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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ok... finally received the game and the kid loves it! Not quite certain who was responsible for the very long delay in shipment. Could have been Post Office as another product I received also arrived late. Outside of the late receipt, no complaints.

Truly Awesome Fun.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've been a fan of the Prince of Persia series since I was a little kid. PoP 1 was great, Pop 2 was absolutely unreal. PoP 3D was ehhh....but then two years ago, along came a game that changed everything. "Prince of Persia The Sands of Time," the first game in this amazing adventure game trilogy took everyone's breath away. The gameplay was original, flawless, and beautiful. The storyline sucked you in and didn't let you go even after you'd beaten it 6 times over. It was a flawless game.

Last year, the first sequel, "Prince of Persia Warrior Within," was released. While the game contained improvements in the quality of the graphics and the "freeform fighting" techniques, the game was less pleasing to both critics and gamers. Ubisoft had turned the humrous, witty, intelligent prince from "Sands" into an angry, nu-metal-rocking, humorlous scoundrel who seemed hellbent on ruining everyone's time. While the story was equally as engaging as "Sands," "Warrior" failed because it simply was not as much fun to play. Luckily, Ubisoft saved the best for last.

"The Two Thrones" is easily one of the greatest games I have ever played. In concluding one of the greatet videogame trilogies ever created, Ubisoft have developed a near flawless game. It is as though they took the strengths from both games, removed the weaknesses of the second game, and created a thing of pure brilliance. "The Two Thrones" contains all of the witty, punning elements from the first game and mixes them with the exciting, more violent elements from the second game while removing everying that ruined the prince's demeanor in the second game. The original, fun, saracastic prince is back, and largely because Ubisoft has also brought back one of the things that made "Sands" so great: Farrah. Farrah is the perfect foil to our hero. She adds humor, power, creativity, and definitely a sexiness to the game that "Warrior" was lacking. Farrah's relationship with the prince is by far my favorite relationship I've ever "played" in a videogame and Ubisoft deserves big brownie points for bringing her back.

The gameplay in "The Two Thrones" is amazing. Throughout the game, the gamer is occassionally forced to play as the "Dark Prince" as there are situations where the "normal," original prince is unable to get through. In other games, playing as two characters often appeared more of a gimmick than an actual, integral part of the story, but in "The Two Thrones," the reasoning behind the Prince's frequent changing from Prince to Dark Prince and back again is very well explained and very important to the overall story that "Two Thrones is telling." The fight scenes are epicly fun to play. This Prince has more moves than he had in the two last games combined and his battle techniques are a joy to use. The new "speed kill" method of killing some opponents adds a certain amount of skill and brutality to many fights that otherwise would have seemed boring and taken far too long to complete. I welcomed the addition of the speed kills once I fully learned how to use them.

The Prince still moves as acrobatically as ever. There is still wall-running, jumping, flipping, handsprings, etc....the only real notable movement difference is when the gamer plays as the Dark Prince. The Dark Prince's chain/weapon/thing can be used to grab onto bars that are are away or objects that would otherwise be out of reach and the Prince can then swing over to them. It's not that different from anything the Prince has done before but it was definitely fun to do and worked well with the flow of the game.

All in all I rate this the best of the new Sands PoP trilogy. It's an awesome game that should be played by anyone who has ever enjoyed a 3rd person adventure game. If you haven't played either one of the first two games be warned: the storyline is actually rather complex and you will be missing much of the story if you haven't played the first two games. If you have played the first two games, this story is a terrific conclusion to the Prince's tale, and the way it wraps around back to the beginning of the trilogy floored me when I finished it. Buy this game.

(something worth noting...after you beat the game you unlock many videos, chief among these is the "alternate/real ending" to Warrior Within that was formerly only available if you beat Warrior after collecting all the life upgrades....so if you beat Warrior without all the life upgrades and didn't see the "real" ending...beating this game shows it to you in the video collection)

Exciting

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I really loved this game and the overall conclusion to the whole trilogy. It was really fun and the atmosphere was beautiful (just like the first one). But the reason I gave it 4 stars was because, although the loading sequences didn't take long at all on Gamecube, the graphics weren't that great they were kind of choppy, but I think it's because it was on the Gamecube. I don't know if it was just the game that was designed for gamecube or if it's for all the systems but there were some bad qualities in the characters too (such as Farah's hair moving through her chest when she moved and the voices being off sync). I'm totally not downing the game though. I loved this game, I loved it more than the second one but the first is still my favorite. This one took the atmosphere of the first one, dreamy and beautiful, and the prince has the same voice from the first one. Also the gameplay is fun and the storyline is great. But it was way too short if I should say so..It was fun, I recommend it.

YES IM A KID

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

SO what. it dosent have any nudidy it doesnt have anything not bad words nothing i think because they made warrior within was M
so they dont want to change it back to teen .so if you think that the gore is why the blood isnt that bad the only time it has blood it when you have a quick attack and the gore not that much only when you do combos this is a great game its fun the story a little weirder than the warrior within but its a fun game

A fitting end to a great trilogy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The first game, Sands of Time, was a 3D platforming classic with a lovable hero, a great story, and it was fun to play. The sequel, Warrior Within, had an improved battle system but now our hero got turned into a nu-metal rawker wannabe who says stuff like "you *****!" with Godsmack music blaring. Well to cap off the trilogy, The Two Thrones expands on both games providing not only a culmination of the good parts but some new ones as well.

Story: Taking place directly after Warrior Within, the Prince and Kaileena are travelling to his homeland of Babylon when they find it under siege. He and Kaileena are separated, an old enemy is back, an old friend is back and the Prince has been stricken with a dual personality...sort of.

Graphics: It's Prince of Persia so of course they're gonna look great. Detailed, immersive and has an art direction that would look great on the big screen. There's a couple glitches though in some of the cinematics and one boss gave me a hard time because a certain graphic never actually appeared on screen(I'll explain the graphic later).

Sound/Music: Ditching the heavy metal(yes!) and replacing it with a Middle Eastern flavor was the perfect way to go. Also returning is the VA for the Prince who's not as wisecracking and funny as Sands of Time but he's still as likable.

Gameplay: It's the same thing pretty much, platforming, puzzles with the occasional fight but there's some new additions. First is the "Speed Kill": get behind an enemy(or above) and you'll start a series of time-based button presses which'll kill your enemy before he can alert others. But don't think this will constantly happen though. More often than not, you'll stealth kill one before the other 2 are onto you. But it's still a welcome addition, especially since your main enemy tends to block your sword hits like mad.

Speaking of maddening, one serious misstep is the use of continues. If you die than a game over is reached, prompting you to restart. Well it's bound to happen right? Except the game tends to push you waaaay back. In one instance, I went from top to bottom of a room and left into another one and fought some enemies but a miss timed jump made me restart, but not at the space just before the jump or even the enemies, nope I had to start at the top floor again, make my way all the way down, kill enemies than start the jumping again. It's a serious fault.

Another new aspect which isn't as frustrating only if you let it, is that at a certain part in the story, the Prince is infected with...something, so in certain parts you transform into the Dark Prince: all black and glowing tattoos and instead of a 2nd dagger, it's Daggertail, a chain wrapped to his arm. He can use it to swing to far away places but there's a downside: his health constantly lowers unless you fill it with Sand. Enemies and sand tend to be plenty at these times but it's still frustrating when you clear a puzzle with no Sand only to come across a group of enemies with very little health left.

If it sounds like I'm being too negative, sorry cause this game is fun, just as fun as Sands of Time. This game is certainly better than Warrior Within but it doesn't reach that awesomeness the first one had but this is awesome too, just not classic awesome.

Quality control anyone!?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

PoP is a great series of games which has come a long way (technically speaking). in many ways, you can't go wrong with any of the four games now out there. the focus on dexterity makes them fun in the spirit of the original. but The Two Thrones continues a theme that began with the sequel: a lack of attention to gameplay.

The Two Thrones doesn't seem to have as many stranded-in-the-game bugs as The Warrior Within. it does, however, suffer terribly from the problem of rotating view and view-dependent movement. I've gotten so tired of dealing with the controls not keeping up with the orientation of the camera, that I've put the game down -- I just can't take it anymore!

a few others: the Quick Kill feature is pretty contrived; hiding necessary life upgrades(!?); a really lame permanent weapon; and boring puzzles.

I think I'm going to pull out my SNES and plug in the original.

I LOVE THIS SERIES!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

In my opinion, the Prince of Persia Trilogy is the best game series. Period. Regardless of the great graphics, fun gameplay, and incredible control, the storyline is just amazing. There are few games enjoy playing over and over once I beat them, but aside from Resident Evil 4 (10 stars!!), I have played this series through twice already, and I know I will do it a few more!

A Return to Excellence

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Having played the original 1989 game on PC for years I was amazed with Sands of Time. Warrior Within seemed to depart from the original tone of the story. While the game play was excellent Overall it didn't feel like Prince of Persia.
The Two Thrones is an amazing chapter to the story of the Prince. Drawing on themes of the original game it feels right at home within the Prince of Persia world. The story of reclaiming your kingdom and the added feature of a Dark Prince are excellent homage to the original. Incorporating the new fighting style of Warrior Within the game looks more like Sands of Time. Best of both games.

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