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Prince of Persia: Two Thrones (Xbox) | 
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| From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: £9.99
Buy New: £5.79
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 2254
Platform: Xbox
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 11 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 3307210202468
ASIN: B0009RWI4A
Release Date: December 9, 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk Preview
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones has a lot to live up to, in order to satisfy fans of both The Sands of Time and Warrior Within. Although the latter was more commercially successful many have argued that The Sands of Time was the better game, with more involving puzzles and a more engaging main character. This second sequel aims to combine elements of both with the Prince returning to the besieged city of Babylon. In escaping from capture he inadvertently gives life to the Dark Prince - an evil alter ego with quite different powers. As the game progress you can switch between the two characters by stepping into fire, with each using their different weapons in even more gruesome ways than before. The Dark Prince's Daggertail is particularly deadly, being a sort of long spiky chain with a blade on the end that works rather like the whips from Castlevania. As the latest in a long line of games to take inspiration from Grand Theft Auto the whole game is set within the city of Babylon, which is yours to explore as you wish. Although there are no vehicles to carjack you can take part in some particularly brutal chariot races, if you get tired of walking and jumping around. Whether this ends up being the best Prince of Persia yet rather depends on how much you like The Sands of Time, but it certainly is the most attractive with some superb graphics and enough new features to make Warrior Within seem even more lacking than ever. -- Harrison Dent This preview is based on an incomplete version of the game; features or problems mentioned above may not appear in the finished game.
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 Annooooyyyyyinnnnng!!! January 18, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I agree with the above reviewer. Just like some of the other POP games there are several areas that force you to replay certain portions many times over. The part that you get kicked back to usually involves moving through 10 minutes of fairly easy maneuvers - sometimes long drawn out cut sequences as well, which you CANNOT TURN OFF. This usually does not happen until you have invested a a fair amount of time in the game. The pattern is as described above; things are going fairly well, a few puzzles, challenging fights, save points along the way - Challenging yet rewarding. Then suddenly there comes a point where it becomes near impossible to progress in the game. If you do not time your movements JUUUUSSSST SOOOOOO, you are forced to replay the last 10 to 15 minute sequence - but not just the difficult part - that would make sense. As I said you must go through long series of climbing, jumping, some simple fights, etc. things that become mind numbingly repetitious when you have to repeat them. Do NOT buy this game or any other POP game. They ALL follow the same pattern. It suckers you into the game and then gradually makes you think that your hard efforts will eventually pay off. They don't. I really loathe this game. Please do not buy it or any future games in the series unless the box clearly states that they have addressed their HUGE OVERSIGHT regarding savepoints and forced replays.
 prince of persia-wow September 23, 2006
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
This game is fantastic,i played the first game and found it incredible, the graphics and gameplay was fantastic. then i llooked at the next two games, warrior within and the twothrones, and thought, why the sudden change in rating from 7+ to16? then i read a review and found out that the prince of persia games where rated on difficulty, not how violent they were
How to ruin a good game! July 3, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Having not played the previous two installments I came into the series not expecting much ( I did own the original on my spectrum, so an improvement on that would do!! ;-) ) To start off, all seemed superb. The cut-scene animation is really excellent, drawing you into the story at the start, the same can be said for the in game graphics- simply gorgeous, detailed levels, and the main character animation is really something, full of lots of little quirks and details.
So, why only the 2 stars? I had read about the fact there weren't enough save points, but at the start this really didn't seem to be an issue, it never taking more than 2 or 3 attempts to pass a section....however...once things get a bit trickier this proves to be the game's (rather large) achilles heel. You can spend 10 mins leaping over poles, jumping from ledge to ledge, killing a couple of guards along the way perhaps losing a bit of health (which you can't replenish BTW until the next save-point!), and you're perched above a square with three guards in it, you leap and try to perform a 'speed kill' (more on this in a bit) but you don't have the super-human reaction times required to make it work so you have to fight them one-on-one, which is virtually impossible...by the time you've bashed in a 7 button combo you've been hacked into dog food, so you go all the way back to the start (the last save point)!!! It wouldn't be so bad if you perhaps save just before the big battle because you know you'll beat them in the end, but the fact you have to go all the way through the 10 minutes of fighting and acrobatics again, is INCREDIBLY frustrating. You can rewind time, but only 8 seconds worth, good for correcting mis-steps, no use at all if things go against you in a fight lasting a couple of minutes, usually by the time you realises it's all gone Pete-Tong it's too late! I've spent the best part of 4 hours repeatedly playing the same section (I did finally beat the guards (just)...walked around a corner only to be savaged by some demon hound things which came from nowehere and , you guessed it, I'm all the way back to the start!! As this is still quite early on on the game I can only assume things get harder.
Next problem is the 'speed kills' a novel way of dispatching enemies if you manage to sneak up on them, killing them in one stroke so you don't have to go into hand-to-hand combat with them. In a nut-shell you have to hit specific buttons when the screen 'distorts' a certain way, this all seemed quite simple but as the game progresses the margin for error becomes so minute it becomes practically impossible to complete one. I'm often sitting there, finger on the 'X' button waiting for the 'distortion' and I still manage to miss the 1/1000th of a second window you're given. When you take on 3 or 4 opponents you'll need to manage this 3 or 4 times, in a row, without error, pretty much impossible.
If it wasn't for these two problems this would be a truly excellent game, as it is I'm so frustrated having to continually replay the same levels over and over again I'm returning my copy before I throw my controller through my TV in pure rage!(BTW, there a numerous walkthroughs on the web, but no useful cheats which will help if you just can't beat someone ) You feel sorry for the people who have clearly spent a lot of time in the design of this game for it two be ruined two such blatant flaws. Only recommended to people with God-like patience.
Has it's moments - but then all games do March 13, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This game has great gameplay, the new speed kill is so much fun and looks terrific when pulled off correctly. The Dark-prince sequences are clever as well as fast paced!However there is one problem I really do have about this game...why could they not keep the cast from the second game. In Warrior Within, the Prince had a voice that says "watch out bad guys I'm gonna wipe the floor with you" but in this game he sounds like a fairy! His mean-ness has gone.... Back to the good-points though. The boss fights are good - even these use the speed kills and again the visuals look amazing enough to make you think "wow i wanna be able to did that!"
The dark prince is really cool, the dialogue between the Prince and his darker self is well thought and the story will only make sense if you played the first game.
Oh for a quicksave.... January 11, 2006
5 out of 18 found this review helpful
Misstime a jump. Start again. Get killed. Start again. Misstime another jump. Start again. Get killed again. Misstime the same jump again! Start again. And so on. To hang with it. If you like playing the same section of a game over and over and over and over till you eventually through trial and error get the hang of it then you'll love this. However, if you hate having to replay again and again then forget this rubbish. It's time game designers moved on from this cheap trick to eek out the gameplay and started offering a more progressive and inviting gameplay with lots of checkpoints. The POP games have savepoints at water fountains but there simply is not enough of them. There should be one after every fight. After every difficult set of moves. This would prevent replaying over and over while still providing a challenge. Games such as Halo have pretty much perfected the checkpoint system. POP would do well to take note. I played POP:WW and gave this a go but I will never play one again unless more checkpoints are introduced. Far too frustrating.
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