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"Jak and Daxter – the best platform game of all time?"

If anyone bought July’s issue of Playstation 2 Official Magazine, they would have read and seen all about Naughty Dog’s new game: 'Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Leacy'. Jason Rubin (Naughty Dog President) says that "There’s nothing out there that can compete with it".
It certainly looks great, but will it be the best platformer ever?

To me Jak and Dexter looks like Banjo Kazoie or tooie. It seems that Naughty Dog have been inflenced heavily by Rare again.

Dan id right to say its funny that Sony fans praise this game by call the Nintendo kiddy for having similar stuff!

Donkey Kong Country is the best platformer of all time.

Naughty Dog thought so anyway as the used many of it's best features to make a template for the original Crash game.

As for Jax and Daxter, as good as it looks I find it ironic that so many PS2 fans are raving over it.

Sure I like it, but I don't go round slating cartoony platformers as kiddie games. It's in a very Nintendo stylish sort of way. Naughty Dog had the exact ideals on how to make a good platformer like the idea of making it as big as worthwhile as possible and that sort of thing.

Best platfromer ever? Possibly for now but I'm certain that Nintendo and Rare are more than capable of bettering it...

Nah, I think Sonic 3 was better.

Turbonutter wrote:
> Let's put an end to this:

The best platformer ever was Sonic 3.
> Nothing will ever beat it.

I disagree. Donky Kong 64 was AMAZING! It was huge with 5 very different playable characters(and two bonus ones), it was jam packed with minigames and puzzles and the graphics were amazing. Rare did it again.

I was always a Super Mario World man myself.

Let's put an end to this:

The best platformer ever was Sonic 3. Nothing will ever beat it.

Bewarethetoadsoffate wrote:
> In PSM2,

Obviously you`ll have the demo then! Whaddya think? I can`t stop watching it. The music is great, it looks fantastic. I just hope it plays as well. If it does, then it could be the game of the year. Unless they manage to bring out MGS2 before Xmas.

Crates, coins.. ho hum... why can't game developers think of something a bit more original for your typical game character to collect and smash. Anyone any ideas?

Smashing crates, hmmm, interesting. Crash Bandicoot strikes again~!

In PSM2, which is very good at not purely focusing on the good points of games and not kissing up to developers like some mags, they said it was full of eye candy but there seemed to be an awful lot of smashing crates open-BORING!