Prince of Persia: Warrior Within

1. N1CKPROGAMER

   Sep 2, 2023

   10

   Di gran lunga il migliore della trilogia uscita sulla prima Xbox, nonché miglior action/platform di sempre, altro che quella schifezza diDi gran lunga il migliore della trilogia uscita sulla prima Xbox, nonché miglior action/platform di sempre, altro che quella schifezza di troia raider gioco per bambini deficienti… Expand

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2. RobertL.

   Dec 12, 2004

   10

   WTF! are all gamers becoming morons? this game is great. i bought but didnt finish sands of time because of issues with my xbox. but now im WTF! are all gamers becoming morons? this game is great. i bought but didnt finish sands of time because of issues with my xbox. but now im going to be playing both of these at the same time. the fighting is as fun as any other action games and i am happy to see alittle challenge, who wants to play through a game and not die once? so. hey fanboys get off of it and enjoy what you get, or not. i dont care.… Expand

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4. Alex

   Jan 8, 2005

   10

   This game is AWESOME for anyone that likes action, you have to get this game, it is one of the best games i have ever played.

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5. J.S.

   Jan 27, 2005

   8

   As good as the first one, except for the dual weapon system being a little clunky.

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6. TheQuietGamer

   Mar 6, 2011

   8

   This a great game but not as good as other entries in the series, the Prince isn't as an enjoyable character as he was in Sands of Time, inThis a great game but not as good as other entries in the series, the Prince isn't as an enjoyable character as he was in Sands of Time, in this he comes across as a guy to tries to hard to be a bad ass, the combat is cool and more brutal than it was in Sands of Time, and the plat forming is even better, and the story is pretty cool, it's still a great game with good controls, while I can recommend this don't expect it to be as good as Sands of Time.… Expand

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7. NicholasA.

   Dec 2, 2004

   5

   I don't think i've ever been this letdown by a video game since mgs2. everything that made sands of time the great game that it was,I don't think i've ever been this letdown by a video game since mgs2. everything that made sands of time the great game that it was, warrior within chucks it to carve it's own road. the results are less than satisfactory. sands of time was a beautiful game. not only in terms of visuals, but the story, character design, level design, voice acting, and the emphasis of exploration and puzzles instead of hack n slash gameplay. the sense of scale is lost in warrior withing. levels tend to be a claustrophobic mess and the backtracking through time isn't realized to it's full potential. the thing that aggravates me the most is the grating sound and horrendous voice acting. the sands of time had a wonderful score and the prince had an innocence about him when he spoke and when he would talk to himself. i miss that in this game. in the end, i feel that this game is a mixed bag of unrealized ideas. maybe they should have taken the road that chaos theory is doing and delayed it until they got it right. the visuals are clunky, character models tend to be extremely lo res and the gameplay is just not as fun as it should be. and in the end that is what matters most. … Expand

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8. HermanS.

   Dec 5, 2004

   0

   "The Sands of Time" had it all -- good voice action, sensible levels, coherent narrative, a sense of setting and adventure -- and "Warrior "The Sands of Time" had it all -- good voice action, sensible levels, coherent narrative, a sense of setting and adventure -- and "Warrior Within" tears it all down, with a wrecking ball. A humourless, incoherent mess set to clichéd heavy metal music and featuring the worst-time narrative scripting this side of Malice (remember that game?). (Try turning off the music; first, you can't turn it down to zero; secondly, once you turn it down to 1, the cutscenes will be almost completely silent, as will the in-game voice acting.) Case in point -- the game starts with a nice, if tedious, intro with the prince running from a monster. Cut to the prince on a ship in a howling storm (except it's not really howling at all; I guess they forget to add sound effects for the weather?). What happened? Is it a flashback? Flash forward? You do some fighting, though at this point there is no sense of who the prince is, why he's there, and so on (even for a player like myself, who played through "Sands of Time" and knows the character and story, it feels like a different planet). While you're fighting some enemies, the game suddenly jumps into in-engine cutscene mode, in what is tantamount to the game ripping the controller out of your hands, and something which happens again and again throughout the game, breaking continuity and distressing the player. ("Sands of Time" often jumped into cutscene mode when you entered rooms, but those jumps fit into the continuity of the game; moreover, they made sense, whereas the cuts in "Warrior Within" merely distract.) You reach the raised quarterdeck and confront some evil, butch-looking K. D. Lang impersonator right out of Conan the Barbarian. Suddenly the quarterdeck is surrounded by a wall of flame for no particular reason, constricting your movement to within that square field. You're force to face off, five minutes into the game, with an incredibly powerful opponent. I play at "normal" mode, and I'm a seasoned "Sands of Time" player, and yet I must have spent 20 lives beating this woman. Only you don't exactly beat her. After fighting her for what feels like hours, you're suddenly kicked off the ship, and shown a cutscene where you're conversing with an old man. Is it a flashback? A dream? Coherence is not this game's strong point. You then wake up in what looks like a naval ship graveyard and enter some ruins where you continue to fight the same kind of monsters, as well as the semi-nude Conan chick. What? It's also a "darker" game, which these days means making the main character brood all the time, dressing the enemies up in leather and metal, and pumping up the bass on the soundtrack. It also means having a game loader screen featuring rivers of blood. What happened to the wonderfully evocative, Arabian Nights-style setting of "Sands of Time"? That game managed to be dark -- after all, it featured zombies and violent traps -- without invoking tired clichés. More than that, "Sands of Time" had a gripping story, about someone fighting for family and love and against time itself, and featuring fairly believable characters, all deftly established in the narrative. "Warrior Within" is an outstanding disappointment, which manages to expand on the bad points of its precursor while eradicating every bit that made the original game so good. The tedious focus on fighting, for example, is now expanded tenfold. The camera movement was occasionally a bit annoying in "Sands of Time", like the way it would position itself incredibly far away to the point where you could hardly find your character on screen; that bird's eye point of view seems to be standard in this game. I would love to see Gamespot doing a "final hours of Warrior Within" that explains how this sequel came to suck so much. I would not be surprised if it boiled down to getting the game out in time for Christmas.… Expand

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