It felt like a fun enough experiment at the time: buy the 2003 demo disk and give it a whirl for the sheer nostalgic joy of it. I get to do the weirdest little things in my line of work, and unearthing some of the best PS2 games and other oddities on eBay is one of them.
This particular collection of PS2 demos covers pretty diverse bases. The campy splash of Silent Hill 3 on the box art is what had initially compelled me to click "buy now", but the games listed in smaller print below that main image surprised me further. Burnout 2: Point of Impact, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, and Virtual Fighter 4 feel like an odd bunch of games to see grouped together, but that is the point of CDs like these, right? Accompanied by an extended developer diary for Enter the Matrix and a Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis trailer, this treasure trove of PS2 game demos held the most bizarre array of promises. Here's why it was well worth £10.
