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We start 25 PS2 games we want in HD with the shooter that started a revolution, stripping down the genre to its bare essentials – then juicing them into an adrenaline-pumped, from A to B, if-it-moves-shoot-it, grab-the-medikit, reload, unleash hell, bullet-porn thing of beauty. Simple, brutal, much missed.
Metacritic score: 79%
Canis Canem Edit
Or to give it its unspoken (by Daily Mail readers) title: Bully. All that’s great about GTA, chucked into a charming-as-hell boarding school ripe with mischief. A lick of HD paint over the preppies, jocks and bullies would be better than giving David Cameron a wet willie.
Metacritic score: 87%
Dragon Quest VIII: The Journey Of The Cursed King
An epic quest boasting truly loveable characters, a lush, colourful art style, and a genuinely great turn-based battle system. Proof that they really don’t make ’em like they used to.
Metacritic score: 89%
Fahrenheit
Quantic Dream’s second game didn’t just lay the foundations for ‘Jason!’-tastic oddity Heavy Rain… okay, that’s exactly what it did. The gritty murder mystery theme and QTE-heavy play might be familiar to veteran ’Rainers, but this is just as unique and fascinating.
Metacritic score: 83%
Fire Pro Wrestling Returns
With slots for up to 500 created wrestlers, a bustling community and matches that swing back and forth like certain parts of Beth Phoenix’s anatomy, many still argue that this is superior to any of THQ’s WWE games.
Metacritic score: 78%
Final Fantasy XII
The pinnacle of the series on PS2. A new combat system scared RPG traditionalists, but the beautifully open structure and genuinely gripping story helped one of the finest FFs to date give the console a fine send-off. How we’ve missed Vaan’s cherubic features.
Metacritic score: 92%
Freedom Fighters
IO’s squad-based shooter about a band of disparate New Yorkers fighting through a Big Apple been invaded by the Soviet Union was depressingly overlooked upon release. Well-balanced and hugely atmospheric, it’s an essential play. Yes, even now.
Metacritic score: 81%
Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec
For all our love of GT5, this is still undoubtedly the best in the series, and one of the most impressive racers ever. Huge, gorgeous and immersive, it also give us an excuse to listen to Feeder again. Wait, did we say that bit out loud?
Metacritic score: 95%
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy
PS2’s three most important games wrapped up in one big, amoral sandwich. GTA III broke boundaries, Vice City gave us an unparalleled sense of time and place, and San Andreas’ excess and scope are mega-ambitious.
Metacritic score: 96%
Haven: Call Of The King
Easily the most interesting game Traveller’s Tales has ever made, and one that has to return if only because the ending saw the eponymous lead man tied to a rock, awaiting a sequel that, to this day, still hasn’t come. Poor guy.
Metacritic score: 69%
Killer7
Games that split opinion are a good thing, and Killer7 is the most divisive of all. (Hence its criminally low average review score.) It’s an on-rails shooter made by Suda51, featuring a man in a wheelchair whose personality manifests as seven separate assassins. Told ya.
Metacritic score: 70%
Manhunt
Use a headset and Manhunt remains the most atmospheric game on PlayStation. With Brian Cox’s drawl worming into your head like a particularly nasty virus, you have to kill your way through a snuff-movie nightmare experience. Dirty deeds, done damn well.
Metacritic score: 76%
The Mark Of Kri
Violent cartoons are the best, and The Mark Of Kri pulls no punches with its skull-cracking goodness. Innovatively mapping contextual attacks to the face buttons, Kri was criminally overlooked, but the game still plays fresher than many a modern hack ’n’ slash.
Metacritic score: 80%
Michigan: Report From Hell
If the news was all horror, monsters and upskirts – like this – we’d watch it. You play a reporter after the top scoop, even if it means allowing co-workers to snuff it. What more reason d’you need to play the first (only) negligent cameraman sim?
Metacritic score: N/A
Odin Sphere
Action-RPG that merges mega-difficult hack ’n’ slash clashes with a vibrant world rich with Norse mythology. The real draw are the gorgeous hand-drawn backgrounds, which create magical levels to murder through. On the US Store, so surely landing here soon.
Metacritic score: 83%
Okami
If ever a game deserved a full HD makeover it’s Capcom’s under-appreciated lupine painting odyssey Okami. Controlling white wolf Amaterasu and a god-like paintbrush sounds crackers, but this is an inspired and unique game ripe for a revisit.
Metacritic score: 93%
Persona 4
The finest entry in the Shin Megami Tensei series is a slice of JRPG oddness with enough personal issues among its cast for a season of Jeremy Kyle shows. Grand storytelling at its finest, despite looking like the anime version of Midsomer Murders. On peyote.
Metacritic score: 90%
Project Zero
While most horror games follow Resi and Silent Hill’s monstery lead, Project Zero creates a uniquely ghost-filled terror. The genius stroke is using a photography-based combat mechanic that forces you to confront your fears in order to max out the damage you inflict.
Metacritic score: 74%
Psychonauts
From wildly creative designer/writer Tim ‘Stacking’ Schafer, ’nauts is a fierce blast of platforming action. The main action takes place inside the various twisted minds of the characters (one of which is a fish) with each one shifting the gameplay. It’s bold and unique stuff.
Metacritic score: 86%
Raw Danger
Known in Japan as Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 2, this has you escaping a city-wide flood by reaching higher ground, staying warm and cooking whatever you can find. Ignore the lowly Metascore: this is as bizarre an action-puzzle-RPG as you’ll see on PS2, or anywhere.
Metacritic score: 63%
Red Dead Revolver
Granted, it’s not a patch on John Marston’s open-world cowboy saga, but Revolver still features darn satisfying gun-slinging. It also features a cute multi-character plot that cribs from Westerns like The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. Well worth another visit.
Metacritic score: 73%
Second Sight
Developed by the team responsible for Timesplitters 2, Second Sight boasts the same excellent level of entertaining gunplay. But the rather interesting addition of psychic powers brings a unique – if not hilarious – edge to tense stealth sections. Essential stuff.
Metacritic score: 76%
Shadow Of Rome
The playable characters are about as stereotypical as it gets – no one liked the mincing Octavianus – but the blend of over-the-top action and hide-in-vases stealth was unique. It was also hella bloody, and we need more limb dismemberment in our lives.
Metacritic score: 75%
Timesplitters 2
Fierce, frenetic and often funny, too, this is the game that had us sat round for that fizzy-pop fuelled ‘one more go’ until the late hours. The split-screen deathmatch may have been usurped in the COD/Battlefield era, but monkey butlers and ’bots go a long way in our eyes.
Metacritic score: 90%
Urban Chaos: Riot Response
Before Rocksteady ever took on The Dark Knight’s cowl there was this distinctly focused shooter that put you in the boots of a shield-carrying, pepper-spraying member of the Old Bill. Again, that Metascore is a travesty.
Metacritic score: 73%
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