Posted on: July 7, 2022

Ingwer_Chris

Games: 28 Reviews: 18

Art.

Back when I grew up with games like these, I was always imagining how they would look in the future with less technical limitations. Well, seeing what kind of games we get nowadays, it is save to say that they don't have the kind of artistic fantasy anymore. Games like Beyond Good and Evil, strangely enough, felt so much more real in what you were capable of experiencing, than any of the high-res "genre-peaks" of today. And yes, I heard of BGE2. And no, it is not what I would have imagined. Contrary, in fact - it seems like the perfect presentation of our gaming world and is purest irony in relation to its predecessor. ...that, and it will probably not release anymore. Or maybe it will. Who knows anymore, at this point. All of that aside, what is Beyond Good and Evil? It is a 3D Adventure Game which takes this genre to heart by doing something unheard of: Mixing individual ideas of gameplay to make something that is on one side unique, but on the other rather fluently feeling. You play as Jade (and normally are accompanied by one partner) and explore the world. By feet, by sea. By climbing and jumping through mines and facilities. By fighting and sneaking (yeah, the great marketing point). And during all that, you actually also take photos, play mini games like races and ...table tennis? I guess. There is a lot - which makes the world, albeit quite small, feel rather alive and interesting to explore. The mechanics are solid as well. Never too complicated, but well executed, diverse and fun. Combat feels catchy, but so also does stealth. Sometimes the latter is required, but you can also cheese fights. Going around places and taking photos is also fun, as you always get something - rewards, dialogues, atmosphere. Technically, the game can have some issues depending on the device. You may have to fiddle around with the settings. It can also only be played with mouse and keyboard. For the price, try it out if it looks anywhere near interesting to you. Recommended!

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Posted on: November 22, 2011

ChristopherAmes

Verified owner

Games: 115 Reviews: 4

For casual gamers only.

Beyond Good & Evil plays as a mix of genres, seamlessly woven together in a surprisingly self-serious and endearing world. There are stealth sections, boss fights, races, collectables, escape sequences, environmental puzzles, mini-games and more, all accessible and good fun. The difficulty is low enough to avoid any frustration regardless of your preferences. The graphics are expressive and the sound all up to scratch. Unfortunately, the result of this design is that all of game elements lack depth. BG&E comes with nice packaging, but there's nothing in it that the average gamer won't have seen done before and done better elsewhere. The short length of the game (~12 hours for 100% completion) isn't especially satisfying. The PC port was particularly lazy - keyboard/mouse controls are awkwardly patched over the gamepad design yet a gamepad is not supported, and the partially-automatic camera tends to spaz out in the middle of combat or stealth. For new gamers, BG&E provides a wide range of 'tasters' in a well designed environment. For old gamers, it's a nice break from heavier gamers but the very definition of skippable.

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Posted on: November 14, 2009

skarai

Verified owner

Games: 27 Reviews: 3

Hammertime

Beyond good & evil had some great things about it. Jade and her uncle are wonderful characters. The soundtrack is really good, the graphics are marvelous at times. Despite being an older game. The hud goes away sometimes and felt much more like a movie. But the more I played the worst it got. Same fights, same enemies, same buttons... Get object to continue.. Look at map for place to 'investigate'. You didn't explore anything! You looked at a map, then you had exact locations where you needed to go. So all that was to waste. Mostly you have to stealth, because otherwise you'll die by lasers. Which will shoot you instantly if you get spotted. Then you have to do it all over again. But I played through all that. I thought the ending would be good. Something. You know? But the boss fight is atrocious. The ending, the same. I wouldn't recommend this game.

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Posted on: June 22, 2017

vefi

Verified owner

Games: 67 Reviews: 1

Great game. Bad port.

This really is an incredible game, or rather, it was on the XBOX. This PC port was bad upon release, and has gotten unplayable over the years. The controls cannot be mapped to play with the controllers it were designed for, the game is buggy and arbitrarily crashes, and the graphical glitches are like a bad joke (Eyeballs popping up far away from the characters, tearing when moving about, colors all over the place) on all three computers I tried it on.

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Posted on: January 26, 2021

PAL2015

Verified owner

Games: 283 Reviews: 39

Controls, Camera and Mechanics

Camera - is your enemy. It uses advanced AI techniques to select angle where don't see a thing you really need. You are stealth - camera looks right at you not enemy. You try to use gyrodisk and camera look in opposite direction requiring a lot of time to position right. Also meaning of movement direction changing with changing camera angle. Sometimes camera could be controlled with mouth, sometimes mouse control direction too. Control could be and should be remapped in SettingsApplication, coming along the game. Main problem is a lag in response, you couldn't just stop your combo against thin air to switch attack or sometimes Space/Shift acts like toggle and other like switch. Game mechanics are carefully underthought. You doesn't get enough feeling on how to use them and you right at the final boss and... It hurts. Unskipable cutscenes you forced to watch time after time while proceeding with quest adds pain too. All these while story is ok (could be better, much better) and graphics is good enough.

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