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For all of you clueless adults out there: you must purchase a memory card or the kids can't save their games and have to start over from the very beginning, which can be tedious. My daughter played continuously for hours on end, sleepy-eyed even in the day or so following Christmas (before we purchased a memory card), simply because when she turned the game off, it would be lost forever. Save your children. Buy a memory card.
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the game was at a good price, but the game needed memory so i had to go out after xmas and buy a memory chip so the games could be saved/played. i wish some one would have told me or offered this chip with the game so the gift would have been nicer to recieve on xmas.
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bought this for my son. he wanted a wii but couldn't find one before Christmas. PS2 was his 2nd choice. system works great, no problems, arrived in perfect condition, and arrived in time for Christmas.
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I've played Xbox since it came out and 99% of 3rd person games on the Xbox have a roving camera, i.e., you can make a 360 degree sweep all around your characters.
I had always seen PS2 games that I thought would be great but they never released on Xbox, so, now with the prices of those games being low along with the lower price of the system, I thought I'd give PS2 a try.
So far, most of the games I've played on it have a fixed camera angle, which makes for an antiquated game play, akin to something you would have seen on and SNES. Even a lot of games on the Nintendo 64 had 360 degree cameras.
God of War which is supposedly the best game on the PS2 has this problem. I'm not saying that all games are like this; shadow of colossus has a rotating camera, but sometimes limited, I'm just saying that this didn't seem to be a priority for game designers of PS2 games. That's the way it looks when 1 out of 10 games is that way. I don't know if this is just the fault of the designers, or that the system is just easier for them to design these types of games. I played dozen of games on the Xbox before coming across a linear single path type game which was Lord of the Rings the Two Towers.
Maybe I was spoiled to a superior system, maybe I got lucky with the games selected for that system.
The PS2 seems to be taking several steps backwards. Hopefully the PS3 will offer more when I get one, but that won't be till the prices drop considerably... hmmm, what systems should I get next?
Ok, now that I've bashed it a little, let me say that it's ok, just now what I was expecting. You may not be bothered by this aspect of game play.
I don't really like having to pry the disc out of the tray, but that's not such a big deal. I was worried before getting it that it wouldn't have sufficient memory for saving games, being accustomed to the hard drive on the Xbox, but with 2 memory card it looks like I'll be able to save as much as I want provided I save economically and delete unused stuff.
It is small, so small that you want to be careful where you sit it, since you could accidentally yank it off a shelf with your controller.
I haven't had it a real long time, but it seems to crank right up with no disc read errors, I hope it continues to work well.
For the price, and the price of the games you can get for it, it's a decent enough system and a good value.
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I bought one the earlier versions of the slimline back in January 2005 (when it was $100) and have been impressed ever since. The most striking feature is just how tiny it is -- literally the size of a hardback, the controller almost took up as much room in the box. Newer versions (like this one) are even lighter, so Sony has truly slimmed down the design down from the original. Gone is the disc tray, replaced with a simple flip up top. Final Fantasy XI fans in particular will dislike the absence of the expansion bay, required for the game's HDD. My one dislike with its redesign are the controller ports are on the bottom of the front side, so the receiver from my PlayStation 2 Cordless Action Controller always props its up, unless I scoot it to the edge of a shelf or put it up on a book. These are minor flaws though, considering the price and the huge library available. Besides the above mentioned Final Fantasy, a few dozen PS1 games are incompatible with the PS2; still leaving basically any PS1 or 2 game you can think of to play on it (assuming you can find it).
This is still an amazing system, with great value, especially compared to the half grand or so you could spend on the PS3 and a game. It may pale in comparison to the technology on the current crop of next gen systems, but the fact that the PS2 has sold 120 million + consoles, and is backwards compatible to games from more than twelve years ago (when the Playstation was first released in the U.S. in September 1995), it can still hold its own with ease.
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