Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Collection

A wonderfully fast paced platformer, with exceptional gameplay. While the official single player levels leave much to be desired (but the community on www.jazz2online.com has remedied this shortfall!), the online gameplay is incredibly fun. Imagine a 2d version of Quake 3, fast paced on the one hand, on the other you need to control key pickpups on the map, get into your opponents head and outwit them etc. It's great to see the game on GOG and it's great to see the community keeps evolving the game and adding new levels to the mix.

I admit it might be a tiny bit of nostalgia affecting this review (hey its GOG, 99% of all reviews here are..) but this game surely deserves it as much as any. First, the music. I mean, one of the top game soundtracks of all time. Not the most memorable, it was not too popular a game anyway, but it's amazing what one composer achieved back then. Second, the split screen multiplayer was so much fun it could be illegal. Considering we had the game in a Shareware CD from some PC magazine, the fun value was infinite! As for single player, it was basically Sonic the hedgehog speed, but someone made him a bunny, gave him multiple guns, far cooler music, sprinkled more humorous menus and scenario and.. all in all was a better game in my opinion, but less people played platform games on PCs back then so the success was not comparable. All in all one of my favorite GOG releases!

I liked it! :D

Note 1#: I played the game with the JJ2+ update (Installed via GOG), which fixes lots of bugs, gives access for higher resolution, and lets you play on more multiplayer servers (if I'm not mistaken lol). Note #2: Worked really good on a Windows 10, the only major problem I had is the opening cutscene being a little glitch. I played this game a lot as a kid, but never managed to finish it, so now I did so, after 5 hours and 30 minutes of gameplay, I have managed to finish the "Main Game", which means I haven't played yet the christmas chronicles or the secret files. The game also has multiplayer mode! which I haven't tried yet so I don't know if there are players in it. You can also play CO-OP, which looks fun, I will try that later. To sum up, Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is a fun, hard and old game which aged really well, but there are some bugs here and there, like enemis are stuck in walls, or me stuck in a wall, but those are pretty rare to be honest.

GOG has done the right thing the game still rocks and i'm buying it right now, it was a great part of my childhood to play the shareware version, and now that i have conditions to legally have the full version, i'll do.