So what if you took most of what made a game special and replaced it with Star Wars and GTA III? Sounds lame, right? Well, it was actually better than I expected, though that aspect of Jak II sucks nonetheless.

It has a pretty well executed, though overextended, gameplay loop with its main downsides being the very artificial, checkpoint-lacking difficulty; and Jak's movements just not rocking really well with the guns (though it's rather decent most of the time).

Everything else (this is, story, setting, characters, etc.) is either generic, cringefully edgy, or completely out of place, with some actually funny moments shining through, mostly coming from Daxter.

TL;DR Terrible in theory, decent in practice.