Even after the PlayStation 3 was released, PS2 games and consoles continued to be manufactured until The PS2 also included online support for many games, although that has now been discontinued for several years. However, just like with the Nintendo Wii , people have worked hard to find their ways around servers being shut down, and the result is a method that allows you to still play PlayStation 2 games online even today.
All things considered, the third-party servers for many games remained popular for years; in fact, the last online server for a PS2 game to shut down was Final Fantasy XI on March 31st The fact that these games continued to be played for years and years means that some people would still itch to play them even after servers were shut down; and it turns out that you can do just that, with a little workaround.
Xlink Kai is a gaming network that seeks to build a comfortable community of gamers by providing online support for games and consoles that have long been left behind; GameCube, PSP, Xbox and much more all can have some online capabilities restored through Xlink Kai. It began as a passion project in as a way of improving the quality of play from third-party servers and to build a network that was free of toxicity. Today, there are over 2 million users who have signed up with Xlink Kai, with hundreds of users coming on per day.
As such, they are the go-to site to figuring out how to smoothly get your PS2 running online play again. Unlike setting up Wiimmfi for the Nintendo Wii, Xlink will be a much more demanding process, with more steps and more hardware requirements than a simple SD card.
Not every game that had online play originally is still playable via Xlink Kai; popular games such as Final Fantasy XI only have fan servers on the PC and are not playable on PlayStation 2 anymore.
We often recommend media and products we like. If you buy anything through links on our site, we may earn a commission. Not every game needs online multiplayer, of course, but these days it feels like a game that lacks multiplayer is an anomaly. Many people think the Dreamcast or Xbox were first to bring online multiplayer to gaming consoles, but the PlayStation 2 was right there with them as a pioneer of online gaming! It might have been seen as a more limited platform, but the PlayStation 2 had plenty of great online multiplayer games.
Some of them you can still play now with a little software trickery. Related: How to play multiplayer PS2 games online. The fact that Square Enix kept it going for that long speaks to both its popularity and quality.
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Before its release, many gaming magazines remember those? But it did have a pretty fun single-player campaign and some quality online FPS gameplay for up to 16 players, which was a slightly big deal for a PS2 game at the time. Related: The best gaming magazine subscriptions today. Resident Evil Outbreak did things that later games like Left 4 Dead would eventually do, but long before they came to be.
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