

I wish the same could be said about Lori. This episode is the highlight of the new content. Levels are packed with alternate routes and secrets that increase replayability, but also capture the feeling of the original levels.

It’s harder than the original game and has some cool settings, like the haunted mansion environment. Not only does it have all the content of the original game, but it also includes the 9-level Secret Files title episode, the Holiday Hare freeware episode, twenty-three new single and multiplayer levels, plus a new character (Jazz’s sister Lori). Jazz Jackrabbit 2: The Secret Files could be called the definitive version of Jazz 2. This "plot," though, is mostly an excuse to run around creatively designed levels and shoot tortoises. The storyline begins three thousand years after Aesop’s The Tortoise and the Hare, when conflict between hares and tortoises escalates into war. The game has often been likened to Sonic the Hedgehog with guns. You might want to try other great games in the Jazz jackrabbit series, but if you are anticipating the winter celebrations, the snow filled scenarios of this game, Jazz Jackrabbit 2: The Christmas Chronicles will unmistakably take you to a jolly state.Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is a 2D run-and-gun platformer where you control a 3-foot-tall, anthropomorphic green hare. But, at any rate, knowing what the best road to take is and anticipating what comes next is what makes this game stand out, is what makes it so interesting. Nope, the game is not that fast paced, but instead it also has areas that will require you to tackle them methodically, rather than twitch fast. To be fair, however, the game's main selling point was the fact that offered a similar but very original take on the fast paced run downs of the above mentioned classic. You will have to manage your way through the Sonic inspired fast paced mazes, and while at it, make sure that you collect as much as possible of the loot sprinkled all over. But, other than that, nothing else is changed.

The main addition of this version of Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is that it brought forward a new player character, Lori, a fast and interesting addition, that expanded the already good cast of the Holiday Hare version of the game. The same Holiday Hare 98 version with a new player character
