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Games like Jak II

2003PlayStation

The sequel swaps the bright island world for a grim, open dystopian city, blending tight platforming with gunplay, vehicles and a more mature revenge story. Daxter's wisecracks keep it fun, while its missions are notoriously tough.

  • Jumping and platforming
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Open world
  • Lavish presentation

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In short: Games like Jak II

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Jak II special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Jak 3

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2004PlayStation

Brings what grabs you about Jak II: jumping and platforming, an open world as well as good gunplay.

Jak 3 blends platforming, third-person shooting and vehicle driving across a sprawling desert wasteland and a hub city. With Jak's light and dark powers and Daxter's quips, it is a funny, energetic finale to the trilogy.

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Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time

Sci-fi setting

A funny sci-fi action adventure mixing wacky weapons, platforming and space flight between planets. Clank's time-manipulation puzzles and a warm story about the duo's fate round it out.

Ratchet & Clank

Sci-fi setting

A colorful sci-fi platformer where you hop between planets and blast enemies with an ever-growing arsenal of wacky gadgets and guns. Its sharp, sarcastic humor and the buddy dynamic between Ratchet and Clank give it plenty of charm.

Ratchet & Clank

Sci-fi setting

A colorful sci-fi adventure that blends platforming with an arsenal of wildly inventive weapons. This reimagining of the original looks like an animated film, with humor and fast pacing as you hop from planet to planet.

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy

Open world

Naughty Dog's vibrant 3D platformer has Jak and his ottsel-transformed sidekick Daxter roaming a seamless island world collecting Power Cells. Tight jumping, loading-free exploration and Daxter's wisecracks give it lasting charm.

Blaster Master Zero III

Open world

You guide Jason through side-scrolling and top-down sections of mutant-blasting action, returning to Sophia where the series began. It mixes exploration with weapon and vehicle upgrades and closes the trilogy with plenty of action.

Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier

Sci-fi setting

An action platform adventure in which Jak and Keira take to airships and use Eco powers in search of ancient Precursor machinery. It mixes aerial combat, platforming and wisecracking humor, though it is regarded as the weakest entry in the series.

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath

Shooting and gunplay

A western-flavored bounty hunter adventure that blends third-person melee platforming with first-person shooting on the fly. You hunt outlaws using living critters as ammo in a quirky, oddball world with dark humor.

Sunset Overdrive

Open world

A loud, colorful open-world action shooter where you grind across rooftops, wall-run and blast mutants with absurd weapons. The fluid traversal and irreverent humor set it apart.

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