All Jak-ed up…

Jak and daxter has always been in my life. Having started playing games at 5 years old (yes, being petrified of the wolves on Tomb Raider 1) I’ve grown around them and developed my own taste. Jak and Daxter was released in 2001, and I was instantly attracted to it’s pretty colours and raving psycho orange-lightning weasel kind of thing. Yes, I am easily pleased!

So…I was incredibly shocked when, in a very deep and meaningful gaming conversation with Meevil, he said he’d never played it! Right then, I fell down dead on the floor with shock. “Why!” I cried. I started to discover that hardly anyone I knew had played this childishly-fascinating game.

Jak and Daxter are best friends, but when one day daxter falls into a a pit of dark eco, he turns into an otsel. They have to go around their crazy planet collecting power cells, while being charged with eco and doing other various fun things.

However, there is more. If you are sitting there thinking, “It’s a rip-off Bandicoot and ratchet!” then you are fooled! The games are closely linked, with pictures of ratchet and clank plastered all around Haven city where you recide. The game is incredibly fun, with a million gazillion different places to explore. I promise you, you will never finish this game…you will keep on playing. The next games in the series, Jak 2, Jak 3, and Jak X, don’t let the game down in anyway.

Jak, being a mute in the first game, first opens his lungs in the second, which is full of gun-blasting-good aliens and hoverboards and cars and a very good story line. The same is with Jak 3, in which I promise you will be glued to the screen and crying at the end of! You see Jak age through the games (See above), and him experiencing his teenage years is pretty damn funny. You experience everything: guns, aliens, otsels, cars, boarding, colour, action, story, and lush scenery which will leave you hungry for more.