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Star Wars Episode 1:
Starfighter Activision / 23 March, 2001 |
New system, new Star Wars adventure. LucasArts' no-brainer approach to the PlayStation 2 looks great and plays even better. Star Wars Starfighter is modelled after LucasArts' long-running flight-sim series. Thankfully, the game is fully loaded with...Read more |
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Unreal Tournament Infogrames United Kingdom / 20 April, 2001 |
Unreal Tournament has lined itself up to set its first-person-shooter note in the PlayStation 2's opening chord. The game, a PC frag-fest from the previous year, features four familiar game types: Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Domination and Assault....Read more |
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Quake III Electronic Arts / 6 April, 2001 |
No games system would be complete in today's market without the inclusion of a first-person shooter, and hot on the heels of the PlayStation 2 launch comes Quake 3: Revolution. In the usual tradition of this genre, the player is transported into an...Read more |
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Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf 2001 Electronic Arts / 20 April, 2001 |
With Tiger Woods now the most successful golfer of all time, EA sports has bought the classic series Tiger Woods PGA Tour up to date and onto the PS2 with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2001. This edition boasts a new game engine that delivers super-crisp...Read more |
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Z.O.E.: Zone of the Enders (with Playable Metal Gear Solid 2 Demo) Konami / 23 March, 2001 |
Konami's big bad robot battler from the future is nearly upon us, and PS2-toting fans of classic anime and classic arcade action have good reason to be enthused. The game is gorgeous, the designs are gorgeous and the action is (mostly) uninterrupted,...Read more |
| 6. | Shadow of Memories Konami / 30 March, 2001 |
Eike, is murdered in the street His next memory is of being offered the chance to relive his life, this time with the ability to travel in time! You maybe able to cheat death once, but if You don't get to the root of the cause, fate will catch up...Read more | |
| 7. | Summoner THQ/ 6 April, 2001 |
Summoner
highlights all the reasons why many publishers steer
clear of the role-playing game (RPG) genre. Most RPGs are
heavy on text, light on adventure, and, thus for most
gamers, boring. The set up to Summoner's sweeping story line is so slow at...Read more |
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| 8. | SSX Snowboard Supercross Electronic Arts / 24 November, 2000 |
With its
mesmerising graphics and high replayability, SSX:
Snowboard Supercross is one of those genre-defining
and system-justifying games that will even please folks
who normally dislike snowboarding games. It's just that
good. What makes SSX a...Read more |
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| 9. | FIFA 2001 Electronic Arts / 23 November, 2000 |
The beautiful game is back, large as life and twice as impressive on the Playstation 2. The game, as with Led Zeppelin's song, remains the same, but this is by far the best looking of the Fifa family, with the power of Sony's newest family member, ...Read more | |
| 10. | Tekken Tag Tournament Sony / 24 November, 2000 |
Fighting, it's not big and it's not clever. Usually. However, Namco's first beat-em-up for the PS2, Tekken Tag Tournament, manages to be both of these things and the only part of you which might sustain physical injury are the thumbs, after a couple...Read more | |
| 11. | Oni Take 2 Interactive / 9 March, 2001 |
Imagine if you could marry the adventure and acrobatics of the Tomb Raider games to the martial-arts action found in pure fighting games like Tekken. If you have a clear picture of what that would be like, you've got a handle on Oni from Bungie...Read more | |
| 12. | International Superstar Soccer Konami / 24 November, 2000 |
As you would expect from ISS the artificial intelligence of computer opponents is finely tuned and highly challenging. Multiplayer fun is guaranteed: Up to 4 players on PlayStation and even 8 players on PS2 can join the match simultaneously. Even...Read more | |
| 13. | Smugglers Run Take 2 Interactive / 10 November, 2000 |
Developed by the same people that brought us Midtown Madness, in Smuggler's Run, you play as a member of an outlaw gang whose primary objective is to successfully smuggle contraband from point A to point B while behind the wheel--be it nuclear...Read more | |
| 14. | Midnight Club Take 2 Interactive / 8 November, 2000 |
The main premise of Midnight Club Street Racing is that you and your pals take to the streets each night to race hot rods around town. Along the way, you will terrorise those pedestrians who are crazy enough to be outdoors at night and generally...Read more | |
| 15. | Moto GP Sony / 16 February, 2001 |
As motor sports go, there are few more thrilling than motorcycling. Formula 1 is fast, but the cars look like speedy elephants when compared to the crazily unstable looking shape of a 350 or 500cc motorbike. Take one lightweight death-trap, add a...Read more | |
| 16. | Silent Scope Konami / 24 November, 2000 |
When Silent Scope hit the arcades a couple of years ago, the idea of just playing a sniper got a lot of people excited. After all, it had always been alluded to in the multiplayer games on the PC, but never really concentrated on. Since that success,...Read more | |
| 17. | Timesplitters Eidos Interactive / 24 November, 2000 |
Rather than just follow the latest first-person shooter trends, Eidos Interactive's TimeSplitters gets its inspiration from the granddaddy of all first-person shooters, Doom. Shunning GoldenEye 007's stealth approach to the action, here you have...Read more | |
| 18. | Knockout Kings 2001 Electronic Arts / 9 March, 2001 |
EA Sports
has dressed up its bestselling boxing title for the new
millennium and has kindly added enough new features to
make this game a knockout on the PlayStation 2...no pun
intended. The raft of changes that has been added to this version of ...Read more |
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| 19. | F1 Championship Season 2000 Electronic Arts / 15 December, 2000 |
It is
surprising that EA relaunched F1 Championship Season
2000 with the complete 2000 season quite so soon, but
eventually every EA Sports title takes to the annual
update trail. For statistical die-hards the game is up to date until Spring 2001,...Read more |
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| 20. | Ridge Racer V Sony / 24 November, 2000 |
When
PlayStation first launched in 1995, Ridge Racer
was one of the launch titles; now Sony has released a new
console and along with it a new Ridge Racer, Ridge
Racer 5. If you've played any of the other Ridge Racer titles, you can jump right into ...Read more |