Best Ps2 games

CrashBandicoot Girl

I havent played my ps2 in ages and I want to play some of the classics or most fun games there is on ps2 because ps3 games are expensive enough and its the recession so I figure ps2 games will be cheaper. So I want you guys to give me a large variety of games to play. So get typing you're favourites!:D

Kiith

Shadow of the Colossus.

/thread

ronkmonster

Metal Gear Solid 3

God of War

MGMTea

The legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon :') so many memories

Retr0gamer

Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter
Dragon Quest VIII
Castlevania Lament of innocence
Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2
Forbidden Siren 1 and 2
Final Fantasy X
Silent Hill 2
Front Mission 5
Global Defence Force
God Hand
Devil May Cry 1 and 3 (2 never happened)
Viewtiful Joe 1 and 2
Haunting Ground
Project Zero 1, 2 and 3
God of War 1 and 2
Klonoa 2
Okami
Persona 3 and 4
The Red Star
Ring of Red
Rogue Galaxy
Shadow Hearts Covenant
Katamari Damacy
We love Katamari
Shadow of Memories
Shadow of the Colossus
Ico
Devil Summoner 1 and 2
Shin Megami Tensei Lucifiers Call
Blood Will Tell
Steambot Chronicles
Suikoden 3 and 5 (4 is ****)
Valkyrie Profile 2
Yakuza 1 and 2
Contra: Shattered Soldier
Gradius V
Odin Sphere
Shadow of Rome
Psychonauts
All three Prince of Persia games
Beyond good and evil
Fahrenheit
Kim Possible: What's the Switch (yes this is actually damn good)
Zone of Enders 1 and 2 (2 is unmissable)
Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3
Psi-Ops
Freedom Fighters
All 3 GTA games
All 3 Sly Raccoon games
Urban Chaos Riot Response
Cold Winter
XIII
Gitaroo Man
Fantasvision
Outrun 2006
Grim Grimoire
Taito Legends 1 and 2
Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2
Resident Evil 4
Burnout 2, 3 and revenge
Rayman 2 and 3
Maximo 1 and 2
Dark Cloud 2
Rogue Galaxy
Street Fighter Anniversary (US and JAP version. PAL version is **** and doesn't have SF3)
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Canis Canem Edit
The Warriors
Soul Calibur 2
Tomb Raider Anniversary
Secret Weapons over Normandy
Disgaea
Rez
Ar Tonelico 1 and 2
Rogue Trooper
King Kong

That should keep you lit.

ronkmonster

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Canis Canem Edit

Also called 'Bully'
Great game.

Retr0gamer

Aye, thought it was much better than the GTA games.

ronkmonster

Yeah I only played it last month on PC. Pity Rockstar won't do a bit more stuff like that. Instead of sticking to same old GTA

Kiith

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Big ass list

That's one big ass list :P

To be fair, the PS2 was an amazing console, with some truly fantastic games. If only Sony hadn't been ***** and kept the PS3's backward compatibility.

Retr0gamer

ronkmonster wrote: »

Yeah I only played it last month on PC. Pity Rockstar won't do a bit more stuff like that. Instead of sticking to same old GTA

It's actually made my a different team from the one that makes the GTA games. I actually much prefer the rockstar games from all their other companies than the ones from Rockstar North who other than the GTA games have only made the awful Manhunter games. Stuff like Bully, the Warriors, Red Dead and GTA Chinatown Wars are made by other teams.

Trevor451

007: nightfire is definitely one of the best fps games on the ps2. The splitscreen multiplayer on that game was great

Ardennes1944

moh frontline

Retr0gamer

Deutschlandfürimmer7 wrote: »

moh frontline

It's aged really badly. Compared to PC games at the time it was a poor FPS and compared to the FPS games on consoles now it's not great at all. The beach landing is laughably empty compared to MOH:AA and after the second level which is decent the level design is forgettable. Soundtrack is amazing though.

Fnz

- Shadow of The Colossus
- Gitaroo Man
- Project Zero 2: Crimson Butterfly
- Mashed: Fully Loaded
- God of War
- Katamari Damacy
- Frequency
- God Hand
- Okami
- Gran Turismo 4
- ICO

_Godot_

Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy XII
Persona 4
Psychonauts
God of War 1 & 2
Dragon Quest: The Journey of the Cursed King
Ghostbusters
Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2
Sly Cooper 1, 2 & 3
Shin Megami Tensei Lucifer's Call
Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil
Jak and Daxter
The Mark of Kri
Project Zero II
Ratchet & Clank
Rogue Galaxy
Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2
Devil May Cry

Ardennes1944

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It's aged really badly. Compared to PC games at the time it was a poor FPS and compared to the FPS games on consoles now it's not great at all. The beach landing is laughably empty compared to MOH:AA and after the second level which is decent the level design is forgettable. Soundtrack is amazing though.

well it is very old at this stage in fairness. i think its the best game anyway

Augmerson

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter
Dragon Quest VIII
Castlevania Lament of innocence
Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2
Forbidden Siren 1 and 2
Final Fantasy X
Silent Hill 2
Front Mission 5
Global Defence Force
God Hand
Devil May Cry 1 and 3 (2 never happened)
Viewtiful Joe 1 and 2
Haunting Ground
Project Zero 1, 2 and 3
God of War 1 and 2
Klonoa 2
Okami
Persona 3 and 4
The Red Star
Ring of Red
Rogue Galaxy
Shadow Hearts Covenant
Katamari Damacy
We love Katamari
Shadow of Memories
Shadow of the Colossus
Ico
Devil Summoner 1 and 2
Shin Megami Tensei Lucifiers Call
Blood Will Tell
Steambot Chronicles
Suikoden 3 and 5 (4 is ****)
Valkyrie Profile 2
Yakuza 1 and 2
Contra: Shattered Soldier
Gradius V
Odin Sphere
Shadow of Rome
Psychonauts
All three Prince of Persia games
Beyond good and evil
Fahrenheit
Kim Possible: What's the Switch (yes this is actually damn good)
Zone of Enders 1 and 2 (2 is unmissable)
Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3
Psi-Ops
Freedom Fighters
All 3 GTA games
All 3 Sly Raccoon games
Urban Chaos Riot Response
Cold Winter
XIII
Gitaroo Man
Fantasvision
Outrun 2006
Grim Grimoire
Taito Legends 1 and 2
Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2
Resident Evil 4
Burnout 2, 3 and revenge
Rayman 2 and 3
Maximo 1 and 2
Dark Cloud 2
Rogue Galaxy
Street Fighter Anniversary (US and JAP version. PAL version is **** and doesn't have SF3)
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Canis Canem Edit
The Warriors
Soul Calibur 2
Tomb Raider Anniversary
Secret Weapons over Normandy
Disgaea
Rez
Ar Tonelico 1 and 2
Rogue Trooper
King Kong

That should keep you lit.

List Whore.

CiDeRmAn

Red Dead Revolver is fun.
SCAR-Squadra Course Alfa Romeo is an original and hard racer featuring the cars of, well, Alfa Romeo.
The Sega Classics compilation with a nice update of Virtua Racing, terrible updates of everything else though!
Warhammer:Fire Warrior is pretty good.
World War Zero isn't bad either.
Remember of course that your PS2 can also play PSone games, so go and get the Ridge Racer series as well as Wipeout 2097 and Wipeout 3 Special Edition, worth their weight in gold, not to mention Parappa the Rappa, Kurushi, Kula World and Vib Ribbon.

deathrider

Manhunt
GTA: Vice City (3 and San Andreas were also very enjoyable)
Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks
Need For Speed Underground 2
Devil May Cry 3
Buzz (only with a few mates and a few brews though)
Any of the Tony Hawk games (except American Wasteland)
God Of War 1 and 2
The Incedible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
Legacy Of Kain: Defiance (little or no point playing this if you haven't played the earlier installments though)
The Prince Of Persia Trilogy (especially Warrior Within
Resident Evil 4
Turok: Evolution
There are also some great compilation discs availble for PS2. Ones with all the classic Sonics, or Street Fighter IIs, or Capcom and Midway games on them.

There were also a few others that I really enjoyed- The Suffering (and it's sequel althought it was bastard hard), SSX Tricky, State Of Emergancy, Spider-Man 2, and Max Payne, to name but a few, though for some reason I can imagine that these would have aged quite badly over the last few years.

Qwert1

Gotta check out timesplitters 1 and 2, can't be beaten for multiplayer fun.

zero19

Qwert1 wrote: »

Gotta check out timesplitters 1 and 2, can't be beaten for multiplayer fun.

I still take out my ps2 to this day just to play timesplitters

quicksliver

Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistance is top of my list, but Timesplitters can't be beaten for multiplayer madness. Ashamed to admit I never played Ico or Shadow of The Colossus.

K.O.Kiki

(PS2-exclusives only)

Persona 4
Ico
Shadow of the Colossus
Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution
Okami
Gitaroo Man
Final Fantasy XII

and a toss-up between MGS2 & MGS3

Sephiroth_dude

Grandia 2

noodler

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter
Dragon Quest VIII
Castlevania Lament of innocence
Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2
Forbidden Siren 1 and 2
Final Fantasy X
Silent Hill 2
Front Mission 5
Global Defence Force
God Hand
Devil May Cry 1 and 3 (2 never happened)
Viewtiful Joe 1 and 2
Haunting Ground
Project Zero 1, 2 and 3
God of War 1 and 2
Klonoa 2
Okami
Persona 3 and 4
The Red Star
Ring of Red
Rogue Galaxy
Shadow Hearts Covenant
Katamari Damacy
We love Katamari
Shadow of Memories
Shadow of the Colossus
Ico
Devil Summoner 1 and 2
Shin Megami Tensei Lucifiers Call
Blood Will Tell
Steambot Chronicles
Suikoden 3 and 5 (4 is ****)
Valkyrie Profile 2
Yakuza 1 and 2
Contra: Shattered Soldier
Gradius V
Odin Sphere
Shadow of Rome
Psychonauts
All three Prince of Persia games
Beyond good and evil
Fahrenheit
Kim Possible: What's the Switch (yes this is actually damn good)
Zone of Enders 1 and 2 (2 is unmissable)
Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3
Psi-Ops
Freedom Fighters
All 3 GTA games
All 3 Sly Raccoon games
Urban Chaos Riot Response
Cold Winter
XIII
Gitaroo Man
Fantasvision
Outrun 2006
Grim Grimoire
Taito Legends 1 and 2
Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2
Resident Evil 4
Burnout 2, 3 and revenge
Rayman 2 and 3
Maximo 1 and 2
Dark Cloud 2
Rogue Galaxy
Street Fighter Anniversary (US and JAP version. PAL version is **** and doesn't have SF3)
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Canis Canem Edit
The Warriors
Soul Calibur 2
Tomb Raider Anniversary
Secret Weapons over Normandy
Disgaea
Rez
Ar Tonelico 1 and 2
Rogue Trooper
King Kong

That should keep you lit.

What?!

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

(PS2-exclusives only)

and a toss-up between MGS2 & MGS3

It most certainly is not a toss-up!

Nodferatu

can anyone tell me this game, i cant for the life of me remember the name of it. twas was my fave game for years,
a playstation 2 game, set during world war 2, you played a group of 4 men in each level, one was irish (wore a beret) the others were a spy, a demolitions expert and another guy, you could scroll the map around 90 degrees each time so had 4 different viewpoint angles to get different views, it was a kinda tactical game very similar to command and conquer. the men were small on the screen, it wasn't a first person shooter. kind of a point and click type game

YayForYuffie

I quite enjoy:

Resident Evil Code Veronica X.
Final Fantasy X.
Final Fantasy X-2 (I just pretended that it was not a sequel)
Final Fantasy XII.
Dog's Life. (I played it when I was eleven though, so you may not want to play it)
Ratchet and Clank 1, 2 & 3.

Sephiroth_dude

Nodferatu wrote: »

can anyone tell me this game, i cant for the life of me remember the name of it. twas was my fave game for years,
a playstation 2 game, set during world war 2, you played a group of 4 men in each level, one was irish (wore a beret) the others were a spy, a demolitions expert and another guy, you could scroll the map around 90 degrees each time so had 4 different viewpoint angles to get different views, it was a kinda tactical game very similar to command and conquer. the men were small on the screen, it wasn't a first person shooter. kind of a point and click type game

commandos?

Fnz

YayForYuffie wrote: »

I quite enjoy:

Resident Evil Code Veronica X.
Final Fantasy X.
Final Fantasy X-2 (I just pretended that it was not a sequel)
Final Fantasy XII.

I'm seeing a pattern; you'd probably enjoy...

- BMX XXX
- Dance Dance Revolution X
- Guilty Gear X
- Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core
- Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core Plus
- Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight Carnival
- Guilty Gear XX: Slash
- Hot Wheels Velocity X
- Jak X: Combat Racing
- Mega Man X Collection
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms X

All titles that, somehow, have that special 'factor' that's so difficult to pin down.

Nodferatu

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

commandos?

that's the one, thanks man, i couldn't think of the name of it. i LOVED that game. I'd buy it again only my ps3 doesn't play ps2 games for some reason

pablomakaveli

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It's aged really badly. Compared to PC games at the time it was a poor FPS and compared to the FPS games on consoles now it's not great at all. The beach landing is laughably empty compared to MOH:AA and after the second level which is decent the level design is forgettable. Soundtrack is amazing though.

Erm i've played both and thought Frontline looked and played better than AA. I thought the levels were better as well. Not to say that AA was a bad game though.

Optimalprimerib

psi ops. This is a testament to how bad the current generation is. This was a very poor seller but had everything. A fresh and fun way of playing, physics ahead of its time, variety and a decent story with good boss battles.

It would be in its 3rd or 4th sequel if it came a generation later, but the glut of quality games last generation kept this gem hidden in the bargain bins

Retr0gamer

pablomakaveli wrote: »

Erm i've played both and thought Frontline looked and played better than AA. I thought the levels were better as well. Not to say that AA was a bad game though.

Rose tinted glasses. No way in hell is frontline better looking or playing than MOH:AA. Frontline dies after the second level and the level design takes a nose dive. AA is great the full way through. AA was on a PC using a heavily modified Quake 3 Arena engine and was one of the nicest looking games at the time. The engine was so good it's still being used in the current CoD games. Frontline was a on aging PS2 technology and was pretty rough when it came out. The beach landing levels tell you a lot with better sound in the PC version, the beach being much more populated compared to the empty beach in frontline and much higher quality textures and models. You could also play it in 1600x1200

Reganio 2

Farenheit, didn't notice it mentioned. One of my favourite games ever.

pablomakaveli

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Rose tinted glasses. No way in hell is frontline better looking or playing than MOH:AA. Frontline dies after the second level and the level design takes a nose dive. AA is great the full way through. AA was on a PC using a heavily modified Quake 3 Arena engine and was one of the nicest looking games at the time. The engine was so good it's still being used in the current CoD games. Frontline was a on aging PS2 technology and was pretty rough when it came out. The beach landing levels tell you a lot with better sound in the PC version, the beach being much more populated compared to the empty beach in frontline and much higher quality textures and models. You could also play it in 1600x1200

I think your the one with the rose tinted specs. I played AA after Frontline and was actually expecting it to look and play better but was dissappointed with it. I played AA with a high resolution as well but still thought the levels looked bare and the models looked less detailed. The levels just felt more empty than Frontline. It's still a good game but i think Frontline is better.

pablomakaveli

Reganio 2 wrote: »

Farenheit, didn't notice it mentioned. One of my favourite games ever.

I didnt know Farenheit was released on the PS2 as well.

I played the PC version and it is a great game although the storyline was kind of ruined with the weird stuff towards the end.

Sephiroth_dude

Nodferatu wrote: »

that's the one, thanks man, i couldn't think of the name of it. i LOVED that game. I'd buy it again only my ps3 doesn't play ps2 games for some reason

Probbly not backward compatible,what model is it?

Skerries

was there ever any talk of a 3rd party add-on for a ps2 backward compatibility?

Retr0gamer

pablomakaveli wrote: »

I think your the one with the rose tinted specs. I played AA after Frontline and was actually expecting it to look and play better but was dissappointed with it. I played AA with a high resolution as well but still thought the levels looked bare and the models looked less detailed. The levels just felt more empty than Frontline. It's still a good game but i think Frontline is better.

No it's not. Go look at some youtube videos. I played them at the same time since they were released around the same time as each other. Frontline was a poor mans FPS on the aging PS2 while MoHAA was one of the most technologically advanced and best looking games at the time it was released on the PC. It was also a far far better game.

pablomakaveli

Retr0gamer wrote: »

No it's not. Go look at some youtube videos. I played them at the same time since they were released around the same time as each other. Frontline was a poor mans FPS on the aging PS2 while MoHAA was one of the most technologically advanced and best looking games at the time it was released on the PC. It was also a far far better game.

I've done one better and played both of them last night. Granted the version of Frontline i have is the remastered one that came with Tier 1 but i still remember being dissappointed with AA's graphics the first time i played it.

funky penguin

_Godot_ wrote: »

Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy XII
Persona 4
Psychonauts
God of War 1 & 2
Dragon Quest: The Journey of the Cursed King
Ghostbusters
Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2
Sly Cooper 1, 2 & 3
Shin Megami Tensei Lucifer's Call
Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil
Jak and Daxter
The Mark of Kri
Project Zero II
Ratchet & Clank
Rogue Galaxy
Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2
Devil May Cry

Love this game.

YayForYuffie

Fnz wrote: »

I'm seeing a pattern; you'd probably enjoy...

- BMX XXX
- Dance Dance Revolution X
- Guilty Gear X
- Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core
- Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core Plus
- Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight Carnival
- Guilty Gear XX: Slash
- Hot Wheels Velocity X
- Jak X: Combat Racing
- Mega Man X Collection
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms X

All titles that, somehow, have that special 'factor' that's so difficult to pin down.

Is it something to do with all the X's by any chance?

K.O.Kiki

YayForYuffie wrote: »

Is it something to do with all the X's by any chance?

GarH

Optimalprimerib wrote: »

psi ops. This is a testament to how bad the current generation is. This was a very poor seller but had everything. A fresh and fun way of playing, physics ahead of its time, variety and a decent story with good boss battles.

It would be in its 3rd or 4th sequel if it came a generation later, but the glut of quality games last generation kept this gem hidden in the bargain bins

I kept coming back to this game over and over.
I told nearly everyone I knew to go and buy this game. I really hope someone picks up where this game left off.
Music is cracking too.

richymcdermott

Shadow of the colossus and mgs3, the tony hawk skater games were fun as hell aswell