Play takes place on some pretty iconic street courts such as Mosswood and the legendary Soul in the Hole. Seriously, this game was so much fun, but my mates beat me all the time. Jak 2 is up next in this list of the best PS2 games of all time. Why is it my third favourite? Jak becomes Dark Jak for the first time too after collecting enough Dark Eco.
He gets enhanced skills and goes full on goth for a short amount of time…. Guns play much more of a pivotal role in Jak 2. Still, it took a step away from the platformy feel of the first title while focusing on individual missions and hoverboard riding.
Oh yeah, I said hoverboard alright. Take the duo for a ride around some stunning levels, blasting enemies into next week while doing everything you can to stay alive. This game was important for a whole host of reasons, For starters, it was the title that brought open world gameplay to the canon. I daresay that it also shaped the way that other open world games were made long after it too. Players have way more control over the actions of team members in battle too and the option of just rambling around looking for massive monsters to kill.
Set in the region of Ivalice at a time where war is rife, players follow a rogue princess turned resistance pirate and a young swordsman determined to join the ranks of the sky pirates.
For the first time, enemies can be seen in advance instead of popping up as random encounters. It gives gamers the chance to avoid them if necessary, though slaying monsters makes loot drop for spending in shops. Slay monsters in combos, and you get even more cash to spend. The premise is simple; press one of 5 coloured buttons in time to the rhythm of the music.
Achieving that full ROCK factor was always a challenge, and although I can play most of these songs in real life, my fingers always fell over each other trying to get a high score! Rocking out to some of the greatest rock anthems of our time while wielding a guitar-shaped controller is one of the best feelings of all time. Play as Slash or Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine fame once unlocked, or take your chosen character all the way to the top by completing challenges and proving your mettle through over 70 different songs.
Come for the music, stay for the multiplayer co-op mode and epic guitar battles. Tales of Symphonia takes the 28th spot in this list of the best PS2 games of all time! Players take a dude named Lloyd on a mission to save Sylvarant from some serious bad juju. Every move hangs in the balance, with one good deed in this world having a terrible effect on a parallel world. The game itself is open world brilliance. Kicking off the list with WWE Smackdown!
Here Comes The Pain is a pretty good way to start. Considered by myself and many others to be the best wrestling game of all time, this title is a must have for every PS2 fan. I used to run back from walking the dog every Saturday so that I could watch Stone Cold Steve Austin kicking the sh… I mean… wrestling against the likes of Kane and the Undertaker.
It also brought new features too such as a better grappling system and new modes like the Elimination Chamber. The game sold well over , copies during its lifetime in the UK alone, receiving platinum status. Bully takes the 26th spot in this list of the best PS2 games of time. This open world GTA-style free-for-all is a cracking title and another that needs to be in your collection. The jury was definitely out at to whether punters would like Bully.
Players control James Hopkins, known through the game as Jimmy. He goes about this by beating people up, completing missions, and rising to the top of the school popularity system. Sounds a bit like bullying with missions to me, but who am I to judge? Players move around this massive game on bikes, go-karts, and skateboards while working their way to the top of the Bullworth social ladder.
And what better world to explore than the realm of Middle Earth in a brand new adventure that compliments the books! Well, gamers take warriors from the main factions of Middle Earth in a bid to deal with the mess that the main company of the Fellowship leave behind.
If you want to get real evil, then you can side with Sauron and fight to see Middle Earth burn to cinders. Persona 4 is the fifth title in the Persona series, despite the confusing 4 on the front cover. Like Bully, it follows a year in the life of a high-school student, though murder and mystery are the main features this time. Set in a sleepy-old-town with nothing going on, our city-boy main character must discover why dead bodies are appearing through the town while delving into the mysterious TV world.
Corpses on rooftops, rumours of soulmates emerging from television sets, and shadow monsters that can only be fought by entering your screen. One of the key elements of Persona 4 is the weather forecast system. The main character and the members of your RPG party all wield Personas. These are like a cross between Pokemon and Patronuses, mythical creatures that protect their owners and battle for them in the field as they struggle through life.
The whole game is classic RPG action at its best with more upgrading and collectable action than you can shake a stick at. We highly recommend trying this game out even if just for creating new Personas in the velvet room. With four modes of play including Freeplay and World Circuit, Tricky provides maximum thrills with the added player hostility that makes these games so interesting. SSX games allow players to hit each other in order to knock characters off course.
As far as gameplay is concerned, the courses and characters all look amazing. Just check out those mountains in the picture above! Garibaldi and Alaska serve as two new courses, with the other tracks providing altered versions from the original SSX game.
Like most racing games, SSX Tricky has a boost bar that players must fill. Characters pull off insane tricks called Uber Moves once the boost bar is full. Land Uber Moves successfully and reap the rewards of infinite boost, allowing gamers to zip past opponents like a noss-fuelled toboggan. Punch and nose grab the move, not a real nose your way to glory in this epic EA sports title.
Could the cover for Dark Cloud make it look any more like a Zelda game? Dark Cloud is another RPG title in our list of the best PS2 games, providing gamers with dungeons, monsters, and collectible hunting a-plenty.
I love the tense battles in this game and the treasure hunting features, all of which make me want to give up my job and become an adventurer. Like Windbound although Dark Cloud did it first , players need to watch a thirst meter as well as a health meter. Get some fluids in you, quickly! Toan hacks and slashes his way through the game world collecting orbs to rebuild nature.
Ransacking dungeons and battling enemies twice his size are daily occurrences, but he seems to enjoy getting stuck in. The game has some RPG battle elements and boasts a weapon upgrading system. GameCube gamers finally had the chance to use Link in epic battles, and Xbox users held the power of Spawn in their hands. Players battle a series of characters in the story mode, unlocking new weapons and costumes as they go. Each character has a Soul Edge weapon that causes devastating damage but also drains health at the same time.
Nightmare and Astaroth are the two best characters for bludgeoning everything in sight. If you still have friends to play couch co-op with, then SoulCalibur II is an amazing title to kick back with on a Saturday afternoon while tucking into a pizza. Yes, up next is the legendary Guitar Hero. It was the very first title in an epic series that saw gamers around the globe rocking out to their favourite tracks.
Using the plucking button and pressing the coloured buttons in the right time and order will make you feel like a rock god right from the word go. You can even work a whammy bar for some extra live gig feels. This game was amazing and great fun to play with your friends, especially when the different guitar styles started coming out. Shiranui certainly has a less stressful time than Link without Midna around, and the Sume-e ink artwork in this game is still as breathtaking today as it was back in Well, the game sees you playing as a Japanese sun goddess named Amaterasu.
She can transform into a legendary white wolf by the name of Shiranui and use magical abilities to complete her quest. The gameplay is in fact modelled on the Legend of Zelda, but not a direct copy like Windbound. The director, Hideki Kamiya, cited the series as one of his favourites. Amaterasu can use her magic to attack enemies that you encounter, and also to bring colour back into the world of Nippon by using the Celestial Brush.
Just look at that artwork! Another open world game, Jak 3 brings all of the features that gamers love about the dynamic duo to a brand new adventure brimming with crazy weapons and exciting items. Missions make up the majority of this game, with specific challenges requiring completion in order to progress. New characters appear for gamers to interact with as they move around the unique Jak and Daxter universe. If you have followed the series or played the original Devil May Cry game, then this third instalment is set before the events of the first game.
You follow Dante, but a younger version of the character that many of you will know and love. If you love the world of X-Men and want to plunge yourself into an engaging adventure in this reality, this is definitely the game to try. The Gran Turismo series has revolutionized the sim racer genre.
Expectations were rightfully high after the success of Gran Turismo 3. After numerous delays, Gran Turismo 4 was finally available for PlayStation 2 owners in Luckily the sheer amount of content within the game made up for the delays. Players could choose from over cars. This absurd amount of car selection was split into 80 car manufacturers.
The car diversity is truly astounding. In addition, Gran Turismo 4 boasts a total of 51 tracks. There are a few different game modes in GT4. However, most game modes consist of racing against AI to earn better positions and lap times. A new photo mode allowed the player to take screenshots of their cars on the various gorgeous tracks.
Given that the visuals were incredible this game mode was a huge success. Visually, Gran Turismo 4 is stunning. The excellent audio quality also pairs with the graphics to offer a complete audiovisual performance. The sound of vehicle engines will blow you away. An online mode would have elevated this game from amazing to perfection. Racing against others online would have added a competitive edge to GT4. In addition, this iteration was criticized for not innovating gameplay from Gran Turismo 3.
Sly 3 Honor Among Thieves was the final of the original Sly trilogy. It wrapped up one of the most iconic PlayStation exclusives ever made. It was also the last mainline game of the franchise to be released for a long time. Sly 3 Honor Among Thieves was released in while the fourth and final iteration of the franchise was released eight years later in The developers chose to venture into an interesting direction by making Sly less of a focal point.
Instead, the game shines thanks to its large cast of playable characters. Each character is imbued with a unique personality. The player goes through platforming-based levels in which Sly and company can pickpocket their way to success.
Getting past the guards provides some thrilling gameplay. Unfortunately, a hour story mode may feel a tad brief for gamers who enjoy sinking more time into their games. They are imbued with a respectable charm that is easy to fall for. The two-player mode can offer some additional fun for a few hours. The game is quite easy to run through for experienced players. Without the option to adjust the difficulty, older gamers may feel shortchanged.
To make up for its slight issues, Sly 3 offers excellent boss battles and a plot that will keep you invested from start to finish. Yakuza takes you into that world as Kazuma, a former Yakuza rising star who is trying to rebuild his reputation after serving a year prison sentence.
The Yakuza is a complex criminal organization that has often been mythologized and employed in action and adventure plots. Order, honor, and respect hold great importance within the Yakuza, but so does ruthlessness. Especially when he is caught in a spiraling plot involving missing money and a mysterious girl named Haruka.
Playing as Kazuma, you have to try and unravel the mystery using your wits and your fists to get to the truth and survive in the process. Yakuza offers complex, captivating characters, great attack combos and plenty of weapons and other items to collect via side missions. Whether you like a good storyline and plenty of action, Yakuza is definitely worth adding to your collection. When you find the best game for PS2 you are going to want to collect all of the versions. The Mega Man Anniversary Collection allows you to enjoy the eight popular games previously released, plus two new ones!
The games are based the series Mega Man, known as Rockman in Japan, which follows a boy who volunteers to be converted into a fighting robot after his creator is betrayed and his fellow robots are corrupted by the treacherous Dr.
The Mega Man Anniversary Collection allows you to enjoy all of the original 8-bit games, from the very first to Mega Man 8 and two new Mega Man games, while removing the lag that had been present when the games first debuted.
This allows you to play your favorite old-school game without all of the old-school-gaming problems. If you're looking for a new PS2 game, there are plenty of great options to consider. But how do you choose the perfect game to add to your collection? Or the best PS2 game to gift to a gamer?
We have you covered on both! If you're shopping for yourself, you probably have an idea of what you like and dislike. Here are a few tips while shopping. Remember that every gamer is different; some people may hate a certain feature in a game, while others may think that the game is a hit because of that one feature. Some people also tend to bump down their reviews for reasons that have nothing to do with the game.
For instance, when purchasing a game online, you may see a low review simply because the game got damaged in shipping and didn't work well. This is a shipping issue and not a game issue. Some people are trying to sell off used or damaged games as new, always make sure your seller has good reviews.
If you like multiplayer games , remember that PS2 is mostly offline these days, so you want to have the setup to accommodate local multiplayer as a result. If you are sharing the game with a spouse or kids, you want to make sure it is age-appropriate. Some PS2 games can get very graphic, and those may not be the best games for people who dislike blood and gore. Of course, not every game has to be shared. If you're trying to give a PS2 game as a gift for a friend or loved one, there are a few things you can do to ensure that your gift is spot-on.
For instance, inquiring about what they already like or own can give you a sense of what they like. Just keep in mind the genres that they prefer or lean toward and look into some of those. Simply having a back-and-forth discussion about gaming over the years can reveal a lot about what the person is looking for.
It's possible that they'll offer hints about what they like or even flat-out mention a PS2 game that they've been wanting for a while. If worse comes to worst, you can also purchase a gift card for them. While not the most personal option, it allows them to select the title they want so you don't feel overwhelmed by the choices.
The PlayStation 2 is the best-selling video game console of all time. The video game industry has been around for a long time. Still, a console released in the year remains the king of all consoles. The PlayStation 2 was a part of the sixth generation of consoles.
The Xbox sold a total of 24 million units while the Gamecube sold a total of 22 million. Even when combining the two competitors the PS2 destroys the competition in terms of units sold.
To put things into perspective the second best-selling video game console of all time is the Nintendo DS with million units sold. In terms of home consoles, the PlayStation 4 ranks second with million units sold. For the most part, the PlayStation 2 is backward compatible. Jak and Daxter or Sly Cooper. Platformers are a great genre for people who are just beginning to play video games.
Most gamers I know started to game in their early childhood. Chances are, if your friend never got into them, she never will. She might have fun with a game or two, but that's about as far as it will go. I think this might be a good choice: Okage: Shadow King. I absolutely love that series and I don't think the original is too difficult for newcomers. It's sort of hard getting people to pick up a video game if it isn't their thing.
I've had countless girlfriends I've tried to get into games with me, but the closest I ever got with them was getting them to play a bit of Lego Star Wars Co-Op with me. I'd suggest that. My sister loves Ratchet and Clank, so that's a good start. Don't get her Kingdom Hearts; the controls are a bit unwieldy and the game is easy to get lost in.
Psychonauts is a brilliant game to and it isn't to hard to get into.
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