if you want to try updating your driver to an unstable but newer one, use this guy; very simple process but risky.
https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa
i don't really know about opengl versions; what are you trying to play? i am able to get Quake 3 arena to run on my intel card (unplayable, but it runs nonetheless), which is definitely an opengl game, but i'm not sure if it's 2.0.
generally speaking though, windows is a better bet for games

for intel cards, the linux drivers get about 1/4 the performance that the windows drivers get.
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