An unofficial PC port of Sony Interactive Entertainment and Naughty Dog’s Jak 2 is now available to play, with brand new features included.
The Jak 2 PC port had been in development since the year 2020. Since then, the project continued to grow more and more ambitious. In its latest progress report, the developer has revealed that Jak 2 is now in a good enough state to release as an open beta on the launcher.
However, the developer cautioned that the PC port of Jak 2 is still not perfect, and the project team is aware of some remaining bugs that still need to be ironed out. That said, the game can now be played from start to finish.
The beta version of the Jak II on PC has received a large number of improvements and features over the prior version. As part of the beta release, the extractor was adjusted to support the game. In addition, a major refactor and cleanup of the level building code was performed in order to split things up into common code shared by all Jak titles and game specific code. Along with this, early support for creating custom levels in Jak 2 has been added. The process is relatively similar to Jak 1, with some small differences.
In terms of fixes, the beta release of Jak 2 on PC no longer crashes when an auto-save is triggered during Speedrunner mode. Additionally, the developer mentioned that the Construction Site and Underport icons are green in the original game, which is actually not intended. The real colors for the icons have been restored in the PC port. Additionally, a disclaimer has been added to inform users that the high frame rate option to take the game past 60 fps is experimental and bugs are to be expected.
Jak II is an action-adventure game originally released in 2003 for the PlayStation 2. It was developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the second installment in the Jak and Daxter series and serves as both a sequel and prequel to Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy. Jak 3 was released in 2004 as a follow-up to Jak II.
