Prince of Persia: Warrior Within

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
Game: Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
Platform: PS2
Studio: Ubisoft
Rating: 8/10

GAME STUDIO DESCRIPTION: Enter the dark underworld of Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, the sword-slashing sequel to the critically acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time™.

Hunted by Dahaka, an immortal incarnation of Fate seeking divine retribution, the Prince embarks upon a path of both carnage and mystery to defy his preordained death. His journey leads to the infernal core of a cursed island stronghold harbouring mankind’s greatest fears.

Only through grim resolve, bitter defiance, and the mastery of deadly new combat arts can the Prince rise to a new level of warriorship and defend what no enemy shall take away – his life.

Key Features

Define your own combat style with the Free-Form Fighting System: An intricate new combat system lets you wage battles with no boundaries. Utilize the environment, weapons, and your enemies themselves to develop your own unique fighting style. Plus, a strategic projectile attack system allows for a variety of ranged combat tactics.

Endure the epic: Hours upon hours of action await in your fight for survival, including multiple endings and over 50 weapons to find and master.

Change the past to affect the present: Travel back in time to prevent the creation of your deadly fate – your every action will affect the history of the present, including environments, stories, inhabitants, and more.

Control the ravages of time: Ravage enemies with the devastating new combative powers of time manipulation, opening up astounding variations in fighting gameplay as you rewind, fast-forward, and slow time down.

Explore a violent underworld: Explore and conquer a cursed island underworld, a breeding ground for the most brutal, unrelenting enemies to torment mankind.
Confront a deadly, seductive evil: Survive the evils of the Empress, a stunning villainess with the power to bend the minds of men. This dark siren of the underworld holds legions of monsters under her command.

PLAY: Back again is the rewind which allows you to erase your mistakes and a new feature is the slow feature which helps make better use of combos. One issue however is that in slow the Prince doesn’t seem to be effected and that takes away the challenge.

There is a lot of puzzle solving that deals with search the environments for each piece. If you don’t care to take all the time solving puzzles and desire to fight constantly this might not be for you. The free-form fighting is fantastic. There are many more weapons and combos. Even with a weapon in one hand you can grab an enemy and toss them.

GRAPHICS: Absolutely as good as its predecessor. The overall detail is fantastic as are the character models. The frame rate appears to be better than Sands of Time.

SOUND: The voice acting is wonderful and is full of personality. However most of the lines are terrible and the jokes are moronic. The rock music doesn’t do it for me and because we hear it so often it grows rather annoying.

FRANKLY: Prince of Persia: Warrior Within is much longer than Sands of Time because of the search for puzzle pieces and solving them. The fact that you can have various endings adds some replay value.

+ Richie Wright


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