I bought this game a while ago for PS2 and have to say it's really good, gameplay-wise it wipes the floor with Tomb Raider. One thing though, why do the graphics look like some dodgy pirated copy? It's not that they're bad graphics per-se it's just that it looks like they've just been blurred or something. What's up with that?

quote ShortRound

I bought this game a while ago for PS2 and have to say it's really good, gameplay-wise it wipes the floor with Tomb Raider. One thing though, why do the graphics look like some dodgy pirated copy? It's not that they're bad graphics per-se it's just that it looks like they've just been blurred or something. What's up with that?

Would it be possible to get a scanned copy of the Instruction book for IJ? I bought a used copy at Funcoland, and it didn't have the book.

quote Kingsolo

Would it be possible to get a scanned copy of the Instruction book for IJ? I bought a used copy at Funcoland, and it didn't have the book.

Controls are generally quite smooth to use and whilst at first they may feel a little loose and not all immediately intuitive they are not tricky to employ on-the-fly once you've played a level or two. The first level anyway serves pretty much as training for what's to come. Apart from those buttons already mentioned the left analogue stick provides main movement (there's no proper strafing while running around), right analogue for looking/camera movement, circle for jumping, triangle for action, R1 for guard mode, R2 to reload, L1 for look mode/rolling/resetting camera and L2 for drawing/holstering weapon or choosing the last item used. A 1st-person mode using a crosshair is employed by pressing L1 and aiming with either analogue stick. This comes in very handy to take out a few enemies before they spot you as once they do there can quite often be a whole gang of them to take on and picking one or two off first makes your job a little easier.