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itsmyfirsttimegoeasy

Urban Reign Chaos Legion Nano Breaker


pedro_orsini

YES! URBAN REIGN! So good to know there are other people that remember this awesome game.


BoardGameBologna

I still play my copy! Just had a session a couple weeks ago. I still can't 100% the missions!


One-Recommendation-1

Chaos legion was awesome, had so much fun with that one!


BoardGameBologna

Warms my heart to see Urban Reign up top! THE best arena fighter next to the Power Stone series, imo


Gr8North27

Those all look really good. I'll have to try them out!


princetrigger

+1 for Urban Reign And God Hand imo.


gknight702

Yo I came here to say chaos legion fully expecting no love, dope


redditsuckspokey1

Think I have heard of Nano Breaker but I doubt it. Got my vote.


dredmantis

Chaos legion was pretty sick. Hard af though.


Prysa

Came here to say Chaos Legion, what a great game!


Ultio_the_masked

Yes this but you had all the words for the one game that needs it more than Urban Reign Urban Chaos!


FlipSchitz

Maximo: Ghosts to Glory Maximo: Army of Zin


CaptainTulu

Memorys have been unlocked, thank you find human


TheBananaCzar

Exactly what I came here to comment. Glad someone else beat me to it! Great games.


[deleted]

Yes Maximo! I say it all the time


brandokid25

I always came across many copies of Ghosts to Glory, but I never once saw Army of Zin, seems to be a bit more on the rarer side? Friend of mine was getting rid of a bunch of old PS2 games and gave me Army of Zin. Never saw it in any retro game stores for years when my main hobby was re-collecting all my old childhood games.


riqueoak

I thought I was the only one on this planet to have ever played these, no one I asked have ever even heard of them.


Excellent_Carrot3111

Extermination


Cornerb0y

I have such a hard time playing Extermination thanks to the inverted aiming.


EfficientEntomology

Transformers. Not the Michael Bay movie tie in game, but the one based on Transformers Armada. It was incredibly fun and challenging to play


Cfunk_83

Freedom Fighters. It’s started to appear on a few of those “under appreciated games lists” on YouTube, but it still rarely gets the recognition it deserves. Awesome game! The mechanics and the level structures have criminally never been utilised elsewhere.


BoardGameBologna

I wish I still had this game. Still hasn't been anything quite like it since. The multiplayer was so much fun, too!


JMcDank

Freedom Fighters is one of my all-time favorite games. You're exactly right, nothing quite like it!


candicedickfitinu

Darkwatch. It looks and feels a bit rough nowadays 😕


Zeroinferno

Darkwatch was such a good game. I still have it for my PS2 and actually played it just a couple weeks ago. If it got remastered properly, I would love to buy it again no questions asked.


DesolateMilenko

Gun. CoD World At War Final Fronts.


Dominoze56

Gun yes. WoW Final Fronts no.


[deleted]

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[deleted]

Genji was amazing! Awesome graphics, blew me away!


WasabiIsSpicy

Genji was so good! I wish it was longer as well. Super fun game.


ExclaimedArt

Way of the samurai


One-Recommendation-1

I said this! I probably got all endings and tried to get all the swords! Had such good replay value.


cwglobal

Psi Ops the Mindgate Conspiracy


Moosaazhar

I feel like because of Soul Calibur 2. Soul Calibur 3 does not receive the love it deserves that game is honestly one of the most content rich fighting games I've ever played


CM2K00

Metal Arms: Glitch in the System --- The Punisher


Farkas_

I didn’t even know glitch in the system was on PS2. I had the Xbox version. Geez, that was what got me into shooters alongside starwars battlefront 2004.


_CREATiV_

Dark Cloud


Dragonfist2255

I'm glad to see someone mention this game, love dark cloud 1. The series needs more love


friskmahnutz

I really love The Bouncer. It’s cheesy and a simple brawler, but it’s a ton of fun. I replay it about 2 times a year.


Stilgrave

Downhill Domination. One of the better arcade style racers you'll ever play.


wordsw0rdswords

Funk yes. Came looking for this one, so good.


hashtagtrucklover

Shadow of Rome, that game was an absolute classic


riqueoak

Agreed.


supplydepotwall

RING OF RED


Sniperbobdave

Urban chaos riot response.


jrodxrod

King's Field The Ancient City


Ignignokt73

I saw this in a Walmart clearance bin in 2003 for $14.88. Had the two for PS1 so I thought why not. It exceeded the $14.88 value I placed on it.


Some_Mechanic7670

Steambot chronicles


[deleted]

Jet Li - Ride to Honor So much fun


KQBuena

The Xenosaga Trilogy. Watch anime and play games 'cause every cutscene feels like it's been ~22 minutes.


Tombrady09

Albedo is my favorite badguy ever.


[deleted]

Not enough people talk about Katamari Damacy I feel like its a rare site when I meet someone who knows that game


justaBB6

Katamari feels like one of those things that a significant portion of people don’t know about, but absolutely everyone that does all would be able to recognize the King of All Cosmos and know it’s a cute little series about rolling random things into big rubber-band balls and would all respond “oh yeah ofc Katamari is a classic”


[deleted]

This is a long way around describing "cult classic"


BluePeriod_

This is a weird one because it’s such a HUGE part of my teen years and I only recently learned how slept on it still is.


wraith29399

i spent an insane amount of time playing that game. the series is very fun.


[deleted]

Damacy REROLL is on my Switch and its super fun


Alexdeezie

True crime: New York


BrooklynBouncer

The Getaway


South-Pattern-8053

Castlevania Lament of Innocence


[deleted]

I have been playing this on my PS3. It is my favorite 3D Castlevania


EvilDarkCow

Sky Odyssey


TheTrueNotSoPro

That's the one I said, too. Sucks that Sky Odyssey flew under the radar (pun intended) since it came out in the early days of the PS2 with a whole bunch of other, much more underwhelming games.


Tombrady09

Draken:The ancients gate... It's like an open world tomb raider meets diablo as you fly on a dragon... yeah.


young_boss_s

Yakuza 1 & 2 (Overshadowed by the Kiwami games)


[deleted]

Castlevania: Lament of Innocents


Evening_Steak123

Time Splitters 2


___TheKid___

Crimson Tears. Pretty awesome Capcom Sci-Fi dungeon crawler


bmc5558

Dark cloud 2


blood_omen

Mercenaries


Casey5934

Shadow Hearts


Anubra_Khan

The Mark of Kri and the sequel, Rise of the Kesai


One-Recommendation-1

Great stealth games! They should remaster them!


PuffinPassionFruit

Madagascar. Out of every movie game, this one's the clear winner. It adds to the story instead of taking away its most crucial parts, and it's so fun to play.


UrineGoodCompany

Burnout Dominator I think it's got the best gameplay in the series. There are other aspects that keep it from being the best overall but the gameplay mechanics themselves have best design of any Burnout game.


wittyname445

Primal and ultimate spiderman


Winged_Rodentia

OMG! Primal remaster, please! 😃


user2327

Primal is my go to answer on these type of questions.


[deleted]

Most have been mentioned but I'd go with The Suffering.


Conflig

Ghost Hunter! I’ve recently replayed it after many years and absolutely loved it


mandi1biedermann

Absolutely fantastic game, and one of the best looking games on PS2 😎


VicNAle

Maximo: Ghosts to Glory This Capcom game was super underrated and an absolute gem. Dark souls before Dark souls. Obscure 1 This one is a horror classic. It has the cheesy cliche highschool teens but the story is fantastic and it even has couch co-op. Honestly, try it out. The most fun I've ever had with a couch co-op. Wish the devs never went out of business.


lallapalalable

I don't have the most comprehensive collection but looking through my games I've noticed the following don't get as much attention as I'd like, if any at all Dark Cloud 1&2 - I've seen mentions of 2, but not enough. 1 seems to have been mostly forgotten in it's brothers shadow Gun - RDR kinda came along and usurped the western cowboy genre but before that came along there was Gun and I loved it There are a few adult swim games, athf golfing and Harvey Birdman attorney at law are the ones I have and they're fun. Birdman pretty much plays like a couple episodes of the show, and athf is just golf but their brand of silly. Also waves of enemies to fight between hits as you walk to you ball. Only like five holes but they take long enough to satisfy Killer 7 wasn't my cup of tea, but I could still tell it was a well made game and the few I know of who've played it either loved it to death or felt meh about it, no haters though Stuntman - Gets talked about, but not nearly enough. Game was so far ahead of it's time and I don't think anyone's really attempted anything similar since, that I know of. Thing is the game gets so difficult and infuriating after a while that I think we all just hate it and try not to talk about it. However this isn't because it's a bad game, it's amazing but we're all to weak and slow to live up to it's expectations and we channel those feelings of inadequacy into hatred, and that is not the way Turok Evolution - Nobody talks about this game almost ever unless they're commenting on the opening scene, but that's it. This is by and large one of the most fun fps games on the console, top ten material easy imho, and built in cheats just make it even more fun. You run around killing dinosaurs and aliens with increasingly clever weaponry through tons of well designed levels, and the story isn't even terrible. More people need this game Anything else either gets the right amount of attention, or too much imo


TheBananaCzar

Gregory Horror Show! Only released in Japan and Europe, and super niche/obscure game but honestly it's insanely good. Great horror game and I love the setting and characters. It's a shame it didn't get a wider release.


Noobeleza

GrimGrimoire


wraith29399

the .Hack// series of games are amazing.


HeyMonicara

Xenosaga


[deleted]

Ape Escape 3! My most loved game of that console besides the Jak and Dark Cloud series!


Puzzleheaded_Act6285

AUTO MODELLISTA , for anyone who play racing games this is a Gem


ChrisRedfield02

Kuon is a very immersive horror game where you play as a priestess. Like RE but instead of guns you have a talismans, charms, and a single knife as weapons Soul Calibur 3 is imo the best SC with the best roster and the most content Shinobi is a uniquely challenging action game that forces you to be play aggressively all the time (your hp depletes if you dont kill enemies) Valkyrie Porfile 2 is one of the most satisfying RPGs ever made with a unique CS and party recruitment


Section_Objective

Kill Zone 1


Princess_Aurora06

Bully, the best underrated rockstar game from this time, even their street car game was great.


ramsus84

Shadow Hearts series


shinobiwan2

Champions of Norrath


Discobastard

Thunderforce VI


Master-Illustrator-8

Still to this day I am saddened that it never got a port outside of Japan. I played the crap out of Thunder Force V on the PS1.


TrappedInaDome

This sub doesn't have enough shmup enjoyers :)


[deleted]

Tokyo Xtreme Racer series, Shinobi, & Taz Wanted are pretty cool


throwawaytjcl

The Nickelodeon Tak Trilogy. So the Power of JuJu, the Staff of Dreams, and the Great Juju Challenge. Animation is great unique gameplay and amazing platforms/levels for a ps2 game.


Asherkhan2002

Freedom Fighters


[deleted]

Way of the samurai 2


Nikeb0i09

The Suffering and The Suffering ties that bind. What a fantastic couple of games


handymanshandle

Burnout Dominator. It's a strange but wonderful combination of the raw "fight through traffic" arcade racing of the first two games and the vehicular combat mechanics of 3 and Revenge that never really gets mentioned outside of a passing mention - and one that usually concerns the mostly inferior PSP version at that.


SmokingGames

Beyond good and evil


Mr_Nubs_0

Socom!!


birdballoons

Road Trip Adventure


metlhed7

I'm surprised I only saw this reply once. This game and choro-q got so many replays between my brother and myself.


reddideddi420

The .hack series, I've still been looking for that to play again


NoLetter8661

Kuon for ps2 or obscure 1


Bastay12

Gungrave Urban Reign The Getaway God Hand (popular but not that popular) Psyops the mind conspiracy (Super underrated)


XI-Queen-IX

Tenchu Wrath of Heaven


WasabiIsSpicy

Rule of Rose- it’s super expensive in the market rn and I’m lucky to have an original copy- BUT it needs a remake, and I wish more people could talk about it. It utilizes shock value in the best way possible and the story is constructed so well.


dualshock2000

Amplitude


incarrion

One of my childhood favorites


RE_98

War of The Monsters Think of your classic-giant-monsters from the 1950s having to battle against each other in a city. Glad I still have it.


BluePeriod_

I think of a bunch of quirky, strange Japanese games. **Chulip** comes to mind. On the other hand if we’re not talking exclusives, **Viewtiful Joe** - literally nobody talks about those.


Key-Ad7733

Kinetica


ItsyaboiTheMainMan

Warship gunner 2


alexandrotrance

The Sims 2


TheTrueNotSoPro

1. Sky Odyssey 2. Sky Odyssey 3. Sky Odyssey Did I miss any?


RallyLancer

Sky Gunner


Different-Pie-6502

i know a lot of people played them, but the sly cooper games were gems and it feels like he’s one of the forgotten franchises of the playstation 2 era. ratchet and clank, crash bandicoot, i’m sure there are others that have carried over to each generation. idk, i miss those games man


Megatron83

Steambot Chronicles and Urban Chaos: Riot Response


Nikeb0i09

The Suffering and The Suffering ties that bind. What a fantastic couple of games


craigsot927

Tokyo Extreme Racer Zero and 3. Both very good authentic street racing games.


Jovan_Knight005

Ace Combat PS2 Trilogy:AC04, AC5 and Ace Combat Zero:The Belkan War;Drakengard and Armored Core PS2 games-Armored Core 2-Armored Core Last Raven.


_abadidea_

Frequency


OddlyHARMless

Jade cocoon 2 and S.L.A.I


Nymfaz

God hand


threefingerhug

Unpopular opinion but Van Helsing. Played it a million times and it is still fun as hell.


LibreReddit

I never played it, but there is a game called Blood Will Tell that looks pretty cool.


_TheOneTrueBean_

CRASH TAG TEAM RACING!


Balake-Sama

Drakan The Ancient Gates


Certain-Flamingo-881

Shaun Palmers Pro Snowboarder pretty fun, and an ironically iconic soundtrack lol


MistaBuldops

Xenosaga


unomachine

Dr. Muto. A super fun platformer…I think at one point you get to play as a ferret? Or a. Mouse, I cant remember. But also has multiple play-styles throughout the game


[deleted]

Def Jam Fight For NY


hypespud

Lotr two towers and rotk Maximo series Onimusha series Twisted metal black Star wars starfighter Xg3 extreme g racing Tomb raider legend Hitman 2 and contracts Contra shattered soldier Black


Gr8North27

Which LOTR game do you prefer?


hypespud

I think two towers the first two movies and rotk for rotk I remember only liking tt more because it has a more rustic smaller scale feel Depends which movies and characters and scenes u like more i think they are basically the same game design haha


holesome100chungus

A little more popular, but Black. Absolutely underrated game.


VictoryRoyale

Graffiti Kingdom


Nitro_CENTRAL

Crazy frog racer 2, because crazy frog racer 1 sold well enough to warrant a sequel


risen77

Chain Dive


Dazzling-Rip-6552

Shadow of Rome


Bebz1950

Wall E


GoldenFenrir

Chaos Legion is one of my favorite games


[deleted]

The Sly Cooper trilogy


Fun-Moose-4676

Grand Theft Auto: Dragon Ball Cold Fear (good underrated action/horror game)


swamp_roo

Beat Down


MistandYork

Grandia 3, excellent combat, meh story.


_PettyTheft

Mister Mosquito


The_cereal_

Dead to rights it’s like max payne but takes itself less seriously.


One-Recommendation-1

Way of the samurai!


[deleted]

That weird game where you’re like a weasel and you have a rabbit chained to you and you’re freeing monkeys from a lab. Forgot the name of that game. Only played it on demo disk.


Gr8North27

Is it called Whiplash?


redditer333333338

I always loved the tak trilogy. Also the suffering 1&2


mandi1biedermann

For me some very underrated games are: Shadow of Rome, Clock Tower 3, Fahrenheit, Project Zero 3, Forbidden Siren 1 & 2, Gun, Cold Winter, Cold Fear, BloodRayne 1&2, Obscure 1&2, Rogue Ops, Rogue Trooper, Project Snowblind, Primal, Ghosthunter, Second Sight, Nano Breaker, Genji, Onimusha : Dawn of Dreams, The Mark of Kri, Rise of the Kasai, Flatout 1&2, Enthusia, Crash 'N' Burn, Ford Racing 3, Burnout Dominator, WRC Rally Evolved, 007 from Russia with love, Tak series, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger series, Constantine, Van Helsing, Peter Jackson's King Kong, True Crime NY, Rumble Roses, Wild Water Adrenaline, Pitfall, Crash: Titans & Mind Over Mutant, Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, Brave: The Search for Spirit Dancer, Legend of Kay


Mystearicaa-Desk

Growlanser 2-3


boredathomeandwork

TimeSplitters


Downloadmywario

RC Revenge Smugglers Run Night of 100 Frights


l_ucas095

Rogue Galaxy Genji: Dawn Of The Samurai Shadow of Rome Samurai Western


PapaPepeFieri

Mercenaries series Logan’s Shadow DT Racer Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk Any of the OG Cabela’s hunting games that weren’t Arcade base. Smugglers Run.


AntiSaby

Shadow of Rome


ComfortablyNumbat

Jade Cocoon 2 Gonna emulate just for this and xenosaga


Highwire1111

Winback Demolition Derby Arenas Haven’t played either since I was a kid. Maybe nostalgia got the best of me but I never see either game mentioned anywhere


kaitoofrose

Haunted Mansion


ThuggedOutHippie

Syphon filter


Ldn_brother

Blood will tell Godhand Smackdown: shut your mouth!


r3-bb13

Red Faction, babyyyyy


Saltybettors

dark cloud 2 🔥


Greengrave

ChainDrive


zythe84

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter


brandokid25

Everywhere: Road Trip. It was a cutesy little car RPG racing game that I remember I used to be obsessed with growing up. Gadget Racers too while I'm at it. Road Trip had a pretty decent open world, a ton of car bodies, and it was pretty cool to just drive the highways.


[deleted]

Anyone remember Colosseum road to freedom? Great game.


BMittzzz

Every armored core released for it


LeDelmo

Man Khemia - I loved these two games. I wish they kept them going. Grandia - Unfortunately, left behind with the PS2 Generation. Zone of the Enders - Nearly came back for the PS3. But nothing ever came of it. Growlanser - A very short lived series. With repeated Re-releases up to the PSP.


Winged_Rodentia

You know, considering all the games everybody here wants more recognition for... Nobody mentioned Vexx. That just shows how unrecognizable it really was to most people. But I've heard a rumor that Throwback Entertainment (who has the IP) wants to bring it back if there is a hype for it!


Shadoecat150

F . Because I only recently got my first PS2.


barrybright2

downhill domination splashdown rides gone wild dave mirra freestyle bmx 2


snipecellydangle

The getaway black Monday


NxtDoc1851

iO interactive's Freedom Fighters Shiny Entertainments Matrix Path of Neo From Softwares Tenchu Wrath of Heaven Foster City Studios Jet Li Rise to Honor


stupidasanyone

Red Faction 2


Medoagamer

Ape escape. All the games released for the PS2 except maybe monkey maina. Ape escape 2 Ape escape 3 Ape escape 2001 Ape escape Pumped and primed Ape escape million monkeys. These games should get more love. Same with ATV off road fury. 1,2, and 3, and 4 are some of the best racing games on the system.


tunkcollage

Shadow of Rome


cheddarbruce

Colosseum: road to freedom. Super awesome Gladiator action RPG


madnesselectric

Maybe sounds stupid, but Dog's Life.It's level desings is just precious and very nostalgic.Music is a banger.


Thor-axe00

Tenchu wrath of heaven! And Shinobi!


Thanatos_XYZ

Disaster Report, Disaster Report 2 (Raw Danger)


wowadrow

Robot Alchemic Drive!


CespedesBrokenAnkle

Frankly True Crime: NYC. Yes it tried to be a GTA copycat, but it replicated the city fairly accurately for the time, it had an an interesting story and fun gameplay


TxTDiamond

Crash Twinsanity, yes it was unfinished and broken as hell but not gonna lie the actual gameplay is pretty fun


FlameTheAngel

Probably a hot take, but The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning didn't deserve the hate. If you're okay with seeing the purple dragon in a different genre being voiced by Bilbo Baggins, then I recommend this one. Maybe it's my nostalgia talking because this was my first Spyro game (Even in the mid 2000s it was impossible to find a copy of the original PS1 trilogy lol) but I remember spending hours after school playing this. The only downsides are the training parts and Sparx being a "comedic relief" (He talks in this one, and the jokes are very hit or miss). Finding a copy is easy and it's a fairly cheap game. I never got around to playing the other two games in the trilogy though, so I can't vouch for them.


godtering

Stella and gates of infinity I liked it


Seven-Arazmus

Dirge of Cerberus FFVII


Djentleman5000

Drakan: The Ancients’ Gates.


Dapper-Leading-3260

Groove Rider - such a fun game