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The essential Playstation 2 games.
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (PS2)Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (PS2)
Buy used from: £3.42
Created the genre of 'action/rpg' and is still the most challenging and best. Play co-op with a friend for the most fun...
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PS2)Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PS2)
Buy used from: £0.49
The best of the GTA series. As well as redifining video games with non linear gameplay, the 80s setting creates a superb atmosphere, you'll be putting off missions to listen to the radio!!
Drakan: The Ancient's Gates (PS2)Drakan: The Ancient's Gates (PS2)
Buy used from: £11.99
Woefully under rated 3rd person fantasy epic. Huge open levels. Secrets. Fly a dragon.
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (PS2)Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (PS2)
Buy new: £29.95 / Used from: £5.79
Flawless arcade fun and the best star wars game on any system. Hours and hours of replay value.
Singstar '80s (PS2)Singstar '80s (PS2)
Buy new: £14.72 / Used from: £9.70
If you EVER have people in your house a bit worse for the drink, then producing this will provide talking points for weeks! Get the team battle going so everyone's involved.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2006 (PS2)Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2006 (PS2)
Buy new: £14.67 / Used from: £0.01
Great for a relaxing evening with friends, pass the controller whilst chatting. Absorbing one player mode too.
Pro Evolution Soccer 6 (PS2)Pro Evolution Soccer 6 (PS2)
Buy new: £12.01 / Used from: £0.01
If you like football then get this. yes realism can mean 0-0 draws and scrappy play, but that only makes moments of brilliance more exciting. Leap from your seat when you score from outside the box
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)
Buy new: £12.70 / Used from: £2.69
Just huge. Less of an atmosphere than Vice City but more than makes up for it with sheer scale and rpg elements.
Resident Evil 4 (PS2)Resident Evil 4 (PS2)
Buy new: £6.77 / Used from: £5.20
more of an arcade shooter than previous resevs, and a distinct lack of zombies. But don't be fooled this is a classic. Panic inducing with awesome graphics. And Big.
Final Fantasy VII PlatinumFinal Fantasy VII Platinum
Buy used from: £13.00
Yes this is a PS1 game, but no other rpg has lived on in people's hearts as much. Look at the film, follow up games etc. endearing. enduring. legendary.
Okami (PS2)Okami (PS2)
Buy new: £16.72 / Used from: £10.97
The last great classic on the ps2. Beautiful, unique, an absorbing 25+ hours of Japanese mythology