The game begins with Jak and Daxter, the protagonists, and Samos, their guardian, watching as Keira, Samos daughter and Jaks romantic interest, study the Rift Rider and Precursor Ring that they found in the previous game. When activated, the Ring opens a portal that the four of them are flung through. They arrive in a dystopia known as Haven City, which is under the control of Baron Praxis, locked in a war with a race of beasts called Metal Heads. Jak and Daxter are separated on arrival, and Jak is captured by Praxis Krimson Guard. While Jak is imprisoned, he is subjected to experiments with Dark Eco; when exposed to Dark Eco, he turns into a mindless beast.

Two years after his capture, Daxter breaks him out of prison, and together, they join an underground rebel movement that seeks to place the rightful ruler, a boy only referred to as the Kid, on the throne. While serving this Underground, Jak finds Keira and Samos, as well as a younger version of Samos. He also learns that Praxis has been working with the Metal Heads to maintain the throne. What surprises him the most is that Haven City is built on the ruins of his home village five hundred years in the future.

Partway through the game, Praxis obtains the Precursor Stone, an artifact of immense power. Praxis intends to crack open the stone while it is inside the Metal Head nest with the aim of dealing a crippling blow to the Metal Heads, not knowing that destroying the Precursor Stone will set off a chain reaction that will destroy the planet. The Baron leaves the destruction of the stone to Krew, the mob boss of Haven City. Jak finds Krew and destroys the device he is building to crack the stone; Krew is killed in the resulting explosion.

After Krews death, Metal Heads invade the city. Jak finds Praxis on the outskirts of the city, confronting Kor, a member of the Underground who had been guarding the Kid. Kor is then revealed to be the leader of the Metal Heads. He mortally wounds Praxis and flies off. Before he dies, Praxis shows Jak another Precursor Stone bomb, this one containing the Precursor Stone. Daxter rummages through the bomb and deactivates it, and Jak takes the stone. As the Krimson Guard and the Underground fight the Metal Heads in the city, Jak travels to the Metal Head nest to confront Kor. There, he finds that Kor has the Kid and a Precursor Ring like the one that brought Jak and his friends to Haven City. Kor informs Jak that the Kid is in actuality, a young Jak. Jak had been sent into the past to learn the skills necessary to defeat Kor. The young Jak, because he is innocent and untouched by Dark Eco, is able to release the Precursor entity trapped in the stone.

During the battle with Kor, Kor is decapitated by the Precursor Ring, which damages it. Before it breaks up, young Jak releases the Precursor entity, which enters the Ring. Samos and Keira arrive and send young Jak and young Samos back in time through the Ring, leaving Jak, Daxter, Samos and Keira to live out their lives in Haven City.


Jak II Takes place in a future version of the world of Jak and Daxter The Precursor Legacy, The world is alot bigger than the first game with each of the areas seperated with an huge metal airlock door rather then the cruiser race of the first game. The game mostly revolves around the city that you start in, Haven city. Haven city is run by Baron Praxis and his Krimzon Guard law enforcers, Kinda taking a GTA style with the new 'Police' element to the game.



When i first heard about the game i thought the gameplay was going to be hard to get used to with the new, Law enforcements, Developed cruisers, a hoverboard, The new world, being able to use guns i thought the game would have lost its amazing touch, but it didnt as soon as you start the game it gives you a tutorial and its actually very simple and a majority of the missions its just the fighting aspect you had in the first game. They gave gta fans their 'fun' as you could say, but still kept the series alive with the basic Jak and Daxter controls. One of the things i had fun with was this new Dark Eco creature change you could do to Jak, due to the dark eco experiments that had happened to him, but you can read about that in the Synopsis. I often got mixed up because in the first game you were trying to aviod dark eco but in this game you need it to ' unleash the beast' as i call it. The brand new gun element to the game was fantastic, the 'morph gun' was unique as it could be transformed into 4 different fire arms, a shotgun, assault fifle, a LMG and some sort of fun Gravity/rocket launcher gun, Each unlock is granted after a certain amount of the game is complete. But the wait was well worth it. This was great to use so you didnt lose as much health in battles, also you could fight more bosses in more style. The Hoverboard was Great but it took a long time to unlock it but when i did, omg, it was so much fun it got you places quicker you could grind on stuff do tricks it looked so epic.

Gameplay Rating 10/10

The graphics on this game, at the time were great, they were alot better than the first one which was brilliant, i thought id play this game before writing this review to give myself a better idea on graphics and well the graphics were 'okay' not good but not bad either. But being a fan of the series i loved the graphics, they made the game what it is. Also to anyone who has played/ wants to play this game, in a few weeks sony are doing a 720p HD version of all of the games in the Jak Series.

Graphics Rating 8/10

This game received very positive reviews from critics. The Game won Editor's Choice from IGN and GameSpot it was nominated for Best PlayStation 2 Game by GameSpot It sold 400,000 copies in its first 11 months.

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