PS2
Here we have all the games in the PS2 Section.
PS2
One on One Beat Em Up
Tecmo’s Team Ninja finest hour comes bouncing onto the Playstation 2 with Kazumi and Ayane in full costume glory. As the theme song advises though: ‘Hide your drastic desire!’
PS2
Simulation
Great weather effects as drivers whiz through suburban and metropolitan Japan ensure the workers and schoolchildren get to where they need to be on time. Its crucial to keep up speed, but signals and stopping distances must be observed in a land where trains stop to coach markings on the platform. Highly unusual.
PS2
Action
Gothic Splendour meets Castlevania style Transylvania as our J Rock style hero slices up all and sundry in order to prevent being over whelmed. Stylishly executed both in terms of the gameplay and in terms of the hero’s actions.
PS2
Action
Gothic Splendour meets Castlevania style Transylvania as our J Rock style hero slices up all and sundry in order to prevent being over-whelmed. Stylishly executed both in terms of the gameplay and in terms of the hero’s actions.
PS2
Action
Fluid and frantic gameplay as players leap around levels avoiding the undead with rolls and leaps before unleashing a volley of fire from the twin pistols or slicing and dicing with a traditional katana. Epoch defining PS2 action.
PS2
Action
Its hard to avoid the cliche gothic splendour when sampling Capcom’s tribute to the darker side of life as players bask in moonlight diffracting through stain glass windows and the broad moonbeams formed in the dusty cathedrals. Yet little time for basking is permitted: the action is fast and relentless as the series really hits its straps.
PS2
Simulation
Nintendogs was not the original dog game: Konami had been keeping young pups in line for some time before with the Dogstation arcade machine and this PS2 home version. Don microphone and bark orders to your little puppy to train it up. Progress and you can buy collars and leads to make it the smartest pup in the neighbourhood. Just be sure to put plenty of newspaper down around your PS2.
PS2
Action
Spiritual sequel to Panzer Dragoon as the dragon soars through the skies, twisting to avoid other beasts to blast a fireball at the hordes below before dismounting to fight them with swishing sword in hand. Positively glistening in Square Enix polish as much as the sunny skies. Known in the West as Drakengard 2.
PS2
RPG
This instalment goes some way towards explaining the obsession with all things Dragons Quest in Japan: the bird song, the sound of grass being trampled as the cel shaded player explores new environs, the imaginative characters, the build up of tension before a troop of Slimes attack. Fans of the series will feel right at home with this slickly executed production.
PS2
One on One Beat Em Up
A very exciting foray to bring the series to life as never before on the PS2. Takes a realistic approach to representing the very unrealistic series.
PS2
One on One Beat Em Up
Bandai kicks loose with this instalment and the look has changed from the prequel to a cel shaded approach rather than a straight forward polygon-isation of the anime series. The developers seem to be relaxing into the roll and as such there is plenty of humour to savour too.
PS2
One on One Beat Em Up
Some serious specials unleashed if the player can win a brief battle of the ancient art of button bashing against your opponent. Seamless anime sequence then kicks in and the opponent is dealt a serious blow to their power bar in one hefty bosch of an instalment. All performed in the humour of the series and making for a very enjoyable fight fantasy.
PS2
One on One Beat Em Up
Stunningly cel shaded bringing the high energy of the Dragon Ball series out to delight fans of the series. Combatants take an over the shoulder perspective on goings on and the 3D world can be used to dodge an assault. Little compares to using one of the over the top projectile attacks and sending your opponent crashing through a building or mountain with the brute force.
PS2
One on One Beat Em Up
Stunningly cel shaded bringing the high energy of the Dragon Ball series out to delight fans of the series. Combatants take an over the shoulder perspective on goings on and the 3D world can be used to dodge an assault. Little compares to using one of the over the top projectile attacks and sending your opponent crashing through a building or mountain with the brute force.
PS2
Rhythm
Croon out you all the J Pop ‘classics’ including numbers from Aiko, Yellow Monkey, GLAY, Globe, Puffy, Zard et al. amongst the one hundred tracks. Just please make sure the neighbours are out first!
PS2
Rhythm
Croon out you all the J Pop ‘classics’ including numbers from Aiko, Yellow Monkey, GLAY, Globe, Puffy, Zard et al. amongst the one hundred tracks. Just please make sure the neighbours are out first!
PS2
Rhythm
Enjoy sharpening your tonsils and croon out a few karaoke classics to impress your friends and colleagues with. Great fun at parties, especially cos play ones. Croon out you all the J Pop ‘classics’ including numbers from Kiroro, Mr Children, Misia, Puffy, Dreams Come Tru, Spitz, Speed, The Yellow Monkey, The Kinki Kids et al. amongst the one hundred tracks. Just please make sure the neighbours are out first!
PS2
Sports
Break neck speed race title with a suitable soundtrack with enough beats to generate a potential nosebleed. Plenty of famous sites in the backgrounds but its hard to savour them first time round. Instead its left for the replays to be able to check out your paintwork and the sights on offer. But its clinging to the tail lights that will have most gamers lapping this up.
PS2
Sports
‘Feel the sports emotion’ as Square tackle real world physics of racing with a plethora of Japanese sports cars. Includes the Suzuka and lesser known Tsukuba circuits.
PS2
Rhythm
Genki soon discovered to lack any sort of rhythmical talent when trying to drum to the tune of ‘salt, pepper, mustard vinegar’. But no sour grapes to those who can follow the beats and have the music in them in Konami’s funky drumming game.
PS2
Simulation
An excellent example of a console flight sim that steers away from too detail, yet has far more substance than action flight games. The sequel has increased the size of game and reached a pinnacle of graphical excellence with more planes to savour. Import only, but the menu allows you to change the language to English. On par with the finest PC flight sims.
PS2
RPG
Gripping combat and effective third person perspective make Evergrace an enjoyable RPG romp. Taking on giant hornets and crab like prison guards with bare knuckles cant be much fun, so its good to grab a blade as soon as possible.
PS2
RPG
Sequel to the popular action RPG where the team roams lands with impressive draw distances and towns with goat like dogs outside – surely another potential member to join the band of brave expeditioners.
PS2
Sports
Any game with that boasts Cha Kato in his underwear and glasses cant take itself too seriously all the time. Plenty of tight pants and tight spots with clearly distinguishable wrestlers each having their own signature moves to help manipulate your spine into impossible contours. Known as WWE Smack Down in the West.
PS2
Sports
Plenty of tight pants and tight spots with clearly distinguishable wrestlers each having their own signature moves to help manipulate your spine into impossible contours. Any game with the legendary Hulk Hogan in it cant be bad. Known as WWE Smack Down Shut Your Mouth in the West.
PS2
A Bit Special
The London Studio pull out all the stops as Sony remonstrates its innovative side at the forefront of gaming. Probably more fun to watch than play though only just, your on screen movements interact with the action required – be it repelling a ninja onslaught, getting busy with a shammy in Window Cleaning Paradise, keeping plates spinning or working out your left from right in Kuru Kuru Mirror. Play more – or was that Microsoft?
PS2
A Bit Special
Besides the baseball, table tennis, boxing and football goalkeeper games, the Eye Toy camera works its magic to get even non-gamers involved in air guitars, kung fu, cooking, yielding a chainsaw, drumming, popping bubbles… Full of innovation and bringing back the fun to gaming.
PS2
A Bit Special
One of the first releases in Japan for the PS2, it is only recently the delights of Fantavision have blasted back into the limelight boosting its price on the second hand market. Long may Sony continue such experimental titles.
PS2
RPG
The Titanic of gaming as Squaresoft really find their rhythm on the hardware to produce a stunning piece of software. Its full mastery of the hardware is as clear as the water transparencies, yet the thread of strong gameplay and story telling remain undiminished since the Famicom days. A real gamers fantasy and well worthy of a PS3 update.
PS2
RPG
The core gameplay remains just as exquisite as its Playstation incarnations, yet the visual level would make a J Pop star blush with intense attention to detail and amazing models to endear the player to the characters (or otherwise.) Uncle Squaresoft still can tell a great post-dinner yarn, so pull up a pew and savour the experience which envelops gamers like a familiar blanket.