25 Years Later, This 10/10 PS2 Trilogy Is Free With PlayStation Plus
The PlayStation 2 era really was peak gaming for a lot of the community who were lucky enough to grow up playing games on the console. As well as being enormously powerful for the time of its release, and uniquely graphically impressive as a result, it also played host to some of the best games of all-time.
The exclusives divide was a lot deeper back then, and Sony had a lot of very recognizable franchises at their beck and call back then, across a huge variety of genres. The advent of backwards compatibility has seen many of those series return in one form or another, including a legendary trilogy of games that are well worth returning to in 2026.
Most people born in the 1990s who were into video games will likely remember the Jak and Daxter series, with the first three games serving as some of the best examples of the open-world 3D platformer genre ever.
What you might not have been aware of is that the original trilogy is also available on PlayStation Plus Premium via the Classics Catalog for PS4 and PS5. Starting with Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, you can progress through the story just as Naughty Dog intended all those years ago.
You step into the boots of Jak, who sets out to reverse the transformation of his best friend Daxter, who has bizzarely become a fictional hybrid of an otter and a weasel. The premise isn’t really important honestly, but it comes from a time when developers really weren’t afraid to launch into a much less grounded story as long as they could make a really fun game.
The second game in the series also serves as one of the most stark upticks in difficulty that children had to face, leaving the first release in the series in the dust in terms of raw challenge. It really does reward skill though, and getting all the way through hits all the same notes that it evoked back then.
The third is probably the weakest of the three, but if you liked the first two, then you’ll almost certainly have a good time with it as well.
If Jak and Daxter don’t take your fancy for some reason, there are plenty of other amazing games in the Classics Catalog that are worth your time, including Dino Crisis, Harvest Moon: Back To Nature, and Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee, so why not capture a little of that childhood magic one more time?
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February 7, 2012
- ESRB
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T // Crude Humor, Fantasy Violence, Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco
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Sony Computer Entertainment
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