Daxter
Daxter is a platformer developed by Ready at Dawn and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. Released in 2006 for the PlayStation Portable (PSP), it serves as a midquel set between Jak II and Jak 3 from the…
Daxter is an adventure developed by Ready At Dawn, released 14 March 2006 on PlayStation Portable.
What Daxter is
Daxter is an adventure game developed by Ready At Dawn and released in 2006. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game takes place in the final months of the 2-year gap presented in the opening of Jak II (and the aftermath of The Precursor Legacy), between the moment when Jak is taken prisoner by the Krimzon Guard and the time in which Daxter finally rescues him from the Krimzon Guard Fortress. The introduction shows Jak being captured while Daxter manages to escape. Almost two years later (having no luck rescuing Jak), Daxter has forgotten all about finding his friend. An old man named Osmo, whom Daxter meets, hires Daxter as an exterminator working in various parts of Haven City and occasionally its environs to exterminate bug-like Metal Heads referred to in-game as 'Metal Bugs'. During his…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Jak and Daxter series
Daxter is the seventh of 18 entries we hold in the Jak and Daxter series. The next entry was Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier in 2009. Its critic score of 90 is 13 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy at 90.
How it was received
Daxter holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 25 points above the year average. Players rate it 84, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Daxter launched on 14 March 2006, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Daxter yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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