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Sunday, August 9, 2009

Multitap 4 Player PS2 Games

Seventh Gen consoles have dedicated themselves to online-gaming and old school split-screen is gone even from most racing games. This is not bad because finding someone to play online with is really easier than finding someone that can actually come to your place in order to play with you. However recently my friends come along to visit (usually my cousins) and when we want to play some game, two of us have to watch the others play, and it's really annoying. That made me think that maybe I should buy a Multi-Tap for my good-old PS2. I did some searches on the web to find out what games support the multi-tap, and the results were not so nice. Usually people stated "PS2 doesn't have any good 4 Player games". However I gathered information about PS2 games that support Multi-Tap (Mostly from mobygames.com, but also from different forums and back cover of some games I already had) and then I compiled a list sorting them by their "Game Rankings" score (which is the average critic score) and the result was surprising! Not that PS2 has good 4 player games, but in fact it has lots of it. I had to censor most sports titles to prevent overcrowding and let the best game for each sport to stay on the list. So here's the TOP50 4-Player PS2 Game: (click on the game title to go to its gamespot main page or click on the score to read its review)

GAME Describtion SCORE
NCAA Football 2004 - 92.97
World Soccer Winning Eleven 7 International - 92.83
Madden NFL 2004 - 92.04
TimeSplitters 2 Deathmatch 91.55
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal Multiplayer 91.44
World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 International - 90.83
NBA Street Vol. 2 - 90.16
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 - 89.78
NHL 2002 - 88.96
NBA 2K2 - 88.89
Twisted Metal: Black Split-Screen 88.08
Dead or Alive 2 Hardcore Tag Battle 86.92
NASCAR Thunder 2004 - 86.72
WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain - 86.19
TimeSplitters: Future Perfect Deathmatch 86.05
Tekken Tag Tournament Tag Battle 85.54
Amplitude - 85.51
Champions of Norrath Co-operative 85.29
Frequency - 84.32
Freedom Fighters Competitive 84.08
TimeSplitters Competitive 83.93
Red Faction II Competitive 83.56
Def Jam: Fight for NY Competitive 83.51
ATV Offroad Fury Split-Screen 83.5
Quake III Revolution Competitive 83.01
Sega Sports Tennis Tennis 82.96
Pro Race Driver Split-Screen 82.85
Ratchet: Deadlocked Competitive 82.76
F1 2001 Split-Screen 82.37
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Co-operative 81.95
Gitaroo Man - 81.84
Need for Speed Underground 2 Split-Screen 81.37
X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse Co-operative 81.04
ATV Offroad Fury 2 Split-Screen 81.02
Culdcept Card Game 81
X-Men Legends Co-operative 81
Alien Hominid - 80.99
James Bond 007: NightFire Competitive 80.81
Def Jam Vendetta Competitive 80.3
MTV Music Generator 2 Cooperative 79.91
Mashed - 79.13
MVP 06 NCAA Baseball Competitive 78.32
Micro Machines V3 PS1 Game 78.04
The Simpsons: Hit & Run Cooperative 77.82
The Adventures of Cookie & Cream Cooperative 77.69
MotoGP 3 Competitive 77.63
Super Monkey Ball Deluxe Competitive 77.48
Unreal Tournament Competitive 77.02
Burnout Dominator No MultiTap 76.38
Champions: Return to Arms Competitive 76.38

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UPDATE: I have confirmed that "Need for Speed Underground 2" for PS2 DOES NOT have 4-player multitap support. I regret the error.

2 comments:

  1. a pretty nice list, thanks!
    mobygames now has a multitap list, but it can only be sorted by name, year and publisher. here: http://www.mobygames.com/attribute/sheet/attributeId,476/offset,0/p,7/so,1d/

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  2. should add Shrek Superslam (competitive) http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-2/shrek-superslam
    and Spongebob lights camera pants (co-op/competitive)http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-2/spongebob-squarepants-lights-camera-pants!

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