I\'ve been playing J&D for around 5 to 6 hours now, and what can I say? WOW! The graphics in this game are absolutely amazing. The textures are pretty good (better than most other PS2 games). The animation is some of the best animation I\'ve ever seen in a video game. Every character is full of life. The whole game is hilarious. Everyone acts so funny (especially Daxter). The voice acting is great. The only problems I have seen with this game are:
1. There really isn\'t anything too innovative. Sure, the game uses the PS2 the way it was meant to be used (zero load times, everything streamed in off the DVD), and it has an infinate draw distance, but as far as Platformers go, this game doesn\'t bring anything new. I have to give it credit though; It combines every single platformer ever made which IMO made J&D the best Platformer game ever. Hopefully Naughty Dog\'s next game will be more innovative now that they know how to use the PS2 right from the start.
2. The game hickups sometimes (meaning, the framerate gets choppy for small periods of time). It usually happens when walking out of a tiny room and going to the huge world. I guess there is just too much to read off of the DVD at that split second or something (that doesn\'t really make sense though, because it loads in the data every frame. So why would it only struggle right then? Hmmm...) Anyways, when it does happen, it only lasts for a few frames (less than a second). Then it goes back to the silky smooth 60fps even when looking out over the whole world. I found one place that was pretty much the highest place in the world. When I looked around, there was no pop-in, no fog (everything was a lot smaller though), and I could locate every place that I had already been to from up there. After seeing this game, I have no doubt in my mind that the PS2 will be able to easily compete with the Xbox and NGC graphically. I can\'t even imagine what PS2 games will look like a year from now.
