For the record, curse Mai and her Harpy Ladies Sisters.ġ. I went on a nostalgic bender with this one as recent as this summer. I used to be a huge fan of the card game back in the day (and I am still the proud owner of a solidly-stacked deck) and there was a point where I played this non-stop. Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelist of the Roses (2001) - All right, here's me being a nerd. (Or the number of times I blew a gasket when I got beat by the Eagles at The Pit.) Also really appreciated that the developers chose the Detroit Lions' Barry Sanders as one of the game's NFL Legends.Ĥ. I couldn't count the number of times I created my own team and ran them through the gamut that was NFL Challenge. NFL Street (2004) - Hands-down the best virtual football I have ever played. I was always ready to find a clue with Scooby-Doo. Boss battles included Redbeard's Ghost, the Black Knight, and the Green Ghost, among a couple of others. Scooby-Doo: Night of 100 Frights (2002) - My absolute, no-holds-barred favorite cartoon character as a kid was also the main protagonist of a number of video games, including this villain-stuffed title that I once borrowed from a friend and forgot to give back. Who wouldn't want to face villains named Wa-Wa and Lo-Lo?Ħ. The player, as Crash, was required to clear five levels in an area before taking on a boss empowered by one of the elemental baddies. earth, water, fire, and air), which is always a plus. Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (2001) - I could easily have gone with Crash Twinsanity (2004) here, but The Wrath of Cortex was an earlier and more-classic-feeling title that featured varied gameplay and elemental bad guys (i.e. And I'm not kidding about the vampire you actually have the chance to fight one, along with his mini army of skeleton soldiers. Though it received a lot of negative reviews and critics claimed it couldn't compete with Tony Hawk skating games, I thought Evolution Skateboarding was challenging and fun. No idea who any of the skateboarders were but that was no matter.
The running-in-guns-a-blazing approach never worked out very well it was all about stealth and waiting for the right time to make your move, necessitated by few checkpoint opportunities.Ĩ. Evolution Skateboarding (2002) - Half-pipes, wipeouts, sick tricks, vampires - this one had it all. This game was hard, and required a good deal of patience. Navy Seals (2003) - What I like to think of as the predecessor to the wildly successful Call of Duty titles that we're seeing on later generation consoles nowadays. The main story revolving around the Mishima bloodline makes the whole thing a bit more dynamic, with Devil Jin being an absolutely awesome character to embody and Jack-5 providing another go-to.ĩ. Tekken 5 (2004) - I know there's Mortal Kombat and whatever else, but Tekken was always one of my favorite fighting games. My younger brother thought they were the bee's knees besides.ġ0.
#LIST OF 2000 PLAYSTATION 2 VIDEO GAMES SERIES#
Ratchet & Clank series - I never quite got into these games but I would have to be deluded not to mention them.All-Star Baseball 2005 (2004) - Rented this one from Family Video one too many times before realizing it might be better just to buy a copy.SSX 3 (2003) - Everyone seems to have a hard-on for SSX Tricky, but this snowboarding game was cool too, dawg.Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) - Tommy Vercetti wasn't all that nice of a guy, but it sure was fun to terrorize virtual Miami Beach while playing as him.1 (I-Never-Want-To-Put-The-Controller-Down!). 10 (I-Could-Easily-Spend-An-Afternoon-Playing-This) on down to No.
#LIST OF 2000 PLAYSTATION 2 VIDEO GAMES FULL#
In revisiting a couple of my favorite PS2 titles over the elongated holiday weekend, I thought why not go full throttle with the nostalgia and make a list of games that I grew up with? And so here we are.īelow you'll find some of the best PS2 games that ever there were, ranked loosely from No. No, my preferred video gaming console growing up was the Playstation 2 (which I guess was pretty popular with a lot of other video gamers too).Ĭlassic name-brand franchises like God of War, which made its PS2 debut in 2005 Final Fantasy, which saw three of its main titles released on the system and Sly Cooper, which sported a trilogy of its own before a fourth installment was released for the Playstation 3, are just a select few among the seemingly limitless library of gaming options the system offered. It wasn't the Nintendo GameCube or the GameBoy.