1. Saints Row 2
Think San Andreas On Steroids And You Will Come Away With Saints Row 2!
A worthy successor to Saints Row, the first open-world title on next-
generation consoles, Saints Row 2 features all new customization options,
including players: 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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Backstory Five years have passed since your former Saints crew betrayed
you. As you awake from a coma for the first time since that fateful day, you
find the Stilwater you once ruled is in disarray. Unfamiliar gangs have laid
claim to your territory, rival factions have taken over your rackets, and
cash-hungry corporations have laid waste to your once proud 3rd Street
home. Abandoned and left scarred with an unrecognizable face, you seek
out a plastic surgeon to begin your new life on the streets. Yet some things
never change in Stilwater. Respect can only be earned and that requires a
lifestyle that reflects your unique personality. Your crib, your crew, and
your character define who you are on the streets and how you are
perceived. The image you portray is as important as the decisions you
make in a city ruled by false bravado and impulsive behavior. The only
constant is the need for an identity that reflects your individuality. But
style and image can only take you so far in a world where actions speak
louder than words. Sometimes sending a message to your enemies
requires heavy lifting, like that of a rival gang member into oncoming
traffic. Respect in Stilwater needs to be taken, and what better way than
to grab it from the hands of a gang full of enemies by means of a satchel
charge, a flame-thrower or those minigun rounds youve been saving for
a special occasion. Meet Your Homies But remember that the fight to
reclaim Stilwater does not have to be waged alone. The Saints once ruled
these streets as a crew of brothers, and their return to the top can help be
secured through co-operative alliances. The time has finally come to seek
revenge against your rivals to reestablish your crew as the rightful kings of
Stilwater, but the streets are crawli ng with bangers. Check out the crews
youll run into and remember their faces and their ways: 3rd
Street Saints Once the kings of the city, the Saints have been forced
out of their titular home of Saints Row by the Ultor Corporation, a giant
conglomerate that gentrified the once poor neighborhood. Now operating
out of an abandoned underground hotel, the Saints are looking to reclaim
the glory that they lost several years ago. Ronin One
of the newest gangs instilling fear in Stilwater, the Ronin recruit from
both the citys Asian population as well as among the immigrants. Their
crimes involve peddling vice through gambling, prostitution, street-racing,
and protection rackets, and their power has reached even into the
boardroom of corporations like Ultor. Sons of
Samedi Influenced by Voodoo and a history of military corruption in
Haiti, the Sons of Samedi are known for their potent combination of
spiritualism and fearlessness. Members are attracted to the gang out of
respect for their methods, through coercion or a desire for easy income
generated through trade in their designer drug called Loa Dust.
Brotherhood Formed from the cast-outs and dredges of Stilwater

3. society, the Brotherhood is a solid force of strength and intimidation intent
on revenging itself upon the police and city. Specializing in violent
extortion, they forego
Personal Review: Saints Row 2
kay, let me preface this review with the fact that I have been a died-in-the-
wool GTA fanboy since GTA III first graced the gaming scene and literally
changed the way the world previously thought about gaming. GTA was the
pinnacle of the sandbox genre where you were thrust penniless and
friendless into the open cesspool of a major urban jungle, or more
accurately, a jaded, cynical, and extremely comical metropolis. The series
has always led with humor and about the most outlandish, over the top,
unbelievably unrealistic gameplay you can imagine. Yet, with the living
breathing city that Rockstar imbued their sandbox with, the games actually
managed to feel somehow more real even with the seemingly contradictory
lack of realism.
Fast forward to 2008, and Rockstar decided to make GTA an exercise in
pomposity with GTA IV, a game that actually has the audacity to preach to
you. Gone are the days of rags to riches, now replaced with the boring
snoozer of a rags to better rags metaphor. Where GTA used to be all
about light hearted and zany fun coupled with riotous guffaws of laughter,
thanks to GTA IV, it is now an exercise in excruciating mind-numbing
tedium intermingled with a lugubrious sense of realism. The game has the
impudence to almost scream crime doesnt pay at you every time you
saddle up and drive this so called Euphoria Engine nightmare. The story is
so agonizingly depressing that I really believe the game would have been
better off euthanizing Niko, the main character, about halfway through the
story. The whole affair is like a Greek tragedy without the poignant writing.
Near the end you are presented with two choices which branch off the
storyline. Clever idea, except that either choice punishes you with a
morbidly depressing outcome that all plays out like poorly enacted
production of a Euripides play.
Right about now you are likely scratching your head in wonderment as to
why I am reviewing GTA IV. I can assure you, Im not. I wanted to set up
the prelude for my Saints Row 2 review. If I had to boil down my review of
this game to one sentence, I would say that Saints Row 2 is everything
that GTA IV could have been, should have been, but sadly wasnt!
Where the sandbox in GTA IV was made out of an amalgam of steel and
and titanium in its utter constriction, the one created by Volition for SR2 is
made out of the golden sandy goodness of utter fun. It is riotous, exciting,
diverse, engaging, immersive, and often gut wrenchingly fast paced. The
guy below me put it aptly when he said that Saints Row 2 is the An ti-GTA
IV because Saints Row is what happens when you get a bunch of
programmers together who like to laugh until they cry and spend their
nights dreaming of absurdly stupid and insanely fun ideas to make their
game soar to the stratosphere with raw unadulterated fun. While GTA IV is

4. what happens when you decide to condescend to your fans and deign to
inform them, through your game, that realism is the new fun.
It isnt, not even close. Again, the reason for the constant references to
GTA IV is because SR and GTA IV are the first true sandbox games of this
generation, and truly they are the antithesis of one another. Where GTA IV
puts you behind the wheel of cars that are absurdly tedious and laborious
to steal, ridiculously slow to accelerate, and that slip all over the road as if
the entire landscape had a sheet of ice covering it, Saints Row 2 vehicles
are easy to steal, handle like they are on rails, turn beautifully, and can be
completely customized. One of the marvels of the Saints Row universe is
that because the customizing is so incredibly diverse, you can see the
same exact car ten times and it will look so different that until you really get
to know the game they will look like en different cars!
While the main character from GTA IV is a slow moving, horrifically heavy,
plodding guy who walks and runs (if you can even call it running) like his
clothing is made of led, your Saints Row 2 characters movements are fluid,
smooth, organic, and again, fun. Speaking of the main character, in SR2
you can now COMPLETELY customize your character right from the
beginning of the game and change him or her at will. Thats right all you
feminists out there who wanted to get in on the fun. You can play as a girl.
Let me just state something categorically: I have never, and I mean
NEVER, been a fan of customizing. I used the first default character and
profile in every game I played, spending MAYBE the obligatory two
minutes with a few superfluous tweaks, and off I went into the game. Well,
the first time I played SR2 I spent no less than an hour customizing my
character before starting the first mission. You would not believe the
variety you are presented with. It is almost overwhelming. I chose a girl
and quite a little hottie I might add. Hell, shes a lot easier on the eyes than
Nikos big, hairy, slavic butt. You can change everything from body type,
hair style, voice, hair color, a plethora of skin tones, make up if you like,
and on and on. I managed to get myself a stunning little cutie and dressed
her like a total slutty sex kitten. Nice! You can also purchase and unlock a
plethora of clothing and jewelry items, some of which will have you rolling
on the floor laughing in their absolute absurdity.
While we are on the subject of the character, this is another area where
SR2 shines, peoples faces. One of the problems with GTA IV is that all the
faces of the people, both main characters, bosses, and side characters all
have pushed in faces that look like a cross between a pit bull and a
pancake. Not so in SR2. The women in this game are pixelated honeys! If
you want to have some serious eye candy to look at, then you are going to
love the faces and bodies of the women of Saints Row 2. Now, this is not
to say that SR2 has better graphics overall than GTA IV. It doesnt. GTA IV,
because of its rather right wing fundamentalist realism, and its lackluster
crime doesnt pay fortune cookie wisdom, naturally has as its primary
boast, some pretty incredible graphics and visuals.

5. Volition, on the other hand, decided to lay back on the graphics (perhaps
just a little too much) and concentrate on packing this title with some
absolutely awe-inspiring gameplay. Instead of just the run-of-the-mill drive
here, pick up character A, shoot some people, drive him or her to point B,
pick up character B, shoot some more people, fall asleep, and then drop
off your AI partners, SR2 brings a palpably fresh perspective to the table.
In addition to the normal sandbox GTAesue missions like the ones I listed
above, you can hijack a sewage truck and you must squirt liquid feces all
over the buildings (AND THE PEOPLE!!!) and deface public property,
causing enough monetary damage to pass the level and discredit the local
politician who your would-b
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