The best stories in games on the open world of PS2

Summary

• Era PS2 introduced improved hardware for open world games, allowing more detailed characters and absorbing narration.

• Bully, Shadow of the Colossus and Grand Theft Auto 3 are the main examples of the impact of PS2 on telling an open world.

• Yakuza on PS2 laid the foundation for the famous franchise with an engaging narrative and an impressive world structure.

The games of the open world were on the rise during the fifth generation of consoles, with several key titles released on PS1 and N64. But that would require the raw strength of the next generation hardware, specifically PlayStation 2, to explode the genre and become the mammoth force that is today. Thanks to the improved hardware offered by PS2, the console games were able to make huge jumps from the previous generation and the way they could tell stories was in the foreground.

The ability to contain more detailed characters and hours of high quality voice and music, as well as extremely improved 3D assets, allowed developers to tell the stories of various species. Whether it was an epic blockbuster with the fate of the universe on the line or a smaller, more intimate story, the games of the open world of this era were able to benefit from what PS2 could offer. These games were included on their writing, characters and world design because all these three combined amazingly.

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Tyrant

A small but very detailed open world tells the story of Jimmy Hopkinsa

Rockstar Games is not a strange controversy because it has been involved in discussions surrounding video games violence for decades. It is safe to say that few PS2 games generated as many preliminary controversies as TyrantA game that was considered to be a celebrating violence and encouraging bad behavior among youth. But once Tyrant He was released in October 2006, it was clear that it wasn't what someone thought.

Instead of encouraging violence and harassment, Tyrant It was a story about how to stand up for undervalued in society because Jimmy Hopkins finds herself on Wednesday's drama at Bullworth Academy. It is equipped with a great script and an excellent voice acting and lending the trifle of the open world Bullworth, which is not nearly as big as another Rockstar effort. Small scale Bully's In fact, the open world contributes to the experience, because getting to know the school and its surroundings is quite simple, so the whole experience feels much more natural.

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Shadow

Browse the forbidden countries to save a loved one

After completion ICOFumito Ueda joined his team back together and tried to create a new experience that took influence Legend Zelda And classic Monster films. The result was ShadowA scary story about how far one could save someone they loved. Set in the sparse world known as a forbidden country, Shadow He is the story of a young man named Wander, who finds himself in a conflict with huge animals to save a woman named Mono.

Exactly who is Mono and her relationship with Wander is left for interpretation, but that's exactly what the narration makes Shadow So amazing. It is a story based on feelings, emotions and unspoken horror, because Wander's attempts to save Mono eventually resulted in the death of innocent creatures. Colossi does not hold any resentment of wandering and are not outside to hurt anyone, eventually placed players in an extremely embarrassing situation during the game. Shadow It is still one of the most influencing, visually different games of all time, and BluePoint Studios has been greatly redesigned in 2018.

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Grand Theft Auto 3

Satirical thriller crime broke the new land on PS2

The first two games in Rockstar's Open-world Crime Saga were quite easy for the story, most of which came from phone calls and text on screen, but with shift from 2D to 3D, Grand Theft Auto 3 took the series in a bold new direction. One of the best parts Gta 3 He is his story, a convincing story of a crime of a man named Claude, who is liberated from prison and almost immediately becomes entangled with all bad people.

As it rises, Claude's story begins to move around him when multiple players are introduced, and find that he will betray on more than one occasion. Gain a clear influence from the most famous gangster films, Grand Theft Auto 3 It professionally combines its open world with a fixed script and some of the excellent voice actors that represent like Joe Pantoliano, Debi Mazar and Kyle Maclachlan. Gta 3 It is still one of the most influential games of its generation and today it is worth seeing again.

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Yakuza

The debut of one of the most famous franchises in the field

These days As a dragon Franchise is one of the most popular on the market, but it was not always the case. First released in the US as Yakuza For PS2 this game with an open world began with the ongoing saga Kazuma Kiryu, a soft spoken riot, who is one of the best protagonists of the game.

Kiryu's journey through the criminal underworld, known as the dragon, is one of the most respected and best written stories on the console. Browsing the open world of Kamurocho became one of the franchise clips, but had a modest beginnings back to PS2, because Kiryu's legacy was reinforced by this incredible flat rate in the open world. In 2016 it was redesigned as Yakuza kiwamiBut the original PS2 game still holds for its writing, fine voice acting and an excellent world structure.

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Ultimate Spider-Man

A convincing narration of superhero mixed with addictive design in an open world

The long history of Spider-Man with video games began in the 1880s. But it is safe to say that his exploits of video games really began to come on their own at the end of 90. Ultimate Spider-Man.

Based on a comic book with the same name, Ultimate Spider-Man She is a fast superhero ROMP, who feels closest to the source material that fans would get until Insomniac's work with the character. Representing neat comic books, cutscenes, Ultimate Spider-Man It perfectly equals humor, melodrama and action, a characteristic feature of the superhero genre that is flawlessly treating. The world itself is also an absolute pleasure, the feeling that a comic book comes alive with a suitable artistic style in the shadow of cells.

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Escape

An engaging story of revenge influenced by British gangster films

Drawing from movies like Italian work and Snippet, Escape It was built to take full advantage of PlayStation 2 and create a real interactive gangster film. Set in the heart of London, Escape He is the story of a man named Mark Hammond, who is forced to work with the ominous crowd boss named Charlie Jolson to return his kidnapped son back. Meanwhile, a parallel story involving a detective named Frank Carter is developing.

Using the most modern technology of capturing movement and scanning of the face, Escape Provide a ton of efforts to restore fine human expressions and the result was spectacular. The dual stories of Mark and Frank are excellent because incredible voice acting and facial animation are going for a long way to seem realistic. Escape He is one of the most challenging, most demanding PS2 experiences and would lead well with some kind of PS5.

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

The iconic PS2 game tells the story of friendship and betrayal

After two massively successful Grand Theft Auto Over the years, Rockstar has decided to make a little time for the next installment and poured all its efforts into what would happen one of the most legendary editions of the console. WITH Grand Theft Auto: San AndreasRockstar focuses on the story of CJ, a young man who returns home to Los Santos after her mother's death and becomes caught in a complicated story of corruption and betrayal.

Exploring topics such as police violence and family, San Andreas He took a strong influence from fiction and real life as he joined the rap films of the 90's gangsters. Years and events that inspired them. The CJ journey brings him to conflict with the cop named Tenpenny, expressed by the magnificent Samuel L. Jackson, and also by fraud from his own family. Dialogue and performances are first -class, and this incredible masterpiece in the open world is currently available on modern hardware thanks to recent remasters for PlayStation, Xbox, Switch and PC.