When did Ape Escape 2 come out?

Ape Escape 2 was released on 18 July 2002 for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 2.

Ape Escape 2 (2002) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Ape Escape 2

Ape Escape 2 is the sequel to Ape Escape. In this platform game it's your goal to catch all the apes jumping, walking and flying around the diverse levels the game has to offer. A large arsenal of gadgets can…

78 18 July 2002

What Ape Escape 2 is

Ape Escape 2 is an adventure game developed by SCE Japan Studio and released in 2002. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Years after the meddling monkey Specter was first stopped, a young boy named Hikaru is left watching over the Professor's laboratory alongside his cousin and the Professor's granddaughter. A simple errand goes wrong when a batch of mind-controlling Monkey Helmets is accidentally scattered, and Specter seizes one to once again raise an army of monkeys bent on ruling the world. Armed with an arsenal of quirky gadgets and joined by a friendly baby monkey named Pipotchi, Hikaru sets off across a variety of worlds to recapture the escaped monkeys and foil Specter's plan.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Ape Escape series

Ape Escape 2 is the third of 16 entries we hold in the Ape Escape series. It arrived a year after Pipo Saru 2001. The next entry was Saru! Get You! 2: Ukki Ukki Disc in 2002. Its critic score of 78 is 31 points above the series average of 47. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

See all 16 Ape Escape games in release order →

How it was received

Ape Escape 2 holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Ape Escape 2 launched on 18 July 2002, within three weeks of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, Super Mario Sunshine and SoulCalibur II. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, Super Mario Sunshine, SoulCalibur II.

Cheats and codes

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