Where to find Beyond Good & Evil

by Alexander Sliwinski on May 29th 2008 12:59PM

We realize that with yesterday's announcement of "Beyond Good & Evil 2," some folks may have tragically missed out on the first entry in the series. We've put together a quick list of places where those not familiar to the series can get the game and meet up with Jade, Pey'j and -- our favorite personal assistant -- Segundo.

Steam (PC) -- $10
GameTap (PC) -- $1 for the first month, $10 after that.
GameFly (Xbox, PS2 and Gamecube) -- Various rental plan prices, but currently copies are subject to availability.
GameStop -- Currently, we can only find the somewhat dodgy PS2 version available online for $8. Check your local shop and you may get very lucky.

Those who find a GameCube version can rely on the Wii's backwards compatibility to play the game, and PS3 owners can pop in the PS2 game if their systems support BC. The Xbox 360 currently does not offer backwards compatibility for the Xbox version of BG&E. We're sure there are more corners of the internet to find Jade & Co., but it appears that $10 is what you're likely to pay.

Tags: beyond-good-and-evil, beyond-good-and-evil-2, bge2, GameCube, jade, peyj, PS2, PS3, segundo, ubisoft, Wii, Xbox, Xbox-360

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If anyone lives in Baltimore, I just saw a GCN copy in the local GameStop today...

Fellow Baltimorian here, which Gamestop?

Where not to find Beyond Good & Evil:

- Xbox Live Marketplace

Sorry Ironhead, forgot I made this post. Charles Village was the one where I say it. Used, of course.

Is it backwards compatible on the 360?

"The Xbox 360 currently does not offer backwards compatibility for the Xbox version of BG&E."

Reading the story before you post...is a good thing :)

XD My bad. My article skimming powers aren't as great without my morning coffee.

Its shameful that the 360 can't play this game.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backwardcompatibilitygameslist.htm

Thank you!
Man, how is Barbie's Horse Adventures BC and not BG&E :/

People need to keep pressing Microsoft to make this title BC.

And get to work on Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath while they're at it.

isn't BC for the 360 finished. I remember reading an article here that said Microsoft's not working on the backwards compatibility anymore. I might be wrong, but i wouldn't hold your breath waiting for it.

Danger, I seem to recall the stopped making games BC too.

Microsoft acknowledged that they were slowing efforts on BC titles, but I don't think they outright closed the door on more updates. I bet that if they received enough pressure they could make something happen.

There's a few Ubi games that play that use the same engine. It can't be that much work, right?

http://www.gamequestdirect.com has new, sealed copies for all three systems. 19/20 for GCN and PS2, 30 for Xbox.

GCN version box states it requires 20 blocks of memory to play, though it actually requires upwards of 50-55. Just a forewarning.

I just checked the site and it said the GCN and XBox versions are out of stock.

Who doesn't know the series though? It's on practically every "amazing games that no one plays" list.

It was released at the same time as Prince of Persia, as well as a few other big names. UbiSoft decided to put their advertisement dollars behind Prince of Persia and people just didn't learn about this game until it was gone.

Perhaps it's the "that no one plays" part that's holding it back.

Who doesn't know the series though?

People who don't go on gaming sites?

This would have to be my number 1 over-rated game of all time. THis game plays like a freeroaming Pokeman Snap with an incredebly bad combat engine. Character design is horrifying, and the graphics weren't even on par for that gen.

This is one that the gaming community constantly holds up that I just don't get at all.

@shag:

huh? Its essentially Zelda with an awesome sci-fi storyline (and a great combination of simple fun and more complex issues). I wouldn't say its over-rated at all.

Segundo?! I left my wallet there. Or was it El Segundo?

The few GS/Ebgames I am near have many copies of this game for both PS2 and Xbox. I have to see if I can find the GC version. I think after this announcement you will see 360 coming up with a XBL version sometime soon.

10 bucks steam? Sounds like a deal!

Only in the US, I was about to buy it, realised that Ubisoft are too dumb to sell it to me in the UK, and instead visited a site called the Pirate Bay. Nice one Ubisoft, you just saved me £5!

Maybe the game should come out as a retro classic download on XBL, make it 10 bucks and you have a deal!

On Gamestop's website, seach for Beyond Good & Evil and then click on the SHOW BACKORDERED PRODUCTS button, it'll show the GameCube and Xbox versions, punch in your zip code and you'll bound to find a copy fairly easily.

D'oh! Never knew you could search local Gamestop stock online. It would have saved me a fair bit of hassle recently looking for a couple of relatively hard to find games. I was bitching and moaning all the while about the 'fact' that there was no way to check store availability online!

Oh well, I've added the GCN BG&E to my Goozex request list.

I used to have the PC version, but loaned it to a friend years ago and never got it back (thankfully, I also have the XBox version).

What I'd like to know though, was this ever ported to the Mac or does anyone have experience running the PC version through virtualization?

I'd run out and pick it up again without hesitation if I knew I could play it without dusting off the XBox.

No Mac version, sorry. Well, you could always run it in Steam in bootcamp. As for parallels or VMWare, that should work since its a pretty old game, but I can't vouch for it.

So the Wii is the best console to play this on and Steam has it readily available.

It wouldn't surprise me to find this game on Market place in a few days.

Direct Gamestop Links:

GameCube:
http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=31271

Xbox:
http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=31065

PS2:
http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=27745

Enjoy your hunting folks AND PLAY THIS GAME!

I'm telling you guys, this will be the best $10 purchase you'll make! It's pretty common at Gamestops here in Dallas, especially on the PS2.

Check out Ebay/Amazon/Half.Ebay...

I picked my copy up a couple months ago at a circuit city outlet for like $2.83. It was for PC so they must have had a dick load of them in some back room and just shipped em all here. I believe there were quite a few at the time. None now though, I've been back multiple times since...

Thank you Joystiq, you saved me the trouble of doing all this 'research' myself. Now if you could do this with Zone of the Enders series, we are set.

At 10$, its a steal, I have the Xbox version, so I need a GC or PS version now...

Be weary if you have Vista, there is a lot of graphical glitches. It's definitely playable but you have to fiddle with the settings launcher. Under Advanced Settings, uncheck HW Vertex Processing and W Buffer. This takes care of sum but not all problems.

The original Windows CD version also cannot be installed if you run Vista x64 or XP x64 as the TAGES copy protection fails during installation and it unceremoniously aborts nukes the installed files, leaving you dazed and confused as to what actually just happened.

No idea if the Steam version is compatible with 64-bit Windows, anyone have any luck?

You can play this on GameTap for free also.

Not that it's worth it.

I just got a new copy for PS2 on Amazon for $19.43 after shipping and everything... i would check Amazon if i were you people...

it's funny, i woke up this morning and said "I need to play that game because i never have..." I checked my local Gamecreazy / Gamestops which neither had... so i went online to find that joystiq was right their with me in my quest of finding a copy... I love this site...

If you have texture flickering, slow fps in water areas, or audio sync issues, check out this gamespot thread:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/beyondgoodevil/show_msgs.php?topic_id=m-1-43131982&pid=561436

You can change find the settings changer app in "Steam\SteamApps\Common\Beyond Good and Evil\". I forget exactly what the exe is called.

The other thing I read was: "save early, often, and in multiple slots!"

In european countries (dont know about the us) its in one of Ubisoft "Gold Games" collections. For about 20 bucks I guess you get 10 games. Beyond good and evil, Raven Shield, Splinter cell, XIII, PoP Sands of Time, Pirates of the Caribbean (the good seadogs one) and more. got it for a few years and cant recommend it highly enough...

Silly. The real answer is "in my games library at home," and it should be the same for all of you! Get to it.

Is it worth buying? I missed this one, maybe I should give it a try. But, can someone first please tell me what type of game this is?

At that price, it is very worth buying. It has flaws (unlike what you might read), so don't get your expectations over the top though.

It's a heck of a lot better than Rez, and people bought a lot of that at about the same price.

If you really have nothing to play right now, go ahead and pick it up for cheap, its an average game at best, I don't get what all the hubub is about.

I've got it for the ps2 (picked it up for $5 at bookmans). I just couldn't get into it. If I wanted to run around taking photos of stuff, I'd play Dead Rising or Fatal Frame.

Maybe one of these days I'll get around to giving it another shot. Then again, I've got a lot of other games begging for attention.

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