Prince of Persia: Warrior Within Review - A Bloody Masterpiece
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- This game, man ... This is the one!!
0:00 Introduction
1:18 Story
7:23 Presentation
13:18 Gameplay
23:10 Level Design
29:51 Verdict
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The most underrated game ever! Was a true masterpiece
its not underrated.. its one of the most successful game of that time..
@@hossainpobon8765 it was ranked as one of the worst games of all time
@@jaymartheone9483play 1st then comment
Oh, it's definitely not a masterpiece when it cme out. The amount of bugs I encountered (and a fucking game breaking one).
@@Aries0098 did u play a pirated copy?
The story, the music, the gameplay, the characters, the environment. Everything about this game was outstanding... This game was ahead of its time..
This is not a game, this is an emotion.
And everything about Kaileena in this game is emotional. She was not our enemy but still our enemy for some unfortunate reasons at the same time.
Man the art direction in this one. I think a remaster of it would only hurt it honestly
Agreed. You just get the feeling they would tone down the dark atmosphere, blood and gore drastically.
the fighting in this game just feels so good the animations are spot on. The way you decapitate someon when you do the disarming move is so satisfying. To bad that the later games on the ps3 felt so weak in combat
Still to this day one of the most memorable games I've ever played. Loved it
Its so good to see a Scottish guy commenting on this. When I first moved to Scotland as a Persian kid fleeing Islam from Iran. Our Scottish neighbour bought me a ps2 and prince of Persia with it
Better visuals
Vastly better combat system
Better traversal mechanics
Better "upgrade system"
Longer game
Awesome 2 timelines traversal
Actual boss fights
2 endings
The Dahaka chases urgency
Story complexity
A tremendous followup to Sands of Time. The Two Thrones always felt ... lesser in its integration of new mechanics with its level design, existing WW mechanics and somehow downgraded visuals.
I recently learned about The Two Thrones situation,it was a lesser game of the original idea,Prince of Persia:Kindred Blades .In the one year between WW and T2T the game would be an upgrade of WW but dear ubisoft decided to cancel Kindred Blades.The studio had to make The Two Thrones from whatever remaining time and assets were left from the kindred blades project.When I was younger i first got T2T on psp (rival sword) and i liked it a lot,after some years i got the psp version of WW named revelations,i was still around 10 and i liked WW much more,I even thought it was a sequel,then i realized as i grew up what was going on.If the Kindred Blades project wasnt canceled and was given some more time to develop it would be the best of the trilogy,at least it had the potential.If they manage to remake all 3 of the games with today's graphics and maybe modernise(not revamp)the combat system without changing much of the story we are looking at an AAA trilogy with GOTY potential for each game
I never really understood the fanboyism of the Sands of time and having to hate Warriors within......sands of time was my very first ps2 game and I problably beat that game a million times and one of thebest games of all time. But nah son Warrior within IS THE HOLY GRAIL of video gaming. Me and my old childhoodfriends would reenact the cut scenes of the game quote by quote move by move with music and everything.
Me and my friends would discuss the parkour aspects of it xD
I completely agree. SoT is a better puzzle platformer but WW exceeds the others in literally every other aspect. Better combos & combat, great atmosphere, Dahaka chases, multiple weapons, better story, time manipulation and graphics, and a masterpiece of a soundtrack. People who hate it are blind fans of the original that think this is too dark and edgy which I never understood. That is exactly what makes this game unique and the story justifies the darker turn for the prince. I guess those people prefers an Arabian Nights copycat with Aladdin, Jasmine and Jaffar type Disney characters 😂
When I go back to play SoT it's a fucking chore to play with the combat mechanics. Warrior within is a hoy to replay even in 2024
@@StraightEdgeNexusFacts, Warrior Within and The Two Thrones is better than Sands of Time imo
*I watched this whole video.I really love this video game 🎮 🕹 review video !!!*
I feel the reason this game is so good is because Sands of Time was so good. The next logical step is throwing him into a world of darkness after obtaining the sands of time.
Exactly like being chased by a demon for 7 years will change your attitude. If he was the same prince that would be weird.
Though they may have gotten a bit too far on the edge. The electric guitars, enemy barks that try so hard to be menacing but are just cheesy, and female characters basically wearing nothing is a lot.
I find it hilarious cause it really feels like a time capsule of the 2000s
Man this game was so fucking epic from all sides... Gameplay soundtracks, and this amazing story, the conflit with kaileena and the prince each one of them wanted to change his own fate... man this game need a remastered
todays ubisoft sucks, they'll just break the games even more
they had genius people back around 2000 who created and made all the good games, rayman, pop, assassin's creed and beyond good and evil, ubisoft drove them all away with their nonsense which is why post 2010 it wasn't the same at all
Hell yeah! Great review man. I feel Warrior Within never gets enough praise, definitely underrated. What a beast of a game. Man, this is my childhood right here. Possibly my favourite game of all time. Now if only they would remaster/remake it.. I've heard rumours that Ubisoft is planning a remake or remaster of the trilogy, have you heard this? If so, what do you make of it? Looking forward to your Two Thrones review.
Thanks a lot buddy! 👍 Two Thrones review will be coming next week for sure. It would be really cool for them to remaster the SoT Trilogy so everyone could play them on modern software with updated graphics but I feel they would probably miss the mark somehow, knowing modern-day Ubisoft lol.
Deja-Review no probs dude! Just saw your Two Thrones review man, great job with that too. Yeah, it would be amazing if they were to remake the whole trilogy ala Resident Evil or Final Fantasy but like you said I’m not sure they can or will deliver.
Thanks again, greatly appreciate you taking the time to watch them as they are lengthy lol. It would be interesting for sure and also heard there's a new PoP game in the works ... Fingers crossed not another Sands of Time remake.
yes in 2021 start to re make or re master sand of time .im iranian and persian
i play sand of time but didint like too much
but i like WW .if you go shiraz and esfahan (old city of persian iran )and see old place very like to ww
Dark and gloomy atmosphere and despair
+iranian people rage ...
i like that .also i see some people hate sound (godsmack i stand alone or other )
Music has nothing to do with the Middle East but . i liked
one of the best is pop ww
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I have been a gamer almost my entire life for almost 20 fucking years now. throughout my gaming career, I have played many many games, and my all-time favorite has always been Warrior Within, this game is beyond a masterpiece
I was addicted to the Bgm 🥵 it's still my fav
Warrior Within is as good as it gets. Look at the comments for any video about it. 20 years later and the haters are dead and gone... SLAUGHTERED! But the true fans are still here. Turns out I don't stand alone
Yes you don’t stand alone 😂
Haters would probably all come back as soon as remake was announced ( not that current ubisoft would ever stopped rubbing their greedy little fingers in Assassin's creed 975 pie to make it done 😂 )
Sansd of time was great but Warrior Within was something else... Man after all this years I remember all the quotes, completed this game alot of times. I don't know how you can not like this game, everything is improved compared to Sands of time. And maaan that soundtrack i so good, story is ridiculously good. You can see peopl with huge passion created this game, I want to thank them so much, they make my childhood memories great!
The last genuinely good Ubisoft Title...
Even hearing the Menu Music makes me wanna boot it up once again for the 20th playthrough.
@@hiiambarney4489 For me, that would say that would be Assassin's Creed: Black Flag but this is certainly one of their last masterpieces!
Such an underrated gem. I still think about this game often and it's design choices as well as its aesthetics and tone. I still listen to the soundtrack too!
Once you stopped whinning how dark and gritty this game felt you discovered a Great game with fantastic musik, intresting twist to Princess personality
24:52 DID YOU JUST F**KING THROW THAT SWORD!!!???
(And btw, good video)
I was about to say 😂
Save that shit through to the last boss every time!
The story is itself a master piece, so many complexities because of the time travelling happened. Truly a great masterpiece, games like these deserve a remake.
Incredible atmosphere, combat , music, story, & the pace & the tension in this game, absolutely incredible.
Great review. I used to glance over this entry in the past but upon revisiting it earlier this year, it's mind blowingly good. The combat and the atmosphere is so on point i literally replayed it right after cause i missed a health upgrade for the 'true' ending.
24:38 You can actually climb down the side from the Balcony into the Central chamber when make that trip for the last life upgrade. I thought I took a wrong turn too my last play through lol but nah you can go down from there
This was my favourite game of the series by far, I loved the gritty feel and the music.
This style of game needs to be its own genre man. I swear, I've played both Sands of Time and The Two Thrones and they're nothing compared to this
I swear, the Batman designers slurped this right up, called it their own.
But once you look past the sharade you see the Arkham (Free Flow Combat System) is literally just a dumbed down version of the Free FORM Combat System from POP:WW.
@@hiiambarney4489 yup
i was waiting for this my fav pop game
You're not alone with that opinion 😉
@@sawnoff95 i remember I was scared as a kid to play this
It definitely has a creepy vibe
@@sawnoff95 the chases made me turn of my ps2
Beaten this game on every difficulty, then realized there was another ending and ending boss and then beaten it again on every difficulty. Game was an amazing sequel. Top notch
Nothing can ever touch this title, PERIOD.
There will never be another.
It indeed was a masterpiece. Cheers to you for making a video and bringing out all the most amazing sections and attributes of this game... Felt like a trip down nostalgic lane!
Def my favorite prince of Persia game! I’ve played it countless times. Fighting was so dope! Ubisoft needs to remaster or give us another entry! Love this game!
Great review! Completely agree that this is the best of them all. POP was one of the first games i owned on ps2 and i was hooked. Had no idea pop2 had 2 endings.. i got the water sword my first playthrough so i just always got it every play after..
Thanks a lot, glad you enjoyed it.
Haha nice! I never got the water sword when I was younger ... I could never find that last life upgrade on my own 😂
@@sawnoff95 yeah.. i always had to try and search ever corner of every room. Haha takes me time to play games sometimes.
21:27 Initially, I thought it is the mischievous kid of Dahaka whom, he killed in the past for disobeying him. Haha.
After wearing the Mask of wraith, I got to know that, it is the prince himself. :P
lmao 😂😂
I remember wanting the eragon game for my birthday and the clerk at eb games wouldnt sell it to me, saying it was a bad game and actually convinced me to buy this game instead xD
Definitely a good choice :P
you lingered on that photo you absolute mad man :L
cant wait for the next one.
It's too good. People need to know!
@@sawnoff95 wish there wasnt this bastard pandemic lockdown. wouldve been gallas to copilot these.
@@christophermoore2132 The Uncharted's are always there for the taking.
@@sawnoff95 if all else fails. CYBER CHASE.
Never got past ancient Greece 😂
Just imagine- Prince of Persia: Warrior Within REMASTERED 😳 . I believe that day will come and on that day, the world will go upside down.
Great review! Warrior Within was and still is the best one of the Sands games
...and the only one I'm still thinking of playing again
This game is 100 times better than any prince of persia game
True masterpiece
People who shit on this game are morons, this game was so well put together and fun and engaging, most people who shit on it do it due to the comparing it to the first game and say he is out of character and that it is so edgy as if that makes it bad. People use edgy to mean someone trying hard to be pessimistic for attention, but this game does edgy in a good way, the right way. If anything the only good thing going for the first game is the platforming and time reversal and that is it. The combat was boring and mostly forced whenever you reached a new area.
What killed it for me was that if you did rewinds during combat to avoid death and you stop the rewind and another enemy kills you after the rewind then you you dont have enough sand time to rewind further and you are stuck having plenty of reminds, but the recovery timer is depleted, because you need to wait a couple of seconds to fill up which is impossible since you died right after doing the rewind.
11:11 My personal favourite is the PC Setup / Installation .exe track.
That was a thing back then - you had to have felt mesmerised before even actually having launched the game, because most computers probably took some time to install the thing. :D
The track is actually in the consoles as well once you get on the island. It fits with the atmosphere of the island before you get to the castle.
That music man. The nostalgia.
24:51 one of the most frustrating moments in the game. It was better to not know of this weapon, honestly - being not able to enjoy the throw button later on...
I don't get this your statement...
I love this game, 1 of my favourite ever. Probably the finest Ubisoft project of all time.
Nice review mate :)
You brought good memories of this game, i had this game for the original xbox until some thieves stole it
Def will try to replay this some day
Excellent Review
you can replay it right now, ubisoft connect is free until october 10
Admittedly, WW was my first intro to the series. I played the first and third after. Maybe it's because it pkayed this game first, but WW was my absolute favorite. I loved the darker aspects, gameplay, and soundtrack so much more than the first or third. I played this game so much, and would have much rather seen a remake of this game than any other in the series. I also would have rather the 3rd game keep the aesthetic of WW within. I never realized that so many people hated WW until just recently. Great review btw.
Need to start a petition for a remaster or remake even like LOU part1.
Ive completed this game for like 4-5 times now and im still not bored
Great video. It would be cool if you made these kind of videos on Devil May Cry, Ninja Gaiden and God Of War.
Probably my favorite game on the PS2, alongside Spartan: Total Warrior.
The dahaka sections used to give me so much anxiety haha
I loved everything about that game and in terms of fun the fighting system to this day is the one of the best ones ever created
As a metalhead, I was genuinely happy to see metal in a more mainstream game.
It helped solidify it as a solid entry for me.
I'm sorry more people don't like metal, but we need more metal in more games, and I mean proper metal, not 3 punk songs and 2 90s rock song on one radio like GTA.
Doom Eternal is a fine exemple , they do it do well you almost don't even realize you're jamming to the music while you murder the hordes of hell.
The Prince in this game was absolutely badass
Great video bro keep up the hard work
the art design and colors reminds me so much of the first dark souls
i remember spending so much time trying to find way to equip 2 swords from box art
Started playing this game 2 weeks ago and id say im about at least 60% done with it, it's a bit clunky but satisfying with the combat, the camera in some dahaka chases makes it hard to navigate but overall really good game.
Don't usually watch reviews straight through but that was pure dead brilliant. Still got my ps3 so need to play this awesome game again. Looking fwd to the remakes but I hope they don't change it too much. Only the graphics would do me.
what is the intro song used in the video, I tried googling but couldnt find anything
"Welcome Within"
just played it again... and really unpopular opinion but I did not get lost at all. Sure its not my first playthrough but I also havent played the game in a few years. Despite it being very open I found it to be very linear. The progression is, do something in the past, go to an area unlock the present, realize nothing works in the present continue through the path to a new room that leads you to the past, fix the broken stuff of the present in the past, and continue. Once I stuck to that, each of the towers flowed really nicely. I was even confident enough to go back after getting the scorpion sword unlocking all of the health upgrades, with little map knowledge.
The best Princess of Persia game. So Nostalgic
This game was masterpiece its so dark like you walking alone in a island full of ghosts and demons and all you do is killing I mena brutal killing this is something fantasy game for all kids who is growing .. a child love to be a hero wanna do adventure and we were lucky to get this game during growing up .. masterpiece 🔥❤️
I loved this game's epic atmosphere. First time I played I got the Wraith game ending glitch.
Majestic ambience
Involving storyline
Gut wrenching villain
Badass soundtrack
MASTERPIECE ❤
Absolutely love this game!
What's the song in 1:30 ?
At War with Kaileena
I loved the game and it was what introduced me to Korn and Slipknot style like music. It's not my go to music till today, but funny enough I know enough songs and bands that I like from 2000s that I people are often surprised how I know this. Remember playing it on my Geforce 4700Le or some shit like that. I even overclocked that mf ( I kned nothing back then) and blow it voiding my varanty. Good time. Funny enough I knew enough to tinker with code so moded "crack" for some of my friends with older CPUs over DC strong (before Torrent). lol
I played this game first. I was like 12 years old, borrowed it from a friend and just loved it. I remember traveling across country with my dad to visit a family friend, and we stayed up late at night playing this game on PS2. I never could play Sands of Time afterwards coz it felt too childish. Absolutely loved this game. I wish Ubisoft would go back to it rather than milking Assassins Creed over and over again
Honestly, the manlets of Ubisoft NOW coincidentally lack the Testosterone to collectively match 1 POP:WW Developer. They couldn't make this game if they wanted and with all the funding in the world.
That's the sad reality we live in.
But, perhaps, indies will pick up the Mantle in a couple of years. As Tools and AI gets better and better it may make it feasible to pull of a game of this size and composition with limited team and budget.
I Love ❤ this Game! I Love SOT and I Love WW. However TTT is my least favourite game. I find TTT much much hardier than WW. But I Love the Whole Series. Fantastic Video.
This is a masterpiece game and still my favourite game what a superb story great story full of suspense and thriller...producers of game are genius
Man, I love this game I have bought me extra PS2 to play it❤
I wish ubisoft would remaster this game, or at least open it up for backwards compatibility. I have it on my laptop, and it loses something without a controller.
Knowing Ubisoft now, the remaster would likely look worse than the original lol
@@sawnoff95 sad but true.
I've been using a steam controller. It's worked pretty well
you can use a controller, i dont understand how u cant
@@sawnoff95 You predicted the sad future lol
I love this game
But the dahaka gave me serious nightmares as a kid😂😂
Actually the egyptian looking walls are quite fitting. You're right that they look like egyptian art, but it's actually because middle eastern art and egyptian art do have a few key similarities. Think of sumerian cylinder seals or assyrian reliefs, art of Nineveh or Persepolis. So I wouldn't say the game mashed up random art. If anything, I think it did what pretty much every games does, which is mixing up art styles from different periods of time and pretending they all existed during the same frame of time. Warrior Within feels like it mixed together sumerian, assyrian, persian and crusader era art styles. It works well for the variety like you said but it might take away the immersion if you think too much about it.
I played this game first and fell in love with it's combat systems. Then I tried the Sands of Time and I was disappointed by it's combat.
I'm soo confused as to how enyone can not like this game this 1 hands down was the best prince of persha game by far and it ses a lot cus the first 3 prince of persha games you really can't say eny of them are bad you can only say witch one you liked more wich for me was the 2nd 1 then the 3rd one and then the 1sr one but all 3 were amazing 👏 .
A forgotten masterpiece
best PoP ever
The worst aspect of this game was the automatic locking on enemies. Here I am trying to run past an enemy and the Prince meanwhile is facing him and doing rolls instead of running. It irritated the F out of me. But overall, I loved the game. Finished it 100% several times.
One of the greatest games ever made.
24:49 why would any sane person throw away the light sword?
😂 Who knows. Maybe because it inflicts damage on the Prince, when used.
Nearly identical to how I thought and felt about this wonderful and ominous experience.
I was straight up MAD when assassin's creed threw out the Prince of Persia combat system.
Ubisoft shot themselves in the foot there
I know they're remastering the first Prince of Persia and that it's been pushed back till next year. By the looks of it. But I hope they do it to this game too. As well as the third game there are things about this game and the third game that they could improve on and sharpen up when it comes to just certain mechanics in combat as well as the powers in general. And some of the time-traveling explanations could be tightened up a bit but if they could do this it would be a resurrection for Prince of Persia period on top of that aren't we all kind of annoyed when we have to constantly rebind the controls to controller every time we want to play this game for PC
todays ubisoft sucks, they'll just break the games even more
they had genius people back around 2000 who created and made all the good games, rayman, pop, assassin's creed and beyond good and evil, ubisoft drove them all away with their nonsense which is why post 2010 it wasn't the same at all
@@wanded yeah I would have to agree with you same thing with Bethesda.
One of the best games ever made
Best game ever to me
I play all 3 games on my rog phone 3 butter smoth i love this games they are my favorite games of all time i even listen to the soundtracks of the games 😄
When I connect my laptop to my tv the game when I load is purple where its meant to be red and the rest is black and white any ideas please its not the HDMI
I think the forge puzzle was cut from the sands of time
Thats why it feels out of place may be
Man ubisoft needs to quit ignoring this franchise.
Sands of time t's quite Beautiful, you get to see the hanging gardens of Babylon, now that's a young prince though, in the two thrones you get to play as an older prince, Warrior within, that's prime prince, haven't had a good night sleaep cause Dahaka been following you for 7 years, shit that would make you know how to fight.
How about you do a review on the 2000 TV-MA Lobo webtoon?
No idea what that is
Prince of Persia walked so Assassin's Creed could run.
The Holy Grail Of Video Gaming
REMASTER THIS UBISOFT
Man the art direction in this one. I think a remaster of it would only hurt it honestly
@Rana yep, pretty much
Idiots
I was saying the same thing literally yesterday to one of my friends. they should just remaster the graphics .
warrior within is not a game, it is an emotion .
And everything about Kaileena in this game is emotional. She was not our enemy but still our enemy for some unfortunate reasons at the same time
I disagree with there being no middle ground as far as opinions about this game. I thought it was fantastic, definitely my favorite POP game. But I did think they turned the edginess up to 11 whereas it would have been fine at about a 6.5.
TIL some people didn’t like this game
I've played this game.. know the whole story... I've seen different perspectives on this story.. but his irish accent pushed me to watch the whole video
To be completely honest, with his heavy accent I had to rewind more times than I can count just to understand what he is saying and I still didn't fully understand it all. A half hour video just turned into a hour and a half and I still don't understand what he said at multiple parts. Even youtube's closed captioning couldn't understand wtf he was saying moat of the time 😂 if you want a good laugh then watch this video with the closed captioning on.
Where you from? I was expecting people to complain about my accent long before now lol
It is available on PC... thankfully.