A critical hit on the original PlayStation, the first Tenchu game, Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, put gamers in the role of Rikimaru or Ayame as they battle against corruption and a demonic sorcerer. So hand me a controller -no not the Mad Catz one, do I look like your little brother?- and lets co-op through 20 PS2 Games That Are Criminally Underrated.Īh, the Tenchu series, one of the greatest ninja video game franchises ever made. Regardless of your choice of super rare, Japanese import only puzzle/cooking sim that no one seems to know about, the twenty games below are undoubtedly some of the shiniest unplayed gems in the PlayStation 2 library. When it comes down to it, gamers will always think of their favorite little-known game as under-appreciated or unknown, and it will no doubt cause them to grind their teeth every time they read a list like this. I'll probably be too busy remembering the greatness of these games to take much notice really.

I'm sure that a title or two, probably your favorite, will not make the list and for that, you will threaten to make every subsequent day of my life a swirling vortex of misery and woe. This list is an attempt at the impossible trying to narrow down some of the most underrated games for the PlayStation 2 out of a list of almost 2000. There were so many games released for the PlayStation 2 that some of the best titles passed gamers by without them even catching a whiff that they were dedicating their time to lesser deserving games. Any genre imaginable was covered and then some.

The PlayStation 2 was one of the most successful consoles ever released and subsequently has one of the most expansive libraries of games for a console to date.

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