Posted on: November 26, 2025

leugyffes

Games: 45 Reviews: 11

You cannot change your fate no man can

This game is pure genius, with incredible dialogue, original characters, wonderful graphics, a marvellous atmosphere, an engaging story, a brilliant combat system, a thoroughly satisfying and well-designed wall-running system, and incredible music. Unfortunately, the game has some bugs that were present on release day, but they are silenced by this masterpiece. If you haven't played it yet, don't wait, buy it and experience the beautiful tale of Arabian Nights.

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Posted on: August 5, 2012

Duffking

Games: 103 Reviews: 4

Same great platforming, overrated combat

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time was universally praised for its incredibly tight atmosphere, with most criticisms centring on its simplistic combat system that could often lead to long, drawn out encounters toward the game's conclusion. The core platforming here remains the same, though the game adds a slight metroid flavour this time around, with lots of backtracking as the prince gains new abilities and opens up new areas. Where the game falls apart is the combat system. Frequently praised as an improvement over SoT's combat, the reality is that WW's combat is far, far worse: Warrior Within gives us essentially the same combat system as before, but rather than giving us two or three simple combos, we get page after page of combo, most of which players will never perform due to how awfully clunky and unresponsive button inputs are. If you've ever played a game with a competent combat system (Ninja Gaiden, Bayonetta, God of War), WW's combat will only frustrate you: there's no flow, no feeling of impact. And in a game that features such a huge amount of combat, it's a major flaw.

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Posted on: December 18, 2022

mchngod_72826

Verified owner

Games: 246 Reviews: 2

Crappy port

You're better off emulating the ps2 version, this one got a lot of audio glitches that harm the experience. It's a great game, but gets boring without the music.

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Posted on: August 30, 2024

super_samus56

Verified owner

Games: 327 Reviews: 1

Souless

Everything that made the first game special is lost here. This is where Ubisoft first tried to take their popular franchises and edge them up in hopes that it would lead to more sales. And those praising this game really latched on to that edginess. But this game is edgy just for the sake of being edgy. It has nothing to say and the relatable likeable Prince is now replaced with an edgelord who kills indescriminatly because of a lack of sleep and a never ending quest to escape the Dahaka and survive. I will admit that the story here does make sense in context but they could have done so much more with it. Instead it's an excuse to make the Prince bland and edgy. This game was made for the 14 year old edgelord who thinks nothing gets any cooler than blood and heavy metal music. And while there's nothing inherently wrong with that the entire experience comes off as souless and a way to appeal to an older demographic in the most surface level way possible. The combat in the first game wasn't great and I guess it's better here now that you have combos? My problem with the combat in this game is the enemies take too many hits and block way too much. They're also thrown at you at just about every platform you jump to slowing down the flow of the platforming and the game in general. In fact this game isn't too long and if you cut out the padding from the combat encounters and the cheap deaths in the Dahaka chases you could probably run through this in 4 hours or less. The breath and soul of this game can be surmised by running away from a big scary monster while Godsmack's "I Stand Alone" instrumental blares in the background. They course corrected with the final game bringing back the original Prince voice actor and making it more like the first game. I think that tells you what you need to know about how this one was recieved and its legacy.

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Posted on: May 17, 2013

Pseudonaja

Games: 248 Reviews: 1

Best Prince of Persia game

Music is greatly undervalued in games. When the series took this darker turn, was when I realised games could convey story just as good as, if not better than, movies. It could've been a mistake. It could've been shallow and filled with meaningless gore. But the soundtrack had the heaviness to give the whole experience an action movie feel (like 300, Gladiator and similar movies) without being so metal-driven as to scare players away. The 2 things I'll always remember is the first time the menu started up (Wow!) and the first boss fight. In my opinion no game has blended tight controls and musical theme this well.

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