Jak & Daxter Collection

This for me was a nostalgic purchase. Jak & Daxter was the first game I ever played on the PS2 and made so many memories for me sat in my dad's study under his desk. It is a classic in terms of it's ability to be a game changing platformer accompanied by a strong story filled with memorable characters. Some thing which continues in the subsequent games that only improve upon the formula with noticeable changes to the gameplay that make Jak 2 comparable to a fantasy GTA of the time albeit with less side missions and Jak 3 is only further slight refinement of it's precursor. In my opinion anybody that has played this series should purchase this solely as an excuse to return to the world of Jak & Daxter and for those that haven't to experience a key feature in the history of platforming and Playstation

Each part of this trilogy rightly received excellent ratings when first released, and here you have all three in one bumper package. It's been some time since I originally played these yet they are every bit as much fun second time round and haven't dated in the least. Hours of fun!

The quality is really good , had a bit of trouble with the delivery , but it was worth the wait.

Once again supervised delivery and great game keep up the good workout Amazon

I played this game to PS2 as a child and now with this collection I can enjoy the games without having the picture composed of a couple of pixels.In HD the picture is clear and you can see all the details

Great game! Fond memories of playing these on the PS2, so delighted to play again on PS3. Nostalgia rules!

Brilliant games I am glad I bought them

Once upon a time, a very young me was sitting in a friend's house, and was subjected to Jak 2. Returning many years later, with many years of gaming under my belt, I return to my roots... and find much of my adult imagination may have been influenced much earlier than I thought.I had never actually beheld a copy of Jak 1, and in truth, I can see why. It's a pretty 3d platformer that manages to completely transcend load times. It was bright, colourful, and whilst possessing some quite tongue in cheek humour, it was clearly aimed at kids. A relic of a sadly bygone age in gaming, but one that holds up, excepting for a few terrible control issues, primarily that Jak seems to take the double jump and ledge grab commands more as suggestions than orders, and the player will die a lot as a result, and a slightly lacking tutorial. However, I can't help but picture a parent seeing their kid playing this, and getting the second... and watching their child be subjected to the single most jarring tone shift I have ever seen.Gone are the days of a mute and his lippy ottsel jumping around colourful platforms. Before the gameplay has even begun, they are transported to the sci fi hellscape of Haven city, a dystopian city besieged by an army of monsters, and caught firmly under the jackboot of a vicious police force and a manical baron, who seem to have no qualms about arresting, torturing and experimenting on random strangers on the streets, and rounding up and executing entire blocks of their own citizens on the mere suspicion that a fugitive may be in the area. Jak and Daxter are forced into a convoluted narrative, dancing between gangsters, rebels, a lost child with a crocodile dog, time travel, two copies of the same individual from different times in his life, exploring the secrets of a dead civilisation... and guns. Lots and lots of guns. The setting is dark and gritty, and quite a lot of mature themes are explored, albeit in a somewhat awkward child friendly dressing that serves to make a lot of the darker moments even more jarring. The story in this one is surprisingly decent considering the sheer amount going on, and considering the standard of video game writing at the time, is pretty exemplary. My major qualms were that the control issues carried over from the previous game, and could be seriously buggy at times. This became particularly annoying in the second half of the game, when a major difficulty spike impales the player, and the general lack of checkpoints combining with the control issues serves to make the game extremely difficult, to the point where I can forgive my younger self for not finishing it.Jak 3 manages to fix all of my complaints about the controls, and even gives us more guns (Although, the bouncing rifle might be a little overpowered, especially considering how early it is given in the game) and lots of driving segments, but suffers from lacklustre writing (It also has a lot going on and on a larger scale, but doesn't manage to juggle the plots as well, and fails to give enough time to develop most of it's plot-lines. A few of the characters also seem to have mysteriously faded into the background (Kira in particular, who is incapable of shutting up in the first two game and gets less than five lines of dialogue in the third), and a rather unimpressive villain (Errol makes a return, but looks and sounds a little bit too ridiculous to be taken seriously, which juxtaposes horribly with the brilliant villain from the second game. Veger is also written very well, but is criminally underused, and ends up as more a comic foil than a villain.)On a whole, the games are pretty solid, and despite the issues are fun to play. The cartoony art style has aged very well, which almost makes up for my final complaint. For a "remaster" the game barely looks better than it did on the initial release, and one would think that the control issues on the first two game would have been fixed in retrospect, but sadly not. As it remains, they are still excellent games, and well worth your time, and can be bought under the guise of buying them for your kids.