9.4 out of 10
IGN.COM

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When you first play through Jak and Daxter, however, you will undoubtedly experience quite a bit of d¿j¿ vu. In creating this game, Naughty Dog has taken numerous ideas and play mechanics from classic games like Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie and its own Crash Bandicoot series, and because of this you may begin to believe that this is a completely unoriginal game without an innovative bone in its body.

For instance, Jak has a spin move that he can use to kill enemies and break wooden crates that will immediately make you think of Crash Bandicoot. And as far as basic game design is concerned, it makes use of the textbook item collection philosophy that we've seen in just about every single 3D platform game that has ever been released with the only initially perceptible difference being that instead of collecting stars like you had to do in Mario 64 you were collecting these Power Cells in Jak and Daxter.

But to dismiss Jak and Daxter as a completely unoriginal game would be a mistake and doing this would also be ignoring the fact that this game has brought forth some serious innovations to the 3D platform/adventure genre. First and foremost, Jak and Daxter is the first game of its kind to take place in a -- dare I say it -- "fully realized" world where you can actually change and affect things in an environment where everything is connected together.

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It's kind of funny thinking back to the day that we were heading down to Sony to play Jak and Daxter for the very first time. On the way, we were talking about how we've all grown tired of the 3D platformer genre and thought that the design philosophy of continuously collecting stuff had been done to death and needed to be done away with completely. And then upon seeing that Jak and Daxter was just another straightforward game of this kind, albeit a gorgeous one, we couldn't help but be at least somewhat disappointed by Naughty Dog's mystery game.
This disappointment would soon change to wonderment and excitement with each subsequent time that I got to play the game. The more I played Jak and Daxter, the more that I realized that this game was really something special. It has that magical feeling that not all games can possess and it's just flat out a joy to play. This is one of the few games that I can't help but smile and have fun when I'm playing. Jak and Daxter is a true 3D platform/adventure masterpiece and one of the top games ever released in the genre, easily on par with some of the all time greats released by the likes of Nintendo and Rare.
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