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The Timeless Classic Comes to an End

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 18
Date: December 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Prince of Persia series has left a huge mark on the gaming world. The newest in the series makes that mark permanent, keeping true to the entire series. Fans old and new alike, should be satisfied.

The prince has returned from the Island of Time to Babylon with his new love Kaileena. To those who didn't see the alternate ending to the previous title, Warrior Within, you may find yourself a little confused here. As they come into the harbor, they're ship is invaded and Kaileena is captured. You soon find that the man behind the attack is the vizier from the very first game. He then murders Kaileena and unleashes the sands of time on Babylon. As the prince, you're going to battle to save your kingdom and avenge your lover's death.

The prince has to worry about more than just the sand creatures and the viziers warriors. Because of the sands of time, he'll also have to confront his arrogant self from the past. There will be moments in the game where the prince will have a conversation with... well... himself. The darker version of himself. This stems from the fact that Warrior Within suffered heavy criticism and complaints from fans about how arrogant he was in Warrior Within. This in and of itself would be easy to poke at were it not done so well. The voice acting is A+ material, and the change is consistent throughout the entire game.

You're also given the oppurtunity to play as the Dark Prince from time to time. As the Dark Prince you'll have an interesting weapon that resembles a chain. The Dark Prince is much more aggressive in combat, and a lot of fun to play as. The downside, however, is he constantly looses health. Luckily for you, this isn't a problem at all. Every enemy you defeat drops health to restore you. You shouldn't run out of health very often. The only hard part about playing as the Dark Prince is his acrobatic moments. You'll eventually get it down, but you'll probably die several times first.

There's a new technique added in The Two Thrones. This tactic is known as "speed-killing." By sneaking up behind an unsuspecting enemy, you can grab them. This begins an animation known as the speed-kill. The game will then pause for a moment and you'll have to press a button to execute a strike. You'll execute anywhere from one to five strikes. If you don't press the button, the speed kill will fail and you'll have to fight the enemy the normal way. But hey, if you mess up, you can rewind and try it again. The animations are incredible looking, and they're a lot of fun to pull off.

You can run across walls and perform some really awesome jumps of course, something Prince of Persia is very well known for. Several puzzles throughout the game require you to run along walls and jump to switches to get through. Again, some of them are done by a bit of trial and error, but they are, for the most part, fun.

There are also chariot races, but they're not much fun, really. A simple mistake could cost you your life. Once again, trial and error will be the key in succeeding. The good news is that you've got the sands of time on your hands. If you horribly screw up at any of these trial and error moments, you can easily rewind back so long as you've still got some sand.

The game looks gorgeous. The environments are a lot of fun to explore and sulk in, and the character models look good too. It's obvious at some parts that it's the same graphics used in the previous two games with almost no changes, but the previous games were gorgeous anyhow. Some of the pixels don't quite fit in with the environment, and that's okay. You probably won't notice them.

If you're looking for what is the best of the three versions, there's no clear winner. The XBOX version has great load times, but a few lighting effects cause it some problems, and the PS2 version suffers from slow down in some areas. There's almost nothing wrong with the Gamecube version, but it depends on what you want. If you want fast load times, go with the XBOX version, it's lighting problems aren't really that noticeable.

Overall, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones marks a thrilling conclusion to a remarkable trilogy. Any holes it left in the plot are neatly filled. Any fan of the series will be satisfied.

The Good
+Still has gorgeous graphics
+Fun Gameplay
+Speed kills bring new style to the game
+Long game
+The story ties up all loose ends
+Fantastic Music
+Fantastic voice acting

The Bad
-A LOT of trial and error moments
-This is not for newcomers to the series. Newcomers to the series should start with the first game: Sands of Time, otherwise the story will just confuse the hell out of you

Wonderful end to the series!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is WELL worth the buy. The story doesn't have too many surprise twists, but still is a lot of fun. Rather than the story supporting the game, it seems like the game supports the story (always a good sign.) Game play is easy to learn. However, it would be highly recommended to start with the first in this series (Prince of Persia: Sands of Time) as there very little recap in this game or the previous one (Prince of the Persia: Warrior Within.)

The final chapter is a blast

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Having played all three installments of the new Prince of Persia trilogy, Two Thrones is definitely the most balanced and entertaining of the bunch for me. It basically recaptures the charm and beauty of the first game, Sands of Time, and mixes it with the graphical detail and refined gameplay of the second, Warrior Within. It also throws in several of its own improvements and innovations, and ties up the storyline in a very clever and satisfying way.

The Prince has returned home to realize that his adventures have undone the good he has accomplished, and that Babylon has been taken over by the evil Vizier. Ubisoft took what was basically an "indoor" game engine and convincingly created a vast city with it. The Prince can still run along walls, hang, jump, flip, and do all kinds of physical tricks to get through environments. Combat still suffers from enemies unfairly ganging up on you, but a new quick kill system lets you polish off enemies with a little cleverness and good timing. It really keeps the fighting from bogging down the game.

Like Warrior Within, you also get a second version of the prince to play with, the Dark Prince. He carries a chain whip which is very effective in combat, and also provides new ways to get through areas. These sequences are not as time sensitive as in Warrior Within, and mix up the gameplay without being frustrating. Again, Ubisoft refined it until they got it right.

Besides this, there are some inventive boss fights and chariot riding sequences to keep things exciting, not to mention unlockable goodies for collecting sand. Two Thrones might feel like the easiest of the bunch, but it should be if you've mastered the first two installments. I love this game for both its storytelling and its gameplay, a rare combination. If you haven't touched this series at all, start from the first one and work your way up. If you've played the others, it's worth going back to Persia again to see how it all ends.

Best story and gameplay of all three of the series

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am a big fan of the free range/hand-2-hand fighting with swords and no guns or upgrade that makes you the baddest in the game (even though you are in this game). The grafics may have taken a turn for the worse in this game over The Warrior Within such as bad character grafics but don't let it overthrow the great landscape and area grafics. For some reason the enemies have better looking grafics that the actual characters in the game. But it is much better than POP: The Sands of Time. The story is kind of a replay. In the first game you open the sands of time then try to stop the Frezeir from getting the dagger of time. Then in the second game you go to stop the sands of time from being created so that the prince can save his own skin. Since the sands were never created then. he returns home with the maker of the sands of time and is met by the frzier who now has the dagger but no sands, then gets the sands, and becomes immortal. so basically the first two games were a waste of time. Story Wise. They are very good games. The greatest thing about The Two Thrones is the ability to play as the Dark Prince. The only down side of this dude is that you only get to play as him five or six times throughout the whole game. But he is still freaking cool. Great Game

Great Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this game was fun hard challenging and very entertaining. the story line is the best i have seen since final fantasy VII. great game. great fun.

Revision of Negative Review

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)

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.

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!

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