There were a number of great games for the PS2 in 2006 despite developers’ eagerness to jump on the next-gen bandwagon, including especially Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, which improved on 2004’s fantastic MGS3 by adding a ridiculous variety of new gameplay modes and bonus content all for $29.99, and Activision’s Guitar Hero II.
When you see people playing GHII in Best Buy it’s hard not to scoff, but take it home and see if you don’t play until your fingers bleed. In the end, however, there can be only one, and our pick for PS2 Game of the Year is Final Fantasy XII from the excellent folks at Square Enix. There’s a truckload of console RPGs out there to choose from, and the bulk of them are pretty forgettable, but if you are a fan (or even if you’ve never played an RPG) you owe it to yourself to play FFXII.
Don’t miss this games: Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence
