Hardware: Online Arena is a racing developed by SCE London Studio, released 7 November 2002 on PlayStation 2.
What Hardware: Online Arena is
Hardware: Online Arena is a racing game developed by SCE London Studio and released in 2002. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Hardware: Online Arena is an online multiplayer game that focuses on vehicular destruction using varying means such as missiles, lasers and machine guns. The game was released for PlayStation 2 with the launch of online play for the console and was possibly the first online game for PS2. The game was not a huge commercial success, selling very little. Later the game was added onto the network access disk that comes when you buy the network adaptor and during 2005 was one of the three most popular games played online having over 200 users on at any one time.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Hardware: Online Arena launched on 7 November 2002, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Metroid Fusion.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Metroid Fusion.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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