Jak and Daxter Review

GameFly has been kind enough to send me a copy of Jak and Daxter, which I heard was decent, and so far appears to be so. It looks like I can pick up a used copy for about $8 off of Amazon and just might do that.

The game-play is OK so far, a basic collection platformer. Daxter, the sidekick, is a bit irritating, but most reviews point this out so I was prepared. One nice thing about the game is all load waiting seems to have been eliminated. PS2 games don't, apparently, require those heinous waiting times while a level loads, as long as the game programmers know what they're doing. So far I've been getting used to the controls, looking around the world a bit, and trying in vain to get the “love interest” in the game to care about something besides her little experiment.

If I had paid $40 for this game, I think I may have been disappointed, but at the price you can get a used copy for, this is certainly enough bang for the buck.