Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones is an action-adventure game blending acrobatic platforming, puzzle-solving, and hack and slash combat, and the final chapter of the Sands of Time trilogy. Players guide the…
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones is an adventure developed by Ubisoft Casablanca, released 1 December 2005 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and Mac. The main story takes about 16 hrs to finish.
What Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones is
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Casablanca and released in 2005. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Jade. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Prince returns home to Babylon only to find the city ravaged by war. His actions in the previous game have reshaped the timeline, and the villainous Vizier, once thought gone, is alive and moving against him. When the Vizier seizes the power of the Sands of Time and turns himself into an immortal threat, the Prince is caught in the fallout and left changed by the Sands, which give rise to a cruel second personality known as the Dark Prince that whispers in his mind and periodically seizes control of his body. Struggling against this inner corruption, the Prince fights his way through the city to stop the Vizier, crossing paths with Farah, a woman who, in this altered timeline, has never…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Prince of Persia series
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones is the 29th of 73 entries we hold in the Prince of Persia series. It arrived 11 months after Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. The next entry was Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones in 2005. Its critic score of 80 is 10 points above the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown at 87.
How it was received
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 80, across 481 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 16 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.0 GHz AMD Athlon or Intel Pentium III (1.5 GHz Pentium IV or AMD Athlon recommended), 256 MB (512 MB recommended) of RAM and 32 MB DirectX 9.0c compliant (128 MB recommended) (see supported list*). At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it launched against
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones launched on 1 December 2005, within three weeks of Kingdom Hearts II, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Mario Kart DS. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Kingdom Hearts II, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Mario Kart DS.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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