PoP Rocks!

I beat Prince of Persia last night and overall it was an excellent game! This is my pick for best game of 2003; if you play videogames, you MUST get this game (and it's out for all three consoles, so there's no excuse). The game is full of great puzzles that keep you thinking and never frustrate. A lot of the areas are pretty obvious to solve (but are still very fun to traverse). There are a few rooms, however, that'll stop you cold. When you reach one of these rooms, you'll spend some time walking around the area just looking for possible 'leads' (and trust me, you won't mind looking around, this game is BEAUTIFUL!)

The only knock on the game is the fighting which can get a bit annoying since the game just throws dude after dude at you. Your first few fights can be overwhelming and somewhat difficult, but once you master the fighting controls it becomes monotonous as you take out ten copies of the same guy by repeating the same sequence of moves. Though the fighting isn't too exciting, the controls are very responsive and it really does look amazing as the prince fights four baddies at once. Another plus for the fighting sections... no boss battles!!! (I really do hate boss battles, but that's a topic for another post) Anyway, buy this game... simple as that.