A majority of the game took place on a massive continent filled with all the standard biomes we’d come to expect from our 3D character platformers - bright beaches, dense forests, dangerous volcanoes, frigid tundra. Jak and Daxter was a technical marvel at the time. The original Jak and Daxter felt like Sony’s true answer to the massive, genre-defining success of Super Mario 64, as well as a clear statement that Naughty Dog was a premier studio capable of much more than just Crash Bandicoot games. From Grand Theft Auto III and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, to Ico and Silent Hill 2, that second year in the life of the PS2 is when the console came into its own and solidified its trajectory towards becoming the bestselling home console of all time. Jak and Daxter hit the PS2 back in 2001, a year that gave us so many incredible experiences. And for as indisputably successful as Uncharted and TLOU have been, there’s a side of me that wishes the talented team would go back and take another stab at the world of Jak, Daxter, and the Precursors. But before they traveled the globe looking for treasure and spun tragic tales of revenge, Naughty Dog made a name for itself in the world of colorful 3D platformers: first with the Crash Bandicoot trilogy on the original PlayStation, and then with Jak and Daxter on PlayStation 2. Uncharted and The Last of Us are two of the defining franchises of the past couple console generations, and they helped cement Naughty Dog as one of the top-tier developers in our entire medium. Over the past decade, Sony’s premiere studio wrapped up its PlayStation 3 Uncharted trilogy with Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, won countless awards with The Last of Us, delivered one of the best side stories ever in The Last of Us: Left Behind, brought Nathan Drake back in the gorgeous Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, and helped cap off the PlayStation 4 generation with The Last of Us Part II, which again won countless awards. You’d be hard-pressed to find a video game developer who’s had a better decade than Naughty Dog.
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