Rumor: Beyond Good & Evil being reissued this month for $10

oh it's good. Its Beyond Good and Awesome.



seriously.

I also got the $5 steam deal, but mine works.

I bought the PC version a few weeks ago. Playing the game in full HD and 4xAA is so much better than breaking out my old PS2.

Sure, it was never meant to be a graphically intense game, but the brilliance of the art style gets brought out a lot more in HD.

*the game is also really good

Its not a huge game, sub 8-hours easily, if you don't go on the taking nature photos subgame too much.

I must have spent hours waiting for a whale to leap out of the water just right enough to capture a great shot.
Good times.

Its overrated shit. Its Pokeman Snap with a really crappy fighting engine.

@Shagittarius: Um, pokemon snap with a broken fighting system? You're... KIDDING, right?

Granted the game is not the most super expansive, high end, deep and most fantastic experience out there, it did one thing that very few games manage to do:

Blur the line between a 'video game' and an 'interactive experience'. It had just enough storytelling and the like to make it appear as though one was watching a movie, with plenty of gameplay dashed in to make it so you weren't ENTIRELY just sitting and staring at the screen.

It's really interactivity at it's finest and for a small crowd of us gamers, it was an experience we don't really find in other games. It was originality that got overlooked by a multi-tude of other unoriginal titles being released at that time.

I don't think those who've played it see it as a holy grail of gaming... But is it apart of a genre that was dying out around that period and is starting to steadily receive a revival?

I'm refering to narrative styled games BTW, like Indigo Prophecy, Sam and Max, Silent Hill, games in which the experience is of the utmost concern and gameplay is a second thought. Sure, it may not be on the same scale of Call of Duty, Madden, Halo or the many other series more known amongst the mainstream and that's just it, but it's a treasured gem to what I believe would be the indie gamer crowd.

And we're going to finally get a sequel. So, why NOT play the first one? :P

I guess we disagree I played it as far as I could stand and found it to be complete overrated shit.

Shag, you're Pokeman Snap with a really crappy fighting engine!

Same, and I can't find my Xbox AV cables, so I just picked up the PS2 version. Plays great upsampled on my 60GB PS3 (though I have to keep enabling the progressive scan option every time i play it). Only 3 hours in so far and it's already great!

While I agree the Wii is a missed market for this game, there are FAR more people playing PS2s than Wiis.

You're right, I'm playing through the game right now for the first time. It's a good, fun game, but it's not some miraculous piece of gaming like people make it out to be. It's kinda like Zelda-lite. I'm still having a pretty good time though.

First I used GameFly to play the PS2 version. The framerate got abysmal quite frequently, but I was enjoying the game. I bought the Gamecube version and still have it. It played perfectly on that.

Now that it's on GameTap I played the PC version and also had some rendering problems (on a very dated computer).

It's because of that first paragraph that I'm shocked they're ONLY reissuing the PS2 version, which was unplayable by my standards.