The edgy teenager phase of the trilogy didn't go as well as Ubisoft had expected. At the time, games like God of War were all the craze and the company tried to appeal to that audience by altering Prince of Persia's style.
Enemies get cut to ribbons with fountains of blood spurting from them as they go, protagonist gone from humorous and energetic to emo. Music switched from aesthetically fitting themes to generic emo rock tracks from Godsmack.
Contains godawful amounts of backtracking, plenty of bugs that disrupt the gameplay, among other things.
I found my amusement in laughing at the game for taking itself so seriously