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PS2 was one of the GOATs when it came to gaming! 👍

GTA Scarface Godfather True Crime Mafia Yakuza The Getaway Simpsons Spiderman and Bully are good open world PS2 games

Mafia 0:35
Barnyard 1:47
Driver Parallel Lines 2:55
Destroy All Humans 4:04
Scarface The World is yours 5:10
Yakuza 2 6:15
True Crime Streets of LA  7:05
Just Cause 8:18
Mercenaries Playground of Destruction 9:03
Need For Speed Most Wanted 10:03
Total Overdose 11:08
Smugglers Run 2 12:20
Incredible Hulk Ultimate Destruction 13:35
SSX 3 14:48
Shadow of the Colossus 15:58
Spider-Man 2 17:10
Bully 18:25
The Simpsons Hit and Run 19:33
The Getaway 20:55
GTA 22:17

I can’t believe I’m seriously considering getting the Barnyard video game.

The Godfather deserves an honourable mention

Spider-Man 2 on the PS2 was MY game back in the 2000s! It was SO IMMERSIVE, FUN, AND ADDICTING in SO many ways! The amount of freedom to explore New York City while ENDLESSLY web swinging, side missions, even the ANNOYING girl saying, “I LOST MY BALLOOO-OOOOO-NNNNN!!!” and her IRRITATING crying to the NERVE-RACKING pizza delivery side missions, was SO MUCH FUN!

Spider-Man 2, The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, The Simpsons: Hit and Run, Destroy All Humans, Shadow of the Colossus, I still like to revisit them and play today. 🎮👍

Barnyard was one of the coolest games I played as a kid

Never played driver: parallel lines myself but it sounds very interesting and creative, looks really cool having stories set in the 70’s and mid 2000’s with open world areas for both timelines explorable , such a clever idea and the fact you can switch between them at will even bringing  with you vehicles from that time period is great - tbh this game sounds way more interesting than i first thought it was. Imagine a modern version similar to it, maybe a story set in the 80’s and the other set in the 90’s with aspects of that time period present throughout the game world could be incredible especially with the graphics possible today

The OG Smuggler's Run. The draw distance blew my mind back then

3:54 ....he looks calm and ready

19:32 The Simpsons Hit & Run is definitely the best open-world Simpsons game in my childhood! (And I still have it on PS2)

Gun was pretty good

GTA Vice City and San Andreas along with The Getaway - Black Monday were my favourite open world games for the PS2.

GTA Trilogy are what I like from childhood

I'm proud to say i played most of these games back in the old days of the PS2 era, honorary mentions for this list would be The Godfather(game), Mercenaries 2:World in flames, GTA:Vice City Stories, True crime:NYC, Transformers(1st movie game)

I’d love Driver: Parallel Lines to get a remake 😍

Thank you this amazing nostalgic journey. What a games

We need a new 'Hulk' game.....