Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Online gaming the way it's supposed to be
What's not to like about this product? If you can find it, it costs only 40.00$ and it's worth every penny. It comes with a bulit in 56k modem jack for websurfers still in the stone age, and right next to that is a broadband ethernet jack. All three major consoles are online right now, The PS2 with this product (the PLaystation 2 network adapter), XBox with it's XBox live service, and Gamecube with it's modem peripherals. The gamecube only has 1 online game though, Phantasy Star Online, and it's very good. Xbox has a good service but it has a few catches in it that makes sony's online setup more likeable. First off, XBox live is a service, when you pick it up, it comes with a Headset to talk to other players, a few demos, and a year subscription to Live. If you wanna play after your first year, you have to pay another 50$ and you can only pay nd setup your account with your credit card. Also, it's Broadband only, meaning the majority of people who want to play games online (56k is still the majority of what people surf with) are left out with no other chance for online play on the XBox. The games for live are pretty decent, but none really stand out, the ones I'd recommend are Mechassault and Unreal Champuionship, don't listen to your friends, Ghost Recon is horrid. And you can talk to anyone you want to in any xbox live game, so that's cool. So why is Sony's online plan better? It caters to everybody with a PS2 and an ISP, You can play with your dialup service, or your broadband service. Setup is much easier also, screw this device into the expansion bay on the backside of your PS2 and then all you have to do is pop in the setup disc, with a few taps of the X button on your Dualshock controller and your done. As for games, well theres plenty of really good ones. If you bought this product then you might as wel get SOCOM too, it's the best online game on any console, Tony hawk 4 and Madden are great too.
Rating: - PS2 Network Adapter
For... this is definately worth it. It took me about 2 minutes to install and then i was playing madden 2003 online. I have a dial-up modem, but it didn't seem to make a difference and i was playing with perfect connection. There wasn't even the delay that i thought i was going to get, like with sega net and dreamcast. If you have the money and a game to play online, this is definately worth the money.
Rating: - Excellent but is it really worth it?
When I knew the Network Adapter was coming out, it was to late to preorder. So I went to local stores and found 2 copies @ CompUSA. While the price was $$$ because they knew they'd sell @ that, I still got both. Once I got it, I sent in the register card, and finally got my Twisted Metal: Black Online last week (roughly six weeks). I have that game, Socom, Tony Hawk 3, that support WWW net play. The thing is great, but what games are coming out that really offer what I was looking for? I wanted Timesplitters 2 to support net, but only supports Lan or I-Link games. I was real disappointed w/ TS2 because of that. Whats the future for this, when it's sold out just about everywhere and not to many good net play games are coming out till next year. Well once you get it, you may be from the selected few that play and test beta games. Right now I'm playing Everquest Online for free, the game has yet to come out (Feb 2003), but this is a nice catch and something new to me on the console system. I think once Sony makes enough so it becomes popular and keeping it free based, it'll do well. Not to mention only 1/10th of PS2 owners will be able to get there hands on one of these this year alone. It's worth $$$ but not $$$ if you find it in a store.
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