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Synopsis

The story begins with a narration by Samos the Sage, master of Green Eco. He speaks cryptically of the Precursors, the masters of the universe and creators of all life on the planet, and the powerful substance known as Eco. Meanwhile, Jak and his mischief-making best friend, Daxter, are making their way to Misty Island, against Samos' warnings. After arriving, they see two people plotting with an army of evil creatures known as Lurkers. The duo, worried by what they are seeing, prepare to leave, but are attacked by a large Lurker. Jak manages to destroy it using a barrel of Eco, but the explosion throws Daxter into a pool of Dark Eco. Daxter flies back out of the pit, transformed into an ottsel (a hybrid of an otter and a weasel), but miraculously unharmed. Returning to their village of Sandover, they seek help from Samos who states that only Gol Acheron, the Sage of Dark Eco, could change Daxter back.

The route North towards Gol is blocked by Fire Canyon, which can only be traversed with Keira's Zoomer (essentially a hoverbike) equipped with a heat shield fueled with enough Power Cells (spheres of energy). After Jak and Daxter collect enough Power Cells they make their way back to the Blue Sage's village. The village at the end of the canyon has been mostly destroyed by a giant cyborg Lurker named Klaww, while the Sage of Blue Eco who watches over the village has mysteriously vanished. Jak and Daxter find themselves in search of more Power Cells to energize an anti-gravity device and unblock the way to Klaww's lair at the peak. After opening a path up the mountain, they defeat Klaww and ride their Zoomer down the mountain to the Volcanic Crater.

Jak makes his way to the Red Sage's laboratory, where he learns that all of the sages except Samos have been kidnapped by the same people who Jak and Daxter saw speaking to Lurkers on Misty Island. The people turn out to be Gol Acheron and Maia Acheron, Gol's sister, who wish to flood the world with dark eco. Jak recovers more power cells so Keira can upgrade the Zoomer heat shield in order to navigate a lava-filled tunnel.

On the other side of the tunnel, in the Yellow Sage's lab, Keira declares that Samos has been captured as well. Journeying through Gol and Maia's citadel, Jak and Daxter first run into Samos (who is the last one they save), and he tells them that Gol and Maia are using all the sage's energies to power their robot, which is powerful enough to break open the Dark Eco silos. Jak and Daxter succeed in freeing the Sages, and then travel to the top of the Dark Eco Silos to confront a reactivated Precursor Robot controlled by Gol and Maia. Jak battles the robot, but only disables it by destroying the robot's weapons. After this, 4 mini-silos, that are attached to the large silo, which each contain a different eco type shoot beams of light towards the middle of the silo in the air above, clashing and forming a pyramid-like shape. This combines all the ecos and forms into light eco.[6] Daxter realizes that the Light Eco would change him back to normal if he were to absorb it, but ultimately allows Jak to use it and disable the robot.[7]

Trapped in the robot, Gol and Maia sink into the Dark Eco silo, which then closes and traps them inside, presumably killing them both; Samos, however, is not certain that this is the case. The group's attention is then directed toward an immense Precursor Door, which can only open with the energy of 100 Power Cells. With the cells, the door opens to reveal an ambiguous large object enveloped in a blinding light; the details are explained in the next game.

The game is set in some Make-Belief morld created by NaughtyDog, it has 5 main level these areas consists of snow, swamp, jungle, beaches, and volcanoes.
Setting Rating 10/10


The Gameplay really was unique the game is set around you a young boy aged 15 having to travell different lands in search for a cure for your best friend: Daxters shiftshape; but you'll find info on that in the synopsis In this gamenyou could really get into depth with it i remember pplaying this game when i was around 7/8 and i could play it for hours on end it never got boring there were so many quests i played this game endlessly for about 2 years it was so great it had a amazing feel to it, also one of the few games to not have cheats on at the time as it came out in 2001, the gameplay wasnt ruined.
Gameplay Rating: 9/10

The graphics at its time were simply amazing, as a child i remember it being as being in 1080HD but after going on it yesterday the graphics were abit off but were easy to cope with.For me being a huge fan of the Jak collection going back on it brang back alot of memories i managed to do some of the things i couldnt do when i was young as this was the first game i ever had on the ps2, It is a game i recomend getting, also If you have a ps3 they are increasing the graphics to a 720p, pick it up if you can you wont regret it.
Graphics Rating: 9/10

Game Awards

The success of the Jak and Daxter series resulted in Guinness World Records awarding the series 7 world records in the Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2008. These records include, "First Seamless 3D World in a Console Game", "Most Successful Single Format Platform Series", and "Largest Number of Cutscenes in a Platform Game"


Release Date: It was released for the Sony PS2 on December 3, 2001 for North America, December 7, 2001 for Europe and December 20, 2001 for Japan
Developers: NaughtyDog
Publishers: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platforms: Ps2
Genre: Platform
Players: 1
Rating:I would give it a definate 10/10 as it was and still is my favourite game.