What was so wrong with PoP Warrior Within and The Two Thrones?

I was just talking with my friends about the new Prince of Persia and he was telling me that how better it was from the previous two games and the mature factor and the "obnoxious" rock music turned the series into a mediocre franchise and blah blah.But am i the only one who really enjoyed these two games? i mean i am a sucker for metal so the inclusion in the warrior within was pretty sweet for me and the mature storyline was also pretty awesome to me but why does so many people say bad things about these two games?I mean i understand that different people has different tastes but if a good game is a good game no matter what isn't it?

I don't think Ubisoft Montreal has made a bad POP game yet. I loved the entire Sands Of Time trilogy and I loved this year's new entry. People just didn't like Warrior Within's darker change in direction after the whimsical The Sands Of Time, but I personally didn't mind it. The only thing I really didn't like about WW's presentation was the change of voice actor for The Prince. Silent-Hal

Yeah same here. i also loved the entire Sands of Time trilogy, i just don't know why so many people and critics hated the darker tone. I can understand the voice changeover but its not that big of a deal that people keep makign fun of the music and the tone.

There's no quality control at UbiSoft. I hate their games, and when they innovate, it's has a gimmick feel to it. They're the next EA.

As much as I didn't like the setting, Warrior Within still had the best gameplay in the series, so it was hard to hate.

Then again, I hated The Two Thrones for trying (and failing) to recapture the spirit of the first game, when the trilogy could've gone just about anywhere after WW.

The Prince from Sands of Time, was a more sensitive character, and his voice acting was actually solid. The whole atmosphere of that game was sooooo good. The combat was repeatitive, but at that point, I didnt care, I loved the game.

Warrior Within was glitchy as hell, and the dark theme really ruined it, shattered it completely. The prince spouting swear words and other quips was just laughable. The new combat was dumb, cause I hate when action adventure games actually give you combo lists, like they're fighting games.

The Two Thrones was alright, but the voice acting sucked, the narrative sucked, and I felt the dark prince was a gimmick.

The new POP on 360 was incredibly repeatitive, had no challenge, and some of the worst dialogue I had ever seen since RE1. I enjoyed it however, because it was a nice change from all the shooters.

Sands of Time was the best POP, it went downhill from there.

From my opinion,Warrior Within isn't so bad..It's just a little voice change and the game is as hard as hell.And the Two Thrones is as easy as 123 except for the boss.

There wasn't anything wrong with WW and TTT, it's just the prince was a lot darker and the fans didnt like it.

Some problems with WW were that it had horrible acting, cheesy generic battle music and it didn't feel as fresh as SoT. That I could forgive if the gameplay wasn't a complete chore. I never want to touch WW again after it made me repeat the same gameplay sections about 6 times. It wasn't even that fun the first time.

Terrible game.