Jazz Jackrabbit is better than JJ2 because:

EDIT: This is my personal opinion.

1. There are way more single player levels!
2. The single player levels are more fun in general (e.g. the water / purple slime levels in JJ1 rock, or the tubeelectric levels).
3. The music is better.
4. There are 3D bonus levels.
5. There are more secret levels.
6. It's not so tremendously buggy as JJ2 is (e.g. many clipping errors in JJ2, you can bomb Devan out of the level by placing TNT etc.).
7. There is an animation at the end of EVERY episode (not only the last one) and a "story text".
8. There are those cool bonus items which make you extremely fast for a certain ammount of time.
9. There are invincibility bonus items and shields. These are better than those random Sugar Rushs in JJ2. EDIT: I forgot that there are shields in JJ2.
10. There is a comic strip in the manual. EDIT: It looks like only my manual doesn't have one.
11. JJ1 is a dos game and therefore playable on almost any platform thanks to dos emulators like dosbox.
12. There is a little "introduction" to each planet by a small picture of each planet. EDIT: I rather should've written "world (new tileset)" instead of "planet"


Disadvantages of JJ1:
1. No multiplayer mode.
2. Only one playable character (although there is the advantage that you can reach every location in a level which should be reachable).

The fact that there are more weapons in JJ2 isn't an advantage, in my opinion. Furthermore, the special moves of each character are nice but one can live without them. EDIT: In contrast to what I wrote here I realized that the special moves in JJ2 are pretty cool.


I'm looking forward to reading your comments about this post.