Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Hehe, despite its of german origin, this won’t become my favourite level. Blade’s “Beton” tileset is a good choice, but it’s not recommended for a first level i guess :-) Well, the tile placement is quite horrible and a design is pretty much non-existant. At least Tobi tried to put music (which i don’t like too much though, dull techno sound doesn’t turn me on).

Overall, i really think you should practice and try around a bit more, Tobi, to slowly develop your JCS skills so that one day, we’ll see some great levels from you! Viel Glück! :-)

Wow! mirrow’s “dinner” is a pretty cool battle level built in a very underused tileset (TSF’s “Haunted House”). I really like the layer work! It has all kinds of of original ideas on how to use the tileset (flying bats, a creeping plant, living chains etc.). The overall design (esspecially the weapon placement) is also very good (could be a bit more circular though). And the music fits perfectly.
Germany: 7.5 points :-) I can really RECOMMEND THiS LEVEL for DOWNLOAD.

“Gargoyle’s Return” is a pack of seven multiplayer levels using different tilesets (Jungle, Labrat, Tube Electric, Beach and Castle).

I have to say that i find it quite hard to rate this because the quality varies pretty much throughout the pack. In some levels i saw real nice eyecandy and some creative ideas, then again there were newbie mistakes like bad foreground layer work (in the Jungle level, for example). The one thing all those levels have in common is that they are small, small and small, if not too small. Could be fun with a small amount of people, of course.

As i said, this is hard to rate so i was quite undecided. Aware of the fact, the author put some real effort into this, the rating is above the average.

For small-level-freaks and Gargoyle fans, this may be the right choice to DOWNLOAD :-)[This review has been edited by Aiko]

Pretty useless upload (btw: the filename of your ZiP made me shudder…semicolons!). It’s a waste of both, web- and diskspace (the VB5 runtime library is larger than the previous one). And the “easter theme” looks quite horrible. I’d recommend installing the “normal” Jazz Commander. It works for all seasons and holidays :-)

Nevertheless, here’s my original review (copied and pasted):
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The “Jazz Commander” is a very useful and handy program with all the features Spazzyman promised in his author’s description above. It’s just a very, very small tad away from MetalWarrior’s Jazz 2 Organizer (whose interface looks a bit better and it has some additional or different features…like displaying the level/tilesets name for example) in my opinion. I also like the fact the program is so small and handy (it only takes 42 KB [plus the 700 KB runtime library] of diskspace while Jazz 2 Organizer needs about 650 KB).

Now what, Jazz Commander or Jazz 2 Organizer? Decide by yourself, i can’t help you here. Both programs are definitely a MUST DOWNLOAD for every Jazzer. Good work, Spazzyman!
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Nice skin showing a picture of Jazz, Spaz, the birdy and the Carrottus planet. People who collect those skins might want to download it.

First of all, MattW, you should always put single player start position in your levels, not only multiplayer start events. It makes it way more difficult for us reviewers to do our work. Thank you in advance!

Now, as for the level, it’s not really cool. I still have the feeling its more a race level than a battle. It’s too linear and has a lot of confusing warps. The tile placement looks blocky and in some places weird. Eyecandy is not available in this version either.
I’m sorry but i wouldn’t waste my holidays (if i had some :-) playing this level. The author should better finish this level…then re-upload.[This review has been edited by Aiko]

“Ancient Dungeon CtF” is another very good level creation by RockyR.
The design is very open and therefore fluently playable (which is great :-). I also like the use of the Castle tileset. Pretty original and good looking! The weapon selection is very neat either. Only the CTF base placement is a bit questionable. But, as you may know, i’m not a big CTF fan…so what do the CTF experts say?

All in all, i recommend this as a GREAT LEVEL DOWNLOAD for everyone! You’ll like this (7.5 because of the originality)!

“A White Christmas” was one of the first custom made levels that used the “Holiday Hare 98” set from the game with the same name. And it still rocks!
It has a very circular and fluent design with no dead-ends or other useless stuff. There is some nice eyecandy (not too much though) and overall, this map will make a fun battle (its not too large which can be quite fortunate if your server lacks of players)!
Only thing i’d change is the background music. “White Hare” is of superior quality than the song from HH94 (or was it from 95?) and would have fitted a tad better.

Conclusion: “A White Christmas” is one of the few real classics you have to choose from when the christmas season comes! No doubt, this gets a strong DOWNLOAD RECOMMENDATiON! Get it before its too late! (very high seven points!)

The “Rainy Rain Forest” (pretty dull level name i think) is a great new battle map full of ideas and creativeness.
I really like the way the author used the Jungle tileset. Opinions may differ about the two waterfalls using the background tiles…i think they fit quite good. The eyecandy is really darn cool and even kinda reminds me of Spy’s awesome “Mystic Forest Cave”. Level design is also very, very good. It’s pretty small and tight, just what we need for a fun battle with 1-8 people.
Only small “downfall” is that i would have liked to hear the original Jungle music but that doesn’t take too much away of the good rating.

To sum it up, “Rainy Rain Forest” is a VERY VERY GOOD level and therefore a MUST DOWNLOAD! Great battle action guaranteed! (i was undecided between 8 and 7.5)

It was a good idea to use the custom tileset “Mountain Hill Zone” by Disguise (which is not a “Bash III tileset”, as the author called it).
Then again, it was a very bad idea to not include the tileset in the ZiP archive. Well, i’ll rate it anyways (using the tileset version released on 20-04-2000).
However, the level’s design is pretty bad and i didn’t find any real appealing, creative ideas at all. The CTF routes aren’t too well placed as well. To mention something positive, the music fits very good (Disguise used it for this tileset in “ZA’s Good Side”). Eyecandy: none. Conlusion: The level is far below the average and therefore gets a low rating. You can read the next review now. Bye.

The 19 screenshots included in the ZiP archive aren’t too funny actually. I suggest putting this on some private Jazz fanpage or somewhere else. In my opinion, this doesn’t belong here at all. I’ll rate it anyways because the others did that as well :-)

The “Jazz Commander” is a very useful and handy program with all the features Spazzyman promised in his author’s description above. It’s just a very, very small tad away from MetalWarrior’s Jazz 2 Organizer (whose interface looks a bit better and it has some additional or different features…like displaying the level/tilesets name for example) in my opinion. I also like the fact the program is so small and handy (it only takes 42 KB [plus the 700 KB runtime library] of diskspace while Jazz 2 Organizer needs about 650 KB).

Now what, Jazz Commander or Jazz 2 Organizer? Decide by yourself, i can’t help you here. Both programs are definitely a MUST DOWNLOAD for every Jazzer. Good work, Spazzyman!

“The Final Funkytown” is not my favourite tileset. It includes some semi-useful structures, backgrounds, letter blocks, palm trees and lots of other tras…err…things. Not to forget the impressive BOOM explosion.
My problem with this tileset is that somehow all this doesn’t fit together. Sorry. Slightly below the average i think. The lack of an example level also made my rate it lower.[This review has been edited by Aiko]

I don’t get it. Seems like i had the tileset, too. Unfortunately, the levels confused me so much that i now feel unable to review them.

Anyways, you should always include custom sets in your ZiP file (you can remove the default readme from the J2 cache directory instead ;-))).

RE-UPLOAD!

First off, never name a level “level” or “level2”. Because theres a high chance people have to or accidentally overwrite some stuff in their Jazz2 folder.
Apart from that, i got the same error as mirrow and Flash when trying to start the first level.
“Marble Maze” works fine and looks pretty good. There even is some eyecandy. The music (using those fine “Elysium” samples) is a very good choice. Unfortunately i wasn’t able to solve the puzzles (or whatever it is) at the start of the level so i didn’t see the whole thing.
Then again, the “High Voltage” level has horrible eyecandy and a bad design. The next level setting is wrong or missing.
The puzzle in “Devons Lair” drove me crazy (not much eyecandy, by the way). And the music is okay.

To sum it up, a confusing and pretty much unplayable level pack. The “Marble Maze” and the nice readme file (:-) could be worth a look but the rest of pack isn’t worth downloading in my opinion. (Plus the major bugs made me rate it lower). Sorry, Moonshadow!
(Maybe you should re-upload and fix some bugs.)[This review has been edited by Aiko]

Lets say it straight away: i don’t like the layout of “Aztec Antics” too much.
There are too many dead-ends, long sucker tubes and the like. Sorry, but the design is not really circular (as it should be in a good battle).
The author obviously made some attempts of putting eyecandy but it still needs more.
The Copter event isn’t a good idea in any case because our sweetness Lori can’t grab it (you may have noticed that).
Apart from that, the Jungle music doesn’t fit very well: i’d like to hear the tune Blade (the author) used for his tileset.
Overall, personally, i don’t find “Aztec Antecs” worth a download. It is below the average.

P.S.: The next level setting leads to a level that isn’t included in this ZiP file. Bad idea.

P.P.S.: Leader of DF, delete your first review here and add your comment to the “author’s description” by clicking on “edit info/re-upload”. And don’t make spam comments/reviews, please!

“Gamecreators lvl6” (well, the name gets the “most horrible name of the week” award) is a dutch-german coproduction because it includes the nice “Dschungeldanger” tileset by mirrow (about 220 good-looking tiles).
I’d really like to review the tileset as itself but well…we’re talking about the level here.
It has a pretty good design (i esspecially like the weapon selection) and there is some eyecandy (could be more though). The Jungle background music doesn’t fit too good in my opinion (as you probably know, i prefer custom music for custom tilesets).
All in all, a quite good battle map that could be the stage for a fun rabbit roasting party. A great DOWNLOAD for all battle fans.

P.S.: Bad next level setting (leads to Battle1, fix it by re-uploading!).[This review has been edited by Aiko]

This level has some nice, creative ideas in it. And it makes use of Kejero’s AWESOME “Egypt_Cave” tileset. To my disappointment, the author not even used half of the tiles the tileset offers. Unfortunately, you’ll play this only one or two times because it’ll get a tad boring after that. And actually i never really knew what so-called “Training levels” are good for. Well…training maybe :-)
Background music is missing, by the way. Bummer.

However, my overall impression is good…so give it a try and DOWNLOAD NOW.[This review has been edited by Aiko]

Wakeman, could you create an account for AstroniA or let her/him create one? Then re-post it?

Well, anyways, i don’t like this “re-mix” too much. I admit, i never was the module composer #1 in town but from what i hear the author didn’t “re-mix” the whole song too much. It’s just one very techno orientated (BEAT!BEAT) track added. Not my favourite style of tracking, sorry. I won’t rate it in any case, because it wasn’t made by Wakeman (who posted it). It’d probably get 6 or 7 points from me.

Um…could you give some infos about those many levels (use the “edit info/re-upload” function!). I’m a bit sceptic about this. Dunno. What is it? A large levelpack?

I’ll review and rate them then.