The Assassin’s Creed games often boil down to waiting to counter at the right time to eliminate your foe as other enemies dance around you, seemingly nonplussed that you’re ripping their compatriot limb from limb. I find it curious that the games spiritual successor, Assassin’s Creed, has taken such a step back on what was an already great combat system. It provides the best way to learn and subsequently improve. Rewinding to see how exactly you died is a luxury not found in many games. The option to slow down and reverse time often prove to be the difference between failure and success in the game’s tough moments. The truly unique element of the game lies in time manipulation. There’s nothing that you’d necessarily call groundbreaking but it plays fluidly and animates very well for an 11 year old game there’s not much more you can ask for. Add in a plethora of secondary weapons and a handful of main weapons, there’s always experimentation to be had. It’s an incredibly deep system, rich with combos, dual-wielding attacks and acrobatic attacks. In short, the gameplay was and still is great. Every blow is greeted with a screech and howl from the unsuspecting creature unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end of your button mashing fury. There’s something more violent about the combat this time around. If the first in the trilogy established the Prince as a master of the sword, Warrior Within sets him up as a merciless killing machine. 11 years on, how do I like it now? Do I even like it at all?
Dark colours, screeching enemies and an angrier Prince all feature while heavy guitar riffs do their very best to make your ears bleed. As a 12 year old I couldn’t have wanted much more.
The second in the Sands of Time trilogy, the game was met with mixed reviews, mainly due to its shift in tone from Arabian nights to more of a ‘time to cut myself’ sort of thing.
We start with what was always a personal favourite of mine, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within.
Here we take an old classic, play it from start to finish and judge whether it holds up by today’s standards. Welcome to the first in a weekly series, Flashback Friday.
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