The official iOS version of Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
: Tap the Time button once to slow everything but the Prince. This is critical for moving past fast-closing doors or managing large groups of enemies. prince of persia warrior within ios
The game was a direct port of the PSP version ( Revelations ), which itself was a scaled-down port of the PS2 original. For the time, the iOS port was stunning. You had the full voice acting (including the Prince’s iconic gravely threats), the sprawling fortress of the Island of Time, and—most importantly—the full combat system. The official iOS version of Prince of Persia:
The may be dead on the App Store, but it lives on in fan forums, YouTube longplays, and the dusty iPads of early adopters. It reminds us that mobile ports don’t need to be 1:1 remakes to be worthwhile—sometimes, a creative, compact reimagining is its own kind of art. For the time, the iOS port was stunning
When Gameloft brought this to iOS (initially for the iPhone 3GS and later optimized for iPad), they didn't strip it down to a 2D scroller like many mobile ports of the era. They brought the whole thing. They managed to compress gigabytes of data into a few hundred megabytes. The result was a game that looked astonishingly close to the PS2/Xbox original. The lighting in the Clock Tower, the texture of the Prince’s armor, the fluid animation of the finishing moves—it was all there.