Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

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(Oh. Rating removal. Original rating 10. -Trafton)[This review has been edited by Trafton AT]

Sigh, overrated, overrated. You can’t stick to the rating of three years ago. You must compare it with stuff from the present!

And in that case I have a few words that can put this review together.

-Small
-Low eye candy
-Reasonable design

If you like nostalgia, download this. If you like the best levels available go somewhere else.

Hehe, I’ve played this for so long now, yet I have never downloaded it on J2o and haven’t even got the music. :-D Well, it’s time to change all that, because here’s my review.

Distopia is the greatest CTF lvl ever in my opinion. I just love it.

The eyecandy may be of very poor quality, but the gameplay rocks. There are basically two bases, both at the bottom. You can get to the oppositions base by going at the bottom, the middle, or the top, each being slower than the other (so the bottom is quickets and the top slowest) although quickest doesn’t always mean safest since it is very easy to protect both places.

Distopia has also many suckertubes in it making players able to zoom around quite fast but there are many places where you can camp so you’re not invincible against attack inside the tubes. Springs are no problem either, being always at the right place at the right moment. You can either use them to escape or to get someone taking suckertubes since springs are faster (I think). The only complaint I got is the green spring near the red base. If you hit the spring and you’re trying to score, then you have to wait a couple valuable seconds before you fall down. This makes you much more vulnerable and this also gives Spaz the edge.

Fortunately, Jazz has one significant advantage in Distopia. Once he reaches the higher places of the lvl, he can copter to every single place in the lvl and can also reach springs in the air while Spaz has to jmup down and go up again by suckertube.

The weapons placement in Distopia is great too. Unless it’s a laggy server, you won’t ever run out of ammo since the most important weapons, seeker and bouncers, are never more than a couple seconds away. The full energy carrot is also well placed, unless you only got one heart left because it’s also very easy to protect by camping.

Overall, an excellent CTF lvl with great gameplay and lots of different ideas can be used here. Download NOW.

An 8.7.

Cheers,

White Rabbit.

EDIT: Trafton outdid me this time. ;-( [This review has been edited by White Rabbit]

The rating i give first is a hotel only rating which compares this to other hotels and rates this: 9.0

The average rating which compares this to all other levels 2.3

Around a 6

Im to lazy to do the math :P

Eyecandy
The background isn’t terrible. The rest of the eyecandy however is poor. Some of it just looks wrong and other parts don’t fit the level.

Gameplay
Gameplay is average. The flow wasn’t very good and there were many dead ends, but it seemed that it was still satisfactory.

Item Placement
This is the level’s best part. Weapon selection and placement is above average, but not enough to make this level worthwhile.

Conclusion
A pretty average level with bad eyecandy and OK weapon placement. I can’t really recommend this for download, but keep trying.

Eyecandy
Eyecandy is very nice, as it tends to be with Super Mario Brothers tilesets. I’m not sure why, but it’s pretty hard to make a level using that tile set that looks terrible without trying.

Gameplay
Gameplay is OK, but nothing spectacular. It seems fluid, but at points the Mario’s games gripes (like the fact that it is a platformer and Jazz, well, lacks similar platform types) becomes immediate. Still fairly good, though.

Item Placement
Item placement was pretty good, but also not amazing. There was some ammo, some non-ammo items, etc. They were spread out accross the levels but ammo seemed to be a little bit more common towards the end of the levels, which is pretty useless since the levels are about to end anyway. Still, very nice.

Conclusion
This is a good pack overall. The levels are similar, but that’s not a surprise. In fact, throughout my review, I kept accidentally referring to them as one level, which is why it sounds so weird. Good, and worth the download.

Eyecandy
These levels suffer from a lot of eyecandy bugs, which severely detract from the overall experience. There were numerous tile glitches, which ranged from annoying to purely ugly.

Gameplay
There were a few annoyances in this category, but generally moving around was fairly easy. However, the levels’ layouts, with their several dead ends and walls that are easy to hit into, quickly became aggrivating. Not up to standards.

Item Placement
Item placement was fairly good, but still not as good as it could be. Most items were placed well, but some seemed to be randomly dropped in at the last minute.

Conclusion
This level suffers from huge amounts of minor annoyances that severely detract from gameplay. There are numerous errors that could have been avoided through more testing and longer time spent on this level. Sorry, but I can’t recommend this for download.[This review has been edited by Trafton AT]

Eyecandy: 5/20
This is a level featuring New York City, which recently was attacked, as most of us all know. However, I can not add on points to a level for just being well-timed. The tileset is used OK, but it still doesn’t quite look right. Eyecandy is a little simplistic, and looks wrong at some points. However, it’s not really terrible.

Item Placement: 6/15
Item placement was one of this level’s worst problems. The item placement seems random at best, with no prior planning. Important ammo is often out in the open while normally easy-to-get items are oddly hidden in hard-to-get-to locations. This is very unbalanced.

Atmosphere: Not Applicable/25
I do not give atmosphere ratings to levels that are already this low on score, because this sharply lowers scores, and I’m not that unfair of a reviewer.

Tileset Use: 3.5/5
To the author’s credit, the tileset was generally used correctly, but looked odd at times. Overall, this is where the level excels most. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the least important measures in my rating.

Gameplay: 14/35
“Ouch.” This level just doesn’t have good flow at all, and it’s not really worth a download. Sorry.

Score: 3.8
Adjusted Score: 4.5

Umm… it doesn’t work. I can’t download it. IT says page not found.

I live in Canada/Quebec/Montreal, and here the current date: 8:04 PM 23/10/2002. Help :S

Following acid’s method, which I may use in the future for reviewing hotels (note that the individual rankings do not go toward the final verdict):

Rooms: The rooms weren’t very interesting at all. They were OK, but they still didn’t make looking around them fun and kind of took away from the “ownership experience” if that exists for hotel levels. (6/10)

Areas:
Airboard arena: Dah. This idea should die from all hotel rooms. Airboards look cool, but just aren’t fun. (4/10)

Battle arena: Likely the best part of the level. It’s small, but it’s fun to play for about five minutes, which is longer than I can stand playing most hotels. (7/10)

Pool: An empty box with water. At least be more creative. (4/10)

Airboard tag: I dislike gametypes that you can’t tell who won. I dislike airboards. I dislike playing underwater, where this is. Guess how much I like this area? (3/10)

Rollercoasters: Hmm…a sucker tube going through different environments. It’s been done before, many times. (4/10)

Pinball: Pinball rooms give me rashes. (5/10)

Golf: Actually, this is a fairly new idea, but I still don’t like it. Too noisy, too. (6/10)

Don’t make hotels. No one should make them unless they are amazing, which few are. For this, I give a 5.7, but no download recommendation.[This review has been edited by Trafton AT]

Pretty good, but I got stuck a lot, almost ten times. Other than the masking problem, there is nothing wrong with these levels. Very nice.

Much like “Gold Rush” but this was earlier. A very nice effort all-around. Eyecandy could be better, but it’s still good. And just because it makes you cold isn’t really a great reason to give a 2. ;-P

An Easter theme? Shudders

Still, this is a fairly good program, despite the eggs…and the Easter bunny…shudders more.

Download recommendation.
Shudder

It works now Trafton

Well…Here for my rare and occasional LONG review

Hilltop hares
An ok lvl using diamondus, everything is okay, a bit to to small though.
+.3
Christmas Carnage part 1,2,3
Thank you, ineeded to know how to use the tileset properly and seperate the day part from evening, the evening from night etc. Like I said its also samll but still good
+.7
Checkerboard trouble
I thinkits your biggest level, fairly done
+.4
Muckamo mayhem
I prefer hazes muckamo tileset but this one is more realistic. Nice level, not as small as some of your others
+.5
Alien Carnage E3L1
Im not in favour of these videogame levels, but its not your tileset so. This is overall a good level, not perfect like the kevels from blades battle pack or anything, but a good level.
+.3
Jazz of the Jungle
An original name, good use of springs and poles, another average level
+.4
So far 2.7

Candy Carnage
U use the word carnage to much, but this was my favourite level. I needed the original candion music because i like it and agian, it taught me use of the tileset so thanks
+.7
Green hills zone
I knew how to use this tileset so…
I luv the music, and the level, so you got a good mark for this
+.6
Lagunicus LOHO
I dont like this level much, it looks to empty for me and not much effort is used to make this level
+.1
Marbelera madness
Well this is my second favourite because of the tileset, the level and the music. To small again though
+7
Hilly pastures
Almost same as hilltop hare so not much marks for copying your level and only changing it a bit
+.1
Total 4.9
Music= EXCELLENT
Im nort sure you downlopaded this or made it, some of it you donwload it im sure so only 4.0
And +.1 for effort and wise choice of dividing the extremly big pack into two halves.

9.0 in total conghratulations

Edit: I got longest revieew so bleh whiterrabbit if you review this

Wait, I think Violet got the longest
Darn
Edit: lowered rating, my last one (9) was overrated.

[This review has been edited by Blackraptor][This review has been edited by Blackraptor][This review has been edited by Blackraptor]

I keep getting 404 errors not found, but it appears the file is still there. I’ll try to download it when I can get onto my other computer. This one seems to have strange proxy settings that stop me from downloading certain levels.

I hate proxies. =P

This is a pretty good level, but the flow seems off in some cases. Everything else is very nice. Download recommendation, but Jeh still must die. ;-P

Taz: Some users for some reason post 2 reviews whenever they review, due to some glitch. My “Trafton” account has that bug, and there’s no way to stop it. In fact, “RosetaJOL” even posts three reviews each time. I don’t think it damages the average, though.

And this is a pretty good download. Download recommendation.

This level pack is, in one word, HUGE. And it’s not only file size-wise. While I’m sure it must be torture for those with “52K” (Do you mean 56K?) modems, it was still bad downloading it even on cable. However, it was worth it.

The actual pack is all-around excellent. Gameplay is very good, with very good weapon placement, eyecandy, and good flow. But there were some tile glitches, but it didn’t really subtract from the overall package.

Download recommendation? Yes, if you can afford the time and space that it takes to download and install a multi-megabyte level pack.[This review has been edited by Trafton AT]

It does not surprise me at all that this level was made in ten minutes. It feels like it.

The tileset was used correctly, which shows that you are capable of creating good levels if you just slowed down. The idea of walking on the sky is strange, and eyecandy is also horrible. The tileset may have been used correctly, but it still isn’t pretty.

Gameplay was the worst point, in fact. The level played awfully. Enemy placement was dreadful as I expected. Item placement was nearly as bad.

There is really no way that I can recommend this level for download. Spend more times on your levels and if you really have some odd urge to make a bad ten minute level, don’t upload them. If you already know it’s bad, why destroy your average level rating?

Sorry, but there is no way I can give this a download recommendation. Slow down and some day, you might make a great level.