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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

The closest matches for Jak II are Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, Ratchet & Clank and Ratchet & Clank. 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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Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time

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2009PlayStation

Brings what grabs you about Jak II: jumping and platforming, lavish production as well as a 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

Jumping and platforming

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

Jumping and platforming

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

Lots of humour

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.

Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction

Jumping and platforming

A vibrant sci-fi romp that blends fast third-person shooting with platforming and a wildly inventive arsenal. Weapons level up through use, and the jokes keep the mood light throughout.

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.

Iconoclasts

Strong, story-driven narrative

As mechanic Robin you shoot, jump and wrench your way through a crumbling world. This pixel-art adventure stands out with tough boss fights and a personal story about faith and purpose.

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