Beyond Good & Evil
UBI Soft - UBI Soft
PlayStation2
Release date: 2003-11-11
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Video Games, Playstation 2, (PS2)
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Beyond Good & Evil
Date undefinedBeyond Good & Evil is a rare game which attempts to do almost everything and succeeds. It's by and large the most fun I've had playing a PS2 game in the entire time I've owned the system, right up there with Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando. While there are some minor issues which keep this from being a masterpiece, such as camera issues and an occasionally questionable story, the game really is wonderful. The story is enjoyable, the controls are fluid and well balanced, and the difficulty operates on a good curve.
I recommend this game to anyone and everyone with a PS2. You won't regret the purchase.
Beyond Good & Evil
Date undefinedEver since I started playing this game I am hooked! Always on the lookout for an exciting PS2 game, I came across this. The graphics are good and game play is very entertaining. I like that you have free range on exploring the town. You have missions but no time frame in which to complete them. And her 'uncle' the pig is funny.
The only thing that I find bothersome is that you talk with the pig constantly, but if you ask him a question it is done via subtitles. Strange. Overall this game is one of the best, with a great price to boot!
Beyond Good & Evil
Date undefinedI just played this game quite a while after it came out. I just played it in July 2008. This is probably one of the best games I've played. It's a beautiful game to play. It's so well thought out and polished. There is a great depth to the types of game play within the game. There is exploring, problem solving, stealth, racing, fighting, action, platformer action, and others while all being very much story driven with a fluid interaction between them all. The characters are interesting and alive. A lot of games that try to cross genre like this can feel patch-worked where stuff like the puzzle solving doesn't really fit with the action very well or something like that and can feel like they just bolted on some parts of the game. This game does the cross-genre better than any other that I've seen. So much so that I didn't really notice that it was cross-genre while I was playing it. It all flows together so naturally. There are times even when some of the aspects will flow into each other in surprising ways that give a great deal of depth and realism to the game.
On top of all that the story is very interesting and unique. There is a playful and loving atmosphere in a very dark storyline. It was enjoyable while playing, and even after. It never felt forced or stilted in it's delivery which seems to be the norm for games unfortunately.
The graphics and music and sound are great. The UI elements are amazingly easy to use. For instance, the wheel keyboard is the best text entering device for consoles that I've ever seen. Amazing since there is so little time that you actually use this device and how smoothly it works and innovative and intuitive it is. It made what's normally a painful thing to do in games to an interesting and actually fun thing to do. It's this type of polish and the attention to details like this that puts this game way above other games. There is so much variety in the game that is all done so well with the player's satisfaction in mind. Thoroughly enjoyable. After finishing the game I wanted to go back and explore the world even more. I know there are some spots that I didn't see and some more photos to take.
