Beyond Good & Evil™

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.

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.

Beyond good & evil is a third person platform-adventure from the early 2000' that always intrigued me with its story and gameplay, and after finally finished it I can say : ''oh boy, it's good!''. Although its genre was typical for its time , the game stands out without effort and sits on the same level with the most iconic console games while giving the player something a little bit different. In fact, the whole gameplay is actually a mix of combat and stealth action, little bit of driving here and there and the ability to photograph alien flora and fauna that manages to keep the player experimenting different things while delivering a seldom kind of story (at least for tis time) with some nice thoughts behind it like preserving the environment. However, this port is not without flaw : if played with a higher framerate will break cutscenes and you need to install external software if you plan to play it with a controller. Beyond the good and evil ( YAY, managed to insert this joke) side of this game : it is still a masterpiece, both for its time and beyond ( ...Yuck) that must be tried at least once in your life.

I think this game is great for the time it was made. It has a lot variety in gameplay. It has elements of stealth, parkour, and free roaming adventure. I think some people are annoyed by the combat, but I think the reason it's difficult is because it wants to force you to be stealthy. I personally like it more than the stealth in MGS or similar games. I feel like the genre of this game could be labeled as alternative. Like alternative rock. I can see the inspirations of certain aspects of the game, but it feels very unique.

The story is weak, the game play is weak. It may have been fantastic when it first came out but today it just looks bad compared to other games that came out at about the same time. Buy it if you want to see what all the hype was about, but that's all this game has. Hype.