History VideoGame / Jak3

Jak is banished to the Wasteland while Haven City is being torn apart by a three-way war between the remaining Krimzon Guard robots, the Freedom League, and the surviving Metal Heads. He is taken back to a desert refuge known as Spargus by the city's ruler, Damas, and grows to be one of the king's finest warriors. He eventually returns to Haven to help with the war effort, but not long after discovers a much, ''much'' [[ItGotWorse bigger threat]] to the world than anything before: [[spoiler:the Dark Makers]] are coming and hope to terraform the planet into the very dark and twisted world Jak barely stopped it from becoming in ''[[JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy The Precursor Legacy]]''. The BigBad is aided by an AxCrazy [[spoiler:and resurrected Erol]].

* VideoGameCaringPotential: Try following the new Freedom Guards on an attack to either the KG Bots or the Metal Heads. Now try telling me you don't feel pain when a Metal Head jumps on a FG and mauls him to death.

Jak is banished to the Wasteland while Haven City is being torn apart by a three-way war between the remaining Krimzon Guard robots, the Freedom League, and the surviving Metal Heads. He is taken back to a desert refuge known as Spargus by the city's ruler, Damas, and grows to be one of the king's finest warriors. He eventually returns to Haven to help with the war effort, but not long after discovering a much, ''much'' [[ItGotWorse bigger threat]] to the world than anything before: [[spoiler:the Dark Makers]] are coming and hope to terraform the planet into the very dark and twisted world Jak barely stopped it from becoming in ''[[JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy The Precursor Legacy]]''. The BigBad is aided by an AxCrazy [[spoiler:and resurrected Erol]].

The game starts as Jak is banished into the Wasteland from the now falling apart Haven City, which is caught up in a massive war between the remaining Krimzon Guard robots and the surviving Metal Heads. He copes by in the desert refuge known as Spargus, ruled by Damas, the former ruler of Haven City prior to being booted out by Baron Praxis. He quickly gains the respect of the Wastelanders, while gaining a new Light Jak form along the way, and returns to Haven to help with the war effort--but not long after discovers a much, '''much''' [[ItGotWorse bigger threat]] to the world than anything before that was foreshadowed throughout the game--specifically, [[spoiler: a race of Dark Eco corrupted Precursors, known as "Dark Makers"]], have found Jak's world and hope to terraform it into the very dark and twisted world Jak barely stopped it from becoming in the first game--along with the help of [[spoiler: the former leader of the Krimzon Guard, Errol, who was nearly killed in an eco explosion in the previous game, but resurrected as an AxCrazy, genocidal cyborg to aid the Dark Makers in their quest]].

After yet another long journey, with even more crazy plot twists than before (but what do you expect when the game was [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0377339/ directed by the same woman]] who wrote the LegacyOfKain series? ), Jak saves the world yet again, wrapping the storyline of all three games and giving our heroes a [[GrandFinale satisfying conclusion]]. Like the previous games, the game was universally well received and was a hit in sales.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The battle against the [[spoiler: Terraformer and Cyber Errorl]].

* CrowningMomentofAwesome: The battle against the [[spoiler: Terraformer and Cyber Errorl]].

* BagOfSpilling: You start off with none of Jak's weapons or the jetboard, as they were taken from Jak prior to his being banished. However, he regains them all throughout the game--[[MoreDakka with upgrades]]. Sadly, though, he doesn't get to keep the Dark powers he acquired in JakIIRenegade, save for the EnergyBomb.

* StupidEvil: The Marauders harassing Jak must come from an incurable CompleteMonster race, because they continue trying to kill Jak and continue to get slaughtered. It gets to a point where you wonder if they ''want'' to die.

** Played straight with Errol; he's a total dick in the second game, but he's a CompleteMonster here.

* AirborneAircraftCarrier / OminousFloatingCastle - The War Factory serves as the former because it deploys KG robots and has a flying defense constantly patrolling around it, which can be shot down during the raid at the climax of Act Two, and serves as the latter because it's the KG leader's HQ. The Floating War Factory is so large it almost counts as a manmade FloatingContinent. Quite what keeps it up is anybody's guess, [[RuleOfCool but it ''does'' look intimidating overshadowing the city]].

* BigDamnFireExit: The conspiciously giant warpgate located in the the Terraformer storage part of the [[spoiler: Dark Maker]] ship is the way Jak and Dax survive the subsequent destruction of it.

* ChaosArchitecture: How exactly did New Haven City come about unless there was a peacetime at some point during the war? The positioning of the five fallen palace towers doesn't always tally with their original positions in Jak 2. Also, the corners of the port, some sections of the Slums and the Industrial district are clipped for unexplained reasons. Otherwise, the game mostly averts this - despite claims of Haven Forest being completely unrecognisable, a bird's-eye-view from the Floating War Factory shows that it's a different section of the forest. [[FridgeLogic Still doesn't explain how the entrance to said part of the Forest got there.]]
* ChekhovsGun - The Seal of Mar, which Ashelin gives to Jak in Act One to try to convince him to come back, enables him to explore further in the Precursor temple, leading to his return to the City. [[spoiler: It also proves important later, when Damas gives him his own Seal of Mar to identify Damas' son. This is when Jak realises who he is.]]

* DopeSlap: "Oh don't worry. Jak beats things all the time. Hehehehe -" WHACK. Jak does this to Daxter when Kleiver challenges him to beat his top score on the turret minigame.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The Wasteland Metal Heads look strongly like a cross between Metal Kor and TyrannosaurusRex. They are joined in Act Two by pterodactly-style Metal Heads during the FirstPersonShooter mission with Sig.

* GameOverMan: As with the first game, Daxter - though only on occasion. Jak's death animation must be the exact same one he's had since the first game in order for this to happen.

* GetBackHereBoss: The Terraformer boss battle initially works like this, though it's not running away from Jak - it barely notices him and he just has to keep up with it.

* GreenRocks: Eco. [[spoiler: The Ottsel Leader's explanation for Daxter's BalefulPolymorph transformation when he touched the [[PsychoSerum Dark Eco]] in ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy'' only adds fuel to the WildMassGuessing]].

* HordeOfAlienLocusts - Metal Heads, though this is mostly inferred by fans as no other motivation appears to guide them. See MotiveDecay below.
* HoverBoard - The Jet-board makes a welcome comeback.
* HumongousMecha - Veger's Precursor Bot. It looks impressive, but thanks to BossArenaIdiocy and TacticalSuicideBoss, you shouldn't really have too many problems.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Averted, once the Krimzon Guard become the Freedom League, they suddenly learn how to shoot. One of the rare examples where the good guys are better. Also, sadly, averted with the KG Deathbots - they are deadly accurate if they get a chance to aim at you.

* LaserSight - The Morph Gun.
* LawOfInverseRecoil - Averted: Jak's gun actually does jerk back after firing.
* LethalLavaLand - The Volcano and the Spargus Arena.

** DynamicLoading - Usually a door opening.

* LostTechnology - The Precursors [[spoiler: and Dark Makers]] left their technology scattered around the Wasteland.

* MascotWithAttitude - Daxter. He has some {{Badass}} moments, though, so TropesAreNotBad.

* MilitaryMashupMachine - The KG's Floating War Factory.
* MiniMecha - There is a level in the third act where [[ItMakesSenseInContext Jak controls a Dark Maker Bot with his mind]]. This is, to say the least, slightly surreal to those of us who weren't expecting it.

* MoreDakka - The Morph Gun's blue upgrades.

* MorphWeapon - The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ''Morph'' Gun]].

* MundaneUtility - Need to open a box? Shoot it!
* MyNameIsNotDurwood - This is Daxter's favourite method of annoying Veger.

--> '''Daxter''': Er, excuse me Count Vulgar -

* MyNaymeIs - Kleiver.

* OhMyGods - "By the Precursors" seems to be Samos' stand-in for "Oh my God."
** PlayedForLaughs when Jak says "Oh my God." during TheReveal in Act Three.

* PinballProjectile - The Reflexor gun.

** NeglectfulPrecursors - Literally. See TheGodsMustBeLazy above.
* PrimalFear - BorderPatrol for the Wasteland section is CombatTentacles. Sounds like NarmCharm? [[NightmareFuel Think again.]]

* RandomEventsPlot / KudzuPlot - The story is practically impossible to sum up quickly, and the revelations made in that game raise many questions that may never be answered.

* {{Retcon}} - Some details of this game altered those of the previous game. For instance, [[spoiler: Veger was responsible for Young Jak getting into the [[LaResistance Underground]] in the first place, after he took Jak from his father]].

* TheReveal - Lots. Some predictable, some not.

* RunawayTrain - The explosive cart in the Eco Mine.
* SayMyName - Happens once in Act Three, after [[spoiler: Jak's SuicidalGotcha]].

* SequelHook - "With all our adventures ahead, you wouldn't last a second without me." And Jak was absolutely right.

* SeriousBusiness - Artifact hunting to the Wastelanders.
* ShiftingSandLand - The Wasteland.
* ShootingGallery - Tess appears to have inherited this. For some reason, [[ChaosArchitecture it's changed location]] between Jak ''II'' and ''3''.
* ShoutOut - One of the bonus features allows you to set up a Ratchet & Clank gun course in Haven City.
** This troper is surprised no one pointed out the Pac-Man shout-out when Daxter was om-nom-noming on the circuit grid.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism - Migrated slowly back toward the middle as the game progressed. The world is ultimately not a SickSadWorld, but it's no picnic, either.
* SpiderTank - The Terraformer is an [[HumongousMecha impossibly large one]]. RuleOfCool played to its limit. This makes the FinalBoss [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome one of the most impressive in the Jak and Daxter series.]]

* StableTimeLoop - [[spoiler:Implied, though unresolved.]]

* SwissArmyGun / [[SwissArmyWeapon Weapon]] - The Morph Gun has a shotgun, a rifle, a sub-machine gun, a lightning gun, lightning-''ball'' gun, an RPG launcher, a shockwave generator, a ReflectingLaser, a drone launcher, an Anti-Gravity generator, a homing-dart gun and a ''mini-nuke''.

* TechnoBabble - Tess spits out a run-on sentence about one of her {{BFG}}s. Cue shot of Jak and Daxter with a "Bwuh?" look on their faces.

* ThisIsReality - Jak and Daxter look directly at the player after Seem's "This isn't a game!"

** Played straight with Errol - he's a total dick in the second game, but he's a CompleteMonster here.
* TrilogyCreep - ''Jak 3'' was originally thought to be the end, but then they released ''Jak X'', ''Daxter'', and ''TLF''.
* TrueCompanions - Exactly how many of the main characters are now part of it depends on who you ask, but the general consensus is that Jak, Daxter, Keira, Samos, Torn, Ashelin, Tess, Onin, Pecker and Sig are the "official" party here.

* WombLevel - The deepest part of the Metal Head nest under the volcano. Also the Metal Head section of the city and the Metal Head tower.
* WordOfGod / AllThereInTheManual - Commentary refers to [[AmbiguousGender Seem]] as a "she."

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Count Veger]] is considered the main one by many because [[spoiler:he was responsible for nearly everything that went wrong in the heroes' lives]]. [[spoiler: Cyber-Errol]] seems to be the official BigBad for this game, being the FinalBoss.

* TrueCompanions - Exactly how many of the main characters are now part of it depends on who you ask, but the general consensus is that Jak, Daxter, Keira, Samos, Torn, Ashelin, Onin, Pecker and Sig are the "official" party here.

* TheGodsMustBeLazy - Why the hell are the Precursors, the "most powerful beings in the universe," relying on a mortal man (whose amazingness was quite possibly given to him ''by'' the Precursors) to solve their problems? [[CallingTheOldManOut Commented on]] by Daxter in the third act, right before TheReveal.
* GreenRocks - Eco. [[spoiler: The Ottsel Leader's explanation for Daxter's BalefulPolymorph transformation when he touched the [[PsychoSerum Dark Eco]] in ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy'' only adds fuel to the WildMassGuessing]].

The third installment of the ''JakAndDaxter'' franchise.

* GreenRocks - Eco. [[spoiler: The Ottsel Leader's explanation for Daxter's BalefulPolymorph transformation when he touched the [[PsychoSerum Dark Eco]] in JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy only adds fuel to the WildMassGuessing]].

* DropWhatYouAreDoing: Veger drops his cane/scepter/whatever-it-is after TheReveal.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: [[spoiler: Apparently what happened to Cyber-Errol between this game and the previous one.]]

* AscendedExtra: Jinx. He was originally one out of the three demolition crew in JakII:Renegade, and comes back with a name, cigar and MoreDakka.

** However, you can buy the "Robot Shock" upgrade for the Arc Wielder, which drastically increases its effectiveness against KG Bots. YourMileageMayVary on ''how'' much more useful it is, but it's not entirely impractical.

* KissingDiscretionShot: At the end. [[YourMileageMayVary Arguably.]]

-->This troper is surprised no one pointed out the Pac-Man shout-out when Daxter was om-nom-noming on the circuit grid.

The game starts as Jak is banished into the Wasteland from the now falling apart Haven City, which is caught up in a massive war between the remaining Krimzon Guard robots and the surviving Metal Heads. He copes by in the desert refuge known as Spargus, ruled by Damas, the former ruler of Haven City prior to being booted out by Baron Praxis. He quickly gains the respect of the Wastelanders, while gaining a new Light Jak form along the way, and returns to Haven to help with the war effort--but not long after discovers a much, '''much''' [[ItGotWorse bigger threat]] to the world than anything before that was foreshadowed throughout the game--specifically, [[spoiler: a race of Dark Eco corrupted Precursors, known as "Dark Makers"]], have found Jak's world and hope to terraform it into the very dark and twisted world Jak barely stopped it from becoming in the first game--along with the help of [[spoiler: the former leader of the Krimzon Guard, Errol, who was nearly killed in an eco explosion in the previous game, but resurrected as a AxCrazy, genocidal cyborg to aid the Dark Makers in their quest]].

The game starts as Jak is banished into the Wasteland from the now falling apart Haven City, which is caught up in a massive war between the remaining Krimzon Guard robots and the surviving Metal Heads. He copes by in the desert refuge known as Spargus, ruled by Damas, the former ruler of Haven City prior to being booted out by Baron Praxis. He quickly gains the respect of the Wastelanders, while gaining a new [[BetterThanItSounds Light Jak]] form along the way, and returns to Haven to help with the war effort--but not long after discovers a much, '''much''' [[ItGotWorse bigger threat]] to the world than anything before that was foreshadowed throughout the game--specifically, [[spoiler: a race of Dark Eco corrupted Precursors, known as "Dark Makers"]], have found Jak's world and hope to terraform it into the very dark and twisted world Jak barely stopped it from becoming in the first game--along with the help of [[spoiler: the former leader of the Krimzon Guard, Errol, who was nearly killed in an eco explosion in the previous game, but resurrected as a AxCrazy, genocidal cyborg to aid the Dark Makers in their quest]].