Beyond Good & Evil

The Good
- lovely graphic style & character design
- fitting soundtrack

The Bad
- too linear
- not much exploring to do
- too easy
- the sophisticated gamer may find the whole experience "too shallow"

The Bottom Line
Well, this game was for a long time on my list of games to get my hands on as it was considered to be a insiders tip. To my disappointment this game didn't catch me.

The controls and interactivity with the world and during fighting are limited to actions that can be done with one or two buttons - you don't have really the freedom of doing much more than needed. My personal feeling is that you can't really explore the world - but rather follow a more or less a "given" path through the game and just pressing some buttons here and there to perform "predetermined" actions as you advance.

The photo shooting task becomes dull after a while.
The cartoon setting and the characters are modeled quite good - and the voice acting is pretty good too - some characters like the Reggae listening rhinos are quite memorable.

But in an overall view the game is boring - during puzzle solving and also during fighting. Sorry, but this game is only average.