PS2 Classics Virtua Fighter 4, NFS on EU PlayStation Store

By Tom Phillips Published 22 February, 2012

Starhawk beta! Splinter Cell savings! Final Fantasy costumes!

Sony has released another batch of PS2 Classics on the EU PlayStation Store, including Need For Speed Most Wanted, Sonic Heroes and Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution.

PlayStation Plus subscribers can enjoy a trio of Splinter Cell titles for cheap, while all PS3 gamers get savings on L.A. Noire, Crysis 2, GTA4 and Burnout Paradise DLC.

Uncharted 3 players can download a new map pack for the game's multiplayer modes and Final Fantasy 13-2 owners can dress their characters in some new costumes.

Sony's update is separate to the huge list of PlayStation Vita content which went live yesterday.

The full list lies below, courtest of the EU PlayStation Blog.

PS3 Games

  • Just Dance 3 (£29.99/€39.99)
  • Smash 'N' Survive (£9.99/€12.99)
  • Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X 2 (£19.99/€29.99)
  • Dead Rising 2: Off the Record (£14.99/€19.99)
  • Might & Magic Clash of Heroes + DLC (£13.99/€17.99)
  • Quizball Goal! (£7.99/€9.99)
  • Motorstorm RC (£4.79/€5.99)

Demos

  • Starhawk Beta Trial
  • SSX Demo

PlayStation Plus - 50% off sale until 29th February 2012

  • Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
  • Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
  • Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Special Offers

  • L.A. Noire Rockstar Pass DLC Bundle (Was £8.99/€11.25 - Now £7.29/€8.99)
  • GTA IV Episodes Bundle DLC Bundle (Was £15.99/€19.99 - Now £10.99/€13.99)
  • Burnout Paradise DLC Bundle (Was £15.99/€19.99 - Now £11.99/€14.99) - Plus members get additional 20% off
  • Crysis 2 DLC - Decimation DLC Bundle (Was £7.99/€9.99 - Now £5.49/€6.99) - Plus members get additional 20% off
  • Crysis 2 DLC - Retaliation DLC Bundle (Was £7.99/€9.99 - Now £5.49/€6.99) - Plus members get additional 20% off
  • Half-Minute Hero (Was £11.99/€14.99 - Now £6.49/€7.99) - Plus members get additional 10% off
  • Harvest Moon Hero of Leaf Valley (Was £23.99/€29.99 - Now £11.99/€14.99) - Plus members get additional 10% off
  • Harvest Moon Innocent Life (Was £9.99/€12.99 - Now £5.19/€6.49) - Plus members get additional 10% off
  • Valhalla Knights (Was £9.99/€12.99 - Now £5.19/€6.49) - Plus members get additional 10% off
  • Valhalla Knights 2 (Was £11.99/€14.99 - Now £6.49/€7.99) - Plus members get additional 10% off
  • Valhalla Knights 2 Current Battle Stance (Was £15.99/€19.99 - Now £7.99/9.99) - Plus members get additional 10% off

PS3 Add-ons

  • Final Fantasy XIII-2 - Noel's Outfit: Spacetime Guardian (£1.59/€1.99), Serah's Outfit: Beachwear (£1.59/€1.99)
  • The King of Fighters XIII - Unlock Key (£5.49/€6.99)
  • NeverDead - Extension Pack Vol.01 (£3.19/€3.99)
  • Rock Band 3 - (Megadeth Pack 01 (£2.49/€3.99), (Includes the following content, also available separately), A Tout Le Monde (£0.99/€1.49), Public Enemy No. 1 (£0.99/€1.49), Symphony Of Destruction (£0.99/€1.49)
  • Rock Band Network - The Epic, Part 3.7 (Rbn Remix) - Bankai (£0.59/€0.79), Still Alive -Jonathan Coulton Ft. Sara Quin (£0.99/€1.49), My Frailty - After the Burial (£0.99/€1.49), Lethean Tears - Solution .45 (£0.59/€0.79), V Is For Vampire - Powerman 5000 (£0.99/€1.49)
  • Saints Row: The Third - Gangstas In Space (£4.49/€5.49)
  • Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 - Viewtiful Strange Pack (£3.19/€3.99)
  • Uncharted 3 - Flashback Map Pack (£6.49/€7.99)
  • Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - STAR TREK: The Original Series - Special Edition (£3.99/€4.99)
  • WWE 12 - The Miz's Awesome Attires (£0.59/€0.75), The Rock (£0.59/€0.75)

PS2 Classics

  • Need For Speed Most Wanted (£7.99/€9.99)
  • Hawk Superbike Racing (£5.49/€6.99)
  • Operation Air Assault (£5.49/€6.99)
  • Pacific Air Warriors II (£5.49/€6.99)
  • Raceway: Drag & Stock Racing (£3.99/€4.99)
  • Snowboard Racer 2 (£3.99/€4.99)
  • Sonic Heroes (£7.99/€9.99)
  • Steel Dragon Ex (£3.99/€4.99)
  • Truck Racing 2 (£3.99/€4.99)
  • Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution (£7.99/€9.99)
  • Peter Pan Return To Neverland (£7.99/€9.99)

minis (PS3/PSP)

  • Knight Fortix 2 (£2.49/€2.99)
  • Alien Havoc & Bubble Trubble Bundle (£3.39/€3.99)
  • Grip Games Triple Pack (£1.99/€2.49)
  • Freeshot Frenzy (£2.49/€2.99)

Price Drops

  • L.A. Noire (PS3) (Was £31.99/€39.99 - Now £23.99/€29.99)
  • L.A. Noire Complete Bundle (PS3) (Was £39.99/€49.99 - Now £31.99/€39.99)
  • Crazy Taxi (PS3) (Was £7.99/€9.99 - Now £6.49/€7.99)
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Comments (21) Latest comment 3 months ago

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  • sonicyoda #1 3 months ago

    If I remember correctly, Steel Dragon EX is a really cool little shmup. For £4 I might have to give it another go.
    Edited by sonicyoda at 22/02/12 @ 16:20

  • Zebula77 #2 3 months ago

    Where the hell is Jak & Daxter Trilogy? Hmf.

  • JawzPause #3 3 months ago

    Glad they are finally bringing in PS2 games.
    I'm hoping for Burnout 3: Takedown, Kingdom hearts, Okami and Final Fantasy 12.

  • sfp_noodle #4 3 months ago

    That PS2 "classics" list is looking more like "PS2 games that will never be re-released in HD and are shit" list. Virtua Fighter 4 is a top top game though. As mentioned, here's hoping some real classics are on the store soon.

    GTA Vice City has been rated as a PS3 release over at ESRB so chances are it will make an appearance of some sort eventually, either in HD or a normal classics download. Can't wait to play that again!

  • chaos_overlord #5 3 months ago

    @sfp_noodle Are you suggesting that God-Hand is shit? I may need to get my pimp hand out if that is the case. But in all seriousness I see what you mean but at least you got the option there rather than trying to get a PS2 off ebay.
    Edited by chaos_overlord at 22/02/12 @ 14:25

  • LiamIRL82 #6 3 months ago

    I literally jumped & squealed when I saw Virtua Fighter 4 - Evolution. Best. Fighter. Ever!!! Would have loved Jak & Daxter

  • patch #7 3 months ago

    Think Starhawk beta is now available to all, not just plus subscribers? It's well worth a download, even with just 2 maps.

  • Machetazo #8 3 months ago

    Good to see that they selected to rerelease the Evo version of VF4, rather than the original. I was somewhat aware of that game coming to PSN, but no clarity about which edition was available.

  • Alestes #9 3 months ago

    I would have bought Virtua Fighter 4 - Evolution instantly, if it isn't for the fact that Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown is released on PSN this summer.

    But maybe I give Steel Dragon Ex a try, been a while since I played a nice shoot'em up :-)

    @sfp_noodle, to me it looks more like a "PS2 games that the PS3 is powerful enough to emulate" list.
    Edited by Alestes at 22/02/12 @ 15:00

  • oi #10 3 months ago

    Are these PS2 games upscaled or what.

  • siro #11 3 months ago

    Need that Half Minute Hero half price on XBLA. :)

  • Ace-Reject #12 3 months ago

    There are only 3 games i've heard of on the Playstation 2 list, can't wait to try SSX though.

  • lucky_jim #13 3 months ago

    I hadn't played God Hand before last week, and it's absolutely superb. The PS2 games have been pretty crap so far though.

  • Santino #14 3 months ago

    VF4:Evo?!

    The wait for VF5:FS might actually be tolerable now!

  • fabio78 #15 3 months ago

    Forget about the old, guys... Motorstorm RC priced under a fiver is a steal, and nobody seems to give a fine fuck! The game has been having positive reviews everywhere, and after all the bad timing/luck that plagued MS Apocalypse, the guys at Evolution deserve better IMHO.

  • Tuffty #16 3 months ago

    VF4. Still, to this day, has the best tutorial mode in any fighting game ever.

  • vizzini #17 3 months ago

    For people like me who need access to a proper Virtua Fighter training mode it is like printing money for Sega and Sony releasing VF4 Evo on PSN.

    It took me all of 10secs from reading about it on EG to login in and make the purchase.

  • ilmaestro #18 3 months ago

    VF4 Evo! Somehow topping God Hand within a week.

  • vizzini #19 3 months ago

    After playing through VF4Evo's command input last night with Akira(a few run throughs), I suspect we'll be seeing a new Playstation 3 firmware today or tomorrow, as the PS2 emulation is to put it politely; broken. It suffers major slow down causing laggy inputs on multi hit combos and failed to recognise my arcade joystick PS buttons to even be able to access the XMB.

    I've still got a PS2 and physical copy of the game, and my old 60GB PS3 to use the PS2 copy with, and by comparison the digital PSN version on the slim is kicking the crap out of the slim's software emulator. It seems like it hasn't been tested correctly with the game. Every time I pressed a button it felt like a flood of assertion failures were silently being piped to the stderr stream.

  • JBlokeUK #20 3 months ago

    Burnout 3: Takedown next week please.

  • ZippyNL #21 3 months ago

    Weird that it took them so long to do this PS2 thing, and now they seem to be so prolific. Nothing for almost five years, then multiple games a week? I'm really not complaining, and will definitely purchase one or two (particularly if they do bring out Burnout 3 which would be boomshank), but why so late?

    Is it a technical reason? Seems unlikely that they've only just figured out how to accurately emulate their own system.
    Or a marketing reason? Like..err....no idea.

    Ah well, gift-horse-mouth-thing I suppose, keep them coming chaps.