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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!

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.

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.

Beyond

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: February 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Thats a good name for it Beyond...its an Ok game , just lacks alot od pizzaz i would have wanted.But its an adventure and it is what it is . A simple game .

Best Playstation 2 game EVER!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm a gamer, but I'm not typically into platformers. I usually find them a bit too junior for me. But when I heard about this on G4 listed as the most underrated game on ps2, I had to go out and buy it. I paid $20 for it brand new, and I feel like it would have been a bargain at twice the price! As a photographer, the gameplay is close to my heart. I love the music, the characters, the storyline (a timely storyline at that.) and the characters are awesome! The Rhino brothers at Mamago garage are fantastic!
The world is a great blend of fantasy, sci-fi, and elements that are somehow familiar and comfortable like a worn in pair of jeans. Which makes you want to fight even harder to protect it! Pick it up if you're on the fence about it. Do it... you won't regret it!

Fantastic, beautiful game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I highly recommend this game. The graphics are terrific, not only in the cutscenes but throughout the whole game. Real voices are used about 80% of the time and the voice actors are terrific and lend drama to the story. (The rest of the time you read brief text when you talk to another character). The story is very interesting and occasionally quite moving. As Jade the spy/reporter, you sneak around taking incriminating photos to help expose a horrible plot taking place on your planet. The sneaking parts get really tense sometimes! The gameplay has a good amount of variety: spying & exploring, races, fights, puzzles, photographing things, and two different vehicles - a hovercraft and a spaceship.

There are objects to find and money to acquire for personal & vehicle upgrades. The maps are pretty good and you can buy items to help you locate pearls (one of the currencies in the game) and animals (you take photos of them and the Science Center gives you $$$). You have two companions in the game who help you solve puzzles or achieve things you couldn't do alone. The music is good and the worlds are big and beautiful - you can go everywhere and explore.

I picked it up used for $8 - what a deal! I'd really recommend this to anyone, especially someone who liked titles such as Jak & Daxter, Ratchet & Clank, Sly Cooper, Prince of Persia, the Hobbit, Ico, even Zelda (which I did not like because the maps were so confusing). This game is challenging but almost never frustrating. Parents - there is no cussing, no sexual references, no drugs, smoking and only mild violence (fighting aliens & armed men in spacesuits) - no blood or gore at all. SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!! There are one or two scenes of a person being tortured (both the people are in a giant tube filled with "alien rays" - no blood, machinery, etc.) In one scene a main character lays dead but later is brought back to life. Children are attacked by aliens and later kidnapped by them. Humans are kidnapped by aliens and turned into food a la "Soylent Green" and then eaten by other unwitting humans (not on screen). The heroes set out to rescue them and save the planet.

Great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great game with minor glitches. The experience you'll have while playing it is one that is completely unique.

Spectacular Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the best video games I've ever played. It has perfect gameplay, awesome grapics, and a great storyline. This game will suck you in and keep you begging for more. This is my number 3 favorite game ever right next to Metal Gear Solid and God of War. You should buy this new from a regular retailer though. You can get it for under 10 dollars and the only way for ubisoft to know you bought it is to buy it new. That's the only way we'll ever get a sequel! Great Game!

Very solid action-adventure game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is very Zelda-esque, but I have to say that I honestly had more fun with this game than I did Wind Waker. It's not very deep, or difficult, but it's solid fun and is full of likable, well-voiced characters.

Move aside Jak, Ratchet, Sly, a new platform is in town.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When first playing this game, i was fresh off of Ratchet and Clank:UYA and bored to tears. I was about halfway through replaying Jak 3 (3rd time) when a friend recommened Beyond Good and Evil. I looked it up on Amazon and it was selling for about 5 bucks! I got it and while i was wary at first, this game won me over. The storyline is intriguing, the gameplay smooth and seemless. While you won't find any guns or weapons that kill mass amounts of enemies, Jade's cane-thing (forgot the name) is extremely simple yet fun to use. There's also a gadget that throws little disc-blades, which you find many uses for (such as blowing up the oxygen tanks of the guards that are common in the restricted sectors of this world). It wasn't marketed well, admittingly, but this game, to my opinion, blows Jak and Ratchet out of the water. The gameplay graphics arn't as good as J&R, but close enough you don't care. Also, the cut-scenes are comparitive to those in Kingdom Hearts 2. Yeah, that good. It's a platformer, so you get to race, run, solve puzzles, fight, repeat. But in my opinion, the action, while not as complicated, holds its own against the Ps2's best platformers. The races on your hover-boat are not as good as a Jak-based Hoverbike races, but outstripping Ratchet's hoverboarding by quite alot. The puzzles are hard, sure, but fun enough that you arn't frustrated quickly. Jak's puzzles were sometimes just annoying and Ratchet's were so mind-numbingly easy you began to wonder why the directers put them in at all. However, in this game, there was also an included "Steath" component that becomes an aquired skill as the game progresses. Just as well, seeing that you are a steath photographer. Its like the steath sections of "Sly". There are many levels in which you can choose to fight or sneak, which was a cool idea for me, because i could decide most of the time. In some, however, the opponets posses weapons that make it extremely difficult/borderline impossible to procede by fighting, so steath is the way to go.

All in all, a VERY GOOD GAME! I paid 5 Dollars for a experience I would gladly have paid 100 for. If you like platforms, or possess a ps2, you owe it to yourself to get this game.

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