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Old 10-15-2003, 12:55 AM   #16
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I have many complaints.

The levels are dull and uninteresting. The lighting is severly lacking or non existant (can't remember now). It gets very repetitive (not the fun kind of repetitive, but the boring kind). The amount of weapons is good, but most of them I found once again uninteresting . I like the weapon where those mini robots attack.

It just didn't interest me. I'd like to say it did, but it didn't. I still have it, and nobody wants to buy it from me
Jak II got a 9.1 from Gamespot.

That's very good.

Here it is...

http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/jak2/index.html
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Old 10-15-2003, 02:12 PM   #17
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Tuesday is the SHIPPING day... Around here stores like EB and Gamestop don't get theirs in until Wednsday, and Best Buy and the like don't get it in until Thursday or so...
I know usually Tuesday is a shipping day (although lately it seems that Nintendo ships games on a Monday and EB gets them on a Tuesday) but when Joeiss posted yesterday (Tuesday) that the game wasnt going to be in for 3 more days, all I said was that its weird that he has to wait until Friday to get it.

So I know which day is the shipping day for a game and which day is the "selling/release" day for a game.
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Old 10-15-2003, 08:47 PM   #18
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Ah yes, Jak 2 has arrived. I played it for about 2 and a half hours straight. Lots of good stuff, very hard to put down. I got frustrated with one mission, so I decided to play Megeman X7 (good game, but TERRIBLE voice acting, bleh).

I'm quite impressed with this game. Lots of fun.
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Old 10-15-2003, 09:25 PM   #19
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I just picked the game up too! It is great. It turns out that they weren't getting the game in on Friday, lol... Stupid new employees.

The game is really fun, and I like how the world it big. Driving is great, and I love weaving in and out of traffic (both side to side and up to down). Very fun. Just don't piss off those guards!

I'm 5% complete! Oh yea, you can't stop this, lol.
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Old 10-16-2003, 11:52 AM   #20
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I just picked the game up too! It is great. It turns out that they weren't getting the game in on Friday, lol... Stupid new employees.

The game is really fun, and I like how the world it big. Driving is great, and I love weaving in and out of traffic (both side to side and up to down). Very fun. Just don't piss off those guards!

I'm 5% complete! Oh yea, you can't stop this, lol.
Me too...same story, store got it in like 5 minutes before I called. The game is gorgeous, eh? The animations (especially in the cutscenes) are amazing. Voice acting is very good, the story is pretty generic right now, but there are a few interesting characters that haven't really been introduced yet that I'm looking forward to. Love Jak's attitude, love Daxter's humour. Perfect combo there...gameplay is good so far, the city isn't as bad as some reviewers claimed it is.

More impressions later.
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Old 10-16-2003, 12:14 PM   #21
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the city isn't as bad as some reviewers claimed it is.
Stu my friend, how wrong you are. Just keep playing and you'll see.
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Old 10-16-2003, 01:48 PM   #22
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The city is alright, nothing special. I'm really enjoying the game though.. I am gonna play it in a couple mins... I wanna get about 15% done by the end of tonight.
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Old 10-16-2003, 04:28 PM   #23
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Stu my friend, how wrong you are. Just keep playing and you'll see.
you mean it gets really bad?
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Old 10-16-2003, 08:54 PM   #24
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you mean it gets really bad?
Oops, I thought you said "it isnt as big as reviewers said"

my bad

And on that note, boy does this b*tch get big. It's hard not to get lost in it sometimes, when the later areas open up. The size and detail of the city really impresses me.
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Old 10-16-2003, 09:04 PM   #25
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I am 13% done, and the city is allready huge. It takes me a good coule of minutes to get from one side to the other... And I haven't even opened up the yellow zone yet!
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Old 10-17-2003, 07:58 PM   #26
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Holy crap, I just finished playing a few more hours of the game, and I've seen some AMAZING levels, hot damn. And the city just keeps getting bigger, it is by far the biggest, most detailed city I've ever seen in a video game, its just so damn huge!
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Old 10-17-2003, 10:45 PM   #27
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I am soo tired, and I have to work at 6:30 am tomorrow.. But I think I am going to play an hour or two of this game tonight, lol... It's just too good!




And holy... I had a crazy hovercraft jacking experience... I was like hopping from craft to craft... and then I was speeding, and i hopped onto a craft that was going the opposite direction!!! It was spectacular.
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Old 10-18-2003, 02:59 PM   #28
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Jesus Christ, this game gets extremely hard. I went to the port on whim to check out some item there, and after I pick it up, the entire military comes after me, now I have to escape the port without dying, which is so unbelievably impossible, its pissing me the hell off.
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Old 10-18-2003, 04:34 PM   #29
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I'm 2 and a half hours in, and I think the game is GREAT! Driving around the city (which was one of the few complaints amongst most reviewers) is a lot of fun IMO...swirving left and right, but more importantly (and more fun) hovering up and down. But the game really shines when you're controlling Jak. Control is spot on...fluid, responsive. The level design has been great so far...I love the variety of moves you need to use...and I only have one weapon upgrade, one Dark Jak upgrade and no hoverboard. Timing and positioning in jumps is crucial...which has always been the key in platform games...so this game, although straying into completely new genres from a typical platform game, remains one in structure.

Difficulty has been ok so far...but I hear it really really really gets tough. As long as I'm eventually able to beat the game, it's fine by me. Much more rewarding that way.

Looking forward to the rest of the game...looking forward to Ratchet and Clank 2. PS2 is the place for platformers/action games...
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Old 10-18-2003, 11:19 PM   #30
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My impressions of this game so far are very good. I'm starting to figure my way around the entire city (which is unbelievably massive) and I just can't get over how detailed it is. If you jump into the food stands in the market square with your hoverboard, fruit flies out all over the ground, and if guards are chasing you, they sometimes slip on the fruit. Naughty Dog has outdone themselves, I really can see no flaws in this game, it does everything its suppose to do, and it does it marvelously.
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