HALL 4 / 8
The games
1.537 billion PS2 games had shipped by March 2012. Pick a cartridge... sorry, a disc.
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2000Launch
Tekken Tag Tournament
Out on 30 March 2000, the oldest game on the list of PS2 million-sellers. Two fighters per side, tag in, tag out.
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2000Launch
TimeSplitters
Free Radical Design's shooter, a launch title that sends you across a hundred years of history.
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2000Launch
Ridge Racer V
Namco's launch racer, and the only Ridge Racer ever made for the PS2.
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2001Racing
Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec
Shown at E3 as Gran Turismo 2000. It sold 14.89 million copies, the second best-selling PS2 game.
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2001Stealth
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Hideo Kojima's tanker, the Big Shell and a story about memes and machines years before anyone talked about either.
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2001Role-playing
Final Fantasy X
The first Final Fantasy with fully 3D places and voice acting, plus the Sphere Grid.
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2001Adventure
Ico
Ico and Yorda escape an abandoned castle hand in hand, so neither of them is sacrificed. Quiet, small and unforgettable.
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2001Horror
Silent Hill 2
Team Silent's masterpiece: James Sunderland gets a letter from his dead wife and walks into the fog.
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2001Open world
Grand Theft Auto III
The first 3D Grand Theft Auto. Three islands of Liberty City, 11.6 million copies sold.
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2002Action RPG
Kingdom Hearts
Square and Disney in one game, and the start of a whole series.
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2002Platformer
Ratchet & Clank
Insomniac's first Ratchet and Clank: a mechanic and a small robot set out to stop Chairman Drek.
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2004Record
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
The best-selling PS2 game of all: 17.33 million copies. CJ comes home to Grove Street.
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2004Puzzle
Katamari Damacy
Roll a sticky ball over thumbtacks, people and mountains until it is big enough to become a star.
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2004Racing
Burnout 3: Takedown
Criterion's racer that paid you boost for slamming rivals into walls.
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2005Adventure
Shadow of the Colossus
Sixteen giants, one horse and a forbidden land, all to bring a girl called Mono back to life.
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2006Adventure
Ōkami
Clover Studio's adventure came out in 2006. The studio closed a few months later, and the game became a legend.
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2008Role-playing
Persona 4
One of the last big PS2 exclusives, out in Japan in July 2008 and in Europe in March 2009.
The biggest series
| Series | Copies on PS2 |
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| Grand Theft Auto | 44.83 million |
| Gran Turismo | 29.61 million |
| Madden NFL | 23.48 million |
| Final Fantasy | 21.15 million |
| Metal Gear | 15.47 million |
| Pro Evolution Soccer | 13.16 million |