# The best PlayStation 2 games

The 25 PlayStation 2 games with the highest critic scores on Metacritic, the weighted average of professional reviews. Expansions and compilations left out.

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## Top 20

1. **Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released October 2001. Metascore: 97.
2. **Grand Theft Auto III** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released October 2001. Metascore: 97.
3. **Resident Evil 4 (2005)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released October 2005. Metascore: 96.
4. **Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released November 2001. Metascore: 96.
5. **Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released October 2004. Metascore: 95.
6. **Grand Theft Auto: Vice City** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released October 2002. Metascore: 95.
7. **Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released July 2001. Metascore: 95.
8. **Madden NFL 2003** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released August 2002. Metascore: 95.
9. **Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released October 2002. Metascore: 94.
10. **Devil May Cry** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released October 2001. Metascore: 94.
11. **Madden NFL 2002** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released August 2001. Metascore: 94.
12. **Madden NFL 2004** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released August 2003. Metascore: 94.
13. **Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released March 2006. Metascore: 94.
14. **NCAA Football 2004** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released July 2003. Metascore: 94.
15. **God of War (2005)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released March 2005. Metascore: 94.
16. **Virtua Fighter 4** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released March 2002. Metascore: 94.
17. **Burnout 3: Takedown** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released September 2004. Metascore: 93.
18. **God of War II** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released March 2007. Metascore: 93.
19. **SSX (2000)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released October 2000. Metascore: 93.
20. **SSX 3** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released October 2003. Metascore: 93.
21. **Okami** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released September 2006. Metascore: 93.
22. **Pro Evolution Soccer 2** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released March 2003. Metascore: 93.
23. **NFL 2K3** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released August 2002. Metascore: 93.
24. **Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released August 2003. Metascore: 93.
25. **World Soccer Winning Eleven 7 International** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released February 2004. Metascore: 93.
26. **Shadow of the Colossus** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Team Ico game (2005) in which you have to defeat sixteen colossi to bring a girl back to life.
27. **Final Fantasy X** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Square JRPG (2001), the first in the series with voices and full 3D graphics.

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