Jak 3

Jak 3 is a platform game developed by Naughty Dog for Sony's PlayStation 2 console. The game is the sequel to Jak II, and third in the series. The game features new weapons and devices, new playable areas, and…

70 9 November 2004

Adventure Platform Shooter Action Comedy Open world Science fiction

Jak 3 is an adventure developed by Naughty Dog, released 9 November 2004 on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 2.

Verified 10 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Jak 3 is

Jak 3 is an adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and released in 2004. It was published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 2. It runs on GOAL.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game begins with Jak and Daxter being banished into the Wasteland by the tyrannical Count Veger for supposed crimes against Haven City. Ashelin, who opposes the banishment, gives Jak a beacon before she leaves and tells him to "stay alive". As they travel through the desert, flashbacks reveal that Haven City is at war between the Freedom League and the surviving Metal Heads and their allies, the KG Death Bots. The Palace is then destroyed by an unknown force. As Jak, Daxter, and Pecker lose consciousness, they are rescued by a group of desert-dwellers, who take them back to Spargus City. Waking up in Spargus, the King, Damas, says that Jak must earn his place in the civilization by…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Jak and Daxter series

Jak 3 is the fourth of 18 entries we hold in the Jak and Daxter series. It arrived a year after Jak II. The next entry was Jak 3: The Journey Back Gold Edition in 2005. Its critic score of 70 is 7 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy at 90.

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How it was received

Jak 3 holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 73, across 207 votes.

What it launched against

Jak 3 launched on 9 November 2004, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and World of Warcraft. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, World of Warcraft.

Cheats and codes

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