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"Anything worth buying on PS2?"

Last night I went back to playing my PS2 for a while, and I had a look at my collection of games for it. Out of around 25 games, I'm only ever going to play about 3 of them again!

>Manhunt
>PES3
>Stuntman

So I'm probably going to sell most of my games, but obviously I need to upgrade my collection. Since I haven't used my PS2 in a while I'm not exactly up to date with recent releases, or even future releases.

So apart from the 3 exclusives above, obviously, is there anything else, PS2 exlusive, that is worth buying?

Thanks.

Last night I went back to playing my PS2 for a while, and I had a look at my collection of games for it. Out of around 25 games, I'm only ever going to play about 3 of them again!

>Manhunt
>PES3
>Stuntman

So I'm probably going to sell most of my games, but obviously I need to upgrade my collection. Since I haven't used my PS2 in a while I'm not exactly up to date with recent releases, or even future releases.

So apart from the 3 exclusives above, obviously, is there anything else, PS2 exlusive, that is worth buying?

Thanks.

Stuntmans great

Just wait for GT4 and Driv3r

Strangely enough, I'm exactly the same way.

And I've noticed that most games I want/have for the PS2 are now/going to be multiformat, which sort of defeats the purpose of my PS2.

No doubt I'll keep it for GT4 and the next PES, but really, there's not much more I want.

Yea I'll most likely be getting GT4, but I hope they can make it a little more interesting than GT3, it was a good game but got very boring after a while.

I'll be getting DRIV3R for the X-Box though.

:)

Seems there is a shortage on great games across all the consoles.

I havn't bought a gamecube game since Mario Kart and before that it was Zelda.

With the PS2 there are quite a few games I want, but all seem to be out in a few months or towards the end of the year.

Out of the exclusive games I liked the GTA games, pro evo soccer games, SOCOM, Tekken 4, smackdown games...

SOCOM
Prince of Persia Sands of Time
Amplitude
Beyond Good and Evil
EverQuest Online Adventures

Depends what sort of games you like though. For racers you've got Destruction Derby Arenas coming out this month (during beta testing we remarked that basically it's Gran Turismo with damage if you play in the Endurance Mode). Final Fantasy X-2 is being tipped for February, if you get into that you'll be busy with that and SOCOM II until Killzone (biggest shooter in the history of gaming, basically) which gets released around September time.

FantasyMeister wrote:

> until Killzone (biggest shooter in the history of gaming, basically)

What about Half Life, Doom, Halo (and all their sequels)?

Icarus wrote:
> FantasyMeister wrote:
>
> until Killzone (biggest shooter in the history of gaming, basically)
>
> What about Half Life, Doom, Halo (and all their sequels)?

They are but specks of dust in the twinkling eye of Killzone.

...and just to give you some inkling of how great Killzone is going to be, this is what Jan de Man (sound and music: Killzone) had to say in a recent interview with Playstation.com about just one sound effect (try and remember that this is a first person shooter...):

"I got to work on an animation in which the player character draws out a knife, flips it in the air and throws it in an unsuspecting Helghast's neck. Gurgling his own blood in surprise, he is then subjected to the player pulling it from his throat sideways, while being punched in the chest to get some extra leeway to get the knife out. While working on an animation like this I always try to identify the key elements first; the knife pull and throw, the insert and pull-out, and the punch; the rest is just secondary. Looking at it, I realized I had most elements on file, except for the gurgling. I suspended a mic from a stand up high so that I had to look up to face it; I then screamed at it as if my family jewels were on fire, while pouring water down my throat; messy but effective.

"After getting the right gurgle noises, I recorded some sweeps by sweeping a bendy stick past the microphone; this combined with some bamboo swishes from my library created the right swish noise for the knife being thrown. The impacts are a combination of library noises; a bayonet insert, a bone crack, a mud squish, a metal impact etc. Pulling this all together resulted in one of the most gratifying kills you can make in the game!"

Source: uk.playstation.com previews.

FantasyMeister wrote:

> Depends what sort of games you like though. For racers you've got
> Destruction Derby Arenas coming out this month (

Thanks, totally forgot I had that already pre ordered, comes out on the 9th of this month apparently.

Cool