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Don 2: The Game

2013 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ16267686 ↗
Source-derived summary

Don 2: The Game is an action-adventure video game developed by Gameshastra and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. It is based on the film of the same name. The game was released only in India in February 2013. It is the last first-party title for the PlayStation 2.

Gameplay

The gameplay of Don 2 focuses primarily on shooter style missions with stealth elements. The game includes twelve missions and four boss battles including Kuala Lumpur and Berlin.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2013-02. For this dossier, Game, video and game is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16267686. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Don 2: The Game” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.