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100 Best PSX Games

These are the 100 PSX games players recommend most. We surveyed players: 35,787 recommendations from people asking what to play on the original PlayStation, with every game they named counted. A pick hundreds of players backed beats one person's favourite.

Metal Gear Solid takes #1, named more often than any other PS1 game, with Final Fantasy VII a clear second. Cloud fans can take it up with Snake. He will be in a cardboard box.

The race for #3 is a photo finish. Resident Evil 2 was named a hair more often than Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, but more players backed the picks for Symphony, so Symphony takes #3.

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100. Syphon Filter 2 (2000)

Syphon Filter 2 gameplay on PlayStationSyphon Filter 2 box art

Syphon Filter 2 is a third-person shooter stealth video game developed by Eidetic and published by 989 Studios exclusively for PlayStation. Hours after the events of the first game, Gabriel Logan and Lian Xing are enemies of the state to the Agency after uncovering its connection to Syphon Filter, labelled as terrorists to the general public.

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99. The Need for Speed (1994)

The Need for Speed gameplay on PlayStationThe Need for Speed box art

Welcome to The Need For Speed racing game. Here you'll find spine-tingling action coupled with awesome graphics. As you race down an alpine road in your choice of eight high performance cars, you'll be amazed by the detail and realism. The sophisticated physics model recreates the feel of the cars themselves; you'll notice the difference in handling, breaking and just plain power. Plan your strategy for each track, there are six to choose from during regular play, and each demands a different style of driving.

There's also a bonus track if you win the Tournament. There are four game modes to try, with an option to compete against another driver over a modem. With different cars, different tracks, and different styles of racing fueling your need for speed, you'll find your addiction growing to a fewer pitch. No need to worry, when you crash and burn in the game, there's always another day.

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98. Wild 9 (1998)

Wild 9 gameplay on PlayStationWild 9 box art

Wild 9 is a 2D platformer with 3D graphics, featuring gameplay similar in vein to the company's Earthworm Jim games. Unique to the game is the The Rig, a weapon the protagonist wields. The Rig functions like an electronic lasso, capable of moving objects as well as carry around and smash enemies, which is often needed to solve puzzles and progress through the game's ten levels. A few stages focus on avoiding obstacles and taking on boss enemies.

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97. Driver (1999)

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The player is John Tanner, an undercover cop who try to take advantage of his own excellent driving skill in order to infiltrate a criminal organization.
In the storyline, the player has the chance to drive several cars in four american cities (Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York), facing many different missions and tasks such as delivering a vehicle without damaging it, eliminating competitors or being the getaway driver in a bank robbery.

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96. Driver 2 (2000)

Driver 2 gameplay on PlayStationDriver 2 box art

Driver 2: Back on the Streets is an open-world driving and action game developed by Reflections Interactive and published by Infogrames in 2000 for the PlayStation. It is the sequel to Driver and follows undercover cop Tanner and his partner Jones as they investigate a crime syndicate. The game introduces the ability for players to exit vehicles and explore environments on foot. Missions take place across four cities: Chicago, Havana, Las Vegas, and Rio de Janeiro. Gameplay combines story-driven objectives with free-roaming exploration.

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95. Fighting Force (1997)

Fighting Force gameplay on PlayStationFighting Force box art

Fighting Force players control one of four characters. They move through urban and science fiction environments, battling waves of oncoming enemies with weapons ranging from fists and bottles to knives, chairs and guns. The player can make some choices as to which territory to travel through.

The four characters have various reasons for taking on Dr. Zeng, a criminal mastermind with an army at his command. The action starts with a police cordon around Zeng's office skyscraper, moving to such locales as a shopping mall, subway and Coast Guard base before finally ending at the top of Zeng's island headquarters.

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94. Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999)

Grand Theft Auto 2 gameplay on PlayStationGrand Theft Auto 2 box art

The PSX port of Grand Theft Auto 2 is an open world action-adventure video game. It is the sequel to Grand Theft Auto, part of the Grand Theft Auto series. The open world design lets players freely roam Anywhere City, the setting of the game.

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93. Team Buddies (2000)

Team Buddies gameplay on PlayStationTeam Buddies box art

One fine and sunny day in the land that Buddies roam, there was a great and mighty disco in a tent. This tent would bob up and down with the music. All of a sudden, a large, flat, grey, flying THING blocked out the sun (The Great Eclipse) and began to drop crates. These crates were filled with all sorts of goodies such as Uzis and Bazookas. Inevitably, chaos broke out and the buddies became segregated according to color.

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92. Wipeout 3 (1999)

Wipeout 3 on PlayStation: box art and gameplay

The third release of Psygnosis's seminal anti-grav racing series, and also the first game from the series to remain exclusive to the PlayStation. Set in the "F7200 Anti-Gravity Racing League", players control anti-gravity racing craft to eliminate competitors and complete events across a futuristic urban metropolis.

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91. Silent Bomber (1999)

Silent Bomber gameplay on PlayStationSilent Bomber box art

Silent Bomber is an old school style game which takes place in the future. You play as a character named Jutah Fate, a genetically engineered man created by the government. You're an expert at using bombs. You start out being able to set only a few bombs at a time, but eventually you can increase the number by collecting E-Chips. It's a fast paced game of blowing things up before they blow you up.

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