10 INCREDIBLE PS2 Games The World Has Forgotten

10. Full Spectrum Warrior

War simulators are an odd breed of game. Far from the bombastic attitudes of Call of Duty and Battlefield, most accurate sims are relegated to the PC.

That is until the late Pandemic gave us the third person shooter/point and click hybrid Full Spectrum Warrior way back in 2005. Granted, it'd hit Xbox a year before, but the delay wasn't too much of a detraction.

So why FSW? What made it great?

Quite simply, it was unique.

Not the concept of war or the US/Iraq invasion, but the actually style of game that was on offer.

There was real weight and tactic to what you had to put your fireteams through, as FSW delivered a fairly realistic experience.

Real-world military application and experience conveyed to help you understand the oppressive nature of a firefight, proving the gung-ho Rambo stereotype was very much an exaggeration.

Spread across a massive campaign, it was a hugely ambitious punt for Pandemic. It paid off though, as sequel Ten Hammers came about a year later (but wasn't as polished).

It was something fresh and engaging, given the subject matter, that we haven't much of in that kind of variation since.