Beyond Good & Evil (2003)
Nintendo GameCube · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 2 · Xbox · Xbox 360
4.04 from 1422 ratings
4555 members have it in their collection · 108 playing now · 1976 backlogged · 706 wish listed
How long? Main story 11h · with extras 13h · 100% 13h (from 24 logged playthroughs)
Details
- Developers
- Ubisoft Montpellier
- Publishers
- Ubisoft Entertainment
- Genres
- Adventure, Puzzle, Shooter
- Themes
- Action, Open world, Science fiction, Stealth
- Series
- Beyond Good & Evil
- Event
- Ubisoft E3 2019 Conference
- Steam
- View on Steam
Release dates
- Nov 11, 2003 (North_America) PlayStation 2
- Nov 12, 2003 (North_America) Nintendo GameCube
- Nov 12, 2003 (Japan) Nintendo GameCube
- Nov 14, 2003 (Europe) PlayStation 2
- Nov 19, 2003 (North_America) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Dec 02, 2003 (North_America) Xbox
- Dec 05, 2003 (Europe) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- 2003 (Australia) Nintendo GameCube
- Feb 27, 2004 (Europe) Nintendo GameCube, Xbox
- May 13, 2008 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
Also available on
- Beyond Good & Evil HD (2011) · PS3, X360
- Beyond Good & Evil: 20th Anniversary Edition (2024) · NSW, PC, PS4, PS5, XONE, XSX
Featured in lists
Rating distribution
5 stars
498
4 stars
569
3 stars
284
2 stars
56
1 star
14
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status TheBeautifulEric Dec 26, 2021 Completed
+Music is rad
+Collecting pearls and taking pics of animals is oddly satisfying
—Terrible camera
—Battling multiple enemies is awkward because there isn’t a lock on mechanic. It’s easy to attack an enemy you didn’t intend to because they walked closer to you.
—I just didn’t care for the stealth sections they threw in at about the midway point. Makes …
+Music is rad
+Collecting pearls and taking pics of animals is oddly satisfying
—Terrible camera
—Battling multiple enemies is awkward because there isn’t a lock on mechanic. It’s easy to attack an enemy you didn’t intend to because they walked closer to you.
—I just didn’t care for the stealth sections they threw in at about the midway point. Makes sense in the story, but it was my least fav part of the game
+-Story wasn’t bad, but I didn’t find myself invested in the characters or what was happening
Finally played through a game that I’ve heard about for so long. I feel like I’m missing something because I didn’t enjoy it as much as I was hoping to.
Status internpepper Nov 19, 2020
This game has a lot of variety with exploring, combat, and photography with a fun soundtrack and great characters.
Status Tubbymora Jul 26, 2019
It's kind of strange how I came across this game. Back in the day, when I was a kid, Cosco would sell and bundle packs of games together (usually 3 in each bundle), and my friend's family picked one up for him. Needless to say, Beyond Good and Evil was one of those games. I remember going to his house …
It's kind of strange how I came across this game. Back in the day, when I was a kid, Cosco would sell and bundle packs of games together (usually 3 in each bundle), and my friend's family picked one up for him. Needless to say, Beyond Good and Evil was one of those games. I remember going to his house one day, and I saw Beyond Good and Evil just sitting on his shelf - it looked like it hadn't been played at all. I asked him how the game was, and he told me that he just couldn't bring himself to play it because it was "scary". After looking at the box art, and reading a few pages of the manual, the game didn't look too "scary" in my opinion. My friend eventually just told me that I could have it since he knew he wasn't going to be playing it.
Later when I got home, I popped in the game and started playing it and I kind of began to understand why he couldn't bring himself to play it. Beyond Good and Evil has MANY dark undertones - government conspiracies, abductions, a dark atmosphere... this game was EDGY AF lol. Not gonna lie, I was pretty nervous playing this game as a kid, but by the end of the journey I remember being very grateful that I did. Because this had easily become one of the best games I had played up to that point. The way everything unravels just feels like it could be a super secret spy film xD. The unique world, strange cast of characters, and bumping music.... I really hadn't played anything quite like it at the time.
Status sponkey Feb 16, 2019
I really wanted to love this game. The characters are fun, the humor is great, the design is clever...but the controls are god-awful and the camera is even worse. What should have been a highly entertaining ride quickly devolved into rage at simple stealth sequences made impossible by the inability to control my character. I hate giving up on a …
Read moreI really wanted to love this game. The characters are fun, the humor is great, the design is clever...but the controls are god-awful and the camera is even worse. What should have been a highly entertaining ride quickly devolved into rage at simple stealth sequences made impossible by the inability to control my character. I hate giving up on a game, but I had to do it. I suspect it would be better on a console, but the PC version is all I've got.
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Status kotenoru Sep 30, 2017
Empecé este juego por toda la expectación que había respecto a su segunda parte. He de decir que en un principio me pareció curioso y luego algo lento, pero el juego nunca paró de sorprenderme.
Si bien se trata de un juego muy corto y "fácil" (no ha hecho falta tirar de guía en ningún momento y no he tardado …
Empecé este juego por toda la expectación que había respecto a su segunda parte. He de decir que en un principio me pareció curioso y luego algo lento, pero el juego nunca paró de sorprenderme.
Si bien se trata de un juego muy corto y "fácil" (no ha hecho falta tirar de guía en ningún momento y no he tardado ni diez horas). La verdad es que la evolución lo acaba compensando.
El juego toca muchisimos tipos de jugabilidad que lo hacen increíblemente interesante y la evolución de la protagonista es bastante atrevido. Combinando partes de sigilo con algunos combates variopintos (sobre todos los combates en vehículos son espectaculares), me ha hecho replantearme como es posible que este juego hubiera salido nada más y nada menos que en 2001.
En definitiva, es una joya y encima esta disponible para una infinidad de plataformas, lo cual lo hace aún más atractivo.
Status spigelwii Jan 18, 2017
One sentence review
A must-play masterpiece of storytelling and game design that can go toe to toe with the best adventure games of the era, 5/5.
Status CesarGerusalem Nov 10, 2016
I'm playing it on PC and I can't play anymore because i'm so concerned about trump winning