What are the Easiest Games for the Playstation 2?

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I'm looking for feedback on the easiest games for playstation 2. My kids really can't handle the difficult ones (neither can I for that matter).

Their ages are 5 and 8 but they can handle more or less any subject matter from Disney to Doom and everything in between.

Their Favourites so far are;
Lego Star Wars 1 and 2
Lego Indiana Jones
Lego Batman
Star Wars Battlefields 1 and 2 (they just play instant action).

They also liked;
Dora the Explorer (beach one)
Stuart Little
Simpsons Hit and Run

We've tried other things like Kingdom Hearts, Rachet and Clank, Spyro and Jak but they've all gotten too difficult for them to finish.

Any ideas/suggestions?

Thanks.

KATAMARI DAMACY!! ! You'll all love it. It's easy to learn, relatively easy to master, and lots of fun. Your kids will chuckle for hours rolling up tacks, toys, animals, and buildings all rendered in a psychadelic polygonal-'cartoon' style.

ICO is a solid, but simple platformer (if you like platformers).

I might also suggest Incredible Hulk Ultimate Destruction. There is a level of finesse to the game, but it can still be played 'button mashing' style. Also, the free-roaming aspect takes a lot of pressure off of having to do things unless you want to.

Thanks ViperaAspis,

I looked up Katamari damacy but it appears that it was never available in Australia. Pity because it looks like a good game. The same seems to be true for ICO.

I have seen the Hulk game about though, so I'll look in on that.

Thanks.

They can't handle Kingdom Hearts?

Here's a tip, gbollard. Never let them anywhere near the Devil May Cry games, because a devil may cry, but your kids definitely will. And there will be smashed controllers in your future. Ditto with the God of War games. But then again, you shouldn't let your kids anywhere near these games anyway. And if they don't have the patience for grinding that Kingdom Hearts needs, then I wouldn't recommend any Final Fantasy games either.

Your kids, I have to say, gbollard, are worse than Tegan Jovanka!

Try Crash Bandicoot games.

I can't handle Kingdom Hearts!

I got a Nintendo Wii for my 40th Birthday last week plus two games.

I'm going to keep "The Force unleashed" but since I can't easily get past the second part of the first level of Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings (where you have to fly a plane with the wii stick) I'm going to have to take it back to the shops.

I can tolerate being stuck in a game for a while, but on the first level, it's not acceptable.

Katamari damcy controls can pretty tough since they use both control-sticks. Kids I know also got confused by what you could and couldn't pick up - it frustrated them. Plus the whole timed aspect isn't best suited for little kids (in my opinion).

Crash Bandicoot sounds like a good idea. Then I also know two kids (similar ages to yours) that play Ratchet and Clank and then this other game (can't recall the titles very well, sorry) that might be called Sly Cooper. They love those two games.
Also, they love the Lego Star Wars games. (:

Good luck!

I was 10 when I started playing Harvest Moon on the supernes..

Later on when I was about 14-15, I got Harvest Moon: Back to Nature for the playstation and I think there are some ps2 versions of harvest moon as well.

It's fairly easy, though quite repetitive, so I'm not sure if it'll hold their attention (I was completely obsessed with it and don't mind repetition)...

But anyway, the basic concept is this:
You're a young city boy who inherits a piece of land from his granddad.
So you move out to the country and it's up to you to make the farm successful again,
you do this by planting crops, watering and harvesting them. You also get to take care of chickens, sheep and cows, you can go fishing... and you get a horse to ride on your land with (I think you can take your horse to town in more recent versions).

Apart from taking care of the land and earning money to keep it up, you get to mingle with the people in town.
You can make friends with them and you can marry one of the girls there.
You also need to go to town to buy seeds, food, etc.

Depending on how well you do with socializing and taking care of your land, you can get different endings to the game, which makes it quite interesting (e.g. you can completely neglect the farm and have your parents be disappointed, you can be a pro and have everyone cheer you on etc.)


Violence is pretty much non-existent in this game.

You do need reading skills though, to play this game, so it might not be suitable for the little one just yet.

But like I said, you have to be able to handle repetition to be able to play this game.

You could check out "Crazy Frog Racer". It's one of my 5 year olds favourite game.

It is a Wipeout-clone with some mild cartoon-violence.

It might be a bit hard to beat the CPU at first but it is quite fun.

The only thing that's bad with it is the competition-angle which sometimes leads to tears siince none of the kids like to loose.

If anyone have any good tips on PS2/3 co-op games I would be glad to hear about them. (I really enjoyed playing LEGO Batman with my kids.)

Probably some good choices of kids games would be some of the games based off kids movies, such as Shrek, Finding Nemo and the Incredibles, they are usualy pretty easy.

Also the kids series of Buzz games are liked quite a bit by kids for being easy and able to play with others, my 8 year old brother often plays Jungles Buzz with my young relatives, and the Buzz controler can be easier to understand then the standard.

I thought that Kingdom Hearts 2 was easier than Kingdom Hearts. Maybe they can handle Kingdom Hearts 2.