Massive improvement in the dialogue and story from the previous game, leaving a grand finish in the trilogy.
Plot – Huge improvement from warrior within but not as good as the sands of time. The Prince discovers that as a result of his efforts on the Island of Time to prevent the Sands of Time from being created, the events of sands of time never happened, thus, the Vizier was never killed, and it gets really good from there.
Graphics – I thought they were good looking but at times they look kind-of dated like when you see a cut scene when the prince rides a horse, the horse looks really bad, and for some reason I feel that the sands of time graphics were the best and this is being back in 2003. Also the lighting effect in the game is very strong when you max out all the settings. When I put on AA x2 or x4 a blinding spot of light comes out of nowhere and I don't no if this is a bug or suppose to happen but its very annoying and so I just turn of AA all together and problem solved.
Game play - the movements of the prince are mostly the same as warrior within and with the cool combat fighting system, however bringing something new, the awesome stealth kill is my favorite move. And another cool thing is the dagger plates and the jump on the shutter from wall to wall and also climbing up or down in between a wall, all of theses combined just makes the game even more replay-able and exciting. Very little or no blood (except at the beginning with the dagger you get from a table.) Heads being chopped off and bodies being sliced in half is all gone so its not there if you are hoping it to be, but the game is still fun without it. Although if someone invented a blood patch to the game it would be pretty cool. I have come across mainly one major bug in the game-play and that is in the ending of the middle tower level (I think its this one, its being a while since I last played it) and this is when you have to run up a wall, grab a dagger plate, run to a shutter and jump from it to another dagger plate, but this is where the bug is, he wouldn't grab the plate, I tried hundreds of times but he would not grab it, so I did some research on google and there are others with the same problem. So what I did to get pass this is to download a save game and play from there. However I do remember that when I uninstall the game and reinstall it a few months later I had no problem at all with this bug, it was like it never happened, but I must say that it was very annoying to come across especially when you are so close to the end.
Sound/Music- very good sound effects in the fighting and environments anyway the whole game has very good sound effects and is well done. Music is nothing to do with heavy metal like warrior within, but its more of a Arabic type rhythm music like the first game, and I think it works really well in the game and its very nice to hear. There is one level that has terrible music to the ears and that is the middle tower level, 3rd last level (I think), its just so annoying to listen too so I just turn down the volume for that part.
Pros- Very nice graphics, good game play, excellent fighting system, the story and dialogue is hundred times better that the previous game, a lot of replay value, great fighting scenes, the game itself is full of excellence.
Cons- major bug and awful music in that middle tower level, AA x2 or x4 don't work well when enable.
Outstanding end to the trilogy and I am quite sad not to see of this Prince of Persia any more.