PRINCE OF PERSIA - TWO THRONES (DVD-ROM) Review

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(More customer reviews)As someone who enjoyed Sands of Time a lot, I was hoping that some of the reviews I'd read were true that Ubi had learned from the mistakes made with Warrior Within and delivered a game closer in quality to the first in the series.. well, they didn't.
Two Thrones is disappointing from the very first cut scene and doesn't get any better. The story is crap. The writing, also crap. The design choices and the menu interface are irritating and unpolished. It's as if the game Heavy Metal invaded the Prince of Persia universe, turning the Prince and his story into a middle-school stoner's tawdry doodle.
The gameplay tedious and the level of difficulty is basically implemented as an increase in tediousness. This KILLS the fun-factor. Also the dynamics unique to the series (the special powers of the dagger) are completely wasted.. it's almost as if there IS NO dagger. Lots of new attacks were added but the number and activation sequences are too unwieldy to use in practice. The Prince, though finally voiced by the same actor, is not the prince he once was. There is very little in common with what made Sands of Time so much fun.
The production, though I'm sure it was expensive, looks shoddy and feels rushed. In this Windows version, the camera control via the mouse is horrible, jittery, nearly unusable. I ended up getting a 360 controller for playing another game and tried it with this. The camera via controller is much better but then I found this to be the only game that gets a sort of "drift", making the prince creep slowly forward and to the right when I'm not even touching the stick. Turning down the sensitivity fixes it for the most part but it's still weird.
If only Mechner and whoever else was responsible for making Sands of Time such a well-crafted, fun, innovative, charming, visually stunning adventure - hadn't abandoned the team at Ubi.. maybe the last two games could have been better. As it is, they aren't. I kind of wish I could return the Two Thrones.

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