It brought us back to the moment and feeling that made GTA such an iconic franchise in the PS2 era, complete with an all-new story and missions, in a prequel to GTA 3. Back then, the idea of playing a fully-realized open-world GTA on a handheld device was a pipe dream.until Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. Travel back to 2005, and Rockstar had recently dropped three industry-changing GTA games. A delightful, worthy spinoff to the main franchise. And don't even get us started on the 'dream sequences,' a series of mini-games that see Daxter dreaming himself as the hero in well-known films such as Braveheart and The Matrix. While Daxter is smaller than Jak, Ready at Dawn smartly makes Daxter a worthy platforming protagonist, who is not only smaller but a bit more agile than his best friend.Īnd while both characters are stark contrasts in terms of height, the gameplay and level design perfectly accommodate Daxter's strengths and weaknesses. True to the Jak and Daxter formula before it, Daxter is a platformer that recaptures the charm and cleverness of the first game. A spinoff of Naughty Dog's Jak and Daxter series, Daxter focuses on the titular ottsel and his ventures shortly before the events of Jak II.