The best in trilogy but extremely buggy (If you are playing it for the first time - use at least 2 save slots).
What about tTT? I'm not aware of StarForce free version.
PoP WW came out 4 months before God of War.

I'm surprised how often people mention this. Yeah, the level designers made one mistake which results in you being "unable" to return to the big crossing if you take a certain route. It only happened to me on my second playthrough and even then I actually managed to simply jump the huge gap without dying.

But yeah, now that you mention it I also recall a bug that would change your character model too early in the game if you load a savegame at one certain checkpoint - this actually happened to me on my first playthrough and at first I wasn't even sure whether it was a bug or some very weird idea by the designers. I believe I actually had to replay the whole previous chapter to fix it.

Correct. At least all major European releases had Starforce copy protection (oh, what a pain in the ass it was - I remember that Starforce told me to reboot several times and didn't recognize my disc a few times while a friend had no hard time playing his pirated copy by deactivating his DVD-drive and using a disc image).
I totally disagree. Yeah, he is darker as is the whole world, but some people are simply exaggerating. In terms of plot and scenario he remains the same character who he was in the first game, only slightly more mature and let's say, psychologically a little tired after all the events that have taken place between the first two games. As a matter of fact I recall him as being a little more humble now than in the first game - he definitely is not some unnecessarily cool or perverted warrior here as might be suggested by the cover art. :P

Yeah, the buginess is horrible. But playing on newer systems most of the bugs are lifted, since it seems to be caused by Vsync and all.

What pisses me off is the 5 minute long intro you can't fucken skip.

Anyway, wishlisted, I have so many copies of that game, I can take my sweet time buying it

You can. It's been a few years since I had this game installed, but you can delete the two intro movies (.bik files if my memory serves me). The game loads normally but skips the opening completely.

I bought the compilation of Sands of Time, the Warrior Within and The Two Thrones. Only the Warrior Within had copy protection – which didn’t make sense to me.

However, this isn't the only time I've encountered copy protection being removed from retail versions of games. I bought Gothic 3 which had copy protection, and then later bought a compilation of all three Gothics without copy protection.

Same with Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. I bought a compilation of all the Splinter Cell games, and once again no copy protection on any of them.

Same again with F.E.A.R. My CD-ROM version had copy protection (and probably the DVD-ROM version I bought later), but the compilation, which included the expansion, provided both games without copy protection.

My theory is that publishers know that DRM or copy protection is ultimately going to cause them costly support issues in the future (or disgruntled customers), so they choose to quietly remove the DRM when they re-release games in a compilation.

The irony is that I’ve indirectly been supporting DRM and/or copy protection because I’ve effectively paid for many of these games twice or even thrice. I guess that’s why I won’t buy restricted games anymore. I’m happy to wait for them to reach GOG.

it is seven :)

This game is fairly old by today's standards. 8 years old and all that.

I think some people really underestimate how quickly time flies

Hell, the first Crysis was released 5 years ago

haha yes :D
you can ask ubisoft for confirmation, or play it yourself ;)

Quick question: I'm a huge fan of PoP but I'm not a huge fan of unnecessary blood. Is the blood toggable in Warrior Within?

Yep.

This game was pants.

It doesn't. At least Polish retail doesn't. No activations (I tried with no Internet so there wasn't anything happening behind the scenes), no CD required. No nothing. Less work for GOG in the future ;).