Buy Prince of Persia: Warrior Within™

Of the Sands of Time trilogy, Warrior Within is easily the most controversial of the bunch. Forgoing the whimsical Nights of Arabia theme of the much beloved Sands of Time, Warrior Within employs a much darker tone, replacing melodic instrumentals with blood pumping metal music, and an emperor’s majestic castle with that of some dreadful thing from a metal album cover. Gone, too, is the storybook hero known only as the Prince, who is now a curse spewing, murder loving psychopath, easy to anger and eager to slice open stomachs. Understandably, not all took a liking to the new Prince of Persia, and many either wrote it off or gave up after dying in the first 10 minutes, all while cursing the monsters at Ubisoft who would dare slight their beloved franchise so vehemently. I am ashamed to admit that while I did not join in the publisher bashing those many years prior, I did assume the many fans’ angers as legitimate. After having neglected the franchise for many years since the original, I have finally played through the trilogy’s entirety. Lo and behold, my judgment is thus: Warrior Within is the best of the Prince of Persia trilogy, and one of the most challenging and equally frustrating and rewarding titles I have ever had the pleasure of besting.

Where its predecessor, The Sands of Time, relied on linear level progression, a typically gradually increasing difficulty, and relatively basic (and easy) combat, Warrior Within features a (sort of) open world, varied weapons of combat, and enemies that will break your face if you’re not perfect. It also features a higher emphasis on combat than its predecessor, and some of the most frustrating puzzle and enemy design than any other game I’ve played in years. But understand what I mean by that. Warrior Within, for the entire duration, never held my hand. The moment I felt I had a handle on how to deal with an enemy type, a brand new exploding, near unavoidable dog animal thing would be introduced. Obviously, it wasn’t always an exploding dog thing, but you get the point. WW is never easy or gradual in its difficulty. It’s not typically fair, either, but it also never felt impossible, and that’s what made it fantastic. For comparison, while playing Demon’s Souls, I always felt in control of what I was doing, and typically only died if I was quick to run into a room before checking for barriers to hide behind, traps or tricky enemies in the shadows. WW will put you in a room and deal death unto you until you learn to deal with it, and the experience became infinitely rewarding upon besting said situations.

Puzzles don’t quite follow the same degree of difficulty that the combat does, but the challenge comes in unintended traversal. By puzzles, I refer to the Prince of Persia’s method of travel; running along walls, sliding down ropes and hanging banners, and avoiding the many, many spikes and saw blades inexplicably sticking out of walls. The open world aspect of Warrior Within allows you to re-visit any portion of the island that you’ve previously visited, and you don’t necessarily have to follow the same paths. However, the design of these pathways are sometimes altered by the game’s events, and even when they aren’t, traversal in any way different from the standard is a challenge in and of itself, as the developers clearly did not design these paths to be easily followed backwards (or forwards, for that matter), as you will have to do. Worse yet, enemy spawns remain, especially those ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dogs I mentioned previously, the ones that can take half of your health. If this sounds frustrating to you, it should. But by the point you should even be considering doing anything like this, you will have already become invested in beating down this seemingly personal hell that the developers have created just for you.

I won’t divulge any of my secrets for passing through Warrior Within, and quite frankly, I would recommend any and all to refrain from guides as much as possible throughout (except for the collectibles, you’ll need a guide for those). Warrior Within is a truly brutal and often unfair achievement in sadistic game design. It’s also one of my most satisfying completions in the entirety of my gaming career. Nearly every instance of combat in this title will chew on your face and kick you in your ♥♥♥ until you really learn to play it. The learning curve can be steep and unfair, and you will want to quit. Don’t. There are no tricks to Warrior Within, and only your skill, and hopefully a share of dumb luck, will see you succeed. What faults it has, of which there are plenty, only add to the experience.

Amazing game, the best in SoT series in my opinion! It's still entertaining even though it's old and has poor graphics and doesn't support widescreen resolutions.
The only bug I encountered - I couldn't perform a long wall jump. Turns out, the cause was that the game was running at 150-200fps. I enabled V-Sync and the bug disappeared. The game certainly wasn't tested under such conditions back in the day:)

An amazing series, and its best piece. You cannot change your fate. No man can. 10/10

The Bronze Egg of the trilogy, easily the most buggy and difficult.

It's like they had some sort of quality control crisis, because some things are noticeably shoddy compared to Sands of Time, like some visuals, sounds, and then theres the glitches. The glitches usually consist of sometimes buggy as hell parkouring, I.E. I go to the very edge of a beam, jump, and end up hover glitching over the end of the other beam, either barely making it, or falling to my death. Then theres some random sound glitches, well at least the glitches in general are sometimes worth a laugh.

Anyways, to the good/whatever parts, this sequel has an incredibly emo tone, a ♥♥♥♥ ton of new combat moves and combos, a switchable secondary weapon which has durability and can be thrown, new (some annoying) enemies, and an evil OCD demon 10 times scarier than Nemesis from Resident Evil 3 that sometimes chases you and wants you dead. Its usually a parkour chase when you encounter him, avoid him and parkour right or die horribly. He also hates water, too bad the Prince couldn't just save some water in his mouth from those drinking fountains and spit at him when hes within 2 feet = instant victory :P!

Also theres some hidden secret secondary weapons that are unbreakable in some areas, how about a Rayman glove you can ♥♥♥♥♥slap everyone with? Or a flamingo that probably came from that weird TV show that was in Max Payne.

"They were all dead." "WHAT?!" "I smacked them to death with a lawn flamingo from the future."

Then theres the Water Sword, a secret primary weapon you can get near the end of the game by doing some akward backtracking and whatnot (this games equivalent of the Master Sword, except optional), and also you need to have found every life upgrade to get it. It also unlocks the game's true boss/ending as well in which you smack a certain nemesis to death with said sword.

So if you liked the first game, and don't mind some hilarious glitches and incredibly annoying dog demons that explode, give this emo glitchfest a try.

Godsmack did the soundtrack for this game. Reason enough to love Warrior Within!

A very fun game. The mix of parkour and combat is very well done and it feels so good to slow mo chop an enemies head off. The story line in my opinion is pretty ok but nothing that will bring tears to your eyes because it is so great. The dark appearance and music does a good job of setting a mood of suspence and danger, as if you are being chased (which you are). There are many secrets that with some effort you can find adding a nice little alternitive than just following the main plot all the way. There are many weapons to find and because The Prince is now wielding two weapons there are some nice combos to be had. The controls are also fluent and well done. However just becasue you are fighting doesnt mean that you just hack and slash your way through, there are many interesting puzzles that add a great element to the game. The game also has decent graphics but you must remember this game is from around 2004 so it is not what you are used to in todays games. Overall this game is VERY FUN and what really does it for me is the great combat, puzzle and parkour mixture. 9/10

That's my most favorite game ever. But i think it is hardly recommended for all gamers who love time travel subject

Completed this game twice (on both endings) when I was a kid, which was ten years ago.
Re-bought now on steam, I see this game has still it's charm!

Simple & smooth movement, deep combat with combos & fancy moves, and looooong story playtime, with dark, almost sadistic atmosphere.

Even though I don't listen to metal, it really fits this game.

Graphics are OK. Animations of fire are somehow too fast, and you need to play with VSYNC on, otherwise you will have some problems due to high FPS value. BUT that's nothing major to worry about.

Difficulty - this game can be brutal for newbies. Even frustrating at certain times. But, unlike some other games, this one is highly SKILL based. It's not random - everything can be done without harm. It just depends on your skills, really.

10/10

The second part of the amazing Prince of Persia trilogy. This time it's a whole lot different kind of adventure. No more fancy palace and no more romance in the air. This game tells you a different story.

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within is an excellent game that reveals its greatness as you progress. It starts off a bit run of mill with our moody hero slicing up bad guys, but things take a turn for the best when you get to the island. From here on it's a mind bending challenge after mind bending challenge - each more well thought out and engrossing than the last.

The graphics are very dark and atmospheric and the gameplay is great too. The Prince feels nice to control as he runs across walls, swings on poles and does tons of cool acrobatic tricks.

They made some huge changes to the fighting system. Now there are lots of combos and even enviormental kills. Now you can grab and throw enemies off ledges and over them.

The voice acting seems worse to me. Especially because Yuri Lowenthal's voice is gone.

The music is very different from the first game. This time it's all rock and metal, which I didn't really like. Because I'm not a fan of such. But it was necessary. The game forces you to run away from an dark, terrifying guardian of time named Dahaka. And the music is chosen well for this part of the game.

The game looks and feels awesome. The plot is a sick sticky web that makes you think fast and act faster. New powers and weapons are always nice to see in a game. And trust me, there are a lot of weapons here. Especially because the Prince can now Dual Wield.

Lots of secret areas, just like the first game. And some awesome hidden weapons too. You'll have to stray off course in order to find them.

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within is a challenging and fun game. It requires brawn, brains and an appreciation of wicked looking island. It doesn't beat the first game, but still...



10/10

Combat and overall gameplay has been significantly improved over The Sands of Time. It makes for challenging and continuously engaging fight sequences broken up by exploring reliably beautiful environments. I can recommend Warrior Within because the combat in it's predecessor was in dire need of refinement and this game meets those needs thoroughly. However, I want to know exactly what was going through Ubisoft's collective heads when they thought changing the light hearted, funny, and romantic tone of The Sands of Time to the angry and serious tone in Warrior Within was a good idea. If you enjoyed the characterization and storytelling from the first game then you'll be sad to hear that neither of which make any sort of return in this game. However, If good combat and thrilling visuals sells it to you, then Warrior Within is certainly worth a look.

BEST GAME IN THE WHOLE ♥♥♥♥ING WORLD!

Put it shortly

I always return to this gam because of it's difficult nature

awesome game

This is my favorite Prince of Persia installment. While the creator of Prince, Jordan Mechner, might not like the dark and somewhat brutal approach to the series, me and many other Prince's fans do and there are reasons for it. The developers just did the work well. The level design is nice and entertaining and the setting in the dark castle is beautiful. Another highlight of Warrior Within is the combat system with many awesome looking and effective combos. You'll feel it when you try it.

If you're a fan of Prince or some other platforming/fighting games (like Lara Croft, for example), try the game.

Classic PoP, one of THE best games I've ever played. The sound track is probably the best you'll ever hear and the combat system is way ahead of it's time. Must buy for PoP and single player adventure fans.

Travel in time like never before, looking for portals to the past and the present, to change your fate, doing acrobatics, killing sand monsters - THIS TIME THEY ♥♥♥♥ING BLEED AND YOU CAN CUT THEM IN HALF OR CUT THEIR HEADS AND LIMBS OFF - and unleashing brutal time powers, all in a grim atmosphere, make a more adult and dark Prince of Persia, one of the best franchises from Ubisoft.

Such a great Ingame-history! An awesome continue of Prince of Persia Sands of time!
Must play for all Fans!!

The difference between Prince of Persia games is the addition of moves and weapons to the combat, some enhanced graphics and the story. The story of this game makes it my favorite in the series because for the first time the prince can't control his human emotions anymore, fear runs into his heart and the prince runs for his life chased by a powerful and evil being, besides this is the usual platformer game with spectactular action combat.

BEST POP EVER MADE

Epic Story

Eveytime you play , every time you learn new moves

MUST PLAY

9.5/10

Classic game and the best of the series. Nostalgia flood and highly recommend purchasing!