While Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy was a simple adventure platforming game that even relatively nubile players could finish in a day or two, Jak II was a supremely difficult, more combat-oriented game that would have even the most hardened video game veterans chucking their controllers out the window and sobbing into their pillows. We'll have impressions of launch titles and more details soon. Jak 3 is a great balance of its two predecessors. As such, the system will not be bundled with a memory card. The system will include one Dual Shock 2 controller.Īddressing the DVD issues that troubled the Japanese launch of the system, the North American PS2 will have DVD video playback functionality built into the hardware, eliminating the need for a memory card-based DVD driver. System peripherals, namely the 8MB memory card, four-player multitap, and Dual Shock 2 controller, will retail at about US$34. On a technical note, the US PS2 will feature an expansion bay in back of the console, in which you'll be able to insert a 3.5 inch hard drive and network adaptor. The levels are outrageously small, the graphics are mediocre, the core gameplay is much simpler than the original J&D, and the overall game is short with very limited replayability. SCEA plans to ship one million PS2 units at launch, and a total of three million consoles by the end of the company's fiscal year in March 2001. If Daxter comes to PS2, they need to significantly improve almost all aspects on it.

The retail software will ship at a suggested retail price of US$49. The PlayStation2 will ship in North America on Octoat a price of US$299. Sony Computer Entertainment America announced the launch date and price for the US PlayStation2 during a pre-E3 press conference in Los Angeles today.

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