
Jak 3 starts with Jak II's gameplay and builds out from there. When the game starts you'll be proving Jak's worthiness to the chief by going through a series of trials. While the opening cinema seems destined to end badly for our troupe as they wander through the wasteland and drop like flies from the heat, they are rescued by the other outcasts who have made a home for themselves in the rough desert. This has meant that the forces struggling to maintain order are a little testy-which leads us to our boy Jak, along with Daxter and Pecker, the monkey bird-being banished to the arid wastelands far from the city. Unfortunately, the ensuing rush amongst the three major factions in the city to fill the power vacuum resulted in chaos that caused a plethora of problems. It appears that Metal Kor's defeat at the end of Jak II didn't magically solve every problem in the city. Fortunately, a perfectly timed flashback brings you up to speed on current events.


The game opens up with an unpleasant banishment that will leave you wondering what the heck happened. While this would lead you to believe that Jak 3 opens up in a happy Disney-esque era of utopian prosperity, that's not quite what happens. Evil had been vanquished, the future and the past both appeared to be safe, and everyone involved learned valuable life lessons. So when we last saw our heroes everything seemed right in their world. Jak and Daxter are coming back to the PS2 to close out their trilogy. We had the chance to visit the Naughty Dog offices in sunny Southern California recently to hear what the seasoned developer has up its sleeve for the pointy-eared hero and his smart- talking companion. Just because Jak 3 wraps up story elements from the first two games, it hardly means this will be the last we'll see of our unlikely pair of heroes. Jak 3 is just wrapping up the current story arc, which Naughty Dog always envisioned as a trilogy that started in the original game. While that may sound ominously final to fans of the series, don't sweat it. Simply titled Jak 3, the game will be the final chapter in the Jak and Daxter trilogy. Hot on the heels of last year's impressive follow-up to the original Jak and Daxter, developer Naughty Dog is currently working on the third installment in the series.
