Beyond Good & Evil HD

 By: Thegreenback

 If you like action adventure, sneaking, camera, and trying to save lots of people from enemy aliens then this is the game for you. Beyond Good & Evil takes you across the universe to another planet where things called the DomZ attack the planet taking people called Hillyens for reasons unknown.

You play as Jade a girl who lost her parents to the DomZ years ago. Jade is keeping up an orphanage to help other kids who lost their parents to the attacks with Uncle Pey'j. Adventuring down the long road to helping the people of Hillys you use your staff to fight enemies all around. You can also charge up and attack to do an explosion of energy to take out more. As your biggest weapon is your camera. Taking pictures to help you do your report for a band that fights the government called the Iris Network. You can also take pictures of animal around the world making lots of money to help you buy things and make pearls, which help you upgrade your hovercraft. You also have a comrade who helps you out in fights also helps solve puzzles. They have their own health so you have to watch out for them and they will watch out for you. Each having their own attacks and dialog. Saying how they feel about certain things you get attached to them and wanting to keep them safe. One of them is your uncle Pey’j who is funny but can be serious and caucus. When he attacks he puts enemies in the air when he uses his jet boots attack. The other is Double H who is very serious but always is willing to help you fight and protect the people. As his attack is like a bull rush and can slam into enemies taking them out or even bars that get in your way. He also has armor that allows him to pass through lasers that stand in the way.

You have a feel of some free world roam around in-between the big missions you do to take down the DomZ. As you travel around on your hovercraft to take you where you want to go. As you can upgrade your hovercraft with things called pearls that you find by killing DomZ or doing certain tasks as side missions. Or even looking for animal to take pictures to earn some extra cash. With even some areas that you chase down some people to get back the cash they stole from you or racing for some pearls.

Most of the missions you do involves sneaking with action. As you figure out how to get past guards that stand in your way. Figuring out patterns and ways to take out enemies keeps changing throughout the game some places pushing what you know to the limit. As you get past areas to find pictures to take for the Iris Network.

The boss battles are grand that have a mini puzzle to figure out how to take them down. Some with help and others doing a solo act. With each boss the difficulty goes up a lot more on how to hurt them. Each boss is unique of their fighting style and will kill you if you’re not paying attention. There are no repeatable bosses or any creature that you see in the world like them.

The game was originally made for the PlayStation 2 so a lot of the graphics are last generation. As they touched it up in a lot of points to get it looking smoother and with the little touches. But you can see in certain areas where they couldn’t get it or some cut scenes.

The game is very fun with a bunch of combos of different style games that just work together to make a great adventure. With only a few things bugs and great game play with a compelling story and characters. Showing some of the last generation graphics doesn’t slow down the game at all. So for playing on the PS2 I would give the game a 8.9 but with it showing loading screens, and some age in areas for the 360 is not that amazing.

So I would give the game a 8.5 out of 10

~Thegreenback~