Jak X: Combat Racing

Jak X: Combat Racing is a racing game for the PlayStation 2 developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) High octane fast paced racing.
 * 2) Great soundtrack. (including the intro song, which is a guest appearance from Queens of the Stone Age!)
 * 3) Customize your vehicle with lots of parts and upgrades.
 * 4) Similar to Crash Team Racing, the game's levels are based on the levels from previous Jak and Daxter games.
 * 5) Surprisingly good plot for a racing spin-off.
 * 6) Keira now gets a role in the story and more screentime after being side-lined in Jak 3 (a criticism fans had for the third installment). Also, she finally gets to kiss Jak at the end of the story.
 * 7) Unlike Jak II and Jak 3 getting blown up will not cause you to immediately fail the race.
 * 8) Collect Eco power ups to restore your health or gain boost power to temporarily speed up when you want to.
 * 9) Lots of modes to play other than racing, such as deathmatch, death race, artifact collecting, etc.
 * 10) Lots of weapon powers to pick up.
 * 11) You can carry 2 power ups at the same time, (though you can't carry the same type of power up) one is for weapons that shoot in front of you, the other is for other things like mines or shields.
 * 12) First Naughty Dog game to have online gameplay.
 * 13) You can connect the PSP game Daxter and unlock some characters to play with (in the PS4 version, you must have a Nathan Drake Collection save file).
 * 14) Like the last 2 Jak games, it pays homage to Ratchet & Clank.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) It has a major game-breaking bug that causes the save function of the game to break and not finish saving, resulting in the saving icon to blink forever. If this occurs eject your memory card and reinsert it, and hope that the save feature fixes itself. If it doesn't work your save can become corrupted and your progress can be lost permanently. Sometimes the save data can't even be deleted after being corrupted, thus causing you to lose a megabyte of usable space on your memory card.
 * 2) The controls are poor, stiff, and slippery when it comes to steering.
 * 3) Too many vehicles to buy and it takes WAY TOO LONG to buy them all.
 * 4) Getting gold to unlock a new level in single-player campaign can get very frustrating to beat later on in the game.
 * 5) The rubber-band AI is painfully unfair.