# Help Me Remember This PS2 Game **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 12, 2009, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-this-ps2-game/502743 "2009-07-12T06:32:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hobscrk777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a6a055/32.png) [@hobscrk777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hobscrk777)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-this-ps2-game/502743/1 "2009-07-12T06:32:12Z")
I know that all you regular dopers excel at this sort of trivia, so I’ve come to you for aid. I think it was released sometime between 2003 and 2005. The basic idea was that you were piloting some kind of robot, somewhat humanoid in appearance (i.e. bipedal, two arm-like appendages) but with a very pronounced, angular, metallic look. Your goal was to destroy other similar-looking robots. I seem to remember that you could lock onto these enemies and fire missiles, lasers, etc. Unfortunately, this is all I can remember right now. It’s a game that some of my old friends and I used to play, and I just remembered that it even existed. I went through the list of PS2 games (organized by release date) on GameSpot, but didn’t see anything that set off any bells. ---
**Author:** ![Erasmus\_Darwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@Erasmus\_Darwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erasmus_Darwin)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-this-ps2-game/502743/2 "2009-07-12T15:30:49Z")
Could it have been part of the “Armored Core” series? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-this-ps2-game/502743/3 "2009-07-12T15:46:58Z")
You’ve basically just described the entire “giant mecha” genre so it could have been any number of games. Some of them include… Armored Core 2 Armored Core 2: Another Age Armored Core 3 Armored Core: Formula Front Armored Core: Nine Breaker Armored Core: Last Raven Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Never Ending Tomorrow (and 4 or 5 other sequels) Zone of the Enders Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner Robot Alchemical Drive Battle Engine Aquila Gungriffon Blaze Robotech: Battlecry SLAI Phantom Crash ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-this-ps2-game/502743/4 "2009-07-12T15:48:13Z")
The Gundam series of games are kind of like that. Here’s a list of the PS2 ones: > **[List of Gundam video games | PlayStation 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gundam_video_games#PlayStation_2)** > > 1.Mobile Suit Gundam: Gihren's Ambition | > 2.Giren no Yabou: Zeon Dokuritsu Sensouden - Kouryaku Shireisho | > 3.Mobile Suit Gundam: Journey to Jaburo | > 4.Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeonic Front | > 5.Mobile Suit Gundam: Lost War Chronicles | > 6.Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space | > 7.Mobile Suit Gundam: The One Year War | > 8.Mobile Suit Gundam: Climax U.C. | > 9.SD Gundam G Generation Neo | > 10.SD Gundam G Generation SEED | > 11.SD Gundam G Generation Spirits | > 12.SD Gundam G Generation Wars | > 13.M... ---
**Author:** ![hobscrk777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a6a055/32.png) [@hobscrk777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hobscrk777)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-this-ps2-game/502743/5 "2009-07-12T19:06:23Z")
Zone of the Enders it is (released a little earlier than I thought)! Thanks **Justin\_Bailey**!