Underrated Battle Racer. All-Time Favorite for me. What’s great about it, is the combat and hardcore speed combine into literally the most thrilling shit on the system. The weapons are balanced in a way that gives you a shot even in 3rd or fourth place. With an overcharge fire mechanic rather than some cheap super you’re allowed when you already hit last place.
A skilled player in first can circumvent even the “blue shell” type weapon. Then you have the racing, with a variety of slick tracks and different vehicle types to use. Your car gets slippery if you recklessly boost, or even hard turn, at high speeds. So u really gotta watch your ass. Much like the also amazing (and clearly more popular) Crash Team Racing from Naughty Dog, boosting kicks ass, and you get more for jumping, drifting, and nabbing blue eco.
The single player campaign heavily improves on CTR. Rather than awkwardly parking your ass on coins in an empty hub world to play a level, you just pick one of several missions on a menu. Earn enough medals, race in a big match along with a rival. And watch Jak and Daxter increasingly annoy a TV host. I’m grateful this game gives u one simple goal: win the race, win the fight, hold the potato. Unlike, “Crash Bandicoot and the adventures of collecting a bunch of letters in the corner and then having to win the race”.
Various missions include time trials with freeze power ups, death arenas, boost-fests, standard races, and reverse hot potato.
I just feel like there’s so much to praise here. The amazing fucking soundtrack and hardcore death race vibe is perfect for the edgy extremity of the Jak sequels, but they also have colorful, naturalistic race tracks reminiscent of Jak 1 (the best one) and glorious opera vocals.
“WAM BAM THANK YOU MAM”
“SEIMOS TAUGHT ME WELL!”
“Jaak! Are you crazy?! You ruined my story!”
Like bruh. They’ll never make another game like this? Naughty Dog will only ever make 3rd person Super Story Shooters? Damn.
If you know of any game that’s like this, or at least of racing games with strong solo campaigns then please enlighten me.
A skilled player in first can circumvent even the “blue shell” type weapon. Then you have the racing, with a variety of slick tracks and different vehicle types to use. Your car gets slippery if you recklessly boost, or even hard turn, at high speeds. So u really gotta watch your ass. Much like the also amazing (and clearly more popular) Crash Team Racing from Naughty Dog, boosting kicks ass, and you get more for jumping, drifting, and nabbing blue eco.
The single player campaign heavily improves on CTR. Rather than awkwardly parking your ass on coins in an empty hub world to play a level, you just pick one of several missions on a menu. Earn enough medals, race in a big match along with a rival. And watch Jak and Daxter increasingly annoy a TV host. I’m grateful this game gives u one simple goal: win the race, win the fight, hold the potato. Unlike, “Crash Bandicoot and the adventures of collecting a bunch of letters in the corner and then having to win the race”.
Various missions include time trials with freeze power ups, death arenas, boost-fests, standard races, and reverse hot potato.
I just feel like there’s so much to praise here. The amazing fucking soundtrack and hardcore death race vibe is perfect for the edgy extremity of the Jak sequels, but they also have colorful, naturalistic race tracks reminiscent of Jak 1 (the best one) and glorious opera vocals.
“WAM BAM THANK YOU MAM”
“SEIMOS TAUGHT ME WELL!”
“Jaak! Are you crazy?! You ruined my story!”
Like bruh. They’ll never make another game like this? Naughty Dog will only ever make 3rd person Super Story Shooters? Damn.
If you know of any game that’s like this, or at least of racing games with strong solo campaigns then please enlighten me.
dude the driving physics in this game kick ass and the different missions are all really fun. it has a pretty decent story mode but that’s still enough to get engaged with the game. honestly all this game needed to be popular and gather some cult following was better rubberbanding and less jank weapons. this game rules and the environments are amazing! oh by rhe way i memorized the entire intro cutscene word bu word, funniest shit i can whip out anytime i want.
De todos os jogos desse estilo "jogo de corrida da franquia X", Jak X talvez seja um dos que eu mais gostei.
O jogo possui vários modos, indo de corrida, deathmatch, captura de orbes (bandeira) e outros, cada um trazendo um diversidade e não deixando o jogo monótono.
Há também o modo Adventure que é literalmente o modo História do jogo.
O enredo não é lá surpreendente, mas diverte.
Ver os personagens da franquia novamente com o humor característico da franquia é de certa forma gratificante.
Essa talvez seja provavelmente a última experiência que terei com a franquia Jak and Daxter, sentirei saudades desses personagens.
Queria que tivesse novos projetos dessa franquia, nem que fosse remake 1x1 da trilogia ND.
O jogo possui vários modos, indo de corrida, deathmatch, captura de orbes (bandeira) e outros, cada um trazendo um diversidade e não deixando o jogo monótono.
Há também o modo Adventure que é literalmente o modo História do jogo.
O enredo não é lá surpreendente, mas diverte.
Ver os personagens da franquia novamente com o humor característico da franquia é de certa forma gratificante.
Essa talvez seja provavelmente a última experiência que terei com a franquia Jak and Daxter, sentirei saudades desses personagens.
Queria que tivesse novos projetos dessa franquia, nem que fosse remake 1x1 da trilogia ND.
Surprised just how fun this is. A lot of it has to do with the insane physics. Similar to CTR, it feels great once you''ve gotten used to the controls and are tearing through races. There are a lot of gameplay modes that keep things from getting stale during the story. Ignoring the auto save bug, my one issue is the Peace Maker weapon being a blue shell item. Using a red eco weapon you can stop any yellow eco weapon from hitting you except the blue shell. It requires specifically a shield to fend off or falling back to second so it changes targets. Soundtrack goes crazy hard and it's nice to have one more adventure with the gang.
This one is a full on racing game.
Like I said in my Jak 3 review, this franchise started leaning more into this one gameplay formula that I personally was never into.
For what I got to play, it was not a bad racing game by any means, just not my cup of tea. For the Jak franchise, definitely not what I was looking for when it came to these games.
Like I said in my Jak 3 review, this franchise started leaning more into this one gameplay formula that I personally was never into.
For what I got to play, it was not a bad racing game by any means, just not my cup of tea. For the Jak franchise, definitely not what I was looking for when it came to these games.
Jak X is my least favourite game from Naughty Dog (Post-Crash Bandicoot), and it’s still very decent overall. Ridiculous premises as for story but… Driving feels smooth and responsive, the challenges and races are thrilling. Sometimes oversteer can be an annoyance and requires getting used to. Also, I always get distracted by Daxter’s cool animations during the race.