40 Cancelled PlayStation 2 Games - PS2 

Although the PS2 has over 2000 games in its library, I’m still annoyed that every one of these didn’t get released.

Just think, all of these games are stored on someones hard drive somewhere....

You forgot Skyrim. They're working on a port

That Game Of Death sure would made for an interesting release, especially if Charles Manson received a copy and gave out a review of it.

Wow many of these games look already great and finished. Its sad that they cancelled them.

Oh, this is gonna be interesting. Almost 50 minutes, 40 titles, the best console ever... I will go for the popcorn!

Every time I hear about what could have been with SG1A it breaks my heart. I've wanted an SG game like this for years.

In an age of Netflix and amazon studios and the like, I’m amazed none of the developers are remaking and such for indie download stores. Edit: Kickstarter. Forgot to mention Kickstarter

Wait! There was a Hokuto no Ken game that was cancelled and I didn't even know about it? What a shame.

Also the cancelled Twisted Metal black 2:harbor city as well,which they are alot of cut material from that,that still never made it into Twisted Metal Head on;Extra Twisted Edition

The ps2 was a beast, it’s library is unreal, still I’d liked to of seen quite a few of these make release, shame! Superb video!

It's not easy to keep people engaged for so long but you've smashed that mate!... We were gripped from the first minute. Awesome stuff

taxi driver game NEEDS to be done before de niro dies 😫

No "Escape from New York" That game was about 80% finished until the Dev pulled the plug. Think the game was set before his famous mission in NY and focus on his time as a criminal before capture I think.

Some amazing looking games there. Fantastic video!!

I watched the whole thing, thanks for sharing! ^^

Now I want to play Asylum... 😂

This must have taken a long time. Great video 👍🏼

Amazing video, good effort man 👍🏽

Another top notch quality video. Thank you.

This must have been a monster task to make Pete. Well done. I kept thinking I wanted to play some of these games :) Shame they never made it. Not a sg fan myself, but the game looks amazing and the concept of the star gate opens up a lot of cool gameplay options. Great video Pete. You're my scripted video example.

Wow that was a bloody brilliant episode dude! Totally agree on the Stargate game, it looked too good. Such a shame! Also that Fist of the North Star bit was toooooo funny! hahahaha Cheers!

33:00 Legions of Fear looks really interesting and one of the best games on the list. It's too bad so many interesting looking games never saw the light of day. Great video, by the way!!!

It’s crazy how vast the ps2 library is and still so many unreleased games, some of these look really interesting too great video pete

Absolutely my favorite series you do, Pete! I gotta say, a lot of these games looked really promising, dare I say even awesome? I would have liked to try the Ghostworld game. The animations look super smooth. Also the young punk me would have loved Johnny Whatever! Fantastic episode, keep up the hard work!

A 40 minute video showing 40 cancelled games of my favorite console? Sign me up for this! Great video as usual!

Nice video. Especially approve of the Ys music in the background. ;)

Great video. Would have liked that Stargate game :)

Superb video mate, really enjoyed it. I would’ve loved to see a Daredevil game.....but grinding lol

Awesome list Pete! :-)

I did not expect to hear Ys 3 PS2 music in the video, you are the man!

I was very excited that you covered the Taxi Driver game. I read some articles stating that the game was supposed to be an expansion to the events of the fim & some details like if Travis killed pedestrians it would affect his mental health & ultimately commit suicide. I also found the execution system to be interesting eventhough the executions looked very goofy & unrealistic. I spoke to some hardcore fans of the film about this game & some didn’t like it because they felt that the game didn’t translate the films plot very well & doesn’t feel very taxi driver like. I haven’t watched the film, only saw clips of it, but i found the game to be very entertaining. What do you think?

I was looking forward to Ice Nine as the concept sounded interesting. I remember a PSM article with a handful of screenshots from around 2003.

ps2,xbox,gamecube best gen ever..

Damn, Time Traveller looks particularly good! Almost like a PS2 version of Quantum Break. Shame it never came out. Great video, as always!

Great vid, really enjoyed it

Wild Justice and Game of Death both sound like games I would have loved.

Got my sub solely for being a Stargate fan alone. (Talking about how the gate works was the cherry on top)

Loved all the cancelled games vids u done. Least fav was the Wii one though

wow so many amazing games that we will never get to play , so guttering , fantastic episode as always pete

Agent 9 looks amazing! Graphically and great flow.

I feel like we didn’t hear enough about some of the other games as we did for ones such as the Stargate game. And wow, something like Deadlight on the PSP? That sounds absolutely awesome.

Today, prototypes of the PS2 Vectorman were leaked, which was more faithful to the original Sega Genesis before it had that Master Chief redesign.

Great video, very in depth, as usual. I specifically remember the Taxi Driver one. When I heard about it back then and saw a few screenshots, I was planning on buying it, just because it looked kinda horrible and I saw no way, how it possibly could do the movie justice. Then again, I thought the same thing about The Warriors game and that turned out to be great. Although the premise of the Warriors movie is much more like a video game to begin with.

I have the graphic novel on which The Four Horseman game was based, after it's initial collapse they tried to resurrect it on the Wii, PS3 and 360 but that didn't end well either.

great video, can't wait until you do cancelled xbox, xbox 360 and ps3 games!

Every time I hear "The game was canceled .." >, _

13:31 reminds me of the gameplay of Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter which actually came out for the PS2, Xbox and PC back in 2003

Oh fuck yeah, thanks man. This video is incredible

Amazing video

Holycrap I still remember the 4 horse man that looked so awesome.

Lol you using "jungle infiltration" from 007 nightfire as background music .. Nice ;)

Asylum looks really close to "painkiller" asylum stage. . .almost identical.

There are actually 3 Released PC Versions of "The Lost", each for a different market, each with a different name and each with a different main character. "Agni: Queen of Darkness" was, as mentioned in the video, the original Indian release. "Inferno: Where Death is your only Ally" was a East European release of the game and finally "NetherWorld: Beyond Time I Stand" is proper English release of the game, though I'm not sure in which markets that one was released.

Hey, awesome vid my friend! U have a new subscriber!!

You know you broke my heart with this video man this is so depressing all them good video games cancelled on the PS2 my favorite system

I've never been without a PS2.

would love to play several, nice video.

Great video. Kinda wish some of these came out when I was a teen.

Keep up the good work mate. Can you please now do either gamecube or wii or DS cancelled games because some of them fascinate me?

Funny how this came up on My front screen of RU-vid and the 1st of GTA topic. Awesome! Also where is the Metallica exclusive? I don't suppose it is on Napster...

Starting the list with that Tintin game was a good move. You hit the ground running with this one.

There A lot of cancelled License games for PS2

That Legions Of Fear game looked boring as shit but the outdoor section looked great. Dont think there was many games i would have paid money for tho, maybe just Fear & Respect, that Fist Of The North Star beat em up & possibly H2Overdrive, tho if only that arcade one got released on 360/PS3 that would've been amazing, hopefully one day thats playable on Teknoparrot or something. Great video as usual, especially for a console i never cared for lol.

Hi Pete mate, I really have to thank you for sharing the tip for the ps classic, and guess what, I got one. That makes 3 now, got it for £15:99 and free p&p. Sooooooo, thanks again for sharing. 😀👍👍👍 PS.......great ps2 video, excellent information and really well narrated. 😁

Skies of Arcadia... This was one of the BEST RPGs I played and was glad it came out on the gamecube. Shame that I found out that it never came to the PS2. Even more sadder was a friend of mine I told stories of this game, he passed away...

I can't say I ever watched Stargate SG1 but the footage you showed was undoubtedly impressive, which makes it all the stranger that it ended up being cancelled. As you say the set up for the show just fits a video game format, with infinite scope for level environments. Looks like it might've been something that could've challenged Halo for the PS2. Falcone sounded like an interesting idea but maybe one that was a generation too soon, I couldn't really see the PS2 being able to do all of the space combat and FPS pirate missions and still be a satisfying experience. Deadlight looked like an interesting one, offering something unique with its tweaks on the traditional FPS. It seems a lot of the others on the list might've been more generic PS2 titles, sticking more closely to what had already proved popular on the console. Hokuto No Ken looked great, definitely would've been nice to see that one although I'm guessing God Hand came close enough to scratching that particular itch. Still would've been nice to see though, especially with all the fan service included.

I would freaking love it when the Sony send me some cancelled games on PS2 But btw: I got a FAT PlayStation 2 for very long time ago since I was a kid

I need a petition starting to get Johnny What ever released NOW!!!! now thats my kind of game I think this has to be my favorite list of cancelled games, it looks like there was a lot of quality games we missed out on!

I'll never know why _StarGate_ doesn't get treated like, say, a _Batman Arkham_ game - it's a whole universe. Doesn't need to tied to any specific TV show, movie, or project; just make a video game _specific_ version of it all, that's got all the pillars people want from a _Stargate_ project. Someday, I hope someone attempts one again, and actually gets it done. Also, that story about JoWood and _Aquanox_ was CRAZY. I've heard of that game, but didn't know about why it was cancelled, or that they put in some bugs on purpose to buy themselves some more time to finish it. I've also heard of _GhostWorld_ by Z-Axis, but haven't heard of it in a few years - this is the first time I actually ever saw footage of it. Once again, you're killin' it with your research on these videos, buddy :) It's also just crazy to see stuff like _Deadlight_ in general, since *you just know* that kind of thing would've been made as an indie production nowadays. Heck, it's far more ambitious than most indie horror games nowadays, what with that whole "ecosystem of creatures" stuff and the vulnerability to different wavelengths of light - that is wild, original-ass stuff there! Some of these are real heart-breaking to hear about. I'm sure you've already heard of it, but in case you haven't, whenever you do another PS2 cancelled games video, you should look into _Silent Chaos._ It was going to be the sequel to an obscure PC adventure called _Dark Earth_ by French developer, Kalisto, who also did the _Nightmare Creatures_ games. What I found interesting about this is that Square picked it up for publishing, and they took special interest in it, going so far as to have Tetsuya Nomura redesign all the characters and the title took on an anime bent, visually. As far as I know, that's the only time they've ever thrown some of their Japanese talent at a western game.

I would personally love orchid because there aren't many games with female protagonists also I love namco games

I haven't heard of a couple of these! Nice video! We'd love to find some demo builds of these early games and play them over on our channel.

That knights game looks like so much fun, be cool if gorilla games made a release of it for modern systems.

Of all the canceled PlayStation 2 games in your video, I'm really disappointed that Hokuto No Ken: Legend of the Final Hero, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Project Dagger, Orchid, and Capcom Fighting All-Stars didn't get released. I'm surprised to even hear that the would-have-been HNK game was handled by a developer outside of Japan. If Fear and Respect, Taxi Driver, and Time Traveler at least got released, I probably would have given them a shot, too. Well, anyway, great video, and keep up the good work.

I was building up so much hype for Four Horsemen back in the day. And as a huge fan of the first 2, was crushed when Fear Effect: Inferno never came to be. As well as Legacy of Kain: Dark Prophecy.

I wish i could swap all of blast and phinix games for all of these awesome games

Project Dagger and Orchid looked pretty cool. The latter especially looks like my jam, really bums me out that it never got released.

Nice cancelled games series Maybe banned games / lost games next?

Game of death sound great

Those games look really nice, especially Aquanox, but at least we can enjoy Aquanox on PC

I came across a 2004 October issue of Tips and Tricks magazine i happen to still have and it showed Taxi Driver was set for a release date and I thought the game came out I just never found it and so weird this video came up and assured me I wasn't crazy.

never knew a stargate game was being made interesting

I remember really being really interested in 4 Horsemen from the GamePros I got, footage looks pretty decent, as well.

Excellent video. Is great to hear that you like Metallica's Master of Puppets and Hokuto no Ken. Are you into Rock/Metal or just a fan of that album?

There was Call of Cthulhu: At World's End game by HeadFirst Productions, and to be published by HIP Games before they went out of business. In retrospect, it's probably for the best that it was canceled, as there was very little cosmic horror going on in it, and WAY too much RE4 cheese.

Is the lost vigilante 8 sequel on this list?the sequel to vigilante 8:2nd offrnse? It would later get restarted though on xbox360 though as a remastered version now under the title vigilante 8:arcade.

If anyone got sad seeing that Hydro Thunder style game that got cancelled, if you haven't tried it, Riptide GP Renegade is a pretty awesome game very-much inspired by Hydro Thunder. It's a somewhat of a budget title, so it isn't going to be the second coming of the game, but it is good fun while it lasts. Also, please note that Riptide GP 2 is a horrible mobile port, where-as Riptide GP Renegade is a game designed FOR current-gen hardware, so make sure you get the right one...

Ice nine reminds me of black on ps2,and dead light it's like doom3 for x box very empress, some of the game's here look good

I love the cancelled series. I recall seeing one of them in Metal Gear Solid 3. It's a shame though. Ever thought about doing XBOX games or Wii games too?

Interesting games. Some definitely had promise. I think Fist of the North Star, Stargate SG-1 and Deadlands had the most promise. I also think Taxi Driver and Johnny Whatever would have been good for a laugh. The Vectorman reboot however would have been really disappointing.

Is it just me or is Knights just like a 'next gen' addition to the Speccy's Magic Knight games 😁

There where 6 games that I would picked up.That Tintin game and that Ape (James bond like) and platformer that got forgotten when guerrilla games took over looked promising to me.

Idk if anyone knows this but the dark knight was also supposed to have a game adaptation but was canceled the last minute

Now i wanna play half of this games

So many PS2 games that are unreleased for ages. Wow that's a lot. It's a shame it never got Capcom Fighting All Stars on the PS2, i mean it could have gone well with it cause i'm a big capcom fan myself..

Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee was planned for the PS2, but that version was cancelled and oh yeah, when that version was cancelled Baragon is scrapped and we wouldn't see a Godzilla PS2 game until Save the Earth in 2004 which is 2 years later.

This is one reason why i wont get rid of my PS2, the games it has already gives me those awesome gaming memories. I just dont feel the excitement as much with newer games.

Dam alot of theses games looked good it's too bad we won't ever get to play them wish they would finish them on PS4 just upgraded the graphics

100 bullets is one of the games i really wanted based off the comics. we got a trailer and that was it.

If you do more cancelled PS2 games, I hope you'll touch on Snake Plissken's First Escape as I would love to know the reason for its cancellation despite having John Carpenter, Kurt Russell and even Debra Hill involved with the game. I know it was supposed to be a prequel to Escape From New York.