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83 out of 100

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7.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 79 Ratings

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  • Summary: The Prince has to embark 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 harboring 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 emerge from this ultimate trial with his life. In order to accomplish his mission, the Prince benefits from a brand new free-form fighting system that allows gamers to channel his anger as they wage battle without boundaries. Each game fan will find his or her own unique fighting style as they manipulate their environment and control the Ravages of Time. You can dig into an arsenal of weapons that, when used in combination, create advanced arm attacks that verge on fatal artistry! Prince of Persia: Warrior Within promises that game fans will fight harder, and play longer, emerging from the experience as deadly-capable skilled masters of their own unique combat art form. [Ubisoft]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 29
  3. Negative: 0 out of 29
  1. Four Fat Chicks
    100
    Warrior Within is not a perfect game. In many ways, it stands as a badly written testament to exactly what is wrong with video games: sexism, teenage hormones, amateurish writing, clumsy franchise handling. But it's entertaining. It's incredibly entertaining.
  2. BonusStage
    98
    One of the best damn games ever, period. This is definitely at the top of my list for Game of the Year, due to addicting gameplay, fantastic presentation, some of the coolest looking blood ever in a game, and a combat system that is relatively second-to-none.
  3. Edge Magazine
    70
    Ubisoft has taken a flawed game of boundless promise, destroyed some (but not all) of its appeal, fixed some (but not enough) of its problems, and jeopardised the whole endeavour by making the same mistake twice and rushing it to market before it was steady on its feet. Prince of Persia is strong and supple enough to survive this with many of its immense virtues intact. But it deserved so much better. [Christmas 2004, p.80]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 28
  3. Negative: 6 out of 28
  1. panosbaros
    10
    I have played lots of videogames and by far warrior within is one of my favourite games. Some people will say(about this game) : Where is the altruistic prince who wants to save the girl from the evil monsters the way he did in the other two games ? Well I say that this game tries to show to us the dark side of the prince.I mean, come on prince of persia is not perfect person.In that game prince tries to save himself from the sands of time and since the enviroment is dark and filled with dangerous monsters,the prince has to adapt to it,to become a monster himself,in order to survive so that the reason why.The gameplay is good,the graphics spectacular and the music is perfect(unless you are not a metal fan).So forget about the others who keep saying that this game sucks because the prince is a blood-thirsty monster .I recommend it because I finished it like 5 times and I still cant get enough of it .… Expand
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  2. [anonymous]
    6
    i think the game is great for someone that like fithing games. But i think that the game is boring. Becaus all the time you are in the same places. I think the best prince of presia is the sands of time ;)… Expand
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  3. PaulL
    4
    Warrior Within is entertaining but does not live up to Sands of Time. It is a mediocre game that lacks polish. And it is very, very buggy. Very. Very. Buggy. Story - the premise behind the plot is sound, but the execution is corny and clumsy. Gameplay is identical to Sands of Time, save for a few combat features (throwing, picking up secondary weapons, new "combos", swining around vertical poles). This works well and is mainly why the game was entertaining for me. The additional combat features helped add some variety over Sands of Time combat. Graphics - you'd expect Ubisoft might put a good deal of effort behind making the prince look decent as you'll be spending the entire game staring at the guy. But no. Also, it'd have helped if the prince in the cutscenes and prince in game resembled each other. Environment and enemies are mediocre. Audio quirks (bugs?) in the game will frustrate you as music for what should be a heart-pumping fast-paced portion of the game whispers softly. Think of the problem SoT had with dialogues and apply it to music. Oh, and some dialogue may cut out as they did for me. If you are set on buying this game, I recommend you read up on all the fatal bugs (bugs that prevent you from finishing the game) to avoid doing anything that trigger them in game. The game apparently did not go through much testing. You will find that at some points in the game some surfaces turn white. This is not game-stopping, but it is disconcerting and annoying. Bugs too numerous to count. Yet Ubisoft has not released a patch for Warrior Within. This may be a testmant to how messy the code is. Or how little they think of their customers. I definitely recommend saving your time and money by not purchasing this game. If you must play this game, find a friend who has it.… Expand
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