Beyond Good & Evil™

The graphics are fun and cartoony, the fighting and controls are fairly simple, and the world is fairly ridiculous, but everything somehow combines into a fun yet casual game that would probably appeal to all ages.

It was a decent game, albeit a little short and fairly easy for the most part. The characters overall were quite good as was the voice acting and some of the music. It's worth a play but I wouldn't exactly call it a masterpiece or anything.

Having purchased this game for a couple of different systems, I was finally able to complete it on my PC. I had tried it on PC in the past as well as on PS2, but due to time pressures with school etc, I found it not engaging enough at first. I purchased it most recently here at GOG when it was on sale, and just completed it. My initial impressions are that it was much more adventure game than what I had anticipated, which was not a problem. Combat is very limited both in number of engagements as well as in attacks and is mostly a click fest, but it serves to move the story forward. At times you can feel somewhat lost with where to go next, until you get used to the interface which really does have the information on it, just not in a super easy to recognize way at first. It ran very well after some debugging with the assistance of the forums on a Windows 7 X64, AMD Phenom X4, NVidia GTS8800 system. Hope that others will look to enjoy this adventure-action game.

Beyond Good and Evil is a polished, enjoyable action adventure that includes Metal Gear-style stealth puzzles, action RPG-style clickfests, and even a not-insignificant amount of racing. It's tied together with an engaging but fairly generic plot, decent voice acting, and a believable if small world. Overall it's very playable (smooth restarts) and memorable, but a bit short. I would have liked more places to explore and a bit more depth to the combat system. (it's pretty simplistic) The controls were annoying at times since the camera can be hard to control and there are a lot of keys to remember. (in the heat of battle you generally use the mouse plus both buttons, 4 direction arrows, and as many as 5 other keys) Also, you cannot invert the mouse Y-axis! Clearly it was made for consoles. The game bears some uncanny resemblance to Little Big Adventure and its sequel (plot, characters). I'm too lazy to check but I wouldn't be surprised if some of the same folks worked on both games. It also reminded me a lot of Anachronox (minus the RPG elements). Recommended to just about anyone.

You can always get a great price off of GOG and you can always be assured games will work better. Now, if you bought this game off of Steam like I did, you may not be happy. Why? Compatibility issues... Graphical glitches, annoying lag, you name it! Thanks to GOG here, all this has been resolved which improves gameplay and well... Makes the game run like it should! If you are deciding between Steam and GOG, well you'll know the answer from here :) Thanks GOG, another game saved!