![]() ![]() Beyond Good & Evil's gameplay is hardly risk-averse – and the soundtrack is equally eclectic. ![]() It also features a lovely soundtrack, worth calling out separately. By blending together these semi-optional side missions with a core story built around location-by-location exploration, racing and pick-up-and-play combat, Beyond Good & Evil nails variety. Mastering hovercraft racing and earning as many pearls as possible becomes critical. Without enough pearls to upgrade your hovercraft, you can't move onto the next area or unlock the next key skill. These pearls set the pace of the game – a bit like Mario's stars or other similarly-minded platformers. Given Jade is also a photojournalist, you're also tasked early on in the game with photographing various life forms in the world –and you're rewarded with the local currency and, erm, giant pearls. Where Beyond Good & Evil differs is in how it mashes together other genres a large portion of the game revolves around stealth gameplay, so there's a lot of (occasionally tedious) crouching and creeping around to be done. In fact, fans of Nintendo's veteran series will probably feel immediately at home in this game – perhaps filling in a void on the competing platforms when it was originally released. Play The gameplay combines elements of Zelda-like dungeon exploration, set in military compounds, industrial complexes and around the hub city and islands dotting the map. This probably accounts for its lasting legacy-that and the gameplay, which spawned a myriad of Ubisoft-led offshoots, Assassin's Creed among them. It's not quite 'A Tale of Two Cities'-calibre of course – and there's no real connection to Friedrich Nietzsche's work of the same name, but Beyond Good & Evil has a distinct feel to it all the same. It's all very quirky and, honestly, exudes the kind of originality of design that betrays its French-developed roots. The two are pulled into a tale of underdog resistance against an alien threat known as the DomZ. Jade's joined by her uncle, Pey'j – a giant, talking pig-man and engineer – one of numerous animal-folk inhabiting the world. Jade, a green-eyed, green-clad photojournalist and orphanage-operator is pulled into a political uprising on the Earth-like planet of Hillys. This HD rerelease, available now on Xbox Live Arcade and coming later in 2011 on PlayStation Network, is a promising sign of life and timely reminder of the potential this game's setting holds. ![]()
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