well met comrade cody....and unfortuanately, you do need broadband to play online on the ps2...which is becoming more coomon with every game.
We need more games like killzone and star wars, or timesplitters and all the rest of the best. They have bots and single player skirmishes aswell as 2-4 player ability which makes them 'loveable' and makes you go back for more. If these developers want their games to sell well, they MUST keep the single player skirmishes in.
And yeah...only reason im aimin for san andreas is because i still havent finished it lol...and cos its just fun beating up my sister on 2 player