October 2002 - games, that were released this month for PlayStation 2

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin - release date for PlayStation 2

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Third-person view

October 1, 2002 → PlayStation 2; October 2, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 8/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 85/100

A stealth action game about a retired contract killer forced back into service by treachery. The protagonist takes on assignments around the world, including in...

Legaia 2: Duel Saga

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game

October 1, 2002 → PlayStation 2; October 11, 2002 → PlayStation 2; October 18, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Metacritic: 67/100

This Japanese role-playing game is set in a fantasy world and follows Lang, a rookie member of Nohl’s militia. After a magical crystal that provided the village...

Run Like Hell

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

October 1, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Metacritic: 57/100

A third-person sci-fi action horror game about surviving dangers lurking in the dark. Alien enemies learn from the player’s actions and grow more...

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2

Arcade, Racing, First-person view, Third-person view

October 2, 2002 → PlayStation 2; October 24, 2002 → PlayStation 2; October 25, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 is an arcade racing game made in 3D graphics. The game has 5 modes: “Pursuit Race”, “Championship”, “Single Competition”, “Network...

TransWorld SURF

Simulation, Third-person view, Sports game

October 2, 2002 → PlayStation 2; October 4, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Metacritic: 76/100

A surfing sports simulator where players perform tricks on waves at renowned surf spots around the world. Locations include Todos Santos, Hossegor and Tavarua, with...

World Tour Soccer 2003

Business / Management, Third-person view, Sports game

October 2, 2002 → PlayStation 2; October 4, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Metacritic: 78/100

A football simulation featuring teams from around the world, including the national teams of the USA, England, Brazil, France and Japan. The game includes more than...

Metropolismania

Role-playing game, Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Third-person view, Anime / Manga

October 3, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Metropolismania is a third-person role-playing game with a mixture of simulation, strategy, business simulation and anime/manga game from the developers of Indi...

Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny

Action, Horror, Fighting, Third-person view

October 3, 2002 → PlayStation 2; October 4, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 9/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Set in a fantastical version of feudal Japan, this action game follows the warrior Jubei Yagyu on a journey to discover his destiny. He travels through the country...

Taz: Wanted

Action, Third-person view

October 4, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 64/100

This third-person action-adventure follows Taz as he escapes from a zoo and tries to stop Yosemite Sam from turning his homeland into a theme park. The hero makes...

NBA 2K3

Third-person view, Sports game

October 7, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Metacritic: 87/100

NBA 2K3 — The game has all the sights and sounds of the NBA: the pomp and detail of pre-game introductions, accurate recreation of the arena, realistic...

NBA Live 2003

Third-person view, Sports game, Basketball

October 8, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 82/100

A basketball simulation featuring NBA teams, with two-handed controls for stealing the ball, blocking shots and performing crossover dribbles. The game includes...

TimeSplitters 2

Arcade, Action, Shooter, In real time, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Cyberpunk

October 8, 2002 → PlayStation 2; October 16, 2002 → PlayStation 2; October 18, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 89/100

This first-person science-fiction shooter follows a race of TimeSplitters that travels through history, altering events in an effort to enslave humanity. The player...

Robotech: Battlecry (Collector's Edition)

Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga

October 8, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Robotech: Battlecry (Collector's Edition) is a third-person action game with game elements in the anime or manga genre from the studio Vicious Cycle Software, Inc...

Ty the Tasmanian Tiger

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Adventure

October 9, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A 3D platformer about Ty, a Tasmanian tiger who ventures into the Australian Outback to rescue his family from the Dreaming. The Bunyip Elder tells him that his...

Evolution Skateboarding

October 9, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Metacritic: 44/100

This skateboarding game takes riders from the neon streets of Tokyo to the dungeons of a European castle. In Evolution Skateboarding, players perform more than 70...

Burnout 2: Point of Impact

Racing, First-person view, Third-person view

October 11, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Metacritic: 88/100

An arcade racing game set on American roads, where dense traffic forms part of the challenge. Burnout 2: Point of Impact features point-to-point races and a...

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

October 11, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 66/100

A 3D platformer about Crash and Coco facing Dr. Cortex, who creates Crunch, a super-bandicoot capable of demolishing everything in his path. Cortex harnesses the...

Way of the Samurai

Action, Fighting, Slasher, Third-person view, Historical

October 11, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Metacritic: 74/100

Way of the Samurai — A fast-paced action-slasher game with a third-person view set in medieval Japan. The game's main focus is on the relationships between...

Sub Rebellion

October 12, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Metacritic: 71/100

This underwater action shooter is set in a post-apocalyptic world submerged beneath the ocean. The player commands a Hi-Tech Alliance nuclear submarine on a mission...

Bloodrayne

Action, Horror, Third-person view

October 15, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This third-person action horror game is set in the years between the World Wars. The dhampir BloodRayne serves as an agent of the Brimstone Society, a secret...

Red Faction 2

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction

October 15, 2002 → PlayStation 2; October 16, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 52/100

Metacritic: 75/100

A first-person shooter set on twenty-second-century Earth, where a squad of super-soldiers moves against the dictator Sopot. Five years after the rebellion on Mars...

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2002)

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Isometric, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, The Lord of the Rings

October 15, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 57/100

A fantasy role-playing game based on The Lord of the Rings, following the path taken by the Fellowship in the book. Players control Frodo, Aragorn, or Gandalf the...

Silent Scope 3

Action, Shooter, First-person view

October 15, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Metacritic: 61/100

A first-person shooter about a sniper trying to stop a terrorist organization from using cloning technology to dominate the world. The player advances through...

Wild Arms 3

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Puzzle, Turn-based

October 15, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 78/100

This role-playing game with turn-based combat and puzzles is set in the wasteland world of Filgaia, where fortune hunters known as Drifters roam the barren lands...

X-Men: Next Dimension

Action, Fighting, Third-person view

October 15, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Metacritic: 60/100

This fighting game follows the X-Men as they oppose a powerful enemy’s plan to rid the world of mutants. Players fight as one of 24 X-Men characters across...

NHL 2003

Hockey, Third-person view, Sports game

October 16, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 78/100

A hockey simulation in which the player controls a team on the ice and tries to score against the opposition. The control system allows manual dekes with the puck...

Disney Golf

Golf

October 16, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Metacritic: 72/100

This arcade golf game features Disney characters and six courses, with several modes to choose from: Match, Stroke, Skins and Best-Ball. A simple mode evens the...

Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land

Role-playing game, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based

October 17, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 70/100

This first-person fantasy RPG with turn-based combat is set in the kingdom of Duhan, devastated after a mysterious sphere of light appeared in the sky. Demonic...

Disaster Report

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Survival

October 18, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Metacritic: 66/100

This survival adventure with horror elements follows a newspaper reporter stranded on an island shaken by powerful aftershocks from a major earthquake. To escape...

Thing (2002)

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Survival

October 18, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 78/100

This third-person action horror game follows a military rescue team sent to Antarctica to investigate the mysterious deaths of an American scientific expedition. In...

Conflict Zone

Strategy, In real time, Isometric

October 19, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 53/100

A real-time strategy game about the conflict between the International Corps for Peace and GHOST, a secret organisation that instigates conflicts to serve its...

Lord of the Rings: Two Towers

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, The Lord of the Rings

October 21, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 81/100

An isometric action RPG based on the first two films in The Lord of the Rings trilogy follows the Fellowship as it battles Sauron’s forces. Enemies include Uruk-hai...

Contra: Shattered Soldier

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

October 22, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 78/100

This futuristic action shooter in the Contra series follows a string of missions where progress is challenged by large bosses, aggressive enemies and alien...

Defender (1981)

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future)

October 22, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 58/100

A futuristic arcade shooter about defending humanity from alien forces invading the galaxy. The player controls a defender of the planet and destroys the invaders...

Defender (2002)

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

October 22, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Metacritic: 67/100

This futuristic arcade shooter is set in space, where the player must defend the solar system and humanity from an alien invasion. In this 3D reimagining of...

Reign of Fire

Action, Shooter, Third-person view

October 22, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Metacritic: 55/100

A third-person action shooter about humans and dragons fighting for survival across scorched landscapes. Players can choose either side, with a separate storyline...

V-Rally 3

Racing, First-person view, Third-person view

October 22, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 80/100

V-Rally 3 — the game has the following modes: “Quick Race” (external damage only), “Career” (full damage) and “Challenge” (certain sets of shortened tracks...

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4

Third-person view, Sports game

October 23, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 90/100

A skateboarding sports game in which the player develops their skills and works toward becoming a professional. Career progression centers on completing 190 goals...

Critical Bullet: 7th Target

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Interactive movie

October 23, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Players: 5.5/10

Critical Bullet: 7th Target is a first-person adventure with a dash of interactive cinema from the developers at Capcom Co., Ltd.. The game is published by Capcom...

Sega Soccer Slam

Third-person view, Sports game, Football

October 24, 2002 → PlayStation 2; October 25, 2002 → PlayStation 2

Metacritic: 77/100

An offbeat soccer game featuring quirky characters from around the world, each with special powers and moves. Matches involve hard tackles and steals, while a...