Ranking Every Naughty Dog Game From Worst To Best

8. Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy

At the turn of the generation, Naughty Dog found themselves keeping their heads down and focusing on what was most definitely their forte. Nobody outside of Nintendo was doing 3D platformers quite so proficiently, but where could the genre go after Crash 3?

Well, "anywhere" came the reply, as Naughty Dog built Jak & Daxter with what was essentially an open-world design at its core.

Mission-givers were peppered across the stunning landscape, you were free to come and go between a number of different environments to mop up any remaining collectibles, and across the board both Jak and Daxter's animations (and the latter's voice work) were simply loveable.

Come the close of the story you'd been on a brilliant 'unassuming villager embarks on the epic quest and saves the realm' tale, but with an overall mark of quality that - whilst worlds away from Jak 2 and 3 - gives Jak & Daxter a purity that still encourages a playthrough today.