Game news 11 forgotten pearls of the PlayStation 2 to (re)discover
Published on 08/14/2022 at 07:40
You were born in the 80s and 90s and you feel a nostalgic wind blowing on your PlayStation 2. While the biggest titles like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas or Final Fantasy X have sold extremely well, some console games from Sony have fallen into oblivion. The editorial staff of JV has listed 11 nuggets on PS2 that finally deserve their hour of glory.
Summary
- Bloody Roar 4
- Drakengard
- Freedom Fighters
- Gregory Horror Show
- Maximo vs Army of Zin
- Obscure
- Odin Sphere
- Primal
- Second Sight
- The Mark of Kri
- Zone of the Enders : The 2nd Runner
Bloody Roar 4
We start with a fighting game that will appeal to fighting purists. The nugget developed by Eighting and published by Konami didn’t make a lot of noise in 2003 and yet the game has everything to please. Bloody Roar 4 is a fairly classic fighting game with one particularity. Indeed, during the confrontation our characters can turn into ferocious beasts. Take on your opponents one by one in different arenas and unleash your totem animal with the help of twelve playable characters.
Drakengard
We are now interested in a role-playing and adventure game that has marked the minds of those initiated into the genre. Entitled Drag-On Dragoon in the original version, Drakengard is the perfect mix between an RPG, a beat’em all and a shoot’em Up. In this title, you take part in battles happening both in the air and on land alongside your dragon, which assists you throughout the story in order to effectively fight the terrible legions that are on your way.
Freedom Fighters
Freedom Fighters is a third-person action game that invites you to take control of a group of resistance fighters whose objective is to overthrow the Soviet government occupying the United States of America. This is the scenario of this alternate history released on PS2, Xbox and PC which places you at the head of a squad in order to send the occupier home. Coming from the studio behind the famous Hitman franchise, the game stands out with its ever more epic multiplayer mode and tactical confrontations.
Gregory Horror Show
Adapted from the Japanese anime series of the same name, Capcom’s game Gregory Horror Show places you in the heart of childish decors with a macabre atmosphere filled with corridors and puzzles to solve. You must try to get out of a haunted hotel controlled by a rat named Gregory, while collecting all the lost souls, just to help Death. Unfortunately, the task will not be easy, because Catherine, a nursing lizard, will do everything in her power to make you fail.
Maximo vs Army of Zin
What if you became a knight? Maximo vs Army of Zin take place eight months following the end of the events of the first opus. You play as the knight Maximo who goes in search of his missing beloved in a magical world. Unfortunately for him, his encounter with a terrible mechanical monster will change his destiny. He then decides to go looking for her in order to discover her secret and destroy it. Particularly difficult, this title is intended above all for accomplished players.
Obscure
Students prisoners of a haunted school… what might be more normal in a playful work signed Hydravision! Obscure is a game inspired by the movie The Faculty. This survival-horror takes place in a horrifying universe where you face creatures hidden in the dark corridors of the high school. Your goal? Find your missing friends and get out of this nightmare. The multiplayer mode in particular is very popular, especially since five characters, with certain unique characteristics, are playable in order to scare each other.
Odin Sphere
No more horror and make way for magic with Odin Spherean Action-RPG resembling a Unlimited saga. Immerse yourself in a magical world and take turns playing Gwendlyn and four other warriors who will live the same story, but lived from a different point of view. All this gives birth to a choral story retracing the origin of an ancestral war between fairies and humans. Accompanied by an original and fantastic 2D design, Odin Sphere even offered Atlus a beautiful remake on PlayStation 4.
Primal
Here we are once more in a dark universe ruled by demons. It’s a game titled Primal and developed by the Guerrilla Cambridge studio we are talking regarding. We find Jennifer, a young woman with supernatural powers, and Scree, an old gargoyle, progressing through four kingdoms where demons and evil creatures rub shoulders. During their journey, they will have to help each other to avoid the traps that await them and thus survive.
Second Sight
Another action-adventure game invites itself into this selection, but not just any. It is Second Sight in which you play John Vattic, patient of a research center and main character who emerges from a deep coma with in his possession paranormal psychic powers. While the latter is totally amnesic, the goal is to do everything possible to escape from the hospital where he landed and to understand why he was kidnapped. Second Sight is an experience that finely blends action, puzzles and infiltration.
The Mark of Kri
Combat, a bow and an axe… this is the recipe for the next game we’re going to talk regarding. The Mark of Kri, published by Sony, is a Beat’em All telling the story of Rau, a warrior who wants to find the lost fragments of Kri’s seal capable of unleashing the terrible forces of Evil. Recently broken and scattered across the world, Rau and his crow companion Kuzo must fend off the servants of darkness who hope to prevent him from accomplishing their mission. Despite its advanced age, PlayStation brings it back to life by offering it for sale on the PS4 and PS5 online stores, a real treat for nostalgic gamers.
Zone of the Enders : The 2nd Runner
We end this selection with Zone Of The Enders : The 2nd Runner, also known as Zone Of The Enders: Anubis, a game with a futuristic scenario. You are propelled in 2174 in order to save two planets threatened with destruction. To do this, you fight once morest an evil military force in different environments aboard an extremely powerful and fast combat robot. Konami’s title was entitled to a remake in 2018 named Zone of the Enders : The 2nd Runner M∀RSstill exhilarating and mature.
