Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

A semi-quick, but half-decent refixed review.

Winterland Wonder: Probably the best winter-based tileset I’ve ever seen. The different types of snow tiles could come in handy when making eye candy with this set.

Space Warbase: Slowly becoming an overused theme, but one of my favorite space sets. This set is currently the most used tileset from this pack. It has several types of tiles and a few really nice features, including the meteoroid and the turrets.

Townsville ][: It has a decent theme, though it seemed too happy at first. It offers a few choices in tiles to use, but it’s not the easiest to make great eye candy with.

Unreal Imagination: Cool idea, but the tileset itself isn’t flattering. I dislike the red and blue theme.

Raging Inferno: Looked nice at first. Then I realized the entire set basically looks the same.

Tarzan’s Treetops: I could imagine it would be hard to make a good level with this set. I’m not crazy about the leaves, either.

Overall: I probably won’t use every one of these tilesets, especially the last three I mentioned above, but they aren’t bad. Wisety definitely put a good deal of effort into making these sets. However, quantity alone won’t make me give this a high rating. It’s not that they look bad, but some of these sets don’t have what I find most useful in a tileset: variety in types of tiles to allow for more possibilities with eye candy and atmosphere. I mean types of tiles as in mud tiles, brick tiles, metal tiles, etc. Variety like that is what I desire the most in a set, especially if it works out in a particular theme. Those are my reasons. Therefore, 8.7 is my new rating.[This review has been edited by BlurredD]

This is yet another fun level created by EvilMike. It’s a good example of how a CTF should be made. Simple routes between each base on the bottom, good placement of the powerups, and a full energy carrot near the top make this a great level to play. The weapons were placed well and eye-candy is good. I like the music that’s been selected, and this level uses an underused custom tileset (extra points).

So if you haven’t downloaded it already, go download it now. Then go host it online and play it constantly.

It’s better now, but there are still bugs. Like the next level setting CelLctf17 doesn’t work. And there are still those glitches in “In the glue Factory” (the ACCESS GRANTED typo and the sucker tube glitch at 52,16) and “The CelLlevator” (the invisble tile in the blaster powerup room) and some other bugs.

I’m gonna give this an 8.5 since the levels are good, but could be better: the eyecandy was well made, the gameplay is alright, and ammo placement is decent, though some levels have bugs in them. So in all, this CTF pack is worth a download, especially if you hate downloading levels one by one.

The Edit: I recall looking at this pack recently and not liking a lot of these levels. The gameplay just doesn’t seem as good as when I first played these levels. Of course, standards were different then. But then again, several levels made way back when had some good gameplay, and people still play them today. Anyway, I dislike the layout and question the balance in most of these levels, which is why my rating is now an 8 instead. That’s still something.[This review has been edited by BlurredD]

Needs custom music, even if it’s in another zip file…

I’m not too crazy about all of the choices in this pack… Maybe too many repeats? I never was too crazy about some of these levels. Perhaps this past year had the fewest good levels produced. I dunno, it could just be me. I’ll probably still play in the Bash server, but it just won’t seem the same without the proper music for each level.[This review has been edited by BlurredD]

And this is TSF…

This is interesting, because Blade wanted Cell to re-upload his CTF pack, and now Cell wants Blade to re-upload his SP pack.

Do me a favor and re-upload your stuff because I still can’t download Cell’s Evil CTF pack beta 2 v0.87 and now I’m missing music from Blade’s SP pack!

Another good level by EvilMike. It’s not one of my favs, but it’s still good nonetheless. The gameplay is good, has nice weapon layout, and the tileset was used well. The only thing I really didn’t like about this was the music choice. I don’t think the Jungle music fits here entirely. Other than that, it’s worth your download.

I believe Overlord’s patch is meant to convert 1.24 levels to 1.23 levels. Perhaps this could be very useful to those who have TSF but can’t make levels for 1.23. Too bad those who have TSF don’t have 1.23 JCS so that they could use this patch, but at least those who have 1.23 JCS can convert TSF levels to 1.23 (something’s better than nothing, isn’t it?).

Hmmmmm… not a 7.7, but not an 8.2…

An 8 seems suitable :P. Lemme explain:

It’s not a 7.7 because it has a lot of good tiles in it (almost agama-like). And it’s not an 8.2 because the tiles may have been made slightly better, the bones aren’t masked perfectly, and the mountains in the BG look almost horrendeos. But it’s still a pretty good tileset. So download it and make some levels with it.

Decent, but not outstanding. It has pretty much everything an average level would have with this tileset. Though there were some details I didn’t like, like that vine-like things you just used for a floor, and maybe the spikes you placed in the 3rd layer. It’s pretty average after that, and it may be worth a download.

Not bad for a race level. Actually, I kinda liked it. It flows well with a slight challenge, uses decent eye-candy, and is a kinda fun to play in. I wouldn’t really know about the ammo and all (maybe needs more?). It looks good enough for a download if you like race levels.

It’s much better than the 1st version, but it still needs some work. The sand and fire still need work, but most of the other tiles look fine now. I would say it’s worth a download.

The level here isn’t bad or anything. It has decent everything, but it does have poorly made lava in the foreground. This is really more of a 7.5, but I’m being nice and giving it a 7.7 :P

This here is an OK tileset. It has some good tiles in it, but personally I’m not too crazy about it. A lot of the tiles were poorly made like the fire and some of the sand. This tileset needs a lot of work for a higher rating, but it could be worth a download.

I liked a lot o stuff in this level. Like the eye-candy, the layout, and the ammo placement, and the tileset that was used. What I didn’t like were those sucker tube things in layer 3 at the bottom-right of the level; they kinda seemed to have no point. Everything else was good. So just download this whenever you get the chance.

I’m not too fond of this level. The layout isn’t great, the eye-candy isn’t above average, and it has some features that probably shouldn’t be used in battle mode like that trao in between the spikes. I did like the music choice and the background and it does have some nice ideas in it (extra points), but that’s about it.

This is just a basic good level, nothing too special about it. Eye-candy wasn’t too original, and everything else was just average (in an average good level sense). The BG only really looks good in 16-bit, of course. Not the greatest jungle level but good enough to play online (maybe in Battle Server?).

Not a bad level. I liked the layout and design, though I’m not too crazy about some of the eye-candy. It’s just not as good as Rainy Rain Forest. The level uses a sold color for a textured BG, which doesn’t look as good in 8-bit as it does in 16-bit. But I got used to the gray background after a while. I think this is a nice level and is worth your download.

Ok, so I got it to work, and I saw how it works. It’s nice, but annoying, especially when you see that “Test joined/left the game” thing. I see it every 3 seconds at battle server! It’s not that bad though. I would rather not see Test joining the server every once in a while, so I suggest using “§§” so nothing shows up (instead, just a mysterious space pops up in between conversations). Is that a good idea?

Not a bad tileset. I think it falls short of really cool, though. The ground tileset look are the best thing in this tileset. I didn’t like the sucker tubes at all, nor the few tiles that make up this tileset. There is an incredible lack of creativity put into this tileset. It has potential, and I may actually use it one day, but seriously think it needs work. If you ever revise this tileset, make sure you add stuff for the foregound and background and maybe better animation tiles.

On second thought, you did steal images from somewhere else. That’s gonna cost some points, sorry. Next time, try to make more stuff from without copying so much.[This review has been edited by BlurredD]