20 Best Adventure Games for PS2

Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven is an Action-Adventure, RPG and a 3rd person Shooter video game developed by 2k Czech and published by Gathering of Developers for PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2. The game is set in the fictitious city of Lost Heaven and features a Mafioso named as Tommy, as the protagonist who is a taxi driver by profession but accomplishes different missions assigned to him by Don Ennio Salieri. The protagonist drives vehicles, runs, walks on foot, and kills the targets in order to advance in the game by engaging in combats with the enemies. In close combats, the protagonist uses melee tactics and attacks the enemies with different melee weapons. Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven offers vivid graphics, an amazing storyline and a thrillingly addicting game-play. Trying this game will surely be one of your best choices.

True Crime: New York City is an Acton-Adventure, Open World, Third-person, and Single-player video game created by Luxoflux and published by Activision. The game revolves around the story of the protagonist who is a gangster and turned police officer named Marcus Reed. He receives a letter on the first night of his job of promotion to detective in a crime unit. The protagonist is the witness of his mentor’s death. You can get into the role of the character named Marcus Reed, and your ultimate task is to explore the game world, find the person who killed your beloved friend and brings him down the mole. The takes place in the fictional city called New York and offers an open environment where you can explore the world either on foot or by vehicle. You can explore the world from a third-person view and have to solve four main cases such as the Palermo Mob, the Shadow Tong, the Palermo Mob, and the Magdalena Cartel. Your hero can run, jump, drive, walk, swim, and can perform an acrobatic action. Use different weapons to slaughter foes and earn money to upgrade the features of the game. With superb sounds, detailed environments, and brilliant story, True Crime: New York City is the best game to play and enjoy.

Half-Life 2 is an Action-Adventure, First-person Shooter and Single-player video game published by developed by Valve Corporation for multiple platforms. It serves as the sequel to Half-Life released in 1998 and takes place some years after Half-life’s event. The story follows the protagonist named as Gordon Freeman, who finds himself in the world that has been taken over by the alien faction. The player assumes the role of the protagonist and his primary objective is to join the resistance force known as Alyx Vance and find a way to free humanity using a wide range of weapons including the gravity gun. Like it previous title, the game is single-player FPS divided into several chapters, casting the player in the role of Gordon Freeman. The player needs to navigate the environment from a first-person view and struggle to complete a variety of missions to earn points. The player receives experience points for kill enemies and can use them to unlock further features like weapons, upgrades, and power-ups. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

The Simpsons: Hit and Run is an Action-Adventure, Open World, Driving, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Radical Entertainment for multiple platforms. The game offers the similar gameplay to Grand Theft Auto series and based on an American animated series known as The Simpsons. It takes place in the stunning world of Springfield, and the story centers on the Simpson family who is the eyewitness various strange incidents including mysterious vans, security cameras, crop circles and more. When the family tries to uncover the secret behind the mystery, they discover lots of shocking facts and soon realize all these incidents that occur in their city is a part of the massive alien invasion. The game offers open world environment and introduces a variety of characters such as Marge, Homer, Apu, Lisa and more. Select your character and start exploring the world from a third-person perspective like GTA series. Your character is capable of running, walking, jumping, and can perform three different attacks such as a jumping kick, a normal kick, and a smashing move. You can manipulate the world either on foot or by vehicle. Accomplish a series of objectives and missions to prevent the alien attack and save your world to become the hero. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, and a superb story, The Simpsons: Hit and Run is the best game to play and enjoy.

Resident Evil 4 is a Horror-Survival video game for those players who love playing Horror-filled games. It combines the elements of Action, Shooter and Zombie developed and published by Capcom. The game supports Single-player mode only, and it is the 6th entry in the series of Resident Evil. The story focuses on the special agent of the US government named Leon S. Kennedy, who is a female and sent on an epic mission to save Ashley Graham, the daughter of US President who is kidnapped by a sinister cult. The game takes place in the rural area of Spain and casts you in the role of the protagonist and lets you fight against hordes of violent villagers. You explore the world from a third-person perspective and can use different weapons to slaughter foes. It centers on the action, shooting and massive crowds of foes in open-ended areas. There are several missions, and you have to complete each one to gain access to new weapons, by gathering enough experience points and use them to get upgrades. Resident Evil 4 includes key features such as Global Leaderboards, Customization Controls, Challenging Missions and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Scarface: The World Is Yours is an Action-Adventure, Open World, and Exploration video game with Shooting and fighting elements developed by Radical Entertainment for multiple platforms. The game casts the player in the role of the protagonist named as Tony Montana. The story revolves around the struggle of the character to regain the control of the drug trade of Miami, demolish brutally and against gangs, restore his reputation and become the King of the criminal underworld. The game offers the similar gameplay to GTA series and lets the player explore the environment from third-person perspective either on foot or by vehicle. There are four large regions which the player must take over to progress in the game such as North Beach, South Beach, Little Havana and Downtown. It has serval missions, and each mission requires a completion of certain tasks. Scarface: The World Is Yours offers prominent features such as Open Environment, highly detailed Graphics, Eight Reputation Levels, and more. Scarface: The World Is Yours is the brilliant game as compared to other games.

SOCOM: U.S. Navy Seals is a Tactical, First-person and Third-person Shooter video game created by Zipper Interactive and published by SCE. The game has both Single and Multiplayer modes, and available to play on PlayStation 2. It introduces up to twelve offline missions in single-player mode and enables the player to assume the role of the protagonist, a soldier, and his ultimate task is to take down enemies to rescue his world. In the beginning, the player controls a team of four soldiers called United States Navy SEALs into four regions including Congo, Alaska, Turkmenistan, etc. The player explores the environment from either a third-person perspective or a first-person perspective. To take down enemies, he uses a variety of weapons, melee combat, and stealth element. The game becomes challenging to play, as the player gains enough points and become the master. He can use his points to unlock further content like weapons, ammo, characters and more. SOCOM: U.S. Navy Seals includes prominent features such as Lead the army through air, sea, and land, a variety of Weapons, Challenging Missions (Offline and Online), Skill-based Combat, and more. Try it out.

Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance is a Hack and Slash plus Action-Role Playing Game by Snowblind Studios. It is wonderful game to play and enjoy, in this game you can customize your character with the help of experience points getting them by defeating the enemies. You can have maximum skills and abilities for you character by going through different levels of the game. After every four levels of the game, you are given some extra strength, wisdom and intelligence as well. baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance is set in the Forgotten Realms of Dungeon and Dragons world where it allows you to select your character from three main classes such as Humans, Dwarves and Elves, customize your character with the help of Experience Points collected via wining over the enemies, engage your self into epic Campaigns, Quests etc. use and develop your skills as you proceed in the game and enjoy an amazing Dungeons and Dragons type gameplay. With a brilliant game setting, enhanced game mechanics and visuals and a truly addictive gameplay, Baldur’s gate: Dark Alliance is a fantastic game to play and enjoy.

Gladius by “Lucas Art” is an Action-RPG and Tactical War based video game that lets you be a Gladiator and build a school where you can train individuals like you, take them to different battles and quests to earn fame and glory. With a unique combat system, a lot of characters and skills to choose between, a great action-packed gameplay and other cool things, Gladious is a great Action-RPG and Tactical video game to play and enjoy. Gladius offers a number of unique Hero and gladiator characters and allows you to choose between them, select the best skills and tactics in order to face your enemies and defeat them to embrace glory. The game also offers Multiplayer Co-Op mode that allows you to be part of teams of gladiators and play against enemy teams to defeat them and to earn experience points. With all the amazing characters, beautiful visuals and an addictive gameplay, Gladius is a fun Action-RPG to play and enjoy.

God of War is the first game in the God of War series and focuses on Combo-based Combat. The game combines the elements of Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash, Platform and Puzzle. It lets you control the protagonist named Kratos and jump into the game world where you must fight against evil forces to save your kingdom. God of War takes place in an ancient world populated by the Olympian gods, and other beings. The game offers six fictional locations to explore such as the Aegean Sea, the city of Athens, Desert of Lost Souls, Temple of Pandora, the land of underworld and more. According to the story, the protagonist serves the gods of Olympian. Kratos received a task from the goddess named Athena to kill Ares, the god of War, who tricked the protagonist into killing his beloved daughter and wife. The game embarks you on an adventure to take revenge from goddess to the murder of your wife and daughter. It has a series of missions you must complete at any cost. The primary weapons of the character are the blade and chaos a pair of blades fixed to the chain. With the best mechanics, addictive gameplay, brilliant mechanics, exciting story, God of War is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Yakuza is an Action-Adventure, Fighting, and Single-player video game developed by Sega. Throughout the course, the player takes on the role of a protagonist named Kazuma Kiryu, who is in jail for the crime, he has not committed. The game takes place in the city of Kamurocho, where the player controls the character from the third-person perspective.

The player can level-up the character’s attributes and increase his fighting skills to perform some actions which greatly damage his enemies. The player has to complete missions and side quests found around the city. The game has three modes Encounter Battles, Storyline Missions, and Battle Mode.

In the encounter battles, the player has to kill the foes randomly. Winning these battles will grant cash to the player, which he can use to purchase equipment or healing items. The Battle Mode includes an Underground Arena where the player has to complete specific actions or beat a certain character.

Okami, developed by Clover Studio, Ready at Dawn and Hexa Drive and published by Capcom is an Action-Adventure, RPG and Fantasy game released for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and Wii gaming platforms. The game thrives in the history of Japan and bases on many Japanese mythologies and legends. The story of the game tells us about a heavenly entity named Amaterasu who descends to earth and saves it from the darkness. It changes its appearance into a wolf and roams the land, kills all the hostile creatures and removes the dark spells and nourishes the land. Okami features an amazing game-play that resembles the one in Zelda, a super engaging and involving story, woodcut (Water color styled) 3D graphics and an open world. Having a close resemblance to Zelda this game is a wonderful piece of art and it will surely entertain you a lot.

The Matrix Path of Neo is a third marvelous spin-off from the series of The Matrix. It is an Action-Adventure, Fighting and Single-player video game created by Shiny Entertainment and published by Atari. The game offers an open environment and allows you get into the role of the series protagonist named Neo. The game offers you an opportunity to take part in various major action scenes in the movie. In the beginning, you can assume the role of the protagonist named as Thomas Anderson, who is a simple man and hasn’t any power. As the game progress, you will learn new techniques and skills and have to fight against antagonist named Agent Smith. Explore the world from a third-person perspective, fight against hordes of enemies using your super power and take down them to clear the level. Gain experience and use them to unlock further characters and features in the game to become the master. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, superb graphics, and wonderful sounds, The Matrix Path of Neo is the best game to play and enjoy.

Shadow of the Colossus, is another spectacular piece of art in the line of Action-Adventure and RPG gaming. This masterpiece is developed by Team Ico and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The story of the game features a young man named Wander who lost a girl named Mono and while searching for her, he enters the Land of Forbidden. Wander travels across the land on a horse and defeats sixteen humongous beings The Colossi, who actually are portrayed as his enemies. The protagonist fights against every Colossi after finding the beam of light and after defeating the Colossi, he restarts from the starting point. Every next Colossi emerges from a new lair and comes with new powers and battle tactics. If the Protagonist is defeated the game ends and starts from the beginning. With an open world, enhanced graphics and a great storyline that player is provided with, a third person gaming perspective and a single player gaming mode. Considering all the fantatic things in the game, Shadow of the Colossus is one amazing Action-Adventure and RPG video game to play and enjoy. You’ll definitely like it. “Shadow of the Colossus” is available to play on PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 only.

Total Overdose is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Perspective, and Single-player Shooter video game created by Deadline Games and published by SCi Games Ltd. Grand Theft Auto series inspires the game, and it is the first entry in the series of Total Overdose. The game takes place in the open environment known as Maya Jungle. According to the story, Ernesto Cruz, an undercover agent in DEA. DEA army attacks the military to stolen some information about Papa Muerte. After the attack and thrown Ernesto from the plane and is finished. The player can get into the role of the protagonist named Ramiro, most of the game the player control the Ramiro, while in starting two missions the player assists different characters such as Tommy and Ernesto Cruz. There is a variety of challenging missions filled with different objectives, and puzzles. The player uses third-person perspective to navigate the environment and can explore the world either on foot or by vehicles. Interact with NPCs to get missions and earn money when the mission accomplished. Use his money to buy vehicles, weapons, armors and more. With superb mechanics, open environment, and brilliant gameplay, Total Overdose is the best alternative to GTA.

Devil May Cry video game series is a story of a character named Dante whose ultimate goal is to avenge the murder of his mother by eliminating the demons. The protagonist goes through heavy combats with the devils hacking and slashing all the evil forces using his battling tactics and all the available resources like weapons, skills and objects. With a huge success, Devil May Cry sold multi million copies worldwide and recently the company rebooted the series with another blockbuster game DMC: Devil May Cry. Devil May Cry is co-developed by Capcom and Ninja Theory and published by Capcom for multiple platforms like Microsoft Windows, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and iOS. Do try this game out and enjoy the ultimate fun and thrill.

The Godfather is an Action-Adventure, Open World, Single and Multi-player video game created by EA Redwood Shores and published by Electronic Arts. The game takes place in the fictional New York City and focuses on the movie of the same name. It revolves around the character named Aldo Trapani who is a criminal, and his main goal is to create his gang and raise his rank through Corleone Family. The game is played from a third-person perspective. Control the character in the game world, interact with NPCs, navigate hurdles, drive various vehicles, and accomplish missions. Earn money and use them to unlock further content. There are different weapons to use such as a pistol, shotgun, 38 snub nose, a magnum, and a Tommy gun. It includes both manual aiming and lock-on systems. Explore the game world either on foot or by vehicle, fight against enemies using weapons, and enhance your rank by progressing in the game. Different Vehicles, Weapons, Open Environment, NPCs, etc. are the prominent features of the game. With the best mechanics, addictive gameplay, exciting story and smooth controls, The Godfather is the best game to play and enjoy.

Delta Force: Black Hawk Down is a First-person Shooter, Single and Multiplayer video game developed and published by NovaLogic. It is the sixth entry in the series of Delta Force and takes place in the historical world in the 1990s during the operation in Somalia to restore the peace. The challenging missions take place in the capital Mogadishu and Jubba Valley. It offers the similar gameplay to its previous entries and focuses on outdoor combat. You can take on the role of the protagonist who is a soldier of Task Force Ranger and lead three members such as Preacher, Mother, and Huck. Your main objective is to navigate the world, fight against brutal villains to restore the peace in Mogadishu and earn experience points to enhance your abilities. You can play alone in single-player mode or can play with over fifty players in multiplayer mode around the world simultaneously. The game centers on close quarters combat in open urban environments with heavy missions. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay and superb visuals, Delta Force: Black Hawk Down is the best game to play and enjoy.

The Sims 2: Castaway is an Adventure, and Single-player Life Simulation developed The Sims Division and published by Electronic Arts. It is the third spin-off of the Sims 2 game and offers the similar gameplay to The Sims Castaway Stories. The game takes place on the fictional Island, and the player creates a crew of exciting characters in the beginning. The crew contains one to six Sims characters. After the creation of the crew, a slideshow starts of mobile pictures that are showing the trip and the massive storm that wrecks the boat. After the shipwrecks, the player wakes up on an abundant Island where he finds books detailing the objectives that the player must follow to survive on the Island and find a way out to flee. The player will discover a new island during exploration named as Airplane Island, and this is larger and interesting than the first. The player can create shelters, craft items, interact with environments and objects to survive and complete his objectives. The Sims 2: Castaway offers prominent features such as Stay Alive, Craft everything, Collect Resources, Escape, Create a Crew and more. Try it out, and it’ll entertain you.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Shooter, and Single-player video game available to play on Cross Platform. The game takes place in the in the fictional vice city in Miami and offers an open world environment. The story revolves around the protagonist named as Tommy Vercetti, following his release from jail. It is the sixth installment in the series of Grand Theft Auto and the first main released since 2001. After the protagonist is caught up in a drug deal, he attempts to find out those responsible while creating a criminal empire and enhancing his power from other criminal organization. The game uses third-person perspective to navigate the environment and offers a variety of weapons and vehicles. The player can explore the world from third-person view either on foot or by vehicle. The objective of the player is to complete a set of missions to earn points and face off enemies using different weapons, melee attacks, explosives, and firearms. After making enough money, the player can purchase different properties, tools, and arms. With high-quality graphics, detailed environment, engaging gameplay, and a superb story, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is the best game to play and enjoy.