh it up by an adolescent publisher high on their recent conquests and Pritt stick.    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#30 Best PC Game of 2004
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#12 Most Discussed PC Game of 2004
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#14 Most Shared PC Game of 2004

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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 29
  3. Negative: 0 out of 29
  1. Edge Magazine
    70
    Ubisoft has taken a flawed game of boundless promise, destroyed some (but not all) of its appeal, fixed some (but not enough) of its problems, and jeopardised the whole endeavour by making the same mistake twice and rushing it to market before it was steady on its feet. Prince of Persia is strong and supple enough to survive this with many of its immense virtues intact. But it deserved so much better. [Christmas 2004, p.80]
  2. 1UP
    90
    A consequence of this darker approach is that that game loses part of what made The Sands of Time unique. Instead of a charming and almost silly character like we saw previously, the Prince here is more one-dimensional.
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  3. Yahoo!
    90
    Largely an upgrade on the original, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within is still one of the most polished and imaginative escapades we've played. Like a blockbuster movie, the tale delivers on almost every count from dazzling pyrotechnics to deft storytelling.
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