PS2 games - Your Recommendations

[ashleyescort]

Hello everyone!

You may have noticed that I'm starting to pick ups PS2 games now, if not my video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrQUOloM340

What games would you recommend? I'll consider anything!

Cheers

ASH

[chocklo]

like jrpgs? Shadowhearts (the first one) is a must!

[Revolg]

ICO & Shadow of the Colossus both are awesome games, I only mention these as they are a couple of my all time favourite games but the PS2 has so many great titles you could end up with a very long list of recommended titles

[maD_mAN1983]

Kingdom Hearts, GTA Vice City, Breath of Fire and Harvest Moon are my favourites for the PS2

[gunstarhero]

ICO & Shadow of the Colossus both are awesome games, I only mention these as they are a couple of my all time favourite games but the PS2 has so many great titles you could end up with a very long list of recommended titles

Ditto - you cannot own a PS2 and not have ICO or SotC - both masterpieces IMO

[Kyri_Ansell]

I always used to love playing GTA 3 and Wipeout Fusion when I was growing up with my PS2 :')

[ninjabearhug]

Robocop - Oh yeah Baby!

What genre's are you mainly into? As mentioned Ico is a must have, and although I found Shadow Of The Colossus a bit boring and easy it was still very impressive. I'd definitely buy the Jak And Daxter and Ratchet and Clank games, all great fun and if you want something a little different give Herdy Gerdy a try . Airblade is an often overlooked game that is pure brilliance too, think Tony Hawks on a hoverboard .

[lackofselfcontrol]

Stuntman is a fun if you don't mind (quite a lot of) trial and error.
Grand Theft Auto III is my favourite video game of all time, I've spent an insane amount of time with it. Vice City and San Andreas are also fantastic.
If you like shmups, I can recommend the Psyvariar and Gunbird collections, they are both available in PAL and incredibly cheap.

[Residante]

Okami, viewtifull joe, dmc series and onimusha series

[Thermoptic]

Its great to hear that you have started collection Ps2 games! I have been collecting for some while now and i love the ps2. If only could recommend one game for the ps2 it would be Okami. A perfect game!

[simsini]

Gitaroo Man should be at the top of any must buy list.

[Playgeneration]

Some of my favorites:

Downhill Domination
Rez (if you haven't played it on Dreamcast)
Spyhunter
R-Type Final
Rygar Legendary Adventure
Under the Skin

[ashleyescort]

CHEERS EVERYONE!! I'LL BE CHECKING OUT GAME PLAYS OF ALL OF THE RECOMMENDED GAMES AND HOPEFULLY PICKING THEM UP

[MRCL]

Out of my considerably and alarmingly growing PS2 collection...

GTA San Andreas: A magazine gave it 98% percent when it came out... well it IS fun. I still play it to this day and enjoy it.
That being said, ANY GTA game is fun.

Burnout 2: Point of Impact: The Burnout I played most, doing over a hundred consecutive laps (!) in time challenge just to shave off a couple of 1/100 seconds... no other racing game has since hooked me like this one.

Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3 / Underground 1: 3 is better than 4, and Underground is cool for including three THPS2 levels.

Giants: Citizen Kabuto: Easily my most favorite PC game, and it does well on the PS2, too. The humor is awesome, the story original and funny, and its a very creative game.

God of War 1 and 2: Two pushed the PS2 beyond its physical capabilities, while being an awesome game down to the last pixel. I LOVE the God of War franchise, and while HD collections are out there, the PS2 titles STILL look and play fantastic. An absolute MUST.

Need for Speed Undetrground 1 / Most Wanted: Underground 1 was da bomb in '03, when tuning games where all the rage. Sadly the seven lap races are infamous for killing countless controllers in rage. But its (one of) the earliest tuning racing games thats decent - Underground 2 is rubbish.
Most Wanted on the other hand is fascinating. My most favorite is Need for Speed 3 Hot Pursuit, and Most Wanted comes dangerously close to its pole position. Almost.

The Simpsons: Hit & Run: A Simpsons GTA clone if you will, but brilliantly done! Has a few annoying fetch missions and tight as balls time limits (the last mission is plain evil but never to the point of frustration, you just want to try and try till you've done it). One of the few games I 100%ed.

Splinter Cell 1 / Pandora Tomorrow: Awesome stealth shooters, difficult, yet fun and engaging to play. Surprisingly well playable with controllers.

SSX Tricky / SSX3: Tricky was my first PS2 game I bought at the tender age of 14. I played the living **** out of it. I still fire it up these days, still knowing everything about every course, still being blown away by it. SSX3 just raises the bar like the badass game it is. I mean, snowboard down a mountain for an actual half hour? Shut up and take my money!

[Jet Set Radio Future]

Agreed get SSX! also dead to rights, the get away and max pain are decent games.

[cannonfodder64]

I was on vacation once, and the resort had a PlayStation 2 game rental shop. I rented only two games for the hotel room's PS2: The Fairly Oddparents: Breakin' Da Rules and Kingdom Hearts. Guess which one I recommend even though I played it for about an hour and didn't get much progress done.

Hint: Mickey Mouse is in it.

[Loch and Quay]

You seem to like darker-themed games and survival horror type things Ash, looking at your video. With that in mind:

Gregory Horror Show - PS2 exclusive released in Europe and Japan only. based on a CGI anime series starring a bunch of cuboid anthropomorphic characters. It's basically a Resident Evil type game where you have to steal a soul from each of the characters in the hotel where you find yourself imprisoned. Every time you steal a character's soul they become hostile, so as the hotel fills up with more guests it becomes trickier to get around without getting chased. You're also encouraged to spy on the guests and fill in a log of what they do when. It's very different to anything else I've played and I'd recommend it to anyone into survival horrors, even though it's more lightweight.

Clock Tower 3 - Another survival horror, very similar to Haunting Ground but without the Dog.

I'd second Under the Skin, an unusual arena-combat type game which is fun anyway but the Raccoon City level is worth a go any which way - cartoonified Nemesis.

Trapt - the last in the Deception series, plays in real time. You set up traps and lead enemies into their range before setting them off, you can use the inbuilt traps in the mansion to crush, burn and maim your attackers. Running around in circles trying to squash swordsmen can feel a little odd but there's little out there like it.

Zombie Zone/Zombie Hunters - These are parts of the Onechanbara series, of the scantily-clad women chopping up zombies with katanas fame, released low-key on the PS2, were quite difficult to get hold of but they're available on Amazon fairly cheap so someone must have got their hands on some new copies.

Shadow Hearts - Seconding (or thirding?) this one, it does have some light-hearted conversations but it is a very dark RPG.

Project Zero/2/3 - You're probably aware of these, but it's worth reiterating that they're wholesome ghosty fun.

Everblue/2 - Diving games, the predecessors to Endless Ocean and its sequel on the Wii. The difference between Everblue and in particular the first Endless Ocean is that you are vulnerable to both loss of oxygen and to various underwater beasties.

The Ratchet & Clank series - Solid platformers with throwaway plots but fun characters.