It doesn't really matter if this game was made 6 years ago it is the best RPG for the PS2 still. It's a must own game!!!
The grid is fun to mess around with and upgrade your characters but don't waste the points on something useless. The graphics are revolutionary because these types of graphics were the first of its kind which was passed down to games like God of War, Resident Evil 4, and Halo 2.
The sound system in Final Fantasy games change each and every game. Now that is awesome. But the best song is probably the battle theme mainly for its beat. Then they got their own themes by the way from excitement to suspicion. They even got their own character themes.
Which leads me to the main characters and story line. You start as an awesome Blitzball player named Tidus but in the middle of the game the whole city Zanarkand(your city) is attacked by a giant creature named Sin. Sin has little Sinlings which storm through the city where you and a mysterious figure from your childhood comes to help and now you have to battle through the city until you reach it there sin sucks you and Auron up.Then you are floating around in a dream and suddnely wake up. Then you apear in a very weird place you swim to the ruins and then walk through the ruins where the bridge collapses and you must fight 3 little sea monsters well you took 2 out easily but a much much larger creature comes out and eats the third and you gotta fight it after about 2 hits you ruin and barley make it out then you search out for lint to make a fire. You fall asleep and have a dream. Then you awake and I monster is right in front of you and its tough. Then all of a sudden the bared door blasts open and a few weird soldiers who speak a weirder language walk in and one of them join you side by side in combat. After you defeat it she knocks you out and you awake on board their ship and she explains(in English) the battle grid and tells you her name(Rikku) and tells you the language they speak is Al Bhed. You talk to her about sin and she says that all happened 1000 years ago. You two go under water after a while to get some machina machine working but when you tryi to get out you are confronted by another bosss that is easy though and your done with that. I'd like to tell you more but it would spoil everything(As if I haven't spoiled enough!!!).