Chapter 3 - Life Upgrades

This section reveals all nine life upgrade locations. These locations are also included in
the walk-through section of this game guide.
Level: Damsel in Distress, Area: Sacrificial Altar
You can grab this upgrade after you fight Shadhee at the Sacrificial Altar. Before
leaving, go up the stairs and grab and pull the altar toward the stairs. This opens a
secret passage. Follow the passage to reach your first life upgrade. This increases the
princes maximum health as well as restoring your health in the process.
Roll over the floor spikes and dodge the pole traps. Roll under the spinning blades. At
the large gap in the floor, run along the right wall when the blade moves toward the top
of the screen. Roll under the final pole traps to reach the life upgrade.
Level: A Helping Hand, Area: Fortress Entrance
This floor switch opens a grate at the top of the stairs. Slow time to reach the grate before it
closes.
You were at this location early in the game but lacked the ability to get through the grate
before it closed. This is the entry area where you run up the wall and onto the upper
level and use the columns to reach the far side with the staircase.
Look to the left of the staircase find the floor switch. Hit the floor switch and use the
newly acquired Eye of the Storm to slow time. Ascend the stairs and roll under the open
grate. Roll over the floor spikes and past the spinning blade and crusher. Continue
around the corner and similar traps. Roll past each until you reach the halls end. Reach
the end to automatically receive your second life upgrade.
Level: The Towers, Area: Central Hall
Make this long leap to reach the passage that leads to a life upgrade.
When you are in the central hall with the Lion Sword and can activate the middle lever,
you can acquire the next life upgrade. Adjust the lever so it points toward the route to
the Hourglass Chamber (the lever closes the gap toward that path).
While you stand at the lock and facing the Hourglass Chamber route, drop onto a
platform on the left side. Hang onto the edge and jump to the left and back to the right
repeatedly to safely descend to the platform below. At the bottom, drop down to another
platform below. Turn left while facing the abyss. Run along the left wall. When you
reach the end, press jump and rebound back and forth up the two walls until youre at
the top. At the top, face the abyss and spot the entrance just diagonal and below your
position. Run and jump to that entrance. Hit jump just as you reach the edge so you
make the distance.
Once inside the hall, roll over the floor spikes and between and under the pole traps. At
the staircase, avoid the spinning blade and run along the right wall to go over the pole.
Round the corner to reach the life upgrade. After gaining the upgrade, return to the
central hall. From your current ledge, jump straight across to the adjacent ledge. Run up
the wall and rebound jump up the two walls until you reach the top. Return to the hall.
Level: Clockworks and Gears, Area: Activation Room
You can recover this life upgrade when youre in the activation room in the past. Youll
encounter a golem throwing explosive projectiles from across the room. You can use
one of those projectiles to destroy the door that blocks passage to the life upgrade.
Go to the far left corner of this walkway and stand near the boarded up door. Allow the
golem to toss his explosive projectiles in your direction. When the boarded up door
crumbles, go into the hall. Run past the crushers then roll under the pole traps and over
the floor spikes. Around the next corner, leap onto the crushers and run along the right
wall to bypass the pole trap.
At the next corner, spot the crushers overhead. Run up the left wall and leap to the
overhead crusher as it moves away. Pull up onto the crusher then run along the right
wall to bypass the pole traps. Continue around the corner to find the life upgrade.
Return to the activation room and the save game fountain.
Level: The Water Maiden, Area: Garden
Drop off the edge at this broken railing to find the path to the gardens life upgrade.
After moving through the area with the maiden statue, look in the front left side to find a
broken railing. Drop off and hold onto the edge. Shimmy to the right on the ledge and
drop down. Run along the left wall to the far platform. Enter the next hallway. Use the
ledges to drop down to the hall below. Its a long way down.
At the bottom, follow the hall to the blade trap. Roll under the blade and over the floor
spikes; invoke the Eye of the Storm power as needed. Roll under the next pole traps
and the spinning blades to reach another life upgrade. After collecting the upgrade,
retrace your path back out into the garden.
Level: Water and Gardens, Area: Garden Waterworks
Leap to the ledge behind the lever to find this path toward a life upgrade.
While in the Garden Waterworks area of the game, youll reach a small room containing
a lever. To get inside the room you rolled underneath a gate. From the lever, locate the
ledge in the back left corner of the room. Hop to the higher walkway and go through the
entrance. Roll over the floor spikes and under the pole traps to reach the life upgrade at
the back end. Return to the lever room when finished.
Level: A Throne and a Mask, Area: Prison
Search the prisons upper level for a couple breakable walls that lead to a life upgrade.
When you reach the upper cell area of the prison after recovering the Scorpion Sword,
find a couple breakable walls. Break apart the boarded door on the right and the
cracked wall in the back left corner. The first room contains a wall switch. Run up the
wall to hit that switch then activate the Eye of the Storm power. Quickly run to the other
opened passage; the switch opened a door at its rear. Get through before it closes.
Follow the hall up stairs; roll under the pole traps. Use the Eye of the Storm to bypass
the next set of blades and pole traps. Roll over the floor spikes toward the end of the
hall where youll find another life upgrade. Retrace your steps back into the prison.
Level: A Throne and a Mask, Area: Library
The path in the upper left corner leads to a life upgrade.
After moving the bookcases, youll leap onto some balcony railings. While on the
second balcony railing, walk to the far right edge. Jump to the ledge on the wall. Drop
off and shimmy to the right. Leap up into the entrance. Walk onto the beam then jump to
the ledge. Drop to the floor.
Descend the stairs and run along the right wall to move over the pole trap. Duck under
the next pole trap and roll over the floor spikes. Activate the Eye of the Storm for
assistance. When you reach the next staircase, you need to run along the wall to avoid
the low pole trap. Reach the life upgrade at the end of the hall. Retrace your steps back
into the library and onto the second balcony railing.
Level: A Throne and a Mask, Area: Southern Passage
Return to this gate after youve recovered the Scorpion Sword.
You went past this life upgrade very early in the game but had no means to get to it.
Once you return to the central hall with the Scorpion Sword, you can recover the final
life upgrade. Its behind a broken gate that can be broken through with the Scorpion
Sword.
Rotate the central halls lever so it points away from the Hourglass Chamber. Ascend
the ledges on the right side of the hall (facing away from the Hourglass Chamber) and
use the columns to reach the ledges on the opposite side. Traverse the ledges to the
upper balcony. Continue through the trap-filled hallways to the larger room. Hop onto
the base of the column on the right side and use the bars to get higher. Youve been
this direction before so follow the route you used previously. Ascend the room using the
bars and beams. Youll land on a platform with a broken gate; spot the crate just beyond
the gate.
Break the gate with the Scorpion Sword. Pull the crate out of the room and against the
right wall (dont forget the artwork crate inside the small room). Climb onto the crate and
run up the right wall. Jump backward and rebound to reach the upper ledge. Run up the
wall to hit the switch; slow time and roll under the door. Bypass the traps using the Eye
of the Storm as needed. Return to the previous room and retrace your path to the
central hall.
The Reward
Your reward for finding all life upgrades is the water sword. Pick it up in the Hourglass
Chamber.
After recovering all nine life upgrades, proceed to the Hourglass Chamber. Its just off
the central hall and its a room you visit repeatedly throughout the game. Theres a
special reward inside the Hourglass Chamber if you return there with all nine upgrades.
Resting in the rooms center is the strongest primary weapon in the game. Its the
legendary water sword. Grabbing the sword also changes another significant game
element. Recover all nine life upgrades and pick up the water sword to fight a different
boss battle at the end of Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. Youll also unlock a special
end game movie.
Chapter 4 - Secrets
This section reveals some of Prince of Persia: Warrior Withins hidden secrets. There
are hidden secondary weapons and a secret ending for those diligent enough to recover
all nine life upgrades and its reward.
Hidden Weaponry
The hockey stick is found in the central hall.
Hockey Stick: Once you possess the Scorpion Sword that can break walls, return to the
central hall (youll automatically move through the area as you complete game
objectives). Adjust the lever so it points toward the Hourglass Chamber route. While you
stand at the lock and facing the Hourglass Chamber route, drop onto a platform on the
left side. Hang onto the edge and jump to the left and back to the right repeatedly to
safely descend to the platform below. At the bottom, drop down to another platform
below. Turn left while facing the abyss. Run along the left wall. When you reach the
end, press jump and rebound back and forth up the two walls until youre at the top. At
the top, face the abyss and spot the entrance just diagonal and below your position.
Run and jump to that entrance. Hit jump just as you reach the edge so you make the
distance. Instead of going through the entrance toward the life upgrade, look to the
right. The wall there is cracked. Break it with the Scorpion Sword to reveal a hidden
secondary weapon: the hockey stick!
Find the bright green sword behind a breakable wall in the Mystic Caves.
Glowing Sword: Youll find this hidden secondary weapon inside the Mystic Caves. At
one point during your trip through the Mystic Caves, youll leap from the stalactites
along the cavern ceiling to reach a door switch. After going through the door, drop into
the next pit. Break open the cracked wall with your sword. Smack the weapon rack and
pick up the glowing green sword. This unique weapon is extremely strong but actually
drains your health after striking an enemy.