Prince of Persia: Warrior Within Demo

Okay, I've fiddled with the PC demo even tho I said I wouldn't. Sorry I did. The game feels wrong from the get go. The crappy nu-metal music in the menu completely throws of the feel of the game. The PC controls suck monkey ass.

Disappointed. Hoping the Xbox version feels more like Sands of Time. Lose the asinine metal music. Ugh.

I'm stuck on Level 2...I've made it past the spike traps, fought the zombies in the spike trigger room, opened the large white door to the second spike trigger room /w the fountain, and fought those dudes. But the only switch I see in this room reopens the white door. Am I supposed to double back?

The camera controls make it really hard to see what's around you. I don't know why they couldn't just stick with the PoP:SoT/Tomb Raider/every other friggin' third-person game camera.

I loved Sands of Time, I really did.

But I don't like this demo.

The Prince is now a badass with an American voice (he sounds like shit)

Whoever decided to take the franchise and "mature-ize" it really fucked up in my mind. The music all seems to be hardcore rock now, instead of the awesome persian rock mix stuff from before. I miss the english accent.

There is blood flying all over the place and people's heads flying off.

Bosses? Ugh

Basically it seems that all of the cool things that made the first one so unique and awesome... are gone. I guess the platforming will be there, but I really don't find the combat enjoyable now at all.

if u liked the look of the dungeon/torture-room level from PoP:SoT, then u will like the look of this game. i thought that was the weakest level of the 1st game. grainy and brown is not the color i wanna stare at when playing games. also, it seems like the very deeply character motivated storyline wont be present the way it was in sands of time (from what ive seen about this game).

Disappointing.

No story or charactors to speak of in the demo, which is worrying. Camera is all wrong, i had trouble adjusting it too. Too many mini- cutscenes interupting your flow. The buggyness of the boss creature is a travesty.

It slightly redeems itself by having fun combat, but i do miss the trusty dagger of time :/

The games combat is much more improved than that in the first game. Theres much more skill involved in how to execute combos and such. The fights are fun and the graphics are very well done. The sound seemed limited in parts like at the beginning of the boat level where it seemed too quiet despite a battle raging around you. The controls dont seem too bad for a console to PC port, I havent tried it with my gamepad but no doubt it will probably control better. The music seems out of place, Id rather have the DJ Arabic style music like in the first. But all in all im sure the problems I have wont be cleaned and fixed up in time for release.

The Scrapland demo is where its at :)

Not very impressive, and I thought sands of time was pretty good.

Camera control is all messed up, and I don't remember it being that way in sands of time (and I played the pc version and actually liked its mouse/keys control, this demo isn't the same).. it varies in speed depending on who knows what, it collides with the wall, and sometimes goes the wrong direction, and even at it's fastest it's not fast enough. Mouselook's been done forever, it's not hard to get right even in a third person game.

Don't think the music fits the game well, especially not if theres many vocal tracks (though the only one I heard was if you let the title screen sit)

Kinda neutral on the new fighting system.. I thought having to absorb enemies into the dagger was pretty cool (though it was lame that most of the time enemies wouldn't attack you while waiting for you to finish), the zombie things just disintigrating into dust when they run out of hp makes it just like every other action game. The bullet time when you chop something's head off was a big annoying as well, especially seeing it more than once in a fight. The ability to more directly control the combos will probably be good in the long run though.. you can do the high backflip off someones back, collide with the wall way up in the air, and do the wall stab move down from it.

And of course.. the demo's buggy as crap, so I got bored of trying to beat the golem boss guy without his ai shutting off and becoming noclip.. though one time instead he threw me halfway through the door in the room and I got stuck there till I died.. certainly hope this isn't even close to final.

I hope they have a fixed demo at some point, cause I would like to see the continuation of the story.. but I'm not getting it if it's anything like this =P

Impressions: It plays a lot like the last game, which to me is a Good Thing. The combat system has improved quite a bit, thanks to new combos and dual weapon system. It still hasn't advanced to the level of Devil May Cry or Ninja Gaiden though. Still combat was more involving and interesting than the first one. We'll see how far this new combat system can go over the course of the game.

Platforming is about the same as the last one (in the demo) but with a few more nifty tricks. I liked that floor spikes actually react like you'd expect them to (as opposed to tip toe-ing over them like in Sands of Time, you have to sprint over them. It felt more true to the spirit of the game). The game is also quite pretty as well, and enemy deaths are gorier and cooler.

The only complaint: Metal music? wtf? In some games it works, but it is definitely not what I pictured for this game. Takes away from the immersion of the game imo.

Ok, so far I've battled about 100 enemies on the ship but nothing ever happends. What the hell am I supposed to do, run from them all ? I can't figure out what to do....

If you enjoyed the first one, this is well worth the download. It's more of the same, but with much improved combat. The new holds and throws are cool since you can force enemies into their own traps. The dual-wield feature is a nice new touch as well.

Again, if you liked PoP:SoT, you'll REALLY like this. If you didn't, well, this is an improved version, so give it a shot at least.

P.S. there's some kind of AI bug where enemies go into no-clip mode and then their AI goes inert. They become totally non-interactive, which isn't a big problem in the demo unless it happens to the end-level boss character, which is a game stopping issue. I won't buy this game unless this problem is ironed out completely, no matter which NPC it affects.

Well beyond the boss getting stuck in a corner and then being unable to hit him, the game is gorgeous and has the same great mechanics of the last one. Also it plays great on my wingman wireless dual analog gamepad.

Sweeeeet. Will wait to buy the Xbox version. Played like a dream on a console.

ummm... is the camera system fucked for anyone else? For me, it keeps re-centering itself and zoomed right into the character, very horrible.

Playing this on a pc with mouse and keyboard just feels wrong...looks great tho.

All people that want to dive into the new Prince unspoiled should avoid the demo at the moment.

It is pretty buggy and does not make an awful lot of sense, meaning the second level in the demo has nothing to do with the first one and seems to be from much further in the game. Also the boss of the second level warps around frequently and proceedes to become unattackable forcing you to restart. Haven't managed to kill him, yet, because of that.

Is anyone else having problems beating the big guy at the end of the second level. I had him down to about half health, then he just went into a corner and stood there, his life bar disappeared, and I couldn't do anything besides run around the room. Wherever I went, the camera still focused on him, so this must be some kind of bug...

torrent

http://www.filerush.com/torrents/POP2_Demo.zip.torrent

Ok I loved the Sands of time. But this demo is awful. I'm just going to assume the final version is not like this and this is just an unpolished version.

Doesnt know what an A64 chip is? Uh ok. Doesnt have standard res settings (no 1280x1024 just 1280x960)? Bite me. The way the opening level drops you in the middle of fighting with a rain haze plus funky feeling controls. not a good way to bring someone into the world as I see it.

Does this support joypads alright?

Xbox version of the previous game was so good.. I'll hold out to play this game on the same platform. I think it'd be really weird with kb+mouse.

Can't wait for this to come out on consoles, don't really know if I want to bother even trying the PC version

Wow, I totally wasn't expecting this. Can't decide whether I want to play POP2 on the PC or XBox though. I really enjoyed the XBox controls, but the PC version will probably look a lot prettier.

PIMP! I just went out and talked myself into getting a decent dual analog controller for the pc, and then two sweet demos come out!! its fate i tell you!

Fox called, they want their IP back.

ps, prince of persia 2 costume: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=153&item=2277376666&rd=1

oh hell yes....

I'm going to wait for the full game. Let me know how it is.

All combat? Or some of the cool exploration and 'puzzles' of the first?

Those guys look kinda like predators.