This is interesting, I love arcade style racers thanks for the suggestion
aside from being considered one of the best outside of No Mercy and 2k18?
I played it and it was amazing
There's an EA racing game for PS2, can't remember the name. It's real cars but plays like a kart racer, it also allows you to do flips and spins in the air (controlled manually) and you get a speed boost if you land it. The game is awesome, my buddy and I rented it once back then and we still talk about it to this day. Someone here knows the name I'm sure.
Except Dawn of Mana.
So damn true, especially on a system that got a library of +4000 games there's gotta be at least 200 that are underrated, then again opinions changes, I remember King's Field games on PS1 and more vividly the fourth one on PS2, getting absolutely trashed by magazine, internet reviews, then Demon's souls and Dark Souls happened and magically people woke up and praised From Software earlier titles like there was cult classic all of a sudden, It's cool when an obscure or niche game get some light on it, the more people get to play them, these kind of video are good for that reason in my opinion.
Please elaborate on it more, i'm curious!
All i can remember is that i wanted to import the game (since it was never released in Europe) because i thought (and still do) it looked very beautiful but the reviews were pretty bad and later when i was reading at forums fans of the series used to hate it at every chance they got because it presumably deviated a lot from the series gameplay.
War of the Monsters was also a gem, surprisingly one of the few Ps2 games to get a PSN port for PS4
Oh dude, it was most certainly janky. But for the first Predator themed video game that played the way it did, it did some really cool things! It could've been even better with a better budget and studio behind it. But it was overlooked pretty hard.It's surprising how overlooked Predator Concrete Jungle was even back in the day. Sure it was a bit janky, but as a pretty much open world styled huntathon it was decent. Haven't played it in years so that could just be nostalgia talking
Apparently controls and camera are shit, you grind all the time and looses all your progress between chapters and have to redo it all again with bullshit game mechanics that make it all tedious and make sure to waste your time even more, and in Japan it's called Seiken Densetsu 4 tarnishing the series even more.
I still want to play it one day lol. Its art direction is a big draw for me.Apparently controls and camera are shit, you grind all the time and looses all your progress between chapters and have to redo it all again with bullshit game mechanics that make it all tedious and make sure to waste your time even more, and in Japan it's called Seiken Densetsu 4 tarnishing the series even more.
It's not like we didn't have already got Unlimited Saga by this point.
Play both of them and then make a thread here on GAF, a case study in RPG that nailed the aesthetic but failed at everything else.I still want to play it one day lol. Its art direction is a big draw for me.
You pretty much nailed it, fun fact it did lay the ground work for Dead Rising combat system during development, CAPCOM re-using concepts shocking right?This was a good one by Capcom in 2005 that no one seems to have heard of. Imagine Resident Evil's gameplay transplanted to a Roman Gladiator setting, tank-like plodding controls with big meaty dismemberments.
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Rumble Racing and yes, the game is awesome indeed! It’s not a looker but I’d say it holds up pretty well thanks to its rather unique gameplay.
Thanks Brother.
Yep. Already in 2021 I bought Ridge Racer V, Shinobi, Hot Shots Golf 3/Tennis. Get them now.
The title is "criminally underrated PS2 games" and not "obscure PS2 games".
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