Jak 2: Renegade Review!

I finally beat this game, it took a while but I freaking did it. Anyway, I have owned this game since the release but actually not played it more than an a hour. All I noticed was the big different from Jak and Daxter: the precurser legacy and that was not for my liking at that time so I put it on the bookshelf and didn´t touch until now.

So there´s a huge difference between this game and the first. First of all there are all these missions kinda like GTA missions, you´ll need to complete to progress in the game. Not only is that the big change but Jak also speaks, he can turn into a dark eco monster and wreck havoc but you also get to play with guns which is pretty neat.

The story is as follows, Jak, Daxter, Samos and Kiera(?) use a transport through a precursor gate and ends up in a different timeline, Jak gets arrested and expiremented on with dark eco. However Daxter rescues Jak who has his mind on revenge and then the story continues on. I really liked the story with it´s twists and turns aswell as the other characters in the game, it really feels like they all have their own personality.

You could say that this is a GTA (Grand Theft Auto) game for kids which is awesome however don´t be mistaken by its cartoonish look that this game will be a walk through the park because the difficult can really be hard sometimes. It took me multiple tries to progress sometimes. Some lie in the gamemechanics that some enemies might shoot you while you are in the air which will make you loose momentum and fall down to your death and other was because the game was just plain difficult.

I thought to myself that it wouldn´t take that long to beat this game and man was I mistaken, this is a really big game and after sitting with this game like 7-8 hours I thought I was close to beat it and then I was told that I was only around 50% of the game. It doesn´t do me anything that the game was this big because of all the fun characters that roam this game. Something in this game kept me going on even tho it was long past bedtime for me.

Overall: 8,5
Verdict: This is a fun and difficult game (sometimes), with alot of supprises if you played the first one. It´s one of the better platform/sandbox games out there on the ps2. However sometimes I felt like throwing my controller into the tv because the game was kinda unfair with cheap shots from enemies or the difficulty became extremely hard.

Here´s the first video of me playing the game: