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Constantine for PlayStation 2
Constantine for PlayStation 2 is a third-person action game based on the 2005 film. As occult investigator John Constantine, you fight demons trying to break through the boundary between Earth and Hell. The story follows familiar locations and characters from the film, but adds its own areas and confrontations. You investigate buildings in Los Angeles and travel through gateways to a scorched infernal counterpart.
Constantine uses firearms, holy ammunition and spells against different demonic enemies. Some creatures are vulnerable only after a specific action or with the right tool. You search for keys, activate mechanisms and collect objects while fixed camera angles and dark corridors guide the route. Short puzzles and searches interrupt the gunfights, and in Hell the same locations change into more dangerous versions.
This is a single-player game without local or online multiplayer. The PS2 version uses a DualShock 2 and stores progress on a memory card. The game does not retell every scene from the film exactly; the additional battles and areas are part of this separate adaptation. This page concerns the full game on disc, not a film DVD, demo or manual.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 2 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Constantine for PlayStation 2 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Constantine
Bits Studios developed Constantine and THQ released it for PlayStation 2 and Xbox in early 2005. The release coincided with the theatrical film starring Keanu Reeves. Warner Bros. and DC supplied the source material around the supernatural detective, while the developer built a playable action adventure that expanded the film story with additional assignments and enemies. The European console releases appeared during the same period as the North American version.
The game chose a combination of third-person gunfights, simple puzzles and transitions between the ordinary world and Hell. This allowed familiar locations to be used in two forms. Weapons and incantations gave combat an occult character that suits Constantine. Film footage and original cutscenes connected the levels without making the production a literal interactive copy of the film.
Bits Studios had previously made several licensed games and closed a few years after Constantine. The game received no direct series of sequels. Comic character John Constantine later appeared again in other media and games, but those versions are not part of this PS2 disc. This release remains a standalone 2005 film adaptation with its own level structure, controls and collected spells.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
Van Helsing is also based on a supernatural action film and has the hero fight monsters with firearms and tools. The pace is faster and combat uses more acrobatics. Constantine is darker, has you investigate locations and links weapons to incantations and journeys into Hell. Its tension therefore comes more often from the environment and searching.
Chaos Bleeds combines demon hunting with puzzles, but mainly uses hand-to-hand combat and alternates between several playable characters. Constantine follows one investigator and relies more strongly on firearms and spells. Buffy has local multiplayer; Constantine remains fully focused on the solo campaign.
Ghost Rider also uses a dark comic-book world and demons, but plays as a fast hack-and-slash with chain attacks and motorcycle races. Constantine moves more slowly through corridors and rooms and involves more searching and shooting. The shared supernatural atmosphere therefore leads to very different combat.
A Fistful of Boomstick has Ash fight the undead with firearms, a chainsaw and magic in larger areas. Constantine also uses shooting and occult tools, but follows a more cinematic fixed path between Earth and Hell. Evil Dead chooses black humor; Constantine a more serious horror atmosphere.
The Mummy Returns also adapts a film into a linear action adventure with supernatural enemies and puzzles. Its emphasis is on hand-to-hand combat and platforming. Constantine uses modern firearms, incantations and double versions of locations, placing the game closer to a horror shooter.
