7 Awesome Video Games You Weren't Ready For

3. ANY Online PS2 Game

If you were there at the beginning, you know how quasi-futuristic the idea of online gaming was on console, before Xbox Live smoothed the entire process out and took it to the mainstream.

Because before that, we had Sony trying their best with an optional network adapter, and scores of developers making online modes that would then be a headache to set up. All required you purchase the adapter, connect a physical ethernet cable by leading it back to your modem, and with internet speeds still crawling back then, it was a miracle if you could stay connected.

And yet, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 online was phenomenal. Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence letting you dupe other players with a cardboard box, then headshot them after they walk past, felt magical. Resident Evil Outbreak remains one of the only times an only Resident Evil worked whatsoever, and is still the perfect blueprint for a modern, online, story-based entry in the franchise, rather than the cheap-looking PVP likes of RE:Verse.

If Sony had waited until the infrastructure for online was in our homes and the desire to play these modes was set in stone, it would've been a whole other story.