Saints Row 2
September 4, 2010 by Gamer Guy
Filed under Video Games
- Limitless Customization – Play as fully customizable characters that are male, female or something in between. Cribs, vehicles and even gangs all have customization options.
- Multiplayer – Co-op full story campaign has seamless integration (for example one player drives while the other shoots).
- Competitive multiplayer pushes the boundaries of immersion in a living Stillwater environment fully populated with police, innocent bystanders and rival gangs.
- Planes, helicopters, motorcycles, boats and cars can be piloted and used as weapons. On the ground new combat options include melee, fine aim, and human shield.
- Over 40 story missions with additional bonus missions take place in a transformed Stilwater that is over 50% larger than before.
Amazon.com
A worthy successor to Saints Row, the first open-world title on next-generation consoles, Saints Row 2 features all new customization options, including player’s: gender, age, voice, crib and gang. In addition, the sandbox just got larger with a totally transformed and expanded city of Stilwater, offering all new locations to explore with new vehicles, including motorcycles, boats, helicopters and planes. Saints Row 2 will be playable online in 2-player co-op through the entire singleplayer campaign or in the all new open-world competitive multiplayer mode never before seen in the genre. Take back the streets of Stilwater
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This game is a HUGE let down. It is awful and in no way is an improvement on the first Saint’s Row. That’s probably why there was not a big PR event on the release of this game. Do NOT waste your money buying this game!
Rating: 1 / 5
I purchased the game at the end of Nov.(2009) and then got it on Dec 3. I didn’t receive the original copy, but got the greatest hits version and it sucks. What makes it worst is that the drop the price the same week. I maybe just ranting, but like them, I don’t care.
DLC is not worth it as well.
Rating: 1 / 5
So I ordered this game after I have been playing GTA4 for a while. WHAT A DISSAPOINTMENT. I feel like I’m playing a game that was made ten years ago. The graphics suck and the gameplay is just stupid. SR2 is like a kid version of GTA4. GTA4 is so much better on every level..it is just pathetic that SR2 is even considered in the same league. If your like a tween than get this but if you’re a mauture gamer then cut to the chase and get the real deal…which is GTA4. I’m going to Game Stop to sell my SR2 today. It’s lame.
Rating: 1 / 5
I finished Saints Row 1 (“SR1″) with 92% completion and I enjoyed it very much while waiting for GTA IV to be released. I thought that SR1 introduced several new features for the sand-box genre and that it looked very good at the time. Now, having finished GTA IV three times (twice with 100% completion) and while I wait for the downloadable content, I decided to buy Saints Row 2 (“SR2″) in hopes of having as much fun as I did with SR1 and more, since I assumed the game would improve from SR1….
After 3 painful hours of looking at SR2, I needed relief fast, so I popped in GTA IV and just drove around Liberty City so that I can cleanse myself of the nightmare of SR2. I came to realize yet again what a game released in 2008 for the 360 SHOULD look like, or resemble at the very least. I sold SR2 back to GameStop the very next day.
Pros:
Lots of features, side missions to earn respect and customizations, including vehicle customizations
Difficulty Levels
Cruise Control is a cool new feature
Improved combat system over SR1 but still, you can’t take cover, other than via “human shield”
Cons:
Cartoonish-style, non-polished, choppy and stiff graphics with very little fluidity or smoothness.
Lots of bugs, including cars despawning from the streets constantly (turn your character 360 degrees and chances are the car(s) driving down the street have already disappeared).
Sometimes when a cop-car approaches you, the cops warp/teleport out of their car as opposed to actually opening the door and coming out.
While surrounded by cops with 3-4 star cop-notoriety, I was able to beat down 7-10 cops using only a nightstick and saw my health go down by 10%, at the most, despite getting shot at by cops with a shotgun at point-blank range. And this was on “normal” difficulty mode. I assume on “hardcore” mode, it’s possible to lose half of your health, at most, but then watch it regenerate back up again – wow, how realistic and how challenging is that?
Driving looks and feels absolutely horrible. Cars are big and bulky with loose, unrealistic handling. When you hit any object with your car, whether it’s another car, tree or pole, you simply bounce off like a pinball and just keep on going.
No secondary camera angles. While on foot or in a car, you can not zoom out to see more of the world, leaving you with just one camera angle with a close and intimate look at the atrocious graphics, considering an October 2008 release for the 360 console.
SR2 is a poorly made game and the makers should be ashamed to release it in late 2008 and compare it to or compete with the quality and the realistic feel of GTA IV, which is not perfect, of course, but it is still the best. The open-world sandbox genre will always belong to GTA. Yes, SR2 has many features and customization options but what is the point when the game looks and feels so terrible? Again, I finished SR1 and liked it a lot but SR2 is one of the worst looking games I have seen in a very long time.
Rating: 1 / 5
OK I’ve marked this review down to one star because I want to get my point across. One of the problems with SR1 was that when you drive past a number of gang members and you decide to turn around and fight them, they have disappeared, not because they ran off but because the game wants to delete the part of the world that is not in front of you. I’m really disappointed that they did not fix this problem in SR2, i would never have bought it had i known.
I was chasing down a car, i went past it, turned around and it was gone. No it hadn’t just driven off because I would have seen it off down the road, it just vanished.
If this is fixable please fix…
Im sure there is a lot to be liked here, but this really annoys me and does not happen in GTAIV
Rating: 1 / 5