Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Nintendo GameCube, 2004)

And so, the eponymous Prince of Persia has undone the effects of the Hourglass of Time which the Maharajah had looted before the events of Sands of Time. The good news is, Farah, - among many others - still lives. The bad news is, a big scary creature called the Dahaka just so happens to be happy about it like Charles Manson is currently the President of the United States (in other words, said creature is quite furious about these recent events), so the Prince is running for his life and is eventually informed that in order to officially survive the Dahaka's wrath, he must go to the Island of Time, where the Sands of Time had been created. There, his Highness must go back in time and talk the Empress of Time out of creating the Sands, effectively making his immediate ordeal nothing more than, well, nothing. However, just before his new journey, he is warned that "You cannot change your fate. No man can."

Now, if you have played Sands of Time before, then you will eventually notice that the only changes given to the platforming aspects are sliding down curtains via your sword and ropes that are attached to the wall (the ones in Sands of Time were CEILING ropes). You'll also notice that the combat has received a raging improvement, offering far more combos than Sands of Time had left you with. And your save points are now wall fountains instead of unoccupied, premonition-yielding auras. And eventually - excuse the spoiler - you will become the Sand Wraith!

Which brings me to the next thing I would do well to mention. This game is highly notorious for two progress-destroying glitches, one glitch - upon loading certain save files - turns you into the Sand Wraith when the game doesn't call for it yet. The other flat-out prevents you from approaching the final showdown after the Prince shoves [I won't spoil his one] into a time portal, by preventing said time portal from also taking in the Prince himself. So, in order to combat these glitches, use more than one save file for yourself (I alternate between two), and in the event that the Sand Wraith glitch takes place, simply load your less recent save and hope it's still okay. And to be somewhat safe from the Time Portal glitch, just don't save right after you shove [find out for yourself] into the portal, and if the glitch DOESN'T get you, THEN you can save.

There will also be backtracking, as the plot requires you to visit certain areas more than once. Unless you easily confuse to the point of near-insanity, that one shouldn't be a big deal for you. If you liked Sands of Time, then Warrior Within is worth checking out.

i decide to buy this game after i played the third prince of persia. i looked everywhere for this game and couldn't find it. that is until i found it on ebay with a great price. i liked so much about it like the environment, graphics, sword play, enemies, and the hero. there is nothing i didn't like about it. it was the complete game for me!

mind daring. this epic tale of the prince's second couragous, time meddling journey takes the player on a quest that will captivate automattically.blood fountains, slow-mo action, acrobatic suspension, all included in this thrilling video game. just try to escape the contually annoying dahaka. find the empress and settle your erins on the dark island of time. for the prince, its only a matter of life... or death...

Warrior Within is nothing like its predecesor, the Sands of Time. Most of the music in the game is heavy metal and gets extremely annoying. I usually don't pay attention to blood and gore in games, but there is so much blood in this game that it distracts the person playing it. The enviroments of the game are too dark and gothic. The Prince's acrobatic abilities have few improvements. The only real improvement made on this game from Sands of Time is that the game is longer. Warrior Within does not live up to the standards of the series set by Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. You would be much better of renting Warrior Within.

The game is different form the sands of time in that no dreams as to what will happen next and that you travel from the past to the future and present its a great game the music hard rock only comes on when there is a fight or climb overall its a great game a little hard to fight than sands of time the bosses but the prince can manuver himself much better than the sands i loved the game and i would recommend(lots of peo said it was not all that i didnt take their word so i bought the game myself and tried it out )
good game play and see :)