Cheap Weekends - PS2 Classics Now Under £5

With game prices hitting the £70 mark in some cases, it's proving more and more difficult to pick a title up on your way home from work to have a laugh with over the weekend. But never fear, because good second hand game shops are here to help. So, if you're between games or just fancying a chilled weekend of classic favourites, here is a list of top PS2 games you can get from second hand shops for under a fiver.

Something Classic: 

Crash Banidcoot, The Wrath of a Cortex - ok, you caught me, it's around £8 second hand, but it's worth missing your morning coffee and saving those few coins for the chance to spend your weekend saving Wumba Island through some of the most memorable levels of PS2's impressive repertoire. 

Something Chilled:

The Sims Bustin Out is a good weekend game, purely because it's easy to spend a few hours moseying around the game but after that it gets a bit boring. There's certainly a lot more freedom than The Sims on PlayStation in that you can actually leave the house, and the rewards you unlock in the story mode are then available in the freeplay mode. However, it gets fairly repetitive so maybe not one if you're looking for story development over patient completion of quests. But it's only about £2, so that's a win.

A Bargain: 

Gun is one of my favourite PS2 games to have graced my many consoles. Set in the Wild West, this shooter consists of missions just easy enough to actually get somewhere in the game but still warrant several tries in certain places, making for excellently engaging gameplay. When you're not completing missions feel free to explore the landscapes and take up a day job as a cattle rancher - much more fun than it sounds. Think Red Dead Redemption but available to your for about a quid. 

Something Psychotic: 

The third person stealth game Manhunt will leave you questioning your moral integrity but not after hours of ducking and diving to complete a white-knuckle Rockstar hit. Famously surrounded in controversy after it's graphic executions, today you can pick it up for about £1.50 and test those fiddly controls for yourself... 

Something Funny: 

Destroy All Humans, despite it's potentially samey missions, flips the alien invasion genre on its oversized, grey head.  Presenting the protagonist as an alien on a pretty obvious mission, the game achieved critical success on its comedic value alone, so at £2.50 it's a good shout for some light-hearted Saturday morning gameplay. 

Something Scary:

Obviously it's Resident Evil 4 - arguably the pinnacle of Resi's success. We all know the terrifying laboratory creatures and the creepy villagers of the small town but what you might not know is that you can enjoy their lovely company for a fiver now. 

Something With A Great Soundtrack: 

I've always been an advocate of the SSX game, the best being Tricky (also available cheap now), but for a soundtrack to kickstart your weekend go for World Tour. With music from Billy Talent, Avenged Sevenfold, Def Leppard, Queens of the Stone Age, and OK Go. Tricks and manoeuvres feel really good when set against this tuneage, and the whole experience can be picked up for 10 minutes or marathoned until sleep deprivation kicks in. 

Something Destructive: 

If it's been a signficiantly stressful week, the urge to smash may be your primary concern in picking up a game. Burnout will give you the opportunity to plough into anything you see with immensely satisfying replays, all for £1. The gameplay is fun for a while but it's more of a 'see how many cars I can hit' for 5 minutes kind of game, which is telling seeing as the gameplay revolves around... not... hitting the cars... 

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