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Gameplay

Beyond Good & Evil is an action-adventure game with elements of puzzle-solving and stealth-based games.[3] The player controls the protagonist, Jade, from a third-person perspective. Jade can run, move stealthily, jump over obstacles and pits, climb ladders, push or bash doors and objects, and flatten herself against walls.[4] As Jade, the player investigates a number of installations in search of the truth about a war with an alien threat.[3]

In the game's interior spaces, the player solves puzzles and makes their way past enemies in order to reach areas containing photographic evidence.[3] Jade's main tools are her Jō combat staff (a melee weapon), discs for attacking at range, and a camera.[5] Jade's health, represented by hearts, decreases when hit by enemy attacks. It can be restored using fictional food items and can be increased beyond the maximum with «PA-1s» that, when held by Jade or her companions, increases their life gauge by one heart.[6] If Jade's health is depleted, the game will restart at the last checkpoint. Certain stealth segments later in the game automatically kill Jade if she is detected. Beyond Good and Evil Download free Full Version.

At times, it is only possible to advance in the game with the help of other characters. These characters are computer-controlled, and players direct them via contextual commands.[3] For example, the player can order them to perform a «super attack», either pounding the ground to bounce enemies into the air, allowing the player to hit them from long distances, or knocking them off balance, making them vulnerable to attack.[7] These allies possess a health bar and are incapacitated if it is depleted. Jade can share some of her items, such as PA-1s, with these characters.

In addition to obtaining evidence and completing assignments, Jade's camera can take pictures of animal species in exchange for currency, and scan objects to reveal more information about the environment.[5] When the «Gyrodisk Glove» is obtained, Jade can attack enemies or activate devices from a distance by using the camera interface.[8] There are also various minigames and sub-missions offered by NPCs scattered throughout the world. Beyond Good and Evil Game free Download Full Version.

A hovercraft is used to travel around the world, and also used for racing and in other minigames.[10] Later, the spaceship Beluga is acquired. The hovercraft can dock with the spaceship. Both vehicles require upgrades in order to reach new areas and progress through the game. Upgrades are purchased using pearls that are collected throughout the game, by completing missions, exploring areas, filling in the animal directory or by trading credits for them. The vehicles have a boost ability, and can be repaired using a «Repair Pod» if damaged by enemies.[11]

The main city serves as a hub, giving the player access to the various areas that must be explored in order to expose the conspiracy. Jade can earn credits by defeating enemies, taking pictures, or completing assignments, which can be used to purchase additional items for both Jade and her vehicles.

Plot

Setting and characters

Beyond Good & Evil takes place in the year 2435 on the mining planet of Hillys, located in a remote section of the galaxy.[12] The architecture of the city around which the game takes place is rustic European in style. The world itself combines modern elements, such as email and credit cards, with those of science fiction and fantasy, such as spaceships and anthropomorphic animals coexisting with humans.[13] As the game begins, Hillys is under siege by aliens called the «DomZ», who abduct beings and either drain their life force for power or implant them with spores to convert them into slaves.[12] Prior to the opening of the game, a military dictatorship called the «Alpha Sections» has come to power on Hillys, promising to defend the populace.[5] However, the Alpha Sections seem unable to stop the DomZ despite its public assurances. An underground resistance movement, the IRIS Network, fights the Alpha Sections, believing it to be in league with the DomZ.[14]

Beyond Good & Evil 's main protagonist, Jade (voiced by Jodi Forrest), is a young photojournalist. She resides in an island lighthouse that doubles as a home for children orphaned by DomZ attacks. Pey'j (voiced by David Gasman), a boar-like creature, is Jade's «uncle» and guardian figure.[5] Double H, a heavily built human IRIS operative, assists Jade during missions. He wears a military-issue suit of armor at all times. Secundo, an artificial intelligence built into Jade's storage unit, the «Synthetic-Atomic-Compressor» (SAC), offers advice and «digitizes» items. The main antagonists are the DomZ High Priest, who is the chief architect of the invasion, and Alpha Sections leader General Kehck, who uses propaganda to gain the Hillyans' trust, even as he abducts citizens to sustain the DomZ.

Story

Jade and Pey'j are care-taking the children of Hillys orphaned by the DomZ. When Jade runs out of money to run the shield that protects them, she finds a photography job, cataloguing all the species on Hillys for a science museum. She is recruited by the IRIS Network, which suspects that the Alpha Sections are behind planet-wide disappearances. Jade's first target of investigation is an Alpha Sections factory. She discovers evidence of human trafficking orchestrated by the DomZ under the Alpha Sections' authority. Along the way she rescues Double H, who was kidnapped and tortured by the DomZ. Pey'j is abducted by the DomZ and taken to a slaughterhouse that is to be launched to a lunar base. After failing to extract Pey'j from the slaughterhouse in time, Jade learns that Pey'j was, in fact, the secret chief of the IRIS Network. Beyond Good and Evil game free Download for PC Full Version.

Jade learns that the Alpha Sections are being possessed and manipulated by the DomZ. Using Beluga, the ship Pey'j used to travel to Hillys, Jade and Double H go to the DomZ lunar base. There, Jade finds Pey'j dead, but a strange power inside her brings back his soul, reviving him. After rescuing Pey'j, transmitting her final report, and sparking a revolution, Jade confronts the DomZ High Priest. She learns that her human form is the latest container to hide a power stolen from the DomZ centuries ago in the hope that the High Priest, who must have spirit energy to survive, would starve to death. The High Priest managed to find a substitute energy in the souls of all those kidnapped from Hillys. Using the stolen power within her, Jade is able to defeat the DomZ High Priest, though nearly losing control of her soul in the process, and then revive and rescue those that have been abducted. In a post-credits scene back on Hillys, a DomZ spore grows on Pey'j's hand.

Development

Beyond Good & Evil was developed by Michel Ancel, the creator of the Rayman video game, at Ubisoft's Montpellier studios in France.[15] The game was developed under the codename «Project BG&E», with production lasting more than three years.[16] A group of 30 employees comprised the development team.[15] Ubisoft's chief executive officer, Yves Guillemot, fully supported the project and frequently met with the team.[17] After years working on Rayman, Ancel wanted to move on to something different.[17][18] He recalled that the goal of Beyond Good & Evil was to "pack a whole universe onto a single CD—mountains, planets, towns. The idea was to make the player feel like an explorer, with a sense of absolute freedom.[15]"

A second goal behind Beyond Good & Evil 's design was to create a meaningful story amid player freedom. Ancel said that the linear nature of the gameplay was necessary to convey the story; player freedom was an experience between parts of the plot.[18] He also strove to create a rhythm similar to a movie to engage and delight players.[19] The game drew on many influences and inspirations, including the Miyazaki universe, politics and the media, and the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.[20] In creating the lead character, Ancel's wife reportedly inspired the designer, who wanted to portray a persona with whom players could identify.[21]

Beyond Good & Evil was first shown publicly at the 2002 Electronic Entertainment Expo, where it received a negative reception.[17] Originally more «artistically ambitious» and resembling games like Ico, the game was substantially changed in order to make it more commercially appealing. Jade, originally a teenage girl, was redesigned to be more powerful and befitting of her job. The game was also shortened by removing long periods of exploration, due to Ancel's dislike of this aspect of gameplay in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. The development team was «demoralized» by the changes, with Ancel commenting that the finished game resembled a sequel more than a reworking.[13] Prior to release, playable previews of the game were offered in movie theaters. Beyond Good and Evil Free Download Torrent.