Beyond Good & Evil™

I can't begin to tell you how glad I am to see that Beyond Good and Evil is being resurrected / given the second chance it rightfully deserves. This is a game begging for a sequel, and for the life of me I can't figure out why people did not buy this game in droves. In my case, I didn't get it til the price was about $10 in a PC bargain bin, and even then I bought it on a whim. Perhaps the marketing angle sucked. I still remember the characters and the story from this game, and I haven't played it in years. It looks beautiful, plays beautiful, has excellent voice acting and multiple translations (though I only played in English). I'm going to dust off my old copy. I'm tempted to buy another copy from here just so Ubisoft gets the message... Hurry up and make BG&E 2!

I don't want to sound like that guy that proclaims everything as "the best," but this game is honestly one of the best games I've ever played in my life.

I don't get why this games gets compared to other (great) games somo much. Sure, it has some of the Zelda mechanics, some of the stealth from Metal Gear and spy games (actually made fun to play) and even some animal photography wich might remind you of Pokemon Snap. But this games has a soul if it's own: memorable characters, fun puzzles, fun fighting and a whole unique world to explore. Despite this game being action oriented, I think it has the spirit of some of the old school point & click adventures games, pehaps the adventure part.

I was surprised when I read a few years ago about that Beyond Good & Evil was overlooked by many despite a lot of positive reviews of it. This game deserves more attention because of its unique artstyle and open enviroment. Not to mention there are plenty of parts where you have to sneak by heavily armed and armored guards while avoiding to be detected. Can you uncover the conspiracy that threatens to destroy the entire planet? Only YOU can expose the truth.

People kept bludgeoning me over the head about how great this game was. The best way to describe this game is "generic platformer with delusions of grandeur". Gameplay is extremely shallow, to the point that after about 15 minutes you have experiences pretty much all of what is possible to do in-game. The rest is just minor incremental upgrades. At the best of times, it is an "ok" game, but it is still a platformer at its core, and never improves over that initial first impact (which I admit was exciting). The first hour is fine, then it gets gradually worse and worse until it culminates at the end in one of the most frustrating boss fights I've ever experienced. But what kills me is the Sunday morning cartoon plot we have going on here: bad guys are bad, good guys are good, good guys start winning, but then bad guys strike back and it looks like it is all over, but then good guys win in the end. The game is called "beyond good and evil", but it never goes "beyond" classic tropes and extremely well-defined roles. And the cherry on top is that all the dead (good) characters get revived in the end - just to drive home the point that there were no stakes to begin with because we will just wave a little magic wand and presto, all fixed. This is supposed to be the pinnacle of storytelling? This game was released in 2003, in the same year as, for example, Max Payne 2, Call of Duty, Jedi Academy and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. All of those are much, much better games. 2 stars because it was a complete disappointment. At least it was cheap.