Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Reveiw:
Small, tube electric style tileset with no textured background, not very textured forground, nothing for any layer but 4 and 8, a couple flashy thing for eycandy. No destruct blocks, no nothing but platforms!

Bias:
Nice small tileset, but it is for 1.24 not 1.23 Make it bigger, more eye candy, Textured background and for 1.23 and you will get a 9![This review has been edited by N0B0DY]

Great program. It has a ‘Server Info’ feature is sth I had never seen before in a multiplayer launcher. I myself had thought doing sth like that but I was too lazy to study the jj2 responses.
Besides, I can’t avoid mentioning the player edit fuction. The process of choosing the fur color is accompanied by a picture. Excellent.
Now… There are some bugs… It freezes temporally when tryting to connect to a list a server or to a server in order to retrieve the player list/level. If it is unable to do that it stops responding and I have to close it through Task Manager. Other times it indicates an error. ::: I saw some [0/0] (you should show sth like ‘??’ or unknown) and [5/3] (!) servers. Not sure if this last one happens owing to prog bug though. ::: Since it gave me a ‘Could not write to JazzTool.ini’ error (people must understand not everybody runs their progs with administration privileges. Use HKEY_CURRENT_USER to store the paths or, at least, the same folder jazztool.exe is in. Now… The windows directory?… Come on…) and didn’t terminate the prog, I had to close it through the Task Manager once more. ::: This new version did not detect my installations and hiding the non-susceptible-to-be-joined servers was not a good idea. ::: It loaded the 1.24 exe to load a 1.24 x server. This is grave.
And, of course, the option to start a server is missing, which is a pity for it’s a relatively easy thing to implement. I would suggest the possibility of saving the player definitions into a .reg file or similar so we could switch them easily and have a kind of ‘rabbit themes’. And an option to enter the server IP manually.[This review has been edited by Cataphract]

[This review has been edited by Cataphract]

The idea of this level is just the normal battle1, but with several “spectator rooms”, where other people can use trigger zones to let boxes of ammo fall down, to let a shield falld own, etcetera. It’s a nice idea, but the leveldesign isn’t by you and everyone can go in the “Big Rabbit” control room to control so that’s unfair. You don’t always see what happens when you activate a switch, and not too much happens, there isn’t a text board that says what will happen so you have to guess, and I didn’t find the warp to get out of the control room so once you’re in the control roomyou can’t go back to the battle.

The idea is maybe good, it’s a bit like the JDC tournament games, but it isn’t worked out. You neve know what you’re actually doing and there isn’t a readme included in the zip.

So overall: Don’t download this, only when you really want everything uploaded to J2O.

A nice program, but it has some irritating things. The font size is too small, especially with a high resolution screen, and the screnn could use a normal blue bar at the top. The most probable host thing is funny, but it’s not very trustable. Maybe it would be a nice idea to also pust a “Host name:” thing in. It should say the name of the server (I mean the nickname) so you can see who started the server.

Overall, nice program. It doesn’t add much features but has a clear layout with a (too bad!) way too small font size. Download recommended, altough I still like JazzTool more.

I’m flattered that I’m mentioned:-P

Hmm, I just realized I should tack the installation rating on the end of the rating but ironically it doesn’t apply to this level. =/
I’ve been meaning to review this, so here we go:

Normal installation.

INSTALLATION RATING: =

Very solid eyecandy. This is a quality job, folks. If you struggle with eyecandy BlurredD is a great example to learn from.

EYECANDY: 2.8/3

The actual gameplay itself is decent for Battle levels, but it is not up to the caliber of the eyecandy. They are solid efforts – nothing horrible, and nothing truly outstanding.

WEAPONS: 1.5/2
NAVIGATION/CARROTS: 2.9/4
SUBTOTAL: 4.4/6

This pack has a great base value of fun but lacks the polish to push it into the epitome of Battle levels.

OVERALL “FEELING”: .8/1

This definitely gets a download reccomendation, and even a hosting reccomendation. Spice it up a little with these levels.

TOTAL SCORE: 8/10
ROUNDED SCORE: 8/10

Oh ya, and one more thing. Run Pathset.exe before you run quikjoin.exe, and make sure they are in the same directory! otherwise you will get a file not found error.

hm, I think when you’re reviewing a tileset it’s important to also view the example level if there is one. Sometimes a set may seem too simple but when you see the level it turns out you can do really cool stuff with it…

This is the case with this set imho.[This review has been edited by Ninja Dodo]

I luv this,sort of…
It looks really wacky and I lub wacky!
YOOHOO!

ANOTHER INCREDIBLY SHORT REVIEW BY WR:

Good tileset. Great animations, cool, Greek letters, nice eyecandy and that rose rock. It’s a straight 7.5 from me…

I am away from jj2 but want to comment to this any ways.

We hold no grudge against CC. But the user Black Energy was given low status because of account abuse, and thus should not review at all. Same with ShadowXR.

If we see a level with an average rating between the 5.2 and 5.5 we do suspect something is wrong when a friend of Craccoboy suddenly gives a 9.2 review. As the rules say: “2. Rating levels obviously unfair(give a level with an average rating of 2, a 10, or one with an average rating of 10, a 2, or something like that. (try not to rate your own friend’s levels in a biased way)”.

I have said this a lot of times, but I am NOT biased towards GPW or any clan. If you want to know why Black Energy was banned, just PM me.

Craccoboy, I don’t think your argument about Disguise’s tilesets is right. The situation is not comparable. Disguise’s files generally get high ratings. When we suddenly see friends of Disguise rating his levels high, while all other non-friends rate his tilesets high too, why should we suspect something? If everyone gave one of his tilesets a 5 and a friend suddenly rated it 10 we would remove that review just as well. You see, everyone holds different opinions. Some rate less strict then others. Because of this, different people rate levels differently. One rates it 7, the other 8. This is only a small margin, however. We simply don’t trust differences of 5 points. Such a difference has nothing to do with one’s own ‘opinion’. If you truly rate things for their eyecandy and gameplay, or whatever factors, you can’t have such huge differences in the ratings, because while one may dislike the level for the gameplay and another one might like the gameplay, even someone who dislikes the gameplay will see that it has quality, even though it’s not his style.(Compare it with music. You may not like the classic rock genre, but it’s still good, it’s just not your style). This is called objectivity. If everyone rates objectively(and there is a lack of people who do that) you won’t have 5 point differences. Or are you accusing Disguise and Flash of being biased against you? ;p

[——-EDIT——-]
No, Craccoboy, you can’t be held responsible for Bolt and ShadowXR. It’s simply so that as they were banned they weren’t allowed to review.

And it’s the high rater’s side against the low rater’s side. The difference between the sides was that the people who rated high were your friends. Friends generally are a whee more biased. I have reason to think Flash and Disguise aren’t biased. I have enough reason to think the two banned persons who have a history of biased ratings were biased. And Jackass, suddenly started to review, starting with the level of his friend. This does not help make his case more believable, still, maybe his review shouldn’t have been deleted. The reviews of the two banned persons would have been deleted even if they had given one of Shadow’s levels a good rating.

I am sorry that I thought the 5.x reviews were earlier then the biased ones. I still think that it was just to delete the reviews for the reasons I mention here.

I am also sorry that we made the rating of your level go lower, but that’s just how we work. Let’s see if the next people who rate this level (unbiased) will make the rating go higher.[This review has been edited by FQuist]

You can also host serers unlisted using xjj2..Just make one and then click the button ‘Click here to delist your server’. And ofcourse like the others said. So pretty useless.

I dun like it, it’s just difficult to play.[This review has been edited by ShadowGPW]

WHATTA!!!? Why are the most reviews ( the ones higher as a 5.5 I mean) deleted??? If a person has an opinion I don’t think somebody else can just say: ow, I don’t agree with that …Let’s just get it away!!
I don’t think that’s normal!!
And now I know you all will say things like: But it were all friends who gave the good points and blablabla…. But that’s not true!!! The leader of JOL gave a high rating to ( and JOL aren’t really the biggest friends of CC).
I hope you all know what I mean and will change something about this.

[admin]okey now make a good review and rate it FAIR, Just press the Edit button and make a good review. [/admin][This review has been edited by ShadowGPW]

[Admin warning] Rule 2 abuse, rating 1.5

This certainly isnt what I expected from a tileset with an average rating of 8.7 at all. I’m very suprised that it got that rating in the first place.

I can see that you’re all friends of shad.

Don’t rate your friends tilesets in a biased way, read the J2o rules!

These levels are below average. Download them and see for yourself.

No download reccomedation!![This review has been edited by ShadowGPW]

(original rating 3.5)

I can see that you’re all friends of shadow.

Don’t rate your friends tilesets in a biased way, read the J2o rules!

Bad levels. Too boring, not useful at all. The eyecandy isn’t really eyecandy, it’s more eyepoo. I expected something better from you!

No download reccomedation!![This review has been edited by ShadowGPW]

Hmmm, I really like Alien Homeland. It’s one of Disguise’s best tilesets ;-)

RockyG is not bad either, but the others aren’t that good. There just aren’t enough tiles in each one, maybe you should try to merge these 5 tilests into a multi-theme tileset, then I would give it at least a 7,5.

For now, I’ll give it a 6.[This review has been edited by CraccoBoy]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bows before Reddy!^^[This review has been edited by Piccolo]

MUST… DOWNLOAD… VERY FEW… PROBLEMS… AWSOME… BOSS MUSIC!