Poll: Favourite Prince of Persia game

[ReservoirAngel]

From Yahtzee reviews and my own friends' personal opinions, the Prince of Persia games seem to be a massively polarising issue concerning which one of them (we're talking Sands of Time onwards here) is the best one.

And I always love a good poll, so...with Prince of Persia game is your favourite/which do you think is best?

Personally I always think Warrior Within is the best one. Sands of Time seems too..ordinary to me. Two Thrones had the pointless chariot races, and the whole 'Dark Prince' arbitrary game play sections seemed utterly tacked on to me. The 2008 cell-shaded game was good, but it's just too massively different. and Forgotten Sands suffered from the same thing as Sands of Time. just too...normal. Very formulaic in the way it did things.

But Warrior Within. Dark visuals, an edgy and angry Prince, plus sections that I do feel are the most adrenaline-pumping sections of any video game to date: the Dahaka Chases.

 

[linwolf]

Sands of Time, it have a great story, way beyond what you normally see in games. A really good cast of characters. Excellent puzzles. And great artwork. It only flaw is that the fighting gets repetitive.

Warrior Within fixed the fighting but seems lacking in all the other areas, still a great game.

 

[ThePerfectionist]

I have a feeling a lot of people are going to vote for the game they played first. I certainly am. Warrior Within's gritty tone (though admittedly that characteristic is something I usually complain about) combined with its stunningly massive scale and fluid combat make it my first choice.

 

[oplinger]

I actually liked Prince of Persia 2008 the best.

I haven't played Two Thrones though.

 

[Zhukov]

I played them completely out of order.
- Two Thrones
- PoP 2008
- Warrior Within
- Sands of Time
- Forgotton Sands

Warrior Within had the best combat and the 2008 reboot had absolutely gorgeous graphics and environments (also, some of the most uncanny-free faces I've seen in a game).

But the best overall was Sands of Time. Story and characters stole the show. And I didn't mind the combat so much. Only problem was the dodgy PC-port controls. And the final "boss fight", that sucked too.

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

Best overall was definetly Sands of Time. Second place is Two thrones, maybe because I didn't get to play it all the way through, maybe because that chainwhip was badass. Sands of Time, like the rest of the thread said, has great character and the ending, I thought it was magnificent. The forgotten sands, It was like they took all the good things from SoT and made them mediocre. I couldn't play all the way through it, it was just plain bad compared to the other games. And 2008, I dont really count as a PoP game.

 

[Mortons4ck]

I've only ever played Sands of Time (and I enjoyed it immensely).

 

[Cmd. Shepard]

Sands of Time by far, it had an interesting plot, gameplay that had never been used before (wallrunning, slowing down time, restart using powers, etc.), the character repore between the Prince and Nala is amazing (witty dialogue, complementing personalities, sexual tension), a great villian in the Viser, combat needed a touch of work but other then that. It was amazing I loved it.

 

[AvsJoe]

The only Prince of Persia game I have ever played was the original 80's game. It was okay.

 

[Random Fella]

Woops ment Sands of time accidently chose Forgotten sands...

 

[Ravek]

Without an 'I haven't played them all' option you're going to get a lot of votes for Sands of Time and the 2008 game by people who haven't played Warrior Within or Two Thrones.

 

[PureIrony]

I've only played Sands of Time and the 2008 model, and I was surprised at the drop in quality. While 2008 wasn't really bad (the plot was a bit better, and it had more of a free-roaming feel to it), the controls weren't as tight(why don't we just use the A button for everything!), the combat was pretty much the worst I've ever seen, and Elika has nothing on Farrah.

Jury's still out on who had the most tediuos lever-pulling puzzles, though.

 

[Wuffykins]

Out of the list presented I'd probably go with 'Warrior Within', mostly due to the fact that once me and my friend learned how to wall run that's all we were doing for the next couple of hours. Well, beyond lusting after the handsome, wall-running prince that is. (Meh, so what if I'm a guy. I can appreciate a handsome collection of pixels and polys).

But the real money goes down to the original 2d platformer as well, which was one hell of a challenge as the goal was to finish the game in the given time limit. IE dying just meant you went back to the last checkpoint but the clock was still ticking (You started with an hour I think?) Never did get around to its sequel though. (Though I did hear that Prince of Persia 3D was a complete atrocity).

 

[jamesworkshop]

Warrior within, better combat, more dramatic enviroments (clocktower FTW)
(my pick)

SoT bit too easy for me, locked in a room with respawn monsters "Dull", enviroment divorced from combat.

TT, nice would be the better game, putting chariot race before boss fights with unskippable cut scences, no sorry straight to the bottom of the pile

PoP 2008, nice enviroments, best art direction of the series, stupid lock down combat with recycled boss, I don't want to fight the same boss 5 times like Final fantasy
(oh hello maester seymour, sure i'll pretend to be threatened by the same guy I have killed 5 times before)
enviroment divorced from combat.
(you would think after WW they would have learnt not to do this by now)

Forgotten sands
Forgotten we are not Gods of War

 

[Dark Knifer]

I played them completely out of order.
- Two Thrones
- PoP 2008
- Warrior Within
- Sands of Time
- Forgotton Sands

Swap Sands of Time and Warrior Within and that's the order I played them. Two thrones is the one a frequent back the most to. I only rented Sands of Time the first time I played it and finished it, but I bought it for xmas so I played it again... And got three hours into it and have yet to go back to it. No idea why but I enjoyed two thrones more then any of the others.

 

[Talal Provides]

The 2008 version, hands down. It was a really special, wonderful game, something totally new that was totally different than just about any game I can think of. It should have started a revolution within the industry, but thanks to the gaming community as a whole, who scream for innovation and yet when a game does innovate, they go nuts over how it's not a proper game in the series because it isn't exactly like the previous games and/or dismiss the new ideas as gimmicks. With Prince of Persia, they made a game where the enjoyment came from not from stringing together a series of victories over increasingly difficult obstacles, but from how the game makes you feel. It's a game about getting sucked in, about getting into the flow and the groove and the rhythm of the game so that your awareness of the mechanics just melts away, so that you interact with the game the way you would conduct an orchestra, leaving you with a sense of awe and wonder at an incredible spectacle that you have created and the joy of getting so mentally in-sync with something so beautiful.

But, nope, it's a stupid, overly-simple game that was too easy that sucked because it wasn't exactly like a game that came out five years earlier. Oh well.

 

[Sronpop]

I never actually got to finish the first one, only ever got it on a loan from one of my friends. I played the shit out of Warrior Within and me and my POP loving mates were all jizzing our 14yr old selves pants when trailers for it started coming out. So its got to be Warrior Within for pure nostalgia reason, that game made my teenage years. Two Thrones wasn't as good, still awesome though, POP 2008 is not POP, pure and simple, havent got around to Forgotten Sands yet.

Warrior Within, don't care how cheesy it was, my 14yr old self loved it.

 

[teh_Canape]

Prince of Persia 3D

*awesome face*

 

[DazZ.]

Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame

That's the one I played the most, although I could have likely beat Prince 1 with my eyes closed when I was younger.

Ran through the others once, then never played again.