Beyond Good & Evil is an action-adventure game with elements of puzzle-solving and stealth-based games. 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. As Jade, the player investigates a number of installations in search of the truth about a war with an alien threat.
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.
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | AMD Athlon X2 2.8 GHz or higher; Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or higher | Intel Pentium III / AMD Athlon MP |
| VRAM | 64 MB | |
| RAM | 4GB or more | 256 MB |
| OS | Windows Vista 32-Bit with Service Pack 2 and the KB971512 platform update | Windows 8 64-bit |
| Graphics Card | AMD Radeon 3870 or higher; NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or higher | nVidia GeForce 4 MX 440 / AMD Radeon 9000 Series 64MB |
| Direct X | DirectX 9.0 | DX 9 |
| SOUND CARD | DirectX 9-compatible sound card | |
| HDD Space | 2GB | 3 GB |
| Game Analysis | Beyond Good & Evil is an action-adventure game with elements of puzzle-solving and stealth-based games.[6] 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 in doors and objects, and flatten herself against walls.[7] As Jade, the player investigates installations in search of the truth about a war with an alien threat.[6]In the game's interior spaces, the player solves puzzles and make their way past enemies in order to reach areas containing photographic evidence.[6] Jade's main tools are her Daï-jo combat staff (a melee weapon), discs for attacking at range, and a camera.[8] Jade's health decreases when attacked by enemies, and health can be restored by using fictional food items "Starkos" and "K-Bups". She can also gain extra hearts by collecting PA-1s. If Jade's health is depleted, she will restart at the last checkpoint. Certain stealth segments later in the game will automatically kill Jade if she is detected. | |
| High FPS | 200+ FPS ( GTX 1060 ) | |
| Optimization Score | 10 | |
Definitely a game of its time. Held back in pretty much every way by how elderly it is but has a lot of charm and the concepts are brilliant.