1,151 KB. Yes, that's right. Jak II will take more than 10% of your memory card's total space. Is is worth the space? Absolutely! Jak II is indeed an incredible game, if you're not afraid of difficulty. When it's the thirtieth time you retry the same %&**&%&!!! mission in fifteen minutes, you want to throw your controller through the TV... That's not the only problem with Jak II, of course, but the others are so insignifiant that they're not even worth writing, so let's get on with the review... (1,151 KB!!!)
Jak and Daxter had a terribly underdeveloped storyline, and Naughty Dog has corrected this issue with a Soul Reaver 2-like time-twisting complex story. Jak, Daxter, Keira and Samos pass through a portal that leads to a futuristic city. Jak is immediately arrested and sent in a prison where he is tortured with Dark Eco for two years by the evil Baron Praxis, before Daxter gets him out of there. Jak's soul has been tainted by dark eco, and he's able to transform into Dark Jak, one of the coolest parts of the game. So now Jak wants to kill Praxis of course, so he joins the Underground Rebellion against the Baron, and completes tasks for them. That doesn't seem too hard to understand, but wait to see it, and you'll want to take notes.
The graphics in the game are just gorgeous. Silent Hill 3 amazed me with its incredible character models, but Jak II even surpasses SH2 with the best graphics on any system. I've never seen a game looking as good as Jak II.
Jak II's controls are about as easy to get as in Jak and Daxter 1, except Jak has a lot more move than before. Now he can shoot, jack zoomers in the city, hop on a hoverboard and transform the whole city into a giant skatepark, and, as written above, transform into a demon called Dark Jak.
The sound in Jak II is as good as before, maybe even better. The voice acting is about as good as in a Legacy of Kain game, and it's even in seven languages! Not that I like to play games in Korean, but that's still a nice addition. The music, while a little repetitive, is very nice, and the sound effects are, uh, well... like in any other game on the market. (As long as the game doesn't make "Boing" when the character jumps, it's fine with me...).
The game is, as mentioned above, very hard, so it makes the game longer, since you'll be stuck at every two or three missions in later parts of the game.
All in all, Jak II is a wonderful game, and you must get it as soon as you can.
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