Jak 2 - Renegade (PS2)

General: Jak 2: Renegade is one of the best platform-action games for the PS2 I have ever played. When I saw it for the first time in GAME I personally thought that it was too expensive for it's type of genre, then I realized 4 hours later just how wrong I was, it should teach me not to judge a book by its front cover. The game truly helps for developing hand-eye co-ordination skills and is also a great laugh due to its humorous characters like Daxter the Ottsel who is funnily and imaginatively created to send someone in hysterics. If you have a love for languages, like I do, you can improve your knowledge of it by learning certain colloquialisms in the ...  Read the complete review

You play Jak, who fresh from his adventure from his first game of saving the sages and effectively the world from evil enemy Gol and Maia is ready for a new adventure. He gets sucked into the future (500 years) through a precursor artefact though and is instantly locked away for reasons unknown. Daxter runs off though claiming he will ‘get him out of there in no time’ but decided to go on his own PSP adventure in the making and doesn’t get Jak for 2 years, in which he had been tortured in and injected with the substance that turned Daxter into an ottsel-Dark Eco. He comes out a new man now-and he has a dark side to prove it, and along with that, wants to get revenge on ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Jak 2 Renegade is a platforming game developed by Naughty Dog exclusively for the Playstation 2. The story picks up after the first game and Jak and Daxter come across some Precurser machinery, once activated it takes them to Haven City where Jak is captured by the forces of Baron Praxis and it takes two years for his buddy Daxter to get him out of there. Jak has gained a lot of attitude in this game, maybe thanks to the Dark Eco experiments that were carried out on him. The adventure to revenge himself against Baron Praxis does have a darker more serious tone but is prevented from going to far by the wise cracking Daxter. The gamplay has changed ...  Read the complete review

I got a comment to the effect that I wrote an Faq and not a review, after reading my review over I decided that was right, so I decided to make changes. They are subtle changes, but may have an impact. Characters: Jak: The hero of this game, Jak was exposed to Dark Eco experiments for 2 years, and has changed. He has some really cool moves! Daxter: Jak’s best friend, used to be human until he fell into a pool of dark eco and became an ottsel. He wishes for pants. Always wondered what Daxter was good for until I realized that when Jak punches or spins, it is Daxter he's hitting the enemies with! Samos the Sage: ...  Read the complete review