As part of the 2024 Days Of Play promo, PlayStation is releasing a few “bonus” titles for their PS Plus Game Catalog and PS Plus Classics Catalog before the usual drop in the middle of each month. And in the bonus batch of releases are three PS2 games, playable on PS4 and PS5.
The three new PS2 games, to be added to the Classics Catalog, are:
- Tomb Raider Legend
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Sly Cooper & The Thievius Raccoonus
PlayStation has started to add PS1 and PSP games playable and purchasable on the PlayStation Store. These games are running on emulation, so they retain those crispy, relatively low resolution (they were perfectly fine back in the day) but with some quality of life features seen in most emulators like save states and rewinds. Those games, including many PS1 racing games by now-defunct first-party developers, are usually released as part of the Classics Catalog.
The three games here marks the first PS2 games to be available in the Classics Catalog, but they are not the first PS2 games emulated on a modern PlayStation. The port of the Jak & Daxter trilogy (Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Jak II and Jak 3) has been around for a long while as one of the first examples of PS2 ports on PS4.
As far as the three PS2 games to be made available on the Classics Catalog, they are all pretty neat.
Disney has been really supportive on bringing their catalog of LucasArts games and Disney Interactive games which makes Star Wars: The Clone Wars being here not much of a surprise.
Tomb Raider Legend is the first of two reboots Crystal Dynamics have made to the legendary action-adventure series. And this is the first game by Crystal D, taking over from longtime developers of the series Core Design.
And Sly Cooper is a PlayStation icon. Sly Cooper & The Thievius Raccoonus is the first PlayStation series Sucker Punch worked on, before moving on to Infamous and more recently Ghost Of Tsushima.
The three games will go live on June 6, and is also available in Southeast Asia.
The Days Of Play 2024 promo also includes discounts for games, digital and physical, as well as good deals for PS5 bundles and accessories.