Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko

The Good
For the most part, this game is like an expansion pack to Gex 3D: Enter the Gecko. It's more of the same, it has more content, more worlds (with themes not seen in the previous games), more levels, more... everything! Gex now always wears some suit that is approriate to the level theme.

This time, the main hub world is Gex's base. Which is like the Batcave. It's interactive, it has part to explore, items to find, a training room, and whatnot. Pretty creative.

Out of the level themes, I want to highlight the anime one. It had pretty fresh satire for the time (for example school girls as enemies), and a pretty cool atmosphere in general. Gex has a robotic/mecha like suit here.

The items are now made of poligons instead of sprites, which is... something.

The Bad
There is no PC port! I didn't know about this existing, until I got into emulation. And even then, I could not find a good working PSX emulator for long, to be able to try it out.

Once again they did the thing where they swapped the voice actor for Gex in Europe, to yet another somebody. Give me the voice of Dana Gould or nothing!

And for the game itself. As everything is cranked up to a higher level, it gets overwhelming instantly. For example, the starting levels already have such a bouncy energy to it, that its hard to focus. It gave me nausea! Other people seem to prefer this one as the best in the franchise, I found it hard to get into it. The previous game had the right amount of zanyness.

The game has more of a story this time, and it takes itself somewhat seriously. While it's an improvement over the previous games where the story was paper thin, I don't like where this took the franchise. Not a fan of the added characters and cutscenes. The Butler Turle is, allright if boring, but Agen Xtra... My experince was -even if mostly just trough YT- like this. It's like meeting with a good old buddy you haven't seen for long. Only to bring his slutty annoying girlfriend. They keep ignoring you, and the they keep schmoozing and saying lewd things to each other, and you're like "Hey, I don't need to hear this, keep it to yourselves!". I have nothing against damsel in distress stories, but Agent Xtra can just shut up and fk off. I guess they wanted to get every opportunity to show off that they got a live actress to act badly, but why in a game with a cartoon gecko? And Rez, while he is the main villain yet again, barely has any presence.

The Bottom Line
I haven't played this one much, but I want talk about it. Maybe some time I will be to play trough it, and will be able to write a more in-depth review.