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nice concept, excellent graphics, but a bit short

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Nice concept, excellent graphics and art. Fun game,
but a bit on the short side -- only about 15 hours for me.

Best game I have played in years!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Buy this game. They must make a sequel. I have not gotten much sleep the past few nights as turning the game off was impossible for me. For those of you that have played, I am sure your heart was pounding during the roof top sequence. For those who have yet to play, it is worth the twenty bucks just for that. Luckily, the rest of the game is equally incredible.

Very addicting!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is a lot better than what I expected. I hadn't even heard of it, but it seemed cool. I couldn't put this game down! It has a lot of fighting, and puzzle solving. It's not too hard, and it's not too easy, its perfect. You take pictures also, to get pearls, and use pearls to buy parts for your boat. You also can buy these really cool gadgets. You also have to go on a top secret mission and sneak past guards! It's very exciting, and never gets dull. You also fight with a pig. And you get to buy these awesome devices for different uses. I'd suggest that you buy this game!

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

One of the best!!!! This game (and Prince Of Persia) are two of the best games I have ever played. BG&E is full of action, comical and fantastic characters (the propulsion mechanism for the Jet Boots is worth the cost) and beautiful graphics. Can be played without stragity guide, but with one even more fun.
Shame that it hasn't sold up to expectation. This one is a true sleeper. I would imagine it will develop a cult following and hopefully a second version will come out.
Just an unrelated thought, wouldn't be great if someone did a game bassed on the old Itallian westerns ("Fist Full of Dollars" Etc) with the look and music from the films. I would buy it!!

Addictive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When I first started the game, I thought it was strange and wasn't sure if I could continue with it - like why does she look like Pat Benotar and why does the pig speak with a fake southern accent. But after completing the first assigned mission of Black Isle, I was hooked. Stealth, mystery, conspiracy, and wondrous graphics kept me playing until I finished. I also appreciated having no "cheap deaths". At times I felt it babied me, but otherwise the game just seemed to want to engage me. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys games such as "Prince Of Persia" or "Tomb Raider".

Lots to explore & do; Challenging, but not too hard

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As a novice gamer, I found this game to be fantastic. It had a variety of challenges, but didn't leave me stumped. With other games, I've had to resort to using walkthroughs. However, I was able to solve the puzzles and make my way through this game very easily. You are given clues to help you with problems. Also, there is no really annoying "Must do in a certain number of seconds or you will die" missions. I was able to take my time and explore before moving ahead to enter a fight with the enemies. LOVED THIS GAME!

This one had slipped under my radar

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I missed this game when it first came out, and now it can only be found with re-sellers. It's a real shame there's no way to make sure the folks who made this game got a peice of what I payed for it. This game has some very original art work and characters. Controls feel right, and the game is well put together. A good time for anyone who plays it. Though not an all time classic like 'Zelda' or 'Ratchet & Clank', it does soundly belong in the next greatest level under them. If you can find a copy of this one, it's well worth the $20-$30 it's likely to cost you.

A great game you've never heard of

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Ubisoft's 2003 release of Beyond Good and Evil went by without much spectacle. I myself didn't hear about it until a few years afterward, references to it as being a great sleeper hit. And it wasn't until 2008 that I got around to playing it.

It's very apparent the game was inspried by the legend of Zelda series, especially the Ocarina of Time / Windwaker. It is a bit more stealth instead of straightforward combat, but the general feel and interface is very similar. Of course, that's not to say it's a bad thing. While it doesn't quite measure up with the Zelda games on sheer gameplay alone, this game has something Zelda game don't: an excellent plot and characters.

The game took me about 10-12 hours to play through (I wanted to collect everything you could in the world) and it was enjoyable throughout. It was just about the perfect length to not get bogged down on.

Just about the only thing that gets the game 4 stars instead of 5 is some annoying camera issues that tend to crop up at bad times (like when you're trying to sneak past somoene, something you'll be doing a lot of in the game) and the controls felt just a little sticky/delayed...though this might be just the nature of the game showing its age.

A classic enjoyable game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I just played this game quite a while after it came out. I just played it in July 2008. This is probably one of the best games I've played. It's a beautiful game to play. It's so well thought out and polished. There is a great depth to the types of game play within the game. There is exploring, problem solving, stealth, racing, fighting, action, platformer action, and others while all being very much story driven with a fluid interaction between them all. The characters are interesting and alive. A lot of games that try to cross genre like this can feel patch-worked where stuff like the puzzle solving doesn't really fit with the action very well or something like that and can feel like they just bolted on some parts of the game. This game does the cross-genre better than any other that I've seen. So much so that I didn't really notice that it was cross-genre while I was playing it. It all flows together so naturally. There are times even when some of the aspects will flow into each other in surprising ways that give a great deal of depth and realism to the game.

On top of all that the story is very interesting and unique. There is a playful and loving atmosphere in a very dark storyline. It was enjoyable while playing, and even after. It never felt forced or stilted in it's delivery which seems to be the norm for games unfortunately.

The graphics and music and sound are great. The UI elements are amazingly easy to use. For instance, the wheel keyboard is the best text entering device for consoles that I've ever seen. Amazing since there is so little time that you actually use this device and how smoothly it works and innovative and intuitive it is. It made what's normally a painful thing to do in games to an interesting and actually fun thing to do. It's this type of polish and the attention to details like this that puts this game way above other games. There is so much variety in the game that is all done so well with the player's satisfaction in mind. Thoroughly enjoyable. After finishing the game I wanted to go back and explore the world even more. I know there are some spots that I didn't see and some more photos to take.

Best little known treasure

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Ever since I started playing this game I am hooked! Always on the lookout for an exciting PS2 game, I came across this. The graphics are good and game play is very entertaining. I like that you have free range on exploring the town. You have missions but no time frame in which to complete them. And her 'uncle' the pig is funny.
The only thing that I find bothersome is that you talk with the pig constantly, but if you ask him a question it is done via subtitles. Strange. Overall this game is one of the best, with a great price to boot!

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