recommended ps2 titles

pior

Just got a slim ps2 and I damn love it!

What games would you guys recommend?

I'm open to any kind of gameplay, except turned based things like AdvancedWars or FinalFantasy, I just can't stand those

Games I already have are Beyond Good and Evil, Ratchet&Clank3, Jak3, and XIII which I all deeply enjoy.

I am really interested in fresh platformers, instant action, and instant fun ala Warioware. As for racing games, I hate career-based ones like NFSU2, I just want to fire the console and race fast cars right from the start.

I now open the gates of suggestions! Any ideas appreciated

cholden

check out the Sly Cooper series, I-Ninja, Klonoa2, and God of War. Plenty of other great games on the system.

Marine

devil may cry 3 and god of war are highly recommended.

bearkub

Katamari Damacy and We Love Katamari

seantree

shadow of the colossus, and I'll second the vote for Klonoa2. Very good platformer. As for the rest of my recommendations, they are all turn based sooooo.....

eXpendabLe

DDR EXTREME !!

nitzmoff

Shadow of the Colossus, Rez, Sly Cooper 1, The Mark of Kri, Katamari, Silent Hill 2 and Resident Evil 4.

Rick Stirling

Pior is in Europe, and therefore is not allowed Katamari.

Soul Calibur 3
The Warriors
ICO
Dynasty Warriors
GTA 3, VC, SA
The first Jak and Daxter game

thomasp

not to mention that colossus won't be out in europe until - i believe - february.
as for the GTA games, i'd recommend only to get san andreas - sorry rick after playing that one you won't be able to stand the earlier games. or - play them in the order of their original releases, then it's worth it.
instant action: metal slug! - and alien hominid (metal slug-like but really hard)

hawken

REZ
Space Channel 5 prt2
All FF games
Gran Tourismo 4

FunkaDelicDass

Gradius V is my personal favorite PS2 exclusive game.

Xenobond

I just got a PS2 myself just for guitar heroes. So this'll help out my decision making, too.

Marine

we love katamari is out at the end of january

KDR_11k

Project Zero is the only game out of my PS2 collection that I'd dare to recommend to anyone (I like Nightshade and Xenosaga 2 as well but I doubt many people do and you didn't want turnbased games so XS2 is right out). And maybe Gungrave: Overdose because it's a whole load of fun for 15 Euros. Was pretty annoying to look at the "vote your GOTY" list at Gamespy and find only one game I played (Tekken 5) which I wouldn't vote for.

Only played the GC versions but Viewtiful Joe and Resident Evil 4 rocked, the PS2 versions should be able to measure up.

AstroZombie

God of War, God of War, and God of War.

Resident Evil 4 is very excellent as well.

And don't forget that you should also get God of War.

BIOS

REZ
God of War
Burnout Revenge
Resident Evil 4
Katamari Damacy or We Love Katamari

gauss

We Love Katamari Damacy (play it with a friend!)
Soul Caliber 3 (good to have one solid fighting game in the collection)

and, as mentioned, Shadow of the Colossus. pior, you will absolutely not be disappointed in that game, it's a moving, inspiring experience, especially for an artist Ico's pretty good too, but not quite as mind boggling as SotC.

KDR_11k

SotC isn't out in Europe yet, Katamari probably never will be.

As for fighting, yes, Soul Calibur should be your only choice (not sure whether you'd want to pick up 2 or 3,3 has some advancements but 2 is loads cheaper...). Don't bother with trash like Tekken or DOA or trying to get anyone to play something like KOF or GGXX. Seriously, I never got anyone to play GGXX or KOF with me, they just wanted Soul Calibur 2 or Naruto 3 instead. Soul Calibur is probably the only fighting title for the PS2 where newbies have a chance (or, in the case of DOA, that doesn't devolve into a counter spamfest). But meh, for multiplayer you probably have a GC anyway and SSBM is hard to beat.

Rez isn't really that good a game, I'd wait until later to buy that.

BoBo_the_seal

Herdy Gerdy! In my book one of the most overlooked ps2 titles out.

Rick Stirling

Herdy Gerdy was awful, and I wanted to like it so much. I tried, I REALLY tried. Also, it takes 6 days to load.

BoBo_the_seal

Bah no accounting for taste!

Justin Meisse

Frequency and Amplitude by Harmonix (makers of Guitar Hero)

AstroZombie

Not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet, but you really should check out God of War.

milla

The Tak games aren't bad, and then there's Kya Dark Lineage, Ratchet 2 (my personal favourite), Beyond Good & Evil, and yeah, the first Jak & Daxter game and Sly Cooper.

moose

PIOR BROKE DOWN! yay, good for you

my favs:

SSX 3 (SSX, SSX: Tricky, and SSX On Tour are just as good, but i like 3 the most)
Frequency
Guitar Hero (too much damn fun)
Metal Arms
MGS (duh)
MGS 2 (duh)
MGS 3 (duh)
Prince of Persia (the first one... not the second one.. ugh)
Shadow of the Collosus

Beyond good and evil is cool... i need to give that game another chance (played for 3 hours and stopped).

Metal arms is soo much fun, and i think wildly underrated. It is a long game, and full of stuff. I actually played all the way through it, and enjoyed every minute of it. I have tried playing similar games (Jak, Ratchet, etc), but none of them have made me want to finish it like Metal Arms did. It also makes me want Stacraft Ghost alll the more now, since Swingin' Ape took over.

For what its worth, i dont think FF XII will be turn based... so you may have to check that one out too Pior

also see: http://ps2.ign.com/articles/673/673756p1.html
a handful of games there that will be worth your time

vahl

-Beyond good and evil (the PS2's Zelda)
-Pop 1 and 3 (they are in the same style), as moose said, not pop2
-Capcom versus SNK 2 !!!
-Resident Evil 4!!
-God of War
-Viewtiful joe
-GTA San Andreas !!!
-Jak and daxter 2
maybe rayman 3 too

KDR_11k

Moose: Metal Arms is nice because it costs only a tenner but it's not that great a game (played the GC version, personally, it's a game you can easily get stuck in so I didn't get beyond the junkyard and obviously noone wants to play that one in multiplayer, either).

I think I should put some effort into finding a copy of God Of War but my budget for games is currently pretty much empty...

pior

Woo woo nice pieces of advice people!

I just got MGS2 and obviously love it. I've also spotted both Kya and MetalArms in the 10E bargain bin and might eventually grab them one day... dunno yet.

I also tried a demo of Klonoa2 and genuinely disliked it for some reason :O Hehe to each his own as they say

I tried the PS2 Wipeout and was disappointed too, I was expecting crazy fireworkish races but it was just slow and boring, I like 2097 better... I traded it back for Frequency and I'm glad I did! This is so much fun

I think next one is going to be Ico as SOTC is really not out yet here. Hmmmmm can't wait!

KDR_11k

Metal Arms is pretty much a first person shooter with third person view but without mouselook. Plus it doesn't allow saving very often, that's a big annoyance.

KDR_11k

I'm reading a review on Kya and it says there's stealth in the game, can anyone put that in proportion? Is it as bad as BG&E or is it just a few isolated cases?

hawken

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Rez isn't really that good a game, I'd wait until later to buy that.

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Obviously didn't play it with the trance vibrator!

REZ is one of my all time favorite games, because it floats 9 out of ten boats in my harbour. If you like trance, Tron, and erm, analogue joysticks (I only ever owned it for my DC, where it is far superior! ), it shall rock you like no other game has the power to do so.

RIP UGA. I loved you guys.

KDR_11k

Is the trace vibrator even sold anymore?

Kraftwerk

Kya Dark Lineage is a great game, a must buy i think, keeped
me busy for some while. Abolute addicting both Katamari games
good bless i got these on eBay. And my top secret favorite is
Gitaroo Man, spices up every party, nobody should doubt about
that.

KDR_11k

How's the stealth in Kya? As excessive as in Beyond Good & Evil?

Kraftwerk

Stealth is not such a big part in Kya like in Beyond Good & Evil but ists always an big advantage and your have to use
it still quite often too defeat your enemies.

KDR_11k

Sounds like it's not a game for me. Thanks for the warning.

pior

Hmmm I've grabbed SSX3 for cheap but really dislike it... The physics and gameplay are cool but I just can't stand having to transport to one location to the other, I want a classic race selection screen instead, and faster progression! Simple = more fun! I'm going to trade it for something more straightforward racing-wise, maybe like Crazy Taxi...

Besides that Frequency is slowly turning into one of my favs so far. MGS2 was awesome to play through, to bad that the clearcode page seems to have disappeared from the konami website! And Ico should come tomorrow. Used and bargains are so cool

If you ever have great games for Xmas feel free to post!

KDR_11k

Hm, SSX3 gave me a "select challenge" screen on the GC, the transferring wasn't strictly needed to go somewhere (well, there was an intro sequence showing a transfer after selecting something but that could be skipped). I didn't like the game either and sold it for a tenner to a friend who desperately wanted it but selecting where to go wasn't an issue.

gauss

pior: well if you haven't taken it back yet, be sure to enter the cheat code "tankengine" and you can check out Churchill in the game... Whargoul did a great job with him

I played the GC version as well, I rarely buy games like that so I'm quite happy I had a reason to.

pior

Well yeah it's a bit of a shame, I like the feel and controls but the loading times/menus/transport/lounge/textmessages/ are somehow getting in the way of the plug-and-play experience I was expecting. Just like I only enjoy NFSU with everything unlocked right from the start, pure lazyness! I see these are really good games, I just don't have the time or patience to have fun playing this way.

As for the Churchill cameo, it's actually the main raison why I gave attention to the game back when it was released 2 years ago! I thought the only way to play as him was to go through long challenges but a cheatcode is so much better

KDR_11k

I don't know how severe the unlocking in NFSU is but usually it works pretty well to just ignore locked stuff and take it as an added bonus when the game tells you "congrats, you unlocked stuff!".

AstroZombie

Have you tried ... oh ... I dunno ... GOD OF WAR yet? It's pretty ok. I've also been playing quite a bit of Resident Evil 4 on my PS2 lately (since beating <u>GOD OF WAR</u>) and it is a VERY excellent title as well.

Seriously, if there is any reason what-so-ever to own a PS2, God of War and Resident Evil 4 are it.

pior

Hmmm, I'm surprised no one has mentionned God Of War?



I should stop getting games for super cheap and should actually start playing them! Too many cool games available...

Kraftwerk

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Hmmm, Too many cool games available...

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Too bad that isnt for PC games... so disappointing this year..
Ohh well still have to beat We Love Katamari

AstroZombie

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Hmmm, I'm surprised no one has mentionned God Of War?

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Now that you mention it, that is a very excellent PS2 title that I highly recomend getting and playing

RickA

Be aware that rumours have it that in Europe Ico will be re-released along with Shadow of the Colossus. Might save you some hunting around.

Rick Stirling

And The Warriors is one of the most overlooked games of the year.

I liked Manhunt too, apart from the first couple of training type missions. You should pick it up on ebay for next to nothing.

malcolm

I recommend, Prince of Persia the Two Thrones. Got this one for my birthday from a coworker and it was great, I suggest playing on the easy difficulty as the last two bosses were a bit frustrating.

ebagg

-MGS series
-Jak series
-Zone of Enders 2
-Armored Core series
-Front Mission 4