Heavily underrated game. A gem amongst a charcoal backdrop, lost in a sea of mediocrity.

*pours booze on ground for some reason*

this game is friggin awesome

$10 for this game. It makes me cry. Seriously, i payed full price for this game when it came out and I would do it again. This is the most underrated game I have ever seen. Anybody that owns a Gamecube, PS2, or xbox (which should be everybody reading Destructoid) NEEDS to buy this game. I would say that it was Game of the Year when it hit shelves.

Beware if you get this for PC. If you've got a CPU that throttles, you'll need to turn off the throttling. I ended up playing the game at 2.2x speed because I have cool 'n' quiet but was unaware that the game wouldn't work right with it.

Best damn game ever, period.

I played it on the PC, kinda buggy should of got the Xbox version. Stellar game though, good write-up. That Spanish hologram guy was annoying.

Well, since I just bought an Xbox this weekend, I'll make it a point to pick up this game (as well as the requisite copy of Halo) as soon as my budget allows it. Stupid college budgets...

You will not be able to put this game down, its story its artwork, gameplay it's just simply addictive.

I love this game, such a great story and the ending, oh how I want a sequel.

Whats wrong with the PS2 version? I didnt have any problems.

Awesome game btw, one of my best experiences of this past gen. This is one I'll come back to years from now.

It's your average adventure game if you ask me. And the one thing I hate most in any videogame is when the developers throw in these dumb cutscenes that you're not allowed to skip. Eventually I got fed up and stopped playing altogether.

I played this way to many times on the Xbox when it first came out, got all the pearls, was rather proud of myself.

Seriously though, I hated that ending... there HAS to be a sequel. Oh, also the music is ridiculously good.

I'm looking for a copy right now. I'm glad I kept my Wavebird for the Wii.

I honestly put this right up there with Okami as one of the best adventure titles I've ever played and I only paid 7 bucks for it. And that was almost two years ago.

awesome game... played the buggy(but still awesome) pc version, and recently beat it.....oh yea its was only 2.99 on amazon...play this game please

synce

Dude frigging blasphemy this game is fvcking awesome

aaah well to each his own i guess

Already own it, but yes. Absolutely. And most people on the forum agree.

I'm also curious why the ps2 version is considered inferior?

Oh yeah, I just picked up psychonauts (another great underrated gem)

I'd just like to take a moment to say...

SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL!

Jesus!

We.

Get.

It.

I am so fucking sick and tired and sick and tired and sick and tired of hearing every fucking gamer with a face-sphincter and marginal QWERTY competence going on and on about this fucking gem, this underrated masterpiece, this buried treasure, this gaming Picasso, this icon of the ages.

Listen.

It's on the shelves.

We know.

We KNOW!

We've seen it at EB. At Target. At Best Buy.

We.

KNOOOOOW!

We heard about it when it went on sale for $30.

And $25.

And $20 (GAWD, did we hear about it at $20).

And $15.

And now $10.

Guess what?

Fuck you.

And fuck Good and Evil.

I played the game.

I hated it.

But that's not even the point. The point is not whether you liked or disliked it. We fucking get it! Blah, blah, treasure. Blah, blah, buried sack of shiny fucking doubloons.

We have the Internets at our house.

We know how to use a search engine.

Pretty much everyone on this site is a serious gamer. We read the blogs, the sites, the magazines. We KNOW Good and Evil is highly regarded.

We also know the same thing about Psychonauts, Ico, and Shadow of the Colossus. Now show us some fucking respect and ZIP IT!

Zip!

I'm serious.

Somebody cut the head off of this marauding beast, drive a stake through its heart, and bury it face-down in consecrated ground.

Gawd...

DAMN!

So help me gawd, if you even THINK about posting on Dtoid about this fucking game when it hits $5, I will come to your village, rape your livestock, and set your entire fucking family on fire!

anyone gonna answer the questions about why its inferior on ps2?

as thats all i have. and almost bought it at one point

Reading Lezbro's posts, you can see what kind of person doesn't like this game. However, if you're well-rounded, if you can communicate without sounding like a little kid who just learned how to swear, and if you LOVE video games, then BG&E is for you. Li'l baby tantrum-throwers and attention whores need not apply!

This whole article = Epic.

One of my favorite games ever.

@Lezbro: Why in the world was a rant like that necessary?
In fact, why would you READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE?

@Lezbro, its called "Beyond Good & Evil" not "Good and Evil". There is a difference.

I can kinda understand Lezbo's frustrtation and I'm sure we've all felt it at times when you don't get some super popular game that's getting it's balls licked. I get the same feeling every time I hear about how supposedly great Gears of War is. These latest awards it got nearly sent me over the deep end.

Psychonauts is a much better game, I think.

I honestly wasn't all that amazed by BG&E. Maybe the fact that I played it at 2.2x speed had something to do with it, but I just don't see what the huge deal is. It's good, sure, but it's no Deus Ex.

its funny you mention Deus Ex. the same thing happened when i tried to play that on my PC. It was running at at least 2x the speed and was unplayable and i was unimpressed. By the time i figured out the problem i had moved on to another game.

>> In fact, why would you READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE?

Please, sister. You know I didn't read the whole article.

Not even the first paragraph.

I didn't have to.

I've read this same article 500 times before on other sites.

Oh.

BEYOND.

Well, that changes everything.

The only real knock about the game is that it's pretty short, it's probably in the 10-12 hour range. By no means should this dissuade you from buying it though.

i must admit, i've only played this for like an hour at a friends house. I didn't want to buy it for $35-$40 (what it cost then), but $10, if I find this i'll pick it up.

Great article. Thanks for reminding me about this gem. I think I'll be popping it in later tonight for another runthrough. I bought this new at target for $15 about a year ago. BTW, this article and the other BBLs have been great. I just picked up GunValkarye at the local gamestop based on your recent BBL on it and am loving it. I had no idea about that game. What a great feature. Keep up the good work and don't mind the local DBag snobbery.

Awesome game. Picked it up for the Cube when it first hit $20, played through it completely, then turned right around and played through it a second time to get 100%. And nobody has mentioned the incredibly addictive air hockey mini-game yet, I spent hours just playing that alone. I still wish they'd stuck in a multiplayer mode for that.

Did a search on Google for "'beyond good and evil' underrated."

11,300 results.

If there are 11,300 articles, blog posts, comments, and essays written on how you are the "most underrated of all time," then you are by definition NOT underrated at all.

I'll say it again...

It's not whether this game is good or bad, it's about having to hear over and over and over how underrated this game is. How it's such a sweet bargain. How I simply MUST play it.

It's NOT underrated.

Any more than Okami is underrated or Psychonauts. Every gamer on the planet knows the sing-songy party line on those games. The orthodoxy. The gospel.

This spank session is driving me batshit.

I guess I simply don't see why a big group of people digging on a game somehow makes it less deserving of praise. But whatever. It's a good game at a cheap price, can't beat that.

Two cents is two cents. Beyond was allright, but as a concept, this is Abe's Odyssey/Exodus in 3D. Same storyline. It's the combat that was pretty solid, the game had a knack for batting enemies exactly where you wanted them to hit. Pretty ambitious.

OK.

Fine.

I yield.

Does the Xbox version work on the 360 yet? I have a copy and have been waiting for well over a year now to play it. :/

Any word on wht the ps2 version isn't as good?

*why

I just can't see how this game could possibly be worth $10. The last generation graphics are definitely not up to the premium graming power of the next gen ps3. i can see picking it up for the ps3 because the ps3 would improve the graphics enough that you might be able to stand to look at it, but i prefer the ps3 games which show off the premium power of the premium hard core gamer console, the ps3. i'm going to go back to watching this herzog/kinski movie now, and maybe later i'll play a little resistance which is pretty much the only next gen graphics game on the market right now.

Oh, Mike -- just to clarify, I recommended the Xbox BG&E over the PS2 version because there's some really crap slowdown in it from time to time, and the Xbox just runs it better. I own 'em both. Normally I'd stick to the PS2 version just because I prefer the Dual Shock to the Xbox S Controller (like I did with Psychonauts), but a game this pretty deserves the best presentation it can get.

Mind, I said this after having played through the game in its entirety on the PS2. I got the Xbox version when it was good and cheap. It's definitely playable on the PS2, but between the two I'd definitely stick with the Xbox.

I bought this for the PC when it came out. One of the best games I have played. In fact, I think I will reinstall it and play it again right now.

Again, I can't tell if milly is serious or trying to be funny.

As far as what Lezbro has been saying, I agree with one minor point he made. Beyond Good & Evil is not underrated. It's an excellent game, and if you ask just about anybody who has played it, they'll say the same. It's just semantics, but how about underappreciated instead?

In the first paragraph I made the admission that this was not a new or somehow novel opinion. It made BBL because it's a great game, and cheap.

Heh -- next week's BBL: "You guys heard of this game? I bet not! Nobody's heard of this fucking game, it's called Okami, and it's like the most unknown game ever! Yaaartthgh!"

i must admit, since i started reading this site back at its inception, beyond good and evil HAS been mentioned a lot.

Shadow and Ico are amazingly fantastical and if that makes me an Ueda-san fanboy than I will happily bear that cross!

(Does it matter that I waited for two hours after he finished giving his key not at last year's DICE summit to get his autograph?)

I didn't think so. ;)

Personally I liked the game and if you haven't got it then $10 is a steal for something that you probably won't regret... and if you do then sell it on.

1. @Lezbro - you have a point about BG&E being constantly lauded and if you don't rate the game, fair enough but given the topic of this thread maybe you should have realised that this would be a BG&E lovefest and stayed clear... unless you enjoy the pain.
2. @Milly as an example of parody your comments are the pinnacle of achievement... I don't know if I should laugh or cry.

Bought this for the PS2 after the PC version had issues.

BG&E is a damn fine experience. Id pay 10$ to play this again.