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what a platformer should be

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

jak and daxter is excellent. the graphics are beautifal i mean beautifal. each world has a crystal clear beautifal beach shine to it the graphics are jawdropping and mesmorizing. i cant beleive how good they are. the storyline is intresting the world has been infected with dark eco. and now its jak and daxters mission to stop the forces of dark eco. the gameplay is addictive the controllers are responsive and the characther aninations are top notch. not onoly does jak and daxter have wonderful graphics and seamless gameplay it also has another really good thing. no load times thats right since jak and daxter is stretched out in one gigantic world theres NO load times. the gameplay and animations are fluid and the game is packed with creative things here and there. this is like the perfect platformer. jawdropping graphics immersive gameplay a compelling storyline and NO LOAD TIMES. and dont worry the game is rated everyone so its not vieolont at all.

Jak and Daxter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of my favorites among ps2 games but like most games it has some flaws. The game is short. The game is also pretty easy and a really annoying thing is jak never talks. Overall i think this game is pretty fun though. So if you're looking for a game with action and adventure buy this one.

Jak and Daxter...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is the first game I ever beat. ITS REALLY GOOD! At first when I got a PS2 I was kinda disapointed at the first game that came with it.(kinetica) Then my 25 year old uncle(video game master) gave me this. You should just buy the PS2 because of this. I mean, I've played the GRAND THEFT AUTO series but I became more attached to this. Jak is a teen boy who just wants to go on an adventure with his best friend Daxter until Dax(daxter)had an accident and turned into a furry little animal (i forgot what its called)and Jak tries to turn him back to regular by taking an adventure to the only person who knows how to cure him. Ok, that sounded stupid but its actually very addictive and fun. To me its the best PS2 game out there. Its meant for all ages unless you are a shooter, violence, driving , killing people, type of person then go buy Grand Theft auto:San Andreas. Otherwise buy this if you want to have the best time of your life playing your PS2! Anyone can at least LIKE this game. My Uncle had to pay $50 but it was still worth it. Right now they sell for $20! SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR GO BUY IT! ARE YOU STILL HERE!

the best of the triogly!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

the best game ever made in america
a basic story line where there aren't crimson guards running after you like in 3 and 2

my rating: ****************************************!

Still fun after a year and a-half

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

My husband bought this game for our then 3 and a-half year old son in the hopes that he would interest him in video games in a couple of years. My husband is more of a "first person shooter" gamer. The packaging of this game looked bright and seemed appropriate for a grade school aged kid. Our son learned how to play this game so quickly that he was able to complete all of the levels of play when he turned 4. I am not suggesting that every preschooler can do this though. There were some things he did not have the coordination to complete, like catching 200 pounds of fish with a net or defeating Klaww later in the game. Otherwise, he was teaching me how to find all of the power cells and how to steer the zoomer through the different challenges. This game is not too difficult but there are some difficult challenges. We have collected all of the power cells (101 total) many times but still love going back to the beginning and starting all over again. Our son is now 5 and loves any video game that is age appropriate (rated E and sometimes T if no harsh language). I still love this game since it was our first PS2 game and really my first video game since Ms. Pacman twenty-something years ago.

Great start to a franchise

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

From the creators of crash bandicoot comes Jak and daxter. The games overall feeling is a good one. With a very well designed environment it sucks you right in.

Jak, your quiet hero, player, and protagonist and his buddy daxter are quite the duo. When daxter falls into dark eco he is turned into a ottsel.

And from that point jak sets out to find the one person who can possibly turn his friend back into a human. Which basically covers the plot.

With many traps and puzzles this game requires thinking and strategy as well as fighting technique, which balances out very well.

Overall this game is entertaining for a while but will get old. Nevertheless, it is a great start to a great franchise. However The fact Jak doesnt talk can get annoying sometimes. But it is fixed in later games of course.

Great buy.

One of the best games in a game collection

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: July 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy was the next project for a
famous game company called "Naughty Dog", they made many other
games that were educational though, unpopular and unknown. This
company then made the world famous Crash Bandicoot series for a
few years for the Playstation. After a few years, they decided
that now of this upcoming Playstation 2, they had to take one d-
ramatic step and give the rights to Vivendi and other game comp-
any which have made Crash into a righteous game empire into a
crumbled and molded empire.

When the PS2 was released between 2000 or 2001, they made a ser-
ies that I have loved for three years now, Jak II, being my fir-
st game, I wasn't a pro and a year later, I saw some bad reviews
on the Precursor Legacy that didn't need none.
This game is a classic, with voices unknown to us and wonderous
magic at every peak and crater, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor is
probably one of my most favourite games of all time.

Pros:

-Dreamy graphics and wonderful animation
-Inconceivable voice acting
-Great Samos Hagai the Green Sage of Green Eco and Daxter fight
-Splendid sound
-Great realistic looking mountains and caverns and jungles
-Beautiful powers
-Great character drawings

Cons:

-A Short Quest, whereas, quests should be long with a few misad-
ventures, this is a short game that can respect new gamers,
-Limited fun. You only fish once, it needed to be more repeatful
and although herd animals twice and well, you get the picture

As you may know, this is E for Everyone which really 6 and up,
but the creatures that pop up at unsuspecting prey may scare yo-
ung ones, it scared my five (now six) year old nephew and he p-
reffered me stay in the village and do nothing. When my niece w-
atched it, (nine years old), treasured each moment and watched
me until after we learned the plot in the Volcanic Crater.
What was odd though was that my nephew thought Jak II and 3 l-
ooked less scarier than this one but they were really a bit so
with Metal Head but anyway, let me get on to the great collecti-
on I'd go get for you newbies to PS2, starting with the most ex-
pensive,

Sly 3: Honour Among Thieves, 39.99$
Ratchet: Deadlocked Same Price
Jak X: Combat Racing Same Price
Destroy All Humans 19.99$
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy Same Price or below
Jak II Same Price
Jak 3 Same Price
Ratchet and Clank Same Price or below
Ratchet and Clank 2: Going Commando Same Price
Ratchet and Clank 3: Up your Arsenal Same Price
Dogs Life Same Price or below
Escape from Monkey Island Same Price or below
Sly 2: Band of Thieves Same Price
Sly Cooper and the Thievous Raccoonus Same Price or below

Now, I heard that games like God of War and GTA were hard so I'd
try conquering one of the hard games in here like Jak II, or RAC
2, and Jak 3 could be a bit hard.
Now for the most difficult.

Jak II Hard, 9-10
Ratchet and Clank 2 Hard, 8-10
Jak 3 Medium/Hard, 9-10
Ratchet and Clank 3 Medium, 9-10
Sly 3 Easy/Medium, 10-10
Ratchet and Clank Easy/Medium, 8-10
Jak X: Combat Racing Easy, 9-10
Destroy All Humans Easy, 8-10
Sly 2 Easy, 10-10
Sly Cooper Pretty Easy, 9-10
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy Pretty Easy, 9-10
Escape from Monkey Island Easy and Variable, 8-10
Ratchet Deadlocked Easy and Variable, 9-10
Dog's Life Easy and Variable, 9-10

Now, newbie to the PS2, go and buy you those games, be sure to
look everyplace that sells games!

I hope my review was helpful!

A Humble, Unassuming First Chapter

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

With Jak and Daxter, developer Naughty Dog basically retreads over the successes of their past, stopping only to make a few necessary tweaks that had been sorely lacking in similar titles in the past. And that's not necessarily a bad thing, because the platforming genre had by this time been hammered down to a few absolutely key elements that are necessary for such a title to be successful. At a glance, the game presents nothing all that noteworthy; a gratingly bubbly cartoonish cast, a story pulled right out of a coloring book, bright and shiny graphics to match, the existence of an occasional power-up, and a large cluster of bottomless pits. Make no mistake, if you cringe at the thought of spending a few days in front of a game that looks and speaks like something you'd expect to see on a Saturday morning cartoon, this is absolutely not the game for you. If you share a house with more than just a pet or two, your roommate(s), spouse(s) or family member(s) will be making fun of you. If you're at a point, spiritually and emotionally, where you can deal with that... there's a somewhat enjoyable little game buried underneath it all.

The storyline is easy to establish, short on dialogue and heavy on gameplay, and that's just about the extent of the good things I can say about it. The story is bare bones at best, establishing the good guys and the bad guys right off the bat, (the bad guys are the ones with tusks) introducing a conflict (the guys with tusks want to unleash chaos on the world) and a motivation, (Jak's buddy Daxter falls into a pit of mystery goo, transforming him into a furry critter) eventually unleashing you out onto the world to fight evil or some such nonsense. The characters themselves are just paper-thin and almost completely devoid of emotion or appeal.

Jak, the main character, (naturally) is conspicuous in his silence throughout the tale, leaving the majority of the speaking parts to the green sage (an elderly wizard who grants you a miniature nugget of motivation at the outset of each level) and Daxter, (the aforementioned furry sidekick, equipped with enough cheesy one liners to make Rodney Dangerfield spin wildly in his grave) both of whom are way, way over the top in the "flamboyant personality" department. Once in a while, the sage's daughter will pop in to share a new bit of technology or something, and as you visit new towns you'll meet a new character or two, but for the most part it's Daxter and the sage bouncing off of one another and Jak standing around to make confused or frustrated faces.

If you've played any of the post-SNES three dimensional platformers that preceded it, you've probably got a good handle on how Jak and Daxter feels. You've got an overhead camera dangling just behind you at all times, a couple very basic attacks, and the vital ability to jump. As you progress through the game, you'll discover different variations upon Jak's abilities as they're necessitated, such as the ability to somersault, to crouch, to double-jump and to long jump. What's cool is that these abilities aren't something you need to unlock... they're available right from the get-go, so there's a process of experimental discovery that makes you feel directly involved in Jak's progression as a character. On the other hand, the existence of these abilities and instructions on their use are never truly explained, so if you haven't discovered the long jump by the time Jak needs to clear a large canyon by his lonesome, you're in for a long, painful series of trials and errors.

Despite the occasional difficulty in explaining its own controls, the actual gameplay of Jak is largely a lot of fun. Obstacles are challenging without being frustrating, most of the puzzles are just difficult enough to whir your gears without forcing you to seek out a walkthrough in a moment of fury, and the boss fights are wholly entertaining. It makes good use of the power-ups, staggering them early to get you used to their intentions and then introducing them at just the right times as they become more and more important later in the game. It does have a few small hiccups that will continually bother a refined gamer by failing to function as designed at critical moments. For example, Jak doesn't always latch onto the corner of a ledge, Prince of Persia-style, like he's supposed to. Nine times out of ten, he'll perform the brave feat without hesitation, but it seems like the most important jumps are usually where he has the most trouble, slamming into the edge of a platform and then awkwardly vibrating for a moment before falling to his death. Likewise, the extremely touchy nature of the double-jump system also provides for its share of headaches.

Although I complained a bit earlier about the game's hesitancy to fully explain its control scheme, once you've experimented enough to actually discover all of the characters' possible actions, the full control scheme is really very basic and easy to grasp. The way some games map out their button setups, I wonder if they're expecting players to have an extra arm installed to make some certain actions possible (the Xbox release of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas springs to mind.) Jak overcomes this potential flaw by keeping things extremely simple and never requiring the use of more than two or maybe three buttons at the same time, analog stick included. By limiting themselves to the R1 button, the four main control buttons (X,O,Triangle and Square) and the analogs, they ensure you never need to move a finger into an awkward position and allow you to really envelop yourself in the game.

I think I was expecting a bit more out of the graphics, since this was an early title for the PS2 and that's usually when developers are frothing at the mouth over the new hardware and going out of their way to show off everything it can do. The visuals of Jak and Daxter just feel like a marginal improvement over the visuals of Naughty Dog's PSone titles, and certainly didn't age well in the almost five years since it was released. Part of that is due to the cartoony direction taken by the art, but you can't blame the lumpy renderings of the sage's face when speaking or the distractingly simplistic appearance of most of the game's enemies on artistic decision. Some things, such as the distant skylines in the forest and the radiating glow of eco matter in the wild, are very well executed, but on the large this is no showpiece for the PS2's visual capabilities. Bluntly, if you're looking for an exceptional early graphical display on the PS2, keep looking.

Voice acting aside, I can't say much nicer things about the audio. I suppose it's of a higher quality than the tunes found on the old PSone, albeit not by much, but the compositions themselves are so aggravatingly bouncy, joyful and happy that if you aren't, in actuality, a Care Bear, you'll want to rip your hair out by the roots. While I'm not sure something like heavy metal or R&B would suit the feel of the game much better, I was expecting something a little more contemporary and interesting, considering the marketing that announced the game's launch (remember the commercials with the title characters reclining, poolside, with a cluster of bikini-clad young ladies? Yeah, I don't think they were aiming those at the 7-10 year old market.) The voice acting is sound, for the most part, with a few performances standing out above the others. The dark sage's voice perfectly matches his demeanor and appearance, while the green sage really feels like an old man tired of the world that surrounds him, but determined to aid in its resuscitation, all the same. On the other side of the coin, bad voice acting isn't exactly missing, either, and the dialog is so bad that even the competent actors have trouble making their lines come to life.

When stripped down to its very basics, Jak and Daxter is an entertaining play. While there isn't anything the actual gameplay does badly, nit-picky flaws aside, there's also nothing that it really excels at. It's a good next-gen translation of an already-enjoyable system of mechanics, controls and direction, basically reading the map drawn by its forefathers and following it to the gold buried at the end. If it weren't for the abysmal storytelling, the hot and cold voice acting and the sub par graphics and sound, this would probably be deserving of a score well above average, that map is so well-drawn. Unfortunately, I can't honestly say that those factors don't affect my opinion of the disc itself, and they drag my score down by quite a bit. If you can shut your brain off or go to make a sandwich during the speaking parts and accept the visuals for what they are, you'll really enjoy this one. For those of us looking for a complete package, prepare to be somewhat disappointed.

Good, but could have been a bit more original

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: April 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I first bought this game, I thought it was going to be a unique gaming experience; but instead, I found it a partial rip-off of the 'Spyro the Dragon' series. I mean, come on. In Jak and Daxter, you collect the precurser orbs. In Spyro the Dragon, you collect the colourful gems. In Spyro, you use the gems to exchange them for abilities, or other needs to complete the game. And in Jak and Daxter, you must collect and use the precursor orbs as if they were some type of currency. And you also have special tasks that you must complete to receive power cells, that have the ability to 'power things up'.
In Spyro the Dragon the 'power cell' is the little green orb, which ALSO powers certain things if you collect enough. Well if you've played Spyro, and then Jak and Daxter, I think you'll see what I mean.
Other than that, I think that the graphics are beautiful, and the day and night cycle is awesome. The controls are basic and easy to learn, so if you want something simple to operate this is it. It's pretty neat that the worlds(or should I say islands?) are all connected together, and there is absolutely no loading in between them. It's very realistic. For action/adventure game fans like me, go try this game out. Hey, you might like it.

just plain awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: February 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game is so stupid. its easy has basically no gameplay and is childish all the way trough. the gameplay is horrible most of the time youre just looking for something to do because of the lack of action. the bad guys can be knocked down with one hit and the boss battles are a BIG joke. the game is easy childish has a stupid storyline. the controls are extremely difficult to understand. the graphics are excellent but who cares if theres nothing to do. i mean i reaally dont get the popularity of this. i think rachet and clank is way better. make sure you pass thisv one by just rent it if you must play it. i encouurage you to buy rachet and clank over jak and daxter.

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