Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Hey, Bjarni is back! And so am I! :-D

Anyway, even Wind Meister 1’s weapon training was better than this. Only the seekers work and the rooms are too small. One word: Useless.

Homeworks. School. Detention.

Never before has such simple words caused such great fear. But now, you can put an end to it, at least, in a virtual world, by using the School v3 tileset by Midn (did I spell the name correctly?) to create your ideal school. :-)

The tileset is much better than its predecessors, School v2 and v1 (although I must admit, I was more impressed by v1 than v3) and the tileset is exactly what its name says. It’s a school. :-) Quite a nice school too, with everything a modern torture house for youngsters have. Soda machines, desks, books, libraries, computers, angry teachers, black boards, students, bullies, dirty toilets, yucky food and various sports equipments.

First, I was a bit put off by the bad masking of the teachers since you always tend to bump into them. Also, I dislike the masking of the yellow ropes and the book shelves. They slow you down too much and you’re never sure whether they are masked or not. This can lead to problems in multi-player lvls since ppl will get roasted if they accidentally bump into things.

But enough of the bad news!

Even though the occasional teacher or bookshelf gets into your way, it does not matter a single bit if you look at the rest of the tileset.

School’s eyecandy is so detailed and comes in such a great variety that once I found myself stopping to admire the walls and got killed by a turtle. :-D I have never, ever seen such detailed eyecandy before and in fact, it’s so detailed my eyes hurt now. Evil looking eyes looks out from cracks in the walls, graffiti decorate the blackboards, uncountable school utilities and equipment fill the class rooms and I haven’t even mentioned the teachers and students yet. Ppl who thinks that their tileset has got good eyecandy should definitely take a long look at School.

Ok, so there’s nothing wrong about the eyecandy. What about the tiles? Are everything a tileset needs there? Midn hasn’t forgotten anything. There are purple suckertubes (I’m a bit doubtful about the colour purple, but as long as the tubes work…), destruct blocks in form of books (a note: I didn’t destroy any English books ;-), vines, hooks and of course poles (sadly, not V-poles, I couldn’t find any).

Because of the detailness and the masking, School is better suited for (gah!) hotels and single-player lvls because the player has more time and doesn’t need to watch out for opponents and thus ignoring the eyecandy.

If you happen to not like the masking at all, download School for its eyecandy. If you don’t like the eyecandy and the masking, download anyway because I said so. :-P

Great tileset, excellent eyecandy and very original. A little more work on the masking would earn this tileset a big, fat 9.

Strong download recommendation.

Cheers,

White Rabbit.

W0000PEE!! I GOT THE LONGEST REVIEW!!! :-P

These days, good CTF lvls don’t come often, and they’re very rare too. But somehow, they never end up on the brink of extinction and there is ALWAYS at least one good CTF lvl every year one way or another. Knightmare Castle is one of them.

Unhit doesn’t seem to have worked hard on this lvl since it’s so small and the two sides are almost identical. However, I can assure you that it doesn’t matter. The lvl hasn’t got much originality and eyecandy, instead it relies on pure gameplay. Knightmare Castle is simply a 100×50 lvl with a full-energy carrot in placed in the middle but it’s the structure and ammo placements that makes it so good.

As I said before, the two sides of the lvl (blue and red) are identical, in other words, mirrored. This means that there will be no complains like ‘I don’t know the lvl!!’ since once you learn your side, you instantly learn the other. I can’t really find any disadvantages about this except that the lvl tends to be the same wherever you go. Anyway, the gameplay is really great. Both Jazz and Spaz can use their special abilities to their full capability plus there are lots of knights to shoot at. :-) Also, the springs are nicely placed with no spring at all taking you where you don’t want to go except from those horizontal springs near the two powerups which bounce you away.

Knightmare Castle’s eyecandy is in no way revolutionary but is definitely as far away from boring as it can get. There are knights (which have heads you can blast away – always a fun thing to do for me), drawbridges which can’t draw, plenty of stones and windows and lots of chains. One mayor thing about the eyecandy is that Knightmare Castle doesn’t have any stained-glass windows. No stained-glass windows? Gasp. Panic. Screams. Ppl running across the streets. Ok, this would’ve happen if a giant armadillo 50 metres tall walked into a city, but since all that happened was that Unhit didn’t put any stained-glass windows in the lvl I guess it’s not such a big deal. ;-)

Weapons placement is good. A couple powerups there, another powerup here and a seeker powerup in the middle. There’s room for much improvements but it’s alright as long as the ammo regenerates cause if they don’t, then ppl will have a very hard time since there are only three powerups and very little 3x ammo.

So… to conclude my review, Knightmare Castle is great CTF lvl by the not-so-great Unhit. :D It’s strength is its gameplay and its weaknesses is that the eyecandy makes me think of giant armadillos but I don’t think it happens to anyone else. :) The lvl is probably best suited to 1 on 1 duels or public games.

I’ll give Knightmare Castle a 8.5. And yes, it means that I think Defense of the Paradise is better.

Cheers,

White Rabbit.[This review has been edited by White Rabbit]

Is this supposed to be a survivor?! There’s no eyecandy at all, there’s only one single blue block and everything’s Jazz biased plus there’s nothing new or interesting in this lvl. Don’t download this.

People! People! Let’s not forget that this is a battle level! You ARE NOT supposed to review the tileset!! Gosh…

Prince of Persia is an average lvl with lots of bad things and little good. That’s why I’ll give it an 6. Why, you ask me? It’s got too many dead ends. Very few ammo. Boring eyecandy. Weird gameplay. Too narrow passages and no next lvl setting.

This is a must for maze-lovers but ppl who like a good, decent flowing battle lvl but not want to add this to their lvl list. A 6.

Cheers,

White Rabbit.

I like the use of the tileset but not the lvl itself. It’s got too many deadends, it’s too easy to get lost, there’s too little ammo and the passages are too tight. Everything is too too in this lvl. ;-)

Oh, well. It’s fun though.

A 6.[This review has been edited by White Rabbit]

Very nice lvl. It’s got some great special effects and other neat stuff although I would’ve prefered some SCEs and more eyecandy. It’s also a bit “easy” to survive plus it’s too easy to get into the server room.

But still, great job Backslash. I’m gonna host this many times. An 7.7.

Cheers,

White Rabbit.

Spazzyman, can you explain how the program works? I’m having trouble finding my Jazz2.exe with it…

Yes, this is a good lvl. A couple of dead ends and a little too much cabbages but it’s pretty fun to play in, espcially when you lead 9-2. :-)

Download recommended but beware of some weird weapons placement and lots of dead ends.

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I’ve run out of flashy introductions so I’ll just get straight to the point.

Download this. Maybe.

Er…ok, if you want it more detailed, read on.

Temple of Doom had very high expectations of me (NO WAY! -Moonblaze) and it looks like it fulfils those expectations. Almost.

But since I never like to bring bad news first, I’ll write the many good things about Blaze’s lvl. The lvl has got plenty of cool lighting effects, especially the one at the top-right corner but I’ve seen it used many times before so it ain’t exactly original. Very neat though. Ammo placement is also good and they’re sensibly placed around the lvl although they are a bit too scattered and there are way too little of them. The usage of Agama’s tileset Heaven is fabulous. There are no tile bugs at all and everything looks great even though the lvl doesn’t even get close to a temple since Blaze hasn’t used any of those white stone tiles. The positioning of both bases aren’t exactly the best I’ve ever seen but it’s all right, I suppose. However, it’s too easy to defend the bases and that’s what I don’t like cause I hate ppl camping at their bases.

Now, for the bad news. prepares to eat Blaze in case he gets angry The gameplay. I don’t like it. Ok, so the lvl has some well placed springs and platforms but green leafes doesn’t make summer and well placed springs don’t make a good lvl. Temple of Doom has got some VERY annoying things in it. Take those V-poles at the right hand side of the lvl for example. They slow you down, makes you vulnerable for attack plus they prevent you from shooting. Two poles would’ve solved the problem but FOUR?! It takes about 4 seconds to spin through all the poles and when you land and hit one of the two red springs, you get bounced back up again wasting another valuable 4 seconds. Another bad thing is that you often don’t have a clue of what’s solid or not because of all the lighting effects. You see a statue and you think you can go through it but you can’t and after running around for a couple seconds you suddenly discovered that there’s a part of a solid wall that you can walk through. However, the worst thing about Temple of Doom is yet to come. Yes. YES. THE MIGHTY WRATH OF THE FEARED FLAG BUG!! Ahem. Yes, this lvl does suffer from the flag bug. Temple of Doom has got absolutely no masking on top of it and on the left hand side of it which is annoying since there’s almost nothing you can do to avoid touching the unmasked corners. Bad. Bad. Bad.

Temple of Doom is a mixture of good and bad but to soften my blow, let’s just see it as a struggle between good and evil. Blue stands for everything good in this lvl and red for everything bad.

GO BLUE!!!!!!!! W0000PEE!!!!!!

Anyway, Temple of Doom is a fairly good lvl by Moonblaze. It suffers from the flagbug and bad gameplay but it’s still quite fun to play in (especially since there’s only a powerup for seekers in this lvl – no RFs…HAHA!)

If you like a interesting CTF lvl and wants to develop a hate-love relationship with Jazz2, this is the lvl for YOU. A 7.5.

Cheers,

White Rabbit.

EDIT: Blaze is sooooooooooooooooooo irritating. eats Blaze[This review has been edited by White Rabbit]

EDIT: Noo! Don’t eat me! WR soup never tastes good! I think I have Talec, Blaze, Enigma and some other guy I forgot the name of to support me. :-P[This review has been edited by White Rabbit]

This rules. Now I can join servers with white fur…
Er…
AN 8.2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-P

Newbie, you gave this a 9.7 cause you hate CTF?! Shouldn’t it be the other way around?!

Oh well, nm. Let’s get on with the review.

Southern Swamp bu BunnyElmer is a CTF lvl of medium size using the amazing tileset Swamp’s of the Sleeping Jaguar by Agama. Because Elmer chose this tileset, I was expecting lots of great eyecandy and some nice ideas.

However, I was vrey dissapointed when I found out that the “nice ideas” were just a whole truckload of platforms placed in a otherwise empty space. Also, the “great eyecandy” was non-existent.

Yes, Southern Swamp has good weapons placement with ammo placed sensibly around the lvl and there are some nice carrot positions too. But the trouble is, that’s all. The eyecandy is very, very bad. There are a couple jaguars, bushes, water pools and tree trunks but that’s all. The foreground layers consist of only boring rain and the whole lvl has too much emptiness in it. That makes the lvl look rather boring and dull.

The gameplay is also bad although it’s all right in some places. The best part of the gameplay is the placement of springs, I think although the rest falls below the average standard I expect of lvl’s. First of all, there are three dead ends in the lvl. One at the blue base, one at the red base and one at the bottom-left corner of the lvl. They are unbelievable annoying…
Secondly, Southern Swamp is too Jazz-unfriendly. Spaz can double-jump up with platforms while Jazz has to use springs which is slower. The seeker powerup can only be reached by double-jumping too so Jazz has to shoot the powerup with bouncers and only get 20 bullets out if it. Not good, not good…

I opened the lvl with hopes of a high quality lvl and closed it with a bad rating in mind. Sry, Elmer, but this only get an 5.5 from me. Try harder nxt time and make yours lvls more Jazz friendly, with less dead ends and more eyecandy. No download recommendation.

Cheers,

White Rabbit.

I think most reviewers here has written completely messed up reviews and they also give way too high ratings if you compare it with what they say but since I’m in no position to stop that I’ll just have to shut up and write my own UN-BIASED :-P review…

Right. Shaped Wonders is, as Umba mentioned, his first J2o release. It’s in no way a smash hit although it has some very impressive points. First of all, the music choice fits the lvl perfectly and it adds to the…how should I say this…“spirit” of the lvl. ;-D

The ambient lighting is also cool and it makes the lvl look nicer. Also, Shaped Wonder boosts some pretty eyecandy without making it too confusing although I would prefer a little less blue and a little more red. I also prefer this lvl to have at least some foreground layer eyecandy (with the exception of those large moving tubes). Btw, there is way too little of the eyecandy, Umba.

Weapons placement is fairly good. Nothing special here. The ammo is placed sensibly although there are too little in some places and too much in others. Your future lvls should be more balanced, Umba.

Now, most of the previously mentioned things are good points of Shaped Wonders. The gameplay is good too, of course, but it has some pretty bad and weak places too. First of all, there are two dead ends in the lvl. Umbaman didn’t want to change those cause they’re so small but if you look carefully, you can’t see the dead ends while running so when you do see them, it’s too late and some berserking rookie jazzer blasts you into a couple zillion pieces. The springs and one ways are well placed though and there are a couple nice secrets.

Shaped Wonders is a really good lvl by Umbaman and every decent jazzer should take a good look at it. The major problem here is the deadends and the lack of eyecandy.

I’ll give this lvl a 7.5 and a download recommendation.

Cheers,

White Rabbit.

EDIT: Hah! I got the longest review. :-P[This review has been edited by White Rabbit]

A very “cute” tileset. Small Farm by the still pretty unknown tileset creator Pavlik isn’t exactly a great tileset but then, it isn’t bad either.

The tiles has got really nice textures and everything looks just fine. The animations are also of high quality and I especially like those spikes.

The eyecandy is also quite good too. Calm, blue sky. A wagon? A green bunny, doors, chairs, tables, leafes and lots of green grass.

The tileset has also got most of the needed tiles in a tileset. There are vines, destruct and trigger blox. However, there are no poles or buttstomp blox although you could use layer 5 to create poles and use the destruct blox as buttstomp ones.

Although most parts of the tileset is fairly satisfying, there are, of course bad points. Small Farm has a TERRIBLE masking. The ground looks really ugly when you switch to Masks and the vines is goes kinda up-and-down. Also, the spikes doesn’t work. You get hurt wether you touch the spikes or not which is a big shame.

Small Farm is a small, nice tileset with lots of useful tiles but with bad masking. I think I can recommend this tileset to most lvl creators out there.

Nxt time, Pavlik try making the masking better. If you had fixed this problem, I would’ve given you a much higher rating.

I give Small Farm a 6.7.

Cheers,

White Rabbit.

Actually, Taz, a lot of ppl upload lvl’s for other ppl. Like Unhit and me. There’s nothing wrong with that. :-P

Now to the review:
Argh! Super Carrotus Battle is horrible. Horrible. Absolutely horrible.

The lvl has got NO eyecandy whatsoever.

None of the weapons regenerate.

The gameplay is really horrific. Too many dead ends and ugly looking platforms.

Seriously, I don’t even think this lvl is suitable for battle at all. It looks really ugly and also it’s got too much empty space.

Super Carrottus Battle is THE perfect example of a three-minutes-of-work-level.

Download if you want, but it’s definitely not worth it. I’m afraid I’ll have to give this a measly little 2 for this.

Cheers,

White Rabbit.

Thanks everyone for your good ratings. :-D

To Taz: Taz, you got your room. I’ll reupload as soon as possible. And do you want one too, Snowball?

To Ninja: I’ve already made your room, but I can’t access J2o with my computer so I’ll have to use someone else’s. I dunno why I can’t but it’s very annoying… :-(

EDIT: Ok, everyone: Your rooms are ready. Now go download the hotel and add +1 points to your rating! :D[This review has been edited by White Rabbit]

I don’t believe this hotel got second place in the competition. There are two bonus warps. A couple rooms. Nice eyecandy. BUT THAT’S ALL. No restuarants, tests, rollercoasters, swimming pools or any other stuff. Just weapons, warps and rooms. I can’t really say this is a good lvl. It’s a bad battle lvl and a stinking hotel lvl…

No download recommendation.

Er…plz include the tileset.

To Violet: Huh? What bug? Weird…
It shouldn’t be like that, Violet. Try downloading it from someone else or maybe you should ask someone to host the lvl and then open it up to see if it works.

To Saiyan: Will you raise yer rating if I put that spring where you asked me to?

To everyone else: Thank you…[This review has been edited by White Rabbit]