Truth, Computing and Fail

Just finished playing The Two Thrones. It had remarkably shorter playing time, I finished it off in only 2 days. It was no where close to the complete experience Warrior Within gave me. The plot in WW was full of unexpected twists and turns and the alternate ending was something you had to really work hard to achieve. Collecting 9 life upgrades scattered throughout the island was never an easy task! I wonder why they needed to make T2T so melodramatic. Maybe they got the idea from the Venom episode in Spiderman. The evil, selfish, vengeance seeking side of the protagonists getting the better of them. Now follow it up with lots of emotions, heartbreaks and reunions…..and then finally a moment of clarity, when the hero finally comes to terms with his self and becomes this uber cool warrior cum sage. I mean they need not have done this in T2T. It seems the developers had already decided what had to happen at the end of the trilogy without thinking where the character development of the prince was headed. Suddenly within the T2T, you hear that monotonous female voice(Kaileena) narrating how hard boiled an egg the Prince had become, with no feelings for anyone but himself. What the hell? When did we ever get a hint of that in the previous 2 games? On the contrary, we saw the Prince giving not a damn about his life, risking everything, never giving up even when all the odds were up against him. In the alternate ending, he even defeats Dahaka, achieving the impossible, vanquishing the once dreaded beast that chased him around. Now suddenly we are being told all those qualities have made Prince a badass. It can’t get any sillier. The only thing good about T2T was the witty jokes and one-liners that the inner voice i.e. the evil prince kept on cracking.

I would be expecting PoP 4 to have a better storyline and a longer gameplay time.

Coming to metal, the soundtrack of WW by Godsmack was simply awesome. I missed it in T2T. While listening to Hallowed Be thy Name it suddenly occured to me that the lyrics make the song a strong contender for the theme soundtrack of PoP 4.

This is how the song starts:

I am waiting in my cold cell
When the bell begins to chime
Reflecting on my past life
And it doesn’t have much time
Because at 5′o clock
They take me to the gallows
The Sands of Time for me are running low………

See what I mean?