Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Cool! I really like the idea of using the neat “Jazz1: Technoir” tileset conversion by Newspaz (about 200 tiles).

The design of the level is very good (pretty classic SP style) and there is a fair amount of good looking eyecandy. The water isn’t a problem at all (its not like the level is completely flooded or something :-). Enemy and savepoint placement is good and the level is quite long actually.
And of course, the original Jazz 1 music fits perfect.

Conclusion: “Techno Land” gives you about ten minutes of great single player fun and a very good impression of whats possible with Jazz1 tilesets!

I don’t feel like theres a need to completely write a new review for the current version of Shad’s “The Future Evolution” so here goes my my edited review from the previous version:

Wow!!! With this CTF level pack, ShadowGPW proves it again: he is one of the best level designers of all times. “The Future Evolution” includes five absolutely stunning CTF maps using Tube Electric, Labrat, MEZ’s third set (Version 03b, i wonder why he included 03a also) and two of DethMan’s awesome CyberSpaz tilesets. No doubt, this is one of the best CTF packs i’ve ever seen. Amazing!

The design and layout of the levels in unbelievable and so is the eyecandy. Spaceships, insane tube constructions, you’ll get everything here! I’m lacking words too describe it.

Not to forget the music: very fresh, very rocking tunes using the classic tracking style. Great choice, great! Sorath’s two tunes leave me completely breathless, as well as the song by W3Z and Skaven’s rocking “Return Of The Cats”. Only the “Episode” (kill.mod) didn’t fit perfectly (no biggie though).

Well, anyways…Shadow, i bow down to you! You truly deserve a 9 for this AWESOME pack! (9!!! Still makes me dizzy :-).

To sum it up, if you don’t download this, you don’t want to download anything else because you can’t be a Jazz player in that case. Things like this make people like me thinking about converting to CTF fans ;-) DOWNLOAD NOW!!!

P.S.: The few minor bugs have been corrected to my satisfaction :-)[This review has been edited by Aiko]

Hmmm, “Trampolines” is a small tileset (only 30 tiles) showing some square blocks, diagonals, the sun, a cloud and a masked invisible block :-)
It also includes a nice little example level, supposedly treasure hunt mode. It used the classic “Industrius” music from Jazz 1.
Unfortunately, the level looks a bit unfinished and way too small. But well, maybe that’s appropiate for the tileset? (take that as a provocation :-). Oh and it could need some weapons (Yes: Treasure Hunt levels HAVE weapons!).
All in all, i really think the author tried his best this time and put some effort into this. Maybe it’s even worth a download :-)[This review has been edited by Aiko]

Okay guys, listen to an old man:
This level has already been posted on J2O. It was in the “Pidgeotto’ Pack III Version 2.0” by Mr. JJ Tublear.
Therefore i will only quote:

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“The second level called “Allys and Gullies” is something totally different: a classic hotel level with rooms (I want one! Pleaseplease!!! err…no! just kidding ;-) and letters saying “This is my room. Keep out. Blah.” and stuff like that. It uses the “Building” tileset by Gringo (which is…well, okay…an average hotel tileset in my opinion). As you can imagine, i don’t like this pack too much. Very slightly below the average i think. Hotel fans will probably like it.”
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Unfortunately, the next level setting still leads to the race level that was also included in that old (and overall better) pack. I also lowered my rating compared to the two-level pack.

P.S.:
Don’t name your zip files “pack.zip”. Will cause trouble sooner or later.[This review has been edited by Aiko]

“Toxic Wastelands” is a very good single player level using Haze’s awesome compilation called “Jazz1: Mayham”.
Design and eyecandy are just great and the author really makes intensely use of the variety of the tileset. Only the difficulty level is adjusted a bit too easy in my opinion. Otherwise, very good work!
If this is “a taste” of your “upcoming single player pack”, i await it eagerly.

I RECOMMEND EVERYONE to DOWNLOAD “Toxic Wastelands” because its finally something fresh and different (as STUNTS already mentioned). Wow, 7.5 points!

Wow! This german-dutch co-production really kicks ass! By the way, let me mention this right at the beginning…“Mirrows Tileset Pack” is a very good example of how a tileset and a level designer can work together.

However, back to the topic: the pack consists of three brand new tileset by mirrow: “Jungle-Danger” (240 tiles), “new city” (about 480 tiles, there seem to be two versions included for some reason) and “smallcastle” (480 tiles). All three look very good but of course, i do have a favourite: the blue-brown look and oil-painting like background graphics of “smallcastle” impressed me, somehow. Basic structures like walls, spikes, vines, signs and the like can be found in all three tilesets. Not to forget all the animations, background objects etc.. Its just too much to describe it here.

Furthermore, each tileset has an example level made by our dutch friend BlackDeath aka Fear. It’s single player levels and they are jampacked with trigger crates, little puzzles, good looking eyecandy. Of course, it’s still “example levels” instead of real, long single player maps. The MCE’s in the “Small Castle” level were quite annoying for example.
The two background music tunes chosen by BlackDeath, “The Digital Dawn” by Sorath and “Dead lock” by Elwood are of outstanding tracked quality and fit good for those levels.

All in all, i can’t say much except THiS iS A MUST HAVE for every J2 fan. I really hope to see some nice levels using one of those tilesets in the future :-)

P.S.:
I admit, i am already biased ‘cause i kinda know my fellow german jazzer mirrow for some time but BlackDeath, i don’t know if it’s idea if you rate this pack, too :-)

Yet another cool stony tileset by Disguise: “Mountain” has 190 tiles and i really like the greyish look of the set. There are many useful tiles (signs, vines, spikes, rain and clouds for example), a background for layer 8 and some blocks with digits.

Indeed, i also like the related “Mountain Trip” a tad better. Nevertheless, this is a MUST DOWNLOAD for all tileset fans (and who isn’t?)!

P.S.:
I am VERY undecided about the rating (7 or 7.5). Well, i guess i didn’t underrate Disguise’s creations so lets agree on 7 for now…;-)

P.P.S.:
For a good level using this tileset, you should download “Rock Haven” by Cmdr Dats. It’s worth it.[This review has been edited by Aiko]

“Mountain Trip” is another very neat old tileset by the our south african tileset god. It has about 220 tiles with all kinds of details included: platforms, vines, signs, rain, some very strange looking plants (AHUM ;) a nice little snag animation and, not to forget, a nest filled with eggs. There is also a nice, white background structure (which looks a bit like cheap wallpaper though :).
Mr. Disguise also jampacked the ZiP archive with a very stylish example battle level (platform fever!).

Overall, this is another classic tileset and therefore DEFiNITELY WORTH A DOWNLOAD or two. No doubt. Disguise is 133t.

P.S.: Bobby, it was posted at J2C, not J2O :-)

Ehehe. Yes, i smell MS Paint, too :-)
Well, as for the actual tileset, it has about 90 tiles in very different colours (it doesn’t seem to have a real design idea or something like that behind it ;). Some of them are quite useful (diagonals, platforms, boxes for stomping etc.), some aren’t (like tiles saying “NO LAG!” or all those empty tiles…could have been optimized a bit). The background clouds look a bit simple, too (LOL! Now that was the understatement of the week! :). The masking is okay and a nice, small single player example level is included (wrong next level setting, though).

All in all, bummer, i have to say that “Matt’s Grassy Lands” doesn’t perform enough to get a download recommendation from me, sorry. However, the author obviously tried his best which makes me paying him my respect :-)

First of all: very good idea to use this neglected tileset!

Design and eyecandy of these “Torturing Chambers” are slightly above the average (nothing very special but still decent enough) and the idea that the player has to collect ice to get to the flags isn’t bad actually.

As the other reviewers already mentioned, there seem to be some unfair places regarding CTF play, though. Not so good.

And and by the way, if i remember correctly, the “3D spike ball” event causes access violotions when the host gets killed in one of those swinging spike balls. Maybe thats what you described above, F!re. Not to mention the annoying next level problem (nice little spelling error!).

Nonetheless, fans of the Medivo tileset and all the CTF’ers who are surprised they finally got another new map after a long time, will like this. Everyone else: think about it or download some other levels :-)

“Chil wars” is a very nice level using my beloved and not-so-easy-to-use “Inferno” tileset.
The design is good, circular and therefore the best basis for great battle fun! Unfortunately there is a major lack of eyecandy and the whole level just misses something special. Sorry. Hardcore battle fans like me will like it anyways, so WHY NOT DOWNLOAD :-)

P.S.: Oh and BD, no “Rofl!” reviews, please. THANK YOU.

“Super Jackrabbit Wars” is cool single player pack including six brand new levels using four (well actually only two) different custom tilesets (MEZ01 [three levels], Moebius [three levels], lasttest3 [not really] and marine? [ditto]). Not to forget four great custom music files: “ALLIANCE” by DRAX, song11.s3m from Jazz1, Deadlock by Elwood and the (not-so) funky “Titus the fox” theme (LOL! I remember that game! :-).

The levels themselves really rock, i esspecially like the MEZ01 maps and the “Doomsday” level. The design is very good in all six levels, and it’s big fun to play and blast the enemies. Eyecandy is also okay (nothing super special though). The difficulty level is just right i think. Music fits good in most levels. Otherwise, what Splash said :-)

Definitely WORTH THE DOWNLOAD and about 15 minutes of pure single player fun!

I remember this tileset from J2C i think. Anyways, “Ultimate World” offers 290 good looking tiles: platforms, walls, vines, flowers, signs, clouds, bones, fire (the tileset includes elements of both, heaven and h-e-l-l) and a background to name some examples.
The overall look is a bit “self-drawn” in my opinion but hey, it was his first public release :-)
Disguise also included a small example battle map. South african style, do i have to say more? (it’s a tad bit small though ;-)
By the way, you can find another nice level using this tileset in “Distruct’s Pack” by Distruct, here at J2O.

To sum it up, i really RECOMMEND “Ultimate World” as a MUST DOWNLOAD for all tileset fans (and not only them). It’s easy to use and i’m convinced all you talented artists can make great levels of out it! Disguise for president!!! (let’s say King since he seems to be in goody ole England now :-).

All you newbies should (generally) calm down a bit and just click on the “all levels by this author” button above. It will enlighten you. (A closer look at the readme would have also helped, btw)

The other newbie, tazar, also didn’t read my “Some basic advice for J2O Newcomers”, which can be found in the articles section:
If you have a patch or update for your upload, simply use the re-upload function (click on “edit info/re-upload” in the upper right corner).

Thank you so much. J2O rocks.

Admins, if you read this: delete this upload.[This review has been edited by Aiko]

Wow, i’m impressed! “Future Apocalypse” is a spiffy new single player level pack using Haze’s large, awesome “Jazz1: NeW’s Mayham” mixture tileset. The idea to choose this tileset is already worth one extra point!

The design is just great, maybe it’s a tad too easy sometimes (crates are easy to find, enemies easy to kill). The layer work is very eye-catching. Great work!

As the background music for the second level, Splash included Skaven/FC’s breathtaking “Ice Frontier”, which is a legendary demo tune of the early nineties (sigh). It fits perfect, as Flash mentioned correctly :-)

However, i’m in the mood to reward Splash with eight(!) points (sunstroke probably, i’m not used to these temperatures ;-). The “Future Apocalypse” is a MUST DOWNLOAD!

P.S.:
The passworded battle level seems to be a nice idea, but somehow i didn’t find the secret word yet :-)[This review has been edited by Aiko]

No, i won’t rate. Let the author upload it please. Thanks!

Aha, not bad. I like the idea of actually improving levels! :-)
I hope i remember the old version of Gargoyle’s “Spiral” correctly, but as far as i know, it’s really a tad improved.

The design of this very small level is nice and tight somehow. The weapon selection is okay, too and overall it could really be a nice battle arena. Another improved aspect is the eyecandy. It’s quite good, really. However…like Flash, i find the foreground leafs a bit overused (as Diamondus is completely overused anyways :-) and the music doesn’t fit.
For our CTF friends, Gargoyle provides a version with a red and a blue base.

If you like small battle levels like me…don’t hesitate to DOWNLOAD NOW! :-)

This pack includes two versions of the “Zybug” tileset. It has about 85 actual tiles (some boring square blocks) and a pyramid structure with many useless tile duplications. “Zybug” is a good example of an un-optimized tileset: there is a lot of unused empty space and the duplications doesn’t make sense. There are also some digits (0-9) and some copied stuff from JJ2 (exit sign, poles, blocks). The “Funky Colours” version of the tileset (with the default sprite colours of J2 overwritten), that is also used in the small example level, looks just silly, sorry.
Conclusion: this tileset could need some improvement :-)

“TheOtherWorld” is a pack of two so-called “training levels” (a term thats still pretty much undefined) where the player has to get through the whole level without any savepoints. It uses EvilMike’s cool “Temple” tileset, which was a good idea. The level design is okay, it mainly consists of a lot of animated obstacles (spikes for example). The eyecandy (if there is any) isn’t very exciting. I found some small layer problems.
Pre also put some very horrible music tune as the background for the “REFLEXIO” level…worst music choice of the week, if you ask me. Luckily, the author forgot to put it in the ZiP archive anyways ;-)
Personally, i don’t like this type of levels much…its kinda annoying to start from the very beginning when you were about to pass the last obstacle. You should better make a good single player level out of it.

Well, in my opinion this pack is slightly below the average and therefore gets no download recommendation from me, sorry. “Training” freaks may like it, of course.[This review has been edited by Aiko]

“Alien Testlab” is a brand-new tileset having about 330 nice-looking tiles. There are some basic level building structures like walls, “pavement” and the like. Spikes and some background tiles are also useful. Unfortunately the whole look of the tileset is not really what i personally would term “cool” (as in “Whew! That rocks!”). Most of the tiles look boring somehow, i don’t know…maybe it’s the colours. Plus, as far as i can see, there is no real concept behind the set (well, the Alien thingy, of course). By the way, did you ever see a green Ferrari Testarossa??? (and how does this car fit into the tileset?).

Splash also included a small example level where he tries to show us some advantages of his tileset. However, the next level setting is wrong :-)

Well, to sum it up: the main idea behind this tileset doesn’t become clear enough and there are too many “useless tiles” (you know what i mean) like Jazz pictures, website advertisements and so on.
However, it’s DEFINITELY WORTH A LOOK![This review has been edited by Aiko]