Franchise file / Hiroshi Matsuyama, CyberConnect2
.hack
A game about being trapped online
CyberConnect2 and Bandai's action RPG saga began on PS2 in 2002. It plays as a single-player story set inside The World, a fictional online game with something badly wrong beneath it.
- 2002
- First game
- 2
- Series
- Hiroshi Matsuyama, CyberConnect2
- Creator
One world. Many eras.
Choose your chapter
Project .hack. Infection opened a four-part PS2 story in 2002, with each volume picking up where the last ended and Quarantine closing it out a year later.
Start with .Hack//InfectionYour next late night
The essentials
Chapters
Series (2)
.hack//G.U.Sequel trilogy to the original .hack games, made by CyberConnect2. Volumes 1 to 3 came out on PS2 from 2006, and the three were remastered together as Last Recode in 2017.Project .hackThe .hack PS2 games from CyberConnect2 and Bandai, starting in 2002. Four linked chapters play out inside a fictional online RPG called The World, alongside later spin-offs on other systems.
A legacy worth revisiting
An MMO you play alone.
The 2002 quartet of Infection, Mutation, Outbreak and Quarantine told one story across four discs, with a fake MMO as its stage. G.U. brought a new lead and a new trilogy between 2006 and 2007, and Last Recode remastered that trilogy in 2017.
- 2002 to 2003
- Project .hack
- 2006 to 2007
- G.U.
- 2010 to 2017
- Anniversary returns
Scenes that stay with you
Inside the world
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