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Gex 3... in whole it is a meh game, but the worst is, the added characters and cutscenes. The experience was like, meeting with a good buddy you haven't seen for long. Only to bring his slutty annoying girlfriend. They keep ignoring you, and the whole time they keep schmoozing and saying lewd things to each other, and you're like "Hey, I don't need to hear this, keep it to yourselves!". I have nothing against damsel in distress stories, but Agent X can just shut up and fk off. (I guess they wanted to get every opportunity to show off that they got a live actress to act badly, but why in a game with a cartoon gecko?)
I guess now I have to explain why I like Gex in the first place.
First discovered the second game in the series called Gex 3D: Enter the Gecko, spontaneously. Got into this new game, started a level, Gex materialized in the playfield out of poligons (it's a teleport effect, do not mean a graphics glitch). Then I wanted to take control, but suddenly Gex looked back and said something silly. And I was like "What? Ya bastard haha!". I was not used to a videogame character talking for seemingly no reason at random times (yeah, Duke Nukem 3D did it earlier, but at that time I didn't have a sound card). Did I just got adopted a Digimon partner or something? It was cool. This was the only game where it didn't feel like the playable character is just an avatar for me. It was like playing with a friend, it's WE are doing it, getting the evil rid of this digital world... or something. There was some paper thin plot implied in the intro video, but it was easily ignorable. A hyperactive little gecko, with an ego on level with Duke Nukem, it was endlessly funny to me, in an ironic and endearing way. (But only with the original American voice, the British dub is lame. While most people prefer the British one because it's "less annoying", I say that old man's voice doesn't fit an energetic bouncy gecko at all.)