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joysweeper) wrote2006-11-28 08:55 pm
joysweeper) wrote2006-11-28 08:55 pm
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Beyond Good and Evil
I've mentioned this before, but I'm playing a game called "Beyond Good and Evil"(aka BG&E) right now. It came out in late 2003 for all three platforms(PS2, Xbox, and Gamecube) as well as for Windows.
It's an ambitious game, all right, with elements of "stealth", "action adventure", "racing", and "photography". What's more, I think it pulls it all together quite neatly. I've completed the game before, and I can say that, while it's kind of short(I'd say ten hours-ish) and it has an irritatingly abrupt ending, it's very nice.
The music, as I've said before, is good and catchy. The characters are a bit on the simple side, for someone like me who plays KotOR and Jade Empire, but they're solid, and I like them. Interestingly enough, there are a number of anthropomorphic animal-people. Goats, a pig, rhinos, walruses, an eagle, a bull, sharks, and a cat. I think that's all. The (human female, 20) protag... I'm a sucker for "mysterious past" types, and Jade/Shauni fits the bill neatly. Her "father figure", Uncle Pey'j (the pig) acts as a companion in the first stage of the game; later he's replaced by Double H.
I like the plot, relatively simple and one-sided as it is. The "mining planet" of Hillys, which is presumably part of a much larger system of affiliated worlds and governments, is under attack by the DomZ, the usual inexplicable aliens who send in hostile creatures. The planet's military has been "reinforced" by the strange Alpha Sections. A child could tell you that the Alpha Sections are Bad Guys; their armor is black(as opposed to the Regular Army's gold), their symbol is white and skull-like, most of them have bright green breathing tanks on their backs, and their spokesman, General Keck, is, to be plain, not someone I would have appointed. While the Alpha Sections are said to be fighting the DomZ, they've also restricted travel and currency, and have taken control of the press. The IRIS Network opposes them, on Hillys and apparently on other worlds, in resistance cells of some sort, gathering and broadcasting evidence of Alpha Sections wrongdoing.
And it would take a long time to detail the rest. Wikipedia it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Good_%26_Evil_%28video_game%29
Unfortunately it didn't sell well. I've seen advertisements in gaming magazines from that point in time, and there's even a partial walkthrough in "Nintendo Power"(well, a Nintendo mag, anyway), it was apparently released at the wrong time. Pity; it would have made an interesting premise for a sequel.
It's an ambitious game, all right, with elements of "stealth", "action adventure", "racing", and "photography". What's more, I think it pulls it all together quite neatly. I've completed the game before, and I can say that, while it's kind of short(I'd say ten hours-ish) and it has an irritatingly abrupt ending, it's very nice.
The music, as I've said before, is good and catchy. The characters are a bit on the simple side, for someone like me who plays KotOR and Jade Empire, but they're solid, and I like them. Interestingly enough, there are a number of anthropomorphic animal-people. Goats, a pig, rhinos, walruses, an eagle, a bull, sharks, and a cat. I think that's all. The (human female, 20) protag... I'm a sucker for "mysterious past" types, and Jade/Shauni fits the bill neatly. Her "father figure", Uncle Pey'j (the pig) acts as a companion in the first stage of the game; later he's replaced by Double H.
I like the plot, relatively simple and one-sided as it is. The "mining planet" of Hillys, which is presumably part of a much larger system of affiliated worlds and governments, is under attack by the DomZ, the usual inexplicable aliens who send in hostile creatures. The planet's military has been "reinforced" by the strange Alpha Sections. A child could tell you that the Alpha Sections are Bad Guys; their armor is black(as opposed to the Regular Army's gold), their symbol is white and skull-like, most of them have bright green breathing tanks on their backs, and their spokesman, General Keck, is, to be plain, not someone I would have appointed. While the Alpha Sections are said to be fighting the DomZ, they've also restricted travel and currency, and have taken control of the press. The IRIS Network opposes them, on Hillys and apparently on other worlds, in resistance cells of some sort, gathering and broadcasting evidence of Alpha Sections wrongdoing.
And it would take a long time to detail the rest. Wikipedia it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Good_%26_Evil_%28video_game%29
Unfortunately it didn't sell well. I've seen advertisements in gaming magazines from that point in time, and there's even a partial walkthrough in "Nintendo Power"(well, a Nintendo mag, anyway), it was apparently released at the wrong time. Pity; it would have made an interesting premise for a sequel.