Jax 3

Daniel 8/7/11

My game review! 11

This Is It... The last stand..... The final game In the entire Jak and Daxter series........ Jak 3!!!!!

Banished, left for dead, but this precursor legacy refuses to be forgotten. 5 years after Jak ll, Jak is exiled to the wastelands for killin' everyone with his Dark Eco powers. All Jak had was a homing beacon that his ally gave him, a nutty bird-monkey named Pecker, and Daxter. When Jak woke up he found himself inside another city named "Spargusville". Let's see how he is doing, shall we?

Story

When Jak woke up in Spargusville, he met a freakishly large, tough guy called Damas: King of Spargusville. Pecker was unfortunately his new advisor. He said in order to be a resident of Spargusville, he must be victorious in 3 extremely, tough arena fight matches. As he is walking towards the arena gate, he remembers the end of the Metalhead Wars.(Oh boy! A flashback!)Torn tells Jak that some of the Krimzin Guard DethBots were working with some of the surviving Metalhead Lurkers. The Krimzin Guards have a new leader...

After the battle, Jak meets a monk girl named Seem. She tells Jak the worst nightmare imaginable, is called into Jak's world, and threatens to recreate it with the limitless Dark Eco. (Hmmmmm..... that's excactly what the main villian Gol set out to do!) Only Jak can save the universe now. After fighting some Wasteland Metalheads Jak discovers a transmission device dropped by one of the Metalheads. The transmission looked very familliar. It looked like the face of Eroll from Jak ll, but the voice sounded like Gol from the first Jak and Daxter game. Seem told Jak that something called the "Day Star" shall destroy Jak's world with limitless darkness (You know, remember Gol had a master called the "Dark Maker" once, but it died long ago? Maybe he is the main villan?)

The K.Gs and the Metalheads working together, a new main villian, a lot of questions and no answers. This game just keeps getting better and better! It's time for the final war against the Lurker forces with secrets around every turn, all leading up to the shocking (and somewhat upsetting) truth of who the Precursors really are.....

Strengths 'n' weaknesses

Okay! Jak 3 is easier than Jak ll. So that means you can get through the game easier and a good thing too! This is the best Jak and Daxter game I've played so far.The good news is, the secrets are cheaper and the Precursor Orbs are easier to get. I recommend you get LOTS of them. All of the secrets are really good, including the Infinite Dark Jak Power! It costs you 50 Orbs in Jak 3, while in Jak ll, it costs you 135!!

They also added a new Eco! Now, there are three types you can collect. The first Eco is Green Eco, then Dark Eco, and then most powerful Eco of all... LIGHT ECO! (Yes! the legends were true!! Light Eco exists!!!) With Light Eco, you can transform into LIGHT Jak! One of Light Jak's powers is Light Flash Flood. With it you can stop time with a clap of the hand! You also have a Light Shield! But be careful while using it! Your Light Gauge drains quicker than normal, if the Shield is used. You can also fly with Light Jak! Time your jumps carefully for maximum flight. You can also use your Precurseor Guns in Light Eco form!

You also have a new Dark Power! It's called Dark Boomer! Hold the R1 button to charge, release to throw. The longer you hold the button, the farther it goes! But unfortunatetly, they replaced the Dark Invincible power with It. You even have a Dark Invisiblity power! You also have Dark Bomb and Dark Whirlwind from the second game.

The best part is, you get gun UPGRADES in Jak 3! There are 2 upgrades for each gun. Here they are in order:

Scatter Rifle. Wave Flexer: With this upgrade you can fire small dark precursor energies. Charge the beam up for a bigger stronger blast. Plazmite R.P.G.: This sucker Is one of the best upgrades in the game if not THE best. It fires powerful Plazmite Bombs which are able to obliterate a pretty sizeable crater in K.G. Deathbot armor. REMEMBER! Your upgrade ammo counts up to your main gun ammo, so use it wisely!

Blaster Grenede. Beam Reflexxatator: (Wow! Some of these guns have weird names!) This upgrade is like the Blaster Grenede, only its shots don't flame on contact. Instead the bullets bounce off surfaces! (Even though it may backfire sometimes) Gyro Burster: This is one of the Better upgrades. It launches a saucer that fires metallic shots of Nucli-Precursor energy, destroying almost everything in sight. But be careful, it drains a LOT of ammo.

Vulcan Gunner. Wield Arckker: a very good gun upgrade. This beast delivers a MASSIVE shock attack that devastates Meatlhead lurkers and even causes double damage to Krimzin DethBots! Needle Shooter: This is an average upgrade. It fires three Semi-Precursor spikes that unfortunatetly go randomly at any Lurker or Darkkness in sight, sometimes exploding on contact (Just like in Halo 3!)

Peacemaker. Mass Invertator: delivers a mass reducing field around any Lurker leaving them weightless, giving you a chance to anihalate them. Very useful. Supernovva: The mother of all weapons!!! Even standing 12 metres away from it is an absolute death sentence. It launches a Mini nuclear device, the equivalent of 20 Peacemaker blasts combined, that leaves behind a giant mushroom-cloud explosion that can destroy anything and everything on the field of battle.

Bosses 'n' such

There are only 3 bosses in this game and they all take a hell of a long time to get to. In one of the missons you fight a sort of "Mini Boss". You've got to take out an abominated Precusor artifact tainted with the Darkkness. The Darkkness are some of the most demonic beings in the Jak and Daxter series. You must deactivate it before time's up. In one of the later battles, you must fight a downgraded model of the Precursor Robot final boss from the first game! It's a good thing it's a past model, so it is weaker.

One of the other bosses is the new leader of the Krimzin Guard. Once a Human, now a Lurker. He also has some of the Dark powers that he harnessed from the strength of the Day Star. I won't tell you more than that 'cause you'll see it all for yourself!

That's all folks!

You can get a used copy from E.B Games if your lucky enough, or you can just get the game on Ebay. You should be able to find it. That's it for this review! I hope you liked the Jak and Daxter series. So long!

Rating 9.7