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EyeToy: Play Sports for PlayStation 2
EyeToy: Play Sports for PlayStation 2 brings together 101 short camera activities based on sport. The EyeToy USB camera shows you on screen and lets you respond with your hands, arms and upper body. The collection starts from familiar sports but varies them with quick tests of timing, aim and reactions. There are no button combinations to learn: the camera measures where and when you move. A regular controller is mainly needed for the menus.
The activities are designed for short score attempts and local group play. Participants can compare performances without an online connection, while the different events demand other movements and speeds. Because of the large number of variations, the disc changes task more often than EyeToy games following one sport or story. Its presentation keeps rounds light and direct, so a group can easily rotate participants and replay the same trial to improve a score.
Place the camera securely above or below the television, provide even lighting and keep your head, arms and upper body visible. Clear enough space around the player before making wide or quick movements. A compatible EyeToy USB camera for PlayStation 2 is required. This product page describes the game disc and does not guarantee that a separate camera is supplied. The 101 activities and multiplayer functions run locally on the console; no current online service is promised.
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
EyeToy: Play Sports 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 EyeToy: Play Sports
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe released EyeToy: Play Sports for PlayStation 2 in November 2006. London Studio developed it as a later expansion of the Play series, after the first three entries had introduced the camera and steadily expanded group play. Sports chose one clear theme and divided it across 101 activities, substantially more separate trials than the earlier entries.
The collection appeared after PlayStation 2 had already explored several EyeToy directions: dance in Groove, fitness in Kinetic, a continuous hoverboard game in AntiGrav and espionage in SpyToy. Play Sports returned to short challenges but used sport as a shared foundation. The disc could therefore offer many movement variations without building a long campaign or complicated character controls.
EyeToy: Play Sports remained a local camera game. Players saw themselves among the graphics and performed actions through visible movement, the same technical foundation established by EyeToy: Play in 2003. Later systems with other cameras and motion controllers are not part of this PS2 version. This release preserves the later, extensive party side of EyeToy: many short trials for scores and shared play in one living room.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
EyeToy: Play introduces the camera with twelve varied games such as Kung Foo, Beat Freak and Wishi Washi. Play Sports keeps one sports theme and expands the total to 101 activities. The first entry is a more compact technical introduction; Sports offers many more short score variations for players who mainly want physical competitions.
EyeToy: Play 2 combines twelve main games with about seventy-five bonus variations, Cameo and SpyToy. Play Sports leaves those technical extras aside and arranges 101 activities around sport. Both focus on short local turns, but Play 2 alternates sport with music and DIY while Sports remains more thematically consistent.
EyeToy: Play 3 offers more than fifty activities and can track four participants at once in selected events. With 101 trials, Play Sports has more separate sports variations, but not every event uses the same simultaneous group setup. Play 3 places more emphasis on party rules and roles; Sports on quick competitions and scores within one theme.
EyeToy: Kinetic structures camera movement as a recurring training programme with planned exercises. Play Sports uses physical exertion for light score competitions and group rounds. Kinetic follows training over a longer period; Sports lets players freely switch among 101 short sports activities without a personal fitness plan.
Athens 2004 uses the regular DualShock 2 for official athletics events, countries and stadium presentation. EyeToy: Play Sports reads body movement through the camera and treats sport as a broad collection of short trials. Athens simulates Olympic disciplines with buttons; Play Sports chooses direct physical gestures and a more informal party structure.
