Jak II

THE GOOD:
- Has the good things about GTA
- Jak talks
- Dark Jak
- Amazing sounds
- Longer story
- Interesting story
- Three times as hard as the prequel

THE BAD:
- Also has the bad things about GTA
- Some missions can be annoying
- Zoomers too slugish and bulky

SUMMARY:
One cannot help but say that this game is Naughty Dog's way of trying to make another GTA. They did not succeed but its still one of the best platformers on the PS2. It has the good things from GTA, like the guns. You get a balanced aresenal of guns in this game, which saves you in many situations. You don't have to resort to the classic physical attacks from the prequel. Also the freedom; you can do just about anything in the massive city. You can also steal and infinate amount of zoomers flying above you whilst on foot. They use crude humor and swear in this game too!
Naughty Dog decided to...

THE GOOD:
Jak II is the second game in the Precursor Trilogy started by The Precursor Legacy. It's a fantastic game filled with action and plot twists. The setting is darker and appeals to an older crowd than the last game.

The graphics and animations are fabulous as far as platformers go. The story revolves around Jak being captured at the beginning of Jak II and is tortured for two years. This turns him into a demonic being called "Dark Jak" and he sends himself on a quest for revenge.

The game's setting takes place in the city of Haven. It is extremely large. It rivals Grand Theft Auto's Liberty City, if not a little bit smaller. You are given an unlimited amount of landscap-wise freedom as you roam the city.

There have also been four weapons added to the series. They resemble a shotgun, a rifle, a gattling gun and possibly a grenade launcher/shock rifle of some sorts.

There are several minigames for you to take...

The original Jak & Daxter is a classic; Interesting Missions and challenges, impressive Graphics, well-calculated Gameplay, you name it. The only problem with it was the length. Now, Jak II: Renegade is supposedly three times as long, but you'll probably wish that it wasn't.

Unfortunately, the original game is as good as this Series has ever been. Naughty Dog has done what apparently numerous video-game companies are doing nowadays, and has drifted off onto a path which was never constructed for them.

Jak begins this game as a foul-mouthed, gun-wielding, rebellious mercenary. Having supposedly been imprisoned for around two years by the evil Baron Praxis, during which time he developed an ability to transform into a Dark Eco-fueled form temporarily, he set out for revenge on the evil Baron. Killing or injuring scores of people, whether they be innocent or evil, is nothing unusual in this game.

The original Jak & Daxter is humour at its finest; good clean fun...

THE GOOD:
- Cool looking game
- New weapons
- Vehicles
- GTA style a bit

THE BAD:
- Too traditional.. again
- Story just sucks
- Some missions get on your nerves
- Some missions get REALLY boring
- Too much like GTA, should be unique in its own way

SUMMARY:
First of all, I would like to say that I enjoyed the first one more than I did Jak 2. I thought hey, it was pretty good, but now its going too much in a totally different side of gaming. The first one was a game for everyone where you can just sit and have fun with it, but now the second one is just basically another adventure + GTA game. You have the guns, the swearing, the vehicles, basically everything you have in a regular GTA game. I think J&D has really lost its touch now, because the game isn't unique in its own way anymore, but now its on the direction of going totally wrong, into an entire different genre of gaming, which...

THE GOOD:
- guns
- variety fo things to do
- can go in vehicles

THE BAD:
- stupid mini-games
- gets boring
- story

SUMMARY:
In every set of game reviews, you see one that says it is bad while the others say it is good, well that is mine. I found the game boring and lame. I played half way through, and just drpooed my conroller and never awoked the game again.
Sure in Jak 2, they introduce vehicles and guns, but what are thos if they are stupid? I found it to be little copies form differnt games, just put together to form a copy game. I'll admit, iit is pretty fun at the start, but I find it to be a bit dumb later on.
It gets repetive and boring. You must steal a behicle and drive to certain locations sevrile times, and when they do it, they can't pull it off. they could have improved it if they wanted to, put they didn't.
All-in-all, I thought it wasn't a very good game. You may...

THE GOOD:
Violence.
Swearing.
Vehichles.

THE BAD:
The Cameramen use the camera like a bunch of monkeys, or Daxters as I should say.
Difficulty keeps changing. Did monkeys do that?
It's sometimes all over too quick.

SUMMARY:
Lastability: 6/10.
It's all over too quick I say. You could be doing this for a few days and it's all finished. You want kids to drop their drinks and pick up the pad and play this. It's supposed to last for months not days.
Sound: 8/10.
Man, all those sounds. Sorta lifelike. The guns, cars and voices. Jak even talks. YEAH!!!!!
Graphics: 6/10.
Bit lifelike. The punches, guns and other crap I've probably mentioned. Dark Jak probably had the most effort put into him, next to Daxter and Jak.
Gameplay: 6/10.
Could use some sidequests. Same gameplay besides the bits where you steal cars, Dark Jak and have guns.
Overall: 3.8/5.0.
It's over pretty quick, but...

THE GOOD:
fairly solid platforming, new features

THE BAD:
camera, Haven city, Jak's aim, characters, story...

SUMMARY:
Back in the very early days of the PS2 platform games were in short supply. This was a concern, I mean the platform game is an age old genre that has been on the frontline for every console generation. Ever since the early days of Pitfall Harry stars such as Sonic, Mario and Crash have been the mascots for their respective companies. Then gaming had to go and get all grown up and any game that favored reflexes over puzzles seemed to become frowned upon. That's where Naughty Dog came in. The former developers of Crash Bandicoot sold their fading hero and started work on a fresh series. Jak And Daxter: The Precursor Legacy introduced the world to comedy duo Jak, a strong but mute hero whose personality was whatever you imagined it to be, and Daxter, his wise cracking but inept best friend who had...

THE GOOD:
- Has really good graphics.
- Much better story line than Jak and Daxter.
- The guns.
- Transformation of Dark Jak is pretty cool.
- Loads more zoomers and other aircrafts.
- Better type of missions.
- The jetboard is quite cool.
- A much longer game.

THE BAD:
- Some of the timed missions can be hard.
- When hitting a guard on the jetboard you lose health and fall off the jet board.
- Can kinda drag on at bits.
- Annoying when you steal a guards zommer because they chase at you and shoot you for ages.

SUMMARY:
I enjoyed the 1st game alot but Jak II is way better than the J&D. The story line is really cool. The city(Haven City) that you play in is much better than the differents villiages in J&D. Plus now Jak does not just use his body to destroy enemies, you've got guns now which you can do gun courses on it get used to them. The races in the stadium are really cool, fast...

THE GOOD:
The graphics are very good and so are the voices.

THE BAD:
It's too ****ing hard!

SUMMARY:
Jak 2 is A LOT different than Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, but it's still cool. Both Jak and Daxter look a lot better than they did in the first game. The plot kind of confused me at first; it's weird. Now you can turn into Dark Jak. Dark Jak's really cool. In Haven City, you can steal Zoomers from people, and if you attack the Krimzon Guards, they'll shoot at you. It's cool, yet scary. 0.o The Hoverboard is cool; it lets you go across water without getting attacked by any nasty water critter and go over dark eco. There's also four different guns you can use. The best, I think, is the Vulcan Fury. It's good for shooting a lot of stupid Metal Heads. I hate Metal Heads, though. They are a lot worse than Lurkers. Some of the missions are extremely hard at times. Luckily, the game's a lot longer...

THE GOOD:

New facinating storyline

Long game, days to complete

Dark Jak

THE BAD:

Some missions can be a bit repetative

SUMMARY:
Jak II is the second game in the Jak & Daxter series. As Jak & Daxter was a huge hit Jak II was created and had high expectations.

You are Jak and with the help of Daxter your little ally you have to defeat metal heads before they destroy the world. This time Jak has got dark ego inside him and is evil but is also not evil and on the light side.

Gameplay is the same as Jak & Daxter. Roaming around Haven City with nothing on your mind can be fun at times. Now Jak can get a total of 4 guns to use to splatter his enimies aswell as his well known kick attacks.

Graphicly this is a nice game. Its graphics arn't anything special but instead just about right for a game like this. Jak now talks unlike in Jak & Daxter making the sound all good...