Forum Overview :: Caltrops High Score Forum :: IGN's Top 100 PS2 Games: 43/100

[quote name="Jerry Whorebach"]<a href="http://www.ign.com/top-ps2-games/">Link</a> 1. Shadow of the Colossus - Got it! 2. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - Got the "Subsistence" re-release. 3. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - Got it! 4. God of War II - Got it! 5. Ico - Got it! 6. Okami - Got it! 7. Kingdom Hearts - Don't got it. (Not a JRPG fan.) 8. Grand Theft Auto III - Got it! 9. Gran Turismo 4 - Got it! 10. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - Got the "Substance" re-release. 11. Burnout 3: Takedown - Got it! 12. Guitar Hero II - Got the Xbox 360 port. 13. Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution - Got it! 14. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - Got it! 15. Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal - Got it! 16. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time - Got it! 17. Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner - Got it! 18. Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening - Got the "Special Edition" re-release. 19. Rez - Got the Xbox 360 port. 20. Resident Evil 4 - Got it! 21. God of War - Got it! 22. Katamari Damacy - Got it! 23. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 - Don't got it. //Out of all the versions of THPS, the odds I would have this particular one were pretty slim. 24. Final Fantasy X - Don't got it. (JRPG) 25. Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus - Got it! 26. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES - Don't got it. (JRPG) 27. Frequency - Don't got it. //Not interested in rhythm games anymore unless they come with something vaguely embarassing to stick in my closet. 28. Guilty Gear X2 - Don't got it. //Still waiting for the latest point release - known as Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus - to get a localization. No hurry. 29. Soulcalibur II - Got the Xbox port. //Each system had its own exclusive character. The PS2 had Tekken's Heihachi Mishima (who?), Xbox had TODD MCFARLANE'S SPAWN. 30. Guitar Hero - Sold it. //Moving into my new apartment was a chance to start fresh - no more plastic instruments! *Unless they're Xbox 360 compatible. 31. Dark Cloud 2 - Don't got it. (JRPG) 32. Black - Don't got it. //Missed this one, but the developers are working on a spiritual sequel, called "Bodycount". Looks promising! 33. Ridge Racer V - Got it! 34. Beyond Good & Evil - Got it! 35. GrimGrimoire - Don't got it. //Maybe this wasn't technically a JRPG, but it sure as fuck looked like one. 36. Amplitude - Don't got it. //See Frequency 37. Viewtiful Joe - Got it! 38. TimeSplitters 2 - Don't got it. //Picked up Future Perfect instead, because I heard it had a better single-player campaign. Loved it. 39. Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King - Don't got it. (JRPG) 40. Jak 3 - Don't got it. //Got the original Jak and Daxter. Played it, liked it, don't need any more. 41. Ratchet & Clank - Got it! 42. Devil May Cry - Got it! 43. Bully - Got the "Scholarship Edition" for Xbox 360. 44. Odin Sphere - Don't got it. (JRPG) 45. Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny - Don't got it. //I have Genma Onimusha for Xbox, which is close enough I don't give a shit. 46. ESPN NFL 2K5 - Don't got it. (Not a football fan.) 47. Suikoden III - Don't got it. (JRPG) 48. Disgaea: Hour of Darkness - Don't got it. (JRPG) 49. Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec - Sold it. //I know the existence of Gran Turismo 4 doesn't erase Gran Turismo 3 from history, but no, it pretty much does. 50. Gitaroo-Man - Don't got it. //See Frequency 51. Twisted Metal: Black - Got it! 52. NBA Street Vol. 2 - Don't got it. //It seems like there's a new basketball game out almost every year. How am I supposed to keep up? I'll just stick with NBA Jam. 53. Rogue Galaxy - Don't got it. (JRPG) 54. Silent Hill 2 - Don't got it. //Strike one is it looks boring. Strike two is it's expensive on eBay. Strike three is it looks boring. 55. Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy - Got it! 56. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 - Got it! 57. Tomb Raider: Anniversary - Don't got it. //Thought about picking up the 360 port, but I heard it was a bad port. Never made the mental leap to thinking about picking up the PS2 original. 58. Star Ocean: Till the End of Time - Don't got it. (JRPG) 59. Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly - Sold it. //Maybe it gets better toward the end? 60. Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves - Don't got it. //See Jak 3 61. The Warriors - Got it! 62. Mercenaries - Got it! 63. Primal - Don't got it. //Realistically-proportioned female protagonist. NEXT. 64. Aggressive Inline - Don't got it. //Jet Set Radio Future came out the same year. I think I made the right choice. 65. WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain - Don't got it. //Does this game have Hulk Hogan in it? He's great. "The hair of a chinaman, the skin of a hot dog." 66. Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance - Don't got it. //I try not to buy any games that remind me I don't have any friends. Gauntlet clones are right out. 67. Psychonauts - Got the Xbox version. //Double Fine did the Xbox version themselves, but farmed out the PS2 port to something called Budcat Creations. Which one would YOU want? 68. Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love - Don't got it. (JRPG *and* dating sim? Fuck off.) 69. Star Wars: Battlefront - Don't got it. //Anyone still playing this team-based deathmatch game from 2004 has probably long since gone insane. Sorry, Ray :( 70. Tourist Trophy - Don't got it. //Not enough interest in motorcycle racing to warrant learning a sim. Wake me when someone makes another Road Rash. 71. X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse - Don't got it. //See Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 72. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory - Got the Xbox version. 73. Kingdom Hearts II - Don't got it. (JRPG) 74. Maximo: Ghosts to Glory - Got it! 75. Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando - Got it! 76. Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica - Don't got it. (JRPG) 77. The Mark of Kri - Got it! 78. MVP Baseball 2005 - Don't got it. (Not a baseball fan.) 79. Final Fantasy XII - Don't got it. (JRPG) 80. Spider-Man 2 - Don't got it. //Looks fun! If this was 2004, and I had any shelf space left, I might think about maybe getting it. 81. SSX 3 - Don't got it. //Out of all the games on this list I don't have, this is the only one I'm seriously considering tracking down. 82. Burnout 2: Point of Impact - Sold it. //Picked it up after mastering Burnout 3, played for hours without losing a race. Gave up. 83. Transformers - Don't got it. 84. Gungrave - Don't got it. 85. Manhunt - Don't got it. 86. Battle Engine Aquila - Don't got it. 87. Project Eden - Don't got it. //I'm skeptical of these last five because they all have lousy Metacritic scores and I've never met anyone who particularly liked any of them. 88. Monster Rancher 4 - Don't got it. //I guess it's like Pokemon? But with a terrible <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/Monsterrancher4.jpg">cover?</a> 89. Viewtiful Joe 2 - Don't got it. //I still haven't finished all the unlockable modes and difficulty levels from the first Viewtiful Joe. No wonder Clover went out of business :( 90. Dead to Rights - Don't got it. //I love Namco, but they make the worst "Western-style" shooters in the world. Where's Klonoa 2 on this list? 91. Colin McRae Rally 3 - Don't got it. //Did this even get released in North America? No, wait, I'm thinking of Colin McRae Rally 4. I probably would've gotten that one. 92. Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories - Don't got it. (JRPG) 93. Fight Night 2004 - Don't got it. //I'm still looking for a modern boxing game. Ali vs. Tyson on the cover of Fight Night Round 4 almost fished me in, but the lack of digital legacy controls scared me off. Maybe next year. 94. Killer 7 - Got it! 95. SSX Tricky - Got it! 96. Max Payne - Got it for Xbox. 97. SOCOM II: U.S. Navy SEALs - Don't got it. //See Star Wars: Battlefront 98. Madden NFL 2005 - Don't got it. //If I were going to have a football game from 2005, it'd probably be the one that came in about fifty places above this one. And was published by SEGA. 99. Karaoke Revolution - Don't got it. (Can you imagine?) 100. God Hand - Got it.[/quote]