Today’s thrilling listing is the most effective PS2 FPS video games. Yes, that’s the Playstation 2 and first-person shooters.

We just lately coated the Best 2D Video Games Of All Time, and it was stunning to us to see what number of video games that we love have been really 3D titles.

Plenty of my very own private favourite video video games are first-person shooters!

One of the most effective consoles (and controllers!) for first-person capturing is the Playstation 2. So this listing must be fairly superior.

As you most likely know by now, the Playstation 2 continues to be the very best promoting online game console of all time.

And with over 4,000 online game titles launched for the system, it’s secure to say we had numerous choices for this text.

So let’s get to the duty at hand.. listed below are our greatest PS2 FPS video games!

Turok: Evolution solutions the age outdated query of “is there anything cooler than guns and dinosaurs?”.

Well, I might reply that query. But I assume the Turok franchise clarified all of that a very long time in the past.

The Turok collection was alive and properly on the Nintendo 64 again in 1997. I performed the primary two entries on N64 and completely liked them.

It was the 2002 launch for Playstation 2 that gave the collection a technical bump it wanted.

As the prequel to the unique Turok online game, we see our hero Tal’Set in a extra story oriented sport expertise.

They did have a reasonably superior voice appearing forged as properly, together with Ron Perlman.

The sport play has you creeping by way of jungles looking dinosaurs along with your bow and arrow, and ultimately acquire entry to a wide variety of futuristic weaponry to battle humanoid dino-dudes.

There’s even some superior pterodactyl driving sequences!

Whether it lives as much as the unique entries on the N64 is very debated. But it certainly was an thrilling first-person shooter title on the PS2 again when it launched, and it set the inspiration for a 2008 reboot title on the PS3.

So we wish to shout out Turok: Evolution as one of many coolest PS2 FPS titles from the early 2000s period.

It even made an look on our listing of the Best Turok Games of All Time.

Black is maybe probably the most chaotic and visually intense shooters for the Playstation 2.

The sport play is a mix of operating and gunning, in addition to stealth and canopy kind capturing.

Every time you fireplace your weapon, it is best to count on that there will likely be a ton of environmental response and destruction.

Smoke and mud in all places, gun barrel fireplace, and destructible environments. It all leads to a really tense cinematic expertise.

The builders even positioned a heavy emphases on lifelike gun look, really feel, and sound.

The sport is a shorter expertise and doesn’t provide a multiplayer mode. Which is sort of disappointing, as a result of we might like to have extra from Black to expertise.

But certainly, for what it does provide, Black is without doubt one of the most enjoyable and distinctive first-person shooters for the PS2.

We wouldn’t be very competent reviewers if we didn’t embrace Black on our listing of the most effective PS2 FPS video games.

Call of Duty 3 was the 2006 WWII capturing title developed by Treyarch, who later grew to become recognized for the Black Ops collection of Call of Duty video games.

Like earlier entries within the Call of Duty franchise, you’ll be in the course of scorching fight with a workforce of AI troopers at your facet in giant open areas with many potential paths by way of.

And, as we’ve got come to know from most Call of Duty experiences… the multiplayer is the place it’s at. There are many multiplayer choices, together with on-line 16 participant battle sequences.

Call of Duty 3 is an ideal instance of the place first-person shooter titles have been within the early and mid 2000s… deep in cliché World War II scenes.

And you recognize what? That isn’t actually a foul factor.

Obviously, the media (movie, tv, books, video video games) are fairly intrigued by the storytelling alternatives within the subject of WWII. And the customers eat that stuff up.

The actual life tales of WWII make for fairly intense sport play. And Call of Duty 3 is a good instance of it making for an exquisite expertise on the PS2.

Red Faction II is the extremely anticipated sequel within the Red Faction collection.

It established a collection targeted on thrilling first-person capturing on planet Mars. And it was wrapped in humorous, excessive motion.

The sport begins off sluggish, and continues to ramp up the motion and the comedy as you progress by way of its distinctive story. And the voice forged consists of the likes of Jason Statham.

The gimmick that makes a Red Faction sport… properly… a Red Faction sport is the “geo-mod” capability to destroy the atmosphere.

You will discover numerous enjoyable methods to blast a gap in a wall to make a brand new path by way of the world.

This function doesn’t play as massive of a job because it did within the unique title, however it’s nonetheless a enjoyable addition to an already nice first-person shooter title.

It’s all a reasonably entertaining experience, and also you’ll certain to be laughing your manner by way of all the story mode.

And when you’re achieved with that, you’ll be able to leap into the sport’s multiplayer, which is gonna provide you with much more fast-paced fight.

Medal Of Honor: Frontline is a WWII themed fight sport from EA.

And although this was the primary Medal of Honor title to be made with out its originator, Steven Spielberg, the sport nonetheless has a really cinematic really feel to it.

You completely will really feel like you’re inside a very detailed conflict movie. The sport actually begins with the storming of Normandy.

But it’s not simply all smash and bang and capturing. You are literally in shut proximity to your fellow troopers and exchanging dialogue with them throughout battle.

So yeah.. like I mentioned.. it’s all very cinematic and detailed.

Of course, you employ interval particular weaponry, all with their applicable clunkiness and imperfect really feel.

Medal Of Honor: Frontline was one of many highest promoting PS2 titles of all time, and obtained many award nominations and wins.

And now it receives one of many highest honors… a spot on our listing of the most effective PS2 FPS video games!

Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game Of The Movie (that’s a mouthful, isn’t it?) is the most effective film adaptation to a online game for the Playstation 2.

As I’m certain you recognize, most movie diversifications find yourself being fairly rushed, and this leads to underwhelming video video games.

Well the 2005 “King Kong” online game breaks this mould fully!

The movie’s director Peter Jackson labored instantly with Ubisoft to attain a novel, cinematic gaming expertise.

And the online game adaptation additionally options the movie’s full forged for the voice appearing, together with Jack Black and Naomi Watts.

An emphases on environment and immersion was applied within the sport’s design, and there’s a lack of an on display screen HUD (it may be turned on within the settings in case you hate that).

And don’t fear… the sport offers you precisely what you hope for: the flexibility to play because the human lead AND as Kong.

The Kong ranges are performed in third-person, permitting you to smash your manner by way of the jungle atmosphere and battle different monsters on the island.

King Kong, the official sport, from the film, by Peter Jackson… no matter it’s referred to as… it was a smash hit in each gross sales and critiques.

It continues to be generally known as the most effective movie adaptation to video video games. And we think about it to be one of many very best PS2 FPS video games of all time.

Half-Life, the smash first-person shooter from Valve, most likely wants no introductions. But we’ll do it in any case.

This epic sport was developed by the newly based Valve, began by former Microsoft Employees.

Valve licensed the Quake and Quake II sport engines from id Software and mixed their favourite components of every to create their very own customized engine to make their good first-person shooter.

Half-Life focuses on a sensible mix of capturing, exploration, and puzzle-solving. All paired with extremely storytelling and new concepts for the style.

Rather than utilizing cutscenes, you expertise the story of Half-Life fully in actual time (there’s just one brief cutscene in all the sport).

Valve aimed to thoroughly reimagine how a first-person shooter sport was offered, and so they certain did succeed.

The first launch of Half-Life was for the PC in 1998. And it was instantly a big hit.

It took the primary spot on our listing of the 10 Best 90s PC Games Of All Time.

The Playstation 2 port was launched in 2001, and featured a number of enhancements to the sport, together with the unique cooperative multiplayer mode referred to as “Decay”.

So not solely do you get top-of-the-line video video games ported to the Playstation 2, however it was additionally arguably higher than the unique launch!

Half-Life is extensively thought of each probably the most influential first-person shooter titles, in addition to top-of-the-line video video games of all time.

I nonetheless keep in mind the primary time I skilled the unimaginable online game title that’s Killzone.

It was shortly after I had bought my Playstation 2, and I heard about this revolutionary first-person shooter by developed by Guerrilla Games.

Of course, you recognize them for the newer Horizon franchise. But it was one in every of their very first video games, Killzone, that set them up for fulfillment.

Killzone boasted a high quality of graphics and mechanics by no means earlier than seen on the Playstation 2, and plenty of have been keen to leap into the sport described because the “halo killer”.

Though Killzone was probably the most anticipated FPS video games for the Playstation 2, critiques for the sport have been blended as soon as it lastly launched.

Some weren’t as impressed as they’d hoped for. But I’m right here to supply a special perspective…

As somebody who had no presumptions going into the sport, I used to be extremely happy with the expertise.

In reality… that may not be promoting it properly sufficient. It blew me away!

Needless to say, I used to be offered on the Killzone franchise, and fairly excited for the followups.

It was that unique Killzone title that established Guerrilla Games as one of many leaders of motion online game titles. And it’s Killzone that we must be thanking for all of that.

Thank you Killzone. You have been freakin’ superior.

Battlefield 2: Modern Combat is the unimaginable first-person shooter title from masters of the style: DICE.

Like in any good DICE sport, we get an extremely wide selection of sport mechanics to play with:

You’ll be on foot, racing buggies, driving tanks, driving on boats, flying helicopters, dropping into warzones by parachute, taking management of mounted machine weapons, and there’s a actually cool transport mechanic as you warp into the physique of one other soldier on the battlefield.

Keep in thoughts, that every of these require their very own total methods created by the builders. And every controls fully distinctive and feels fairly lifelike to the mode.

And all of this on the Playstation 2. It seems to be way more like a PlayStation 3 sport.

Combat is chaotic, thrilling, various, and completely beautiful.

I’d presumably rank DICE because the primary developer of first-person shooter titles, and Battlefield 2: Modern Combat is an ideal instance of their mastery in all issues fight targeted.

So it’s with zero hesitation that I give it a spot on at this time’s greatest PS2 FPS video games.

The outcomes are in, and TimeSplitters 2is formally the most effective PS2 FPS sport of all time!

Something you might not know in regards to the historical past of Free Radical Design and TimeSplitters is that a lot of the unique workforce got here instantly from Rare and the GoldenEye 007 improvement workforce.

One of the principle gimmicks of a TimeSplitters title is the vary of time intervals you’ll discover your self in, every tackled within the pores and skin of a brand new character.

And after all… the sport is filled with foolish cutscenes, fast-paced fight, a bunch of distinctive weapons, and extra dynamic goals than the earlier title.

The gunplay is sort of just like GoldenEye 007 or Perfect Dark. And in case you’ve performed both of these video games, you recognize simply how enjoyable that may be.

TimeSplitters presents three ranges of problem, because it is named a reasonably powerful sport. So even within the best mode, you’ll presumably end up eager to throw your controller on the tv.

The ranges are giant, various, and provide a variety of distinctive goals with the change of time intervals and areas. Expect to spend so much of time in every space.

One of the preferred options is the Arcade League. Which are a ton of distinctive sport challenges to deal with, maybe essentially the most enjoyable a part of the TimeSplitters video games.

TimeSplitters 2 additionally made an look on our listing of the 55 Best PS2 Games Of All Time, and we definitely suppose it’s the greatest first-person capturing title to come back to the Playstation 2.

If you’re enthusiastic about TimeSplitters.. we’ve got some thrilling information in regards to the franchise right here: New TimeSplitters Game Announced With Original Developers On Board.

Anthony has been a online game lover ever since he can keep in mind. He grew to become a fulltime nomad in 2018, residing all through most of Asia. He targeted his ardour in retro gaming and started making a sport for the Game Boy Color whereas residing in Nara, Japan in the course of the 2020 pandemic. He is now in Chiang Mai, Thailand, the place he spends most of his time gaming, occurring lengthy walks and assembly as many stray canines as potential.