I played one an just no.
Well, the isp I work for is owned by a vedio store. So I get free movie rentals and all that(so if you ever want to know what a good movie on vedio is just ask) but any way's I get free games and systems. And played the ps2 and was very very disappointed. The main reason if becuase the graphics where now where neer where they should be for the power.
I guess thats becuase its impossible to program for. But, the graphics couldnt even rival the dreamcast for right now.
I also played some ps1 games on it and with the antialising it didnt do much. It actually locked up twice while I played resident evil 3.
Also I played unreal tournament and it was no where near the graphics that my computer can produce(celeron 533 (overclocked to 600) 160meg ram pc 100, stealth III graphics card. And it was really hard to play with the dual "crap" controller.
The controller, err, well its just like the psx's but a bigger l2 and r2 buttons. The rumble if off centered. I dont know if it was just that conroller I used or not but it was very anoying. Also the buttons are supposed to be analog but I could not tell, I wasnt able to play grand tourismo, or any racing game.
The system well I just dont like it, the power button is in the back. and there is a reset button and a eject button on the front to get a disk out properly you got to hit the reset then the eject button really fast. Errr I just hate it. Oh well, I got my computer for now to hold me off untile the game cube.
Well all I would say is that unless you want to pay 300 dollars for a dvd player then go for it.