| Beyond Good & Evil | 
 enlarge | From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $8.48
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Buy New/Used from $8.48
Avg. Customer Rating:   (59 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3416
Platform: Playstation2
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: 32112
Model: 8888321125
UPC: 008888321125
EAN: 0008888321125
ASIN: B00009ZVHW
Release Date: November 11, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Fantastic, beautiful game! August 14, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I highly recommend this game. The graphics are terrific, not only in the cutscenes but throughout the whole game. Real voices are used about 80% of the time and the voice actors are terrific and lend drama to the story. (The rest of the time you read brief text when you talk to another character). The story is very interesting and occasionally quite moving. As Jade the spy/reporter, you sneak around taking incriminating photos to help expose a horrible plot taking place on your planet. The sneaking parts get really tense sometimes! The gameplay has a good amount of variety: spying & exploring, races, fights, puzzles, photographing things, and two different vehicles - a hovercraft and a spaceship.
There are objects to find and money to acquire for personal & vehicle upgrades. The maps are pretty good and you can buy items to help you locate pearls (one of the currencies in the game) and animals (you take photos of them and the Science Center gives you $$$). You have two companions in the game who help you solve puzzles or achieve things you couldn't do alone. The music is good and the worlds are big and beautiful - you can go everywhere and explore.
I picked it up used for $8 - what a deal! I'd really recommend this to anyone, especially someone who liked titles such as Jak & Daxter, Ratchet & Clank, Sly Cooper, Prince of Persia, the Hobbit, Ico, even Zelda (which I did not like because the maps were so confusing). This game is challenging but almost never frustrating. Parents - there is no cussing, no sexual references, no drugs, smoking and only mild violence (fighting aliens & armed men in spacesuits) - no blood or gore at all. SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!! There are one or two scenes of a person being tortured (both the people are in a giant tube filled with "alien rays" - no blood, machinery, etc.) In one scene a main character lays dead but later is brought back to life. Children are attacked by aliens and later kidnapped by them. Humans are kidnapped by aliens and turned into food a la "Soylent Green" and then eaten by other unwitting humans (not on screen). The heroes set out to rescue them and save the planet.
 Great game August 7, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great game with minor glitches. The experience you'll have while playing it is one that is completely unique.
Spectacular Game! June 3, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is one of the best video games I've ever played. It has perfect gameplay, awesome grapics, and a great storyline. This game will suck you in and keep you begging for more. This is my number 3 favorite game ever right next to Metal Gear Solid and God of War. You should buy this new from a regular retailer though. You can get it for under 10 dollars and the only way for ubisoft to know you bought it is to buy it new. That's the only way we'll ever get a sequel! Great Game!
Very solid action-adventure game. June 2, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The game is very Zelda-esque, but I have to say that I honestly had more fun with this game than I did Wind Waker. It's not very deep, or difficult, but it's solid fun and is full of likable, well-voiced characters.
Move aside Jak, Ratchet, Sly, a new platform is in town. May 27, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
When first playing this game, i was fresh off of Ratchet and Clank:UYA and bored to tears. I was about halfway through replaying Jak 3 (3rd time) when a friend recommened Beyond Good and Evil. I looked it up on Amazon and it was selling for about 5 bucks! I got it and while i was wary at first, this game won me over. The storyline is intriguing, the gameplay smooth and seemless. While you won't find any guns or weapons that kill mass amounts of enemies, Jade's cane-thing (forgot the name) is extremely simple yet fun to use. There's also a gadget that throws little disc-blades, which you find many uses for (such as blowing up the oxygen tanks of the guards that are common in the restricted sectors of this world). It wasn't marketed well, admittingly, but this game, to my opinion, blows Jak and Ratchet out of the water. The gameplay graphics arn't as good as J&R, but close enough you don't care. Also, the cut-scenes are comparitive to those in Kingdom Hearts 2. Yeah, that good. It's a platformer, so you get to race, run, solve puzzles, fight, repeat. But in my opinion, the action, while not as complicated, holds its own against the Ps2's best platformers. The races on your hover-boat are not as good as a Jak-based Hoverbike races, but outstripping Ratchet's hoverboarding by quite alot. The puzzles are hard, sure, but fun enough that you arn't frustrated quickly. Jak's puzzles were sometimes just annoying and Ratchet's were so mind-numbingly easy you began to wonder why the directers put them in at all. However, in this game, there was also an included "Steath" component that becomes an aquired skill as the game progresses. Just as well, seeing that you are a steath photographer. Its like the steath sections of "Sly". There are many levels in which you can choose to fight or sneak, which was a cool idea for me, because i could decide most of the time. In some, however, the opponets posses weapons that make it extremely difficult/borderline impossible to procede by fighting, so steath is the way to go.
All in all, a VERY GOOD GAME! I paid 5 Dollars for a experience I would gladly have paid 100 for. If you like platforms, or possess a ps2, you owe it to yourself to get this game.
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