Entertainment/Gaming Consoles

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Originally posted by perth
so i finally picked up a ps2 with baldurs gate: dark alliance. that game is a blast, and my wife will actually play it with me, which is a bonus. i think im going to pick up gta3 in a week or two, and maybe tekken. does anyone know any decent baseball games for the ps2? i was always a fan of the world series baseball games, but that one is an xbox exclusive this year, and im not buying an xbox for one game.

~james

Look for All-Star Baseball 2003 (by, startlingly enough, Acclaim) or High Heat MLB 2003 (by 3DO). Approach MLB Slugfest 2003 as you would approach an angry rattlesnake, or a person in robes at the airport who wants to hand you some pamphlets and tell you about his religion.

Baldur's Gate is a good first-wave RPG. I'm in RPG overload at the moment; I finished Legaia 2 (mildly recommended), am halfway through Wild Arms 3 (more strongly recommended) and have Kingdom Hearts (on sale for $39.99 at CompUSA) and Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land (found used at FYE for $19.99, OLD OLD school crunchy goodness) on standby.

You can't lose with GTA3, and playing it before GTA: Vice is not a bad idea. The latter is playable without familiarity with the former, but you'll miss many nuances of the sequel without it.

Both Tekken Tag Tournament and Virtua Fighter 4 come cheap these days. I vastly prefer the latter, a fun-to-play-but-extremely-difficult-to-master triumph of game design, but Tekken's pick-it-up-and-play simplicity also has its charms.

Further suggestions provided upon request; name your genre.