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Remember why you love games? Sometimes I don't. Sometimes I forget why I so ambitiously poked and prodded my way into this industry in the first place. Sometimes my eyes glaze over and I can't see anything beyond the dreaded fog of lowbrow racers, backward brawlers, and sensationally awful shooters whose only benefits are the neat arcs that zigzag out of the microwave after the third minute in. Sometimes I just want to vacate and make sandwiches for a living. Then I play Jak 3 and I remember -- I remember warmth and happiness and days untouched by the all consuming hopelessness of Varmint Hunter. (I hate that game something fierce, by the way.)

Every so often a game comes around that's right and it makes me remember. It's a game that makes piles of other lesser games very, very wrong. There are precious few words that can so accurately describe this "correct" product in its entirety, but there are plenty to describe individual parts of it. Jak 3 is right, but if you dig through your lexicon you can easily break the game down into chunks of gorgeous, wonderful, fun, slick, polished, tight, balanced, well-produced, hilarious, intense, diverse, and wondrous... Buy it or die.

And if I were a smart man, I'd leave the article there and fill the rest of this page with videos of me giddily smiling and playing (it's a sort of stationary prance). Since I'm not that intelligent, here comes my winded review of choice.

As the third in a series of mascot titles, Jak 3 makes an even more radical departure from Jak 1 than Jak 2 did. Basically, there are more vehicles and there is a bigger emphasis on shooting. Before I explain how and why this is good, I feel compelled to clear the air a bit. On IGN, Jak 2 was grossly overrated. I'm sorry, but the tedium of hover driving just wasn't any good. In fact, Jak was probably regarded a touch too highly, also. All that is now spilt milk. Don't dwell on it, for whether you compare Jak 3 to its predecessors or take it as a standalone title, you're in for a phenomenal experience that must not be missed (less you welcome death at our hands). To understand this, let's first look at why the third is better than the second. Jak 2 had a real problem with pacing. Not only was it a tedious game that featured excessive use of hovercraft in Haven City, the missions weren't successively disparate enough, which made playing through a bulk of the title redundant and almost trivial. Jak 3 remedies this entirely. The first half of the game actually features little to no prerequisite world navigation. Missions come back-to-back and take moments to reach. When it is required to move to a distant point, the game will actually tack on extra missions between points A and B so that there is always something exciting to do.
After the second half of Jak 3 there are a few instances where you'll be required to revisit a scaled down version of Haven and see it from the saddle of a hover-crap-thing, but even this is infinitely more enjoyable than it was before. First of all, you don't have to worry about wretched cops. Second, the city itself is engulfed in war and eventually every street turns into a massive battlefield where it can sometimes feel like there are more combatants than buildings.

Not only do you move between missions faster than before (and over more interesting terrain), the missions themselves are also finely honed, balanced, and extremely diverse. It's not uncommon to rapidly switch between racing, time sensitive platforming, incredibly complex platforming, free-roaming action, free-roaming shooting, on-rails shooting, and freaking tobogganing. Some missions are more challenging than others and will require a few deaths to figure out, but the classic Jak instant load is in place, so getting back into things is never a big issue. Now we come to where Jak excels on its own. Simply, Jak didn't piss me off. It sounds tripe, but it's extremely important. I died a hundred times while playing through the game for this review, but I never became seriously upset and I did beat it. When I thought about this for a time, I figured something important out: I failed because I was no good.

Jak 3 offers a gamer just about everything. There are twelve interesting guns, four melee attacks, a dark Jak with melee and ranged attacks all his own, and a light Jak capable of shielding himself, flying, freezing time, and self healing. There are also a handful of different vehicles, an ever-present hover-board Marty McFly would be proud of, and a lot of stationary turrets. It's also a game with the tightest control, the smoothest framerate, the clearest indicators, and the most responsive characters. But I still couldn't win most missions the first time through. The AI is good, the levels are well designed, and death is certainly avoidable, but I'd still die a lot. Why is that?

Honestly, I couldn't win in one shot because I wasn't very good. Jak is so well designed, the only way a person can re

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