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Released: 2008-10-14

Avg. Customer Review: 4 Star
Media: Video Game
Platforms: PLAYSTATION 3
ESRB Rating: Mature

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Saints Row 2
  • 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.


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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.

'Saints Row 2' game logo
Take back the streets of Stilwater
Staring down a shotgun in 'Saints Row 2'
Welcome back to Stilwater
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One of the Brotherhood gang members from 'Saints Row 2'
One of the new faces on the Row.
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Character customization in 'Saints Row 2'
Customization down to the taunt.
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Extreme customization of your possee 'Saints Row 2'
Extreme posse creation.
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Airplanes and helicopters in 'Saints Row 2'
Take the battle to the air.
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Shooting down a jet with a rocket launcher in 'Saints Row 2'
Weapons that go bang.
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Throwing down in the club in 'Saints Row 2'
Throw down some skin.
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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 you've 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 crawling with bangers. Check out the crews you'll run into and remember their faces and their ways:

The Third St. Saints - a gang of 'Saints Row 2' 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.
The Ronin - a gang of 'Saints Row 2' Ronin
One of the newest gangs instilling fear in Stilwater, the Ronin recruit from both the city's 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.
The Sons of Samedi - a gang of 'Saints Row 2' 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."
The Brotherhood - a gang of 'Saints Row 2' Brotherhood
Formed from the cast-outs and dredges of Stilwater 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 subtlety and nuance and simply take what they want, all the while flashing their allegiance with piercings and tattoos, bright colors, and gas-guzzling trucks.
The Ultor Corporation - a gang of 'Saints Row 2' Ultor Corporation
A ruthless corporate contender, the Ultor Corporation's gentrification of Saints Row created a new skyline for the city and a headquarters for their corporate office at the expense of the poor and the 3rd Street Saints. Now they're targeting another neighborhood, the Shivington projects, fueling gang wars and waiting for the prime moment to move in and reap the profits.
Key Game Features:

  • Freedom to Explore Through Open World Gameplay - Balancing story progression with all the time-wasting mayhem imaginable, Saints Row 2 contains more activities, diversions, races, cribs, city districts, and interiors than ever before.
  • Extensive Mission Play - Over 40 story missions with additional bonus missions take place in a transformed Stilwater that is over 50% larger than before.
  • Limitless Customization - Saints Row 2 allows you to customize everything connected to what you wear, drive and where you live as well as gives you access to countless character combinations from facial expression, body type, voice, taunts, gender to walking style. In addition, players can customize gangs various and extreme physical looks (some pretty crazy), fighting styles, gang taunts and tags and vehicle preferences.
  • Improved Combat Functionality - In addition to the usual run, jump, punch, drive, stab, shoot model of combat, Saints Row 2 allows you to take human shields and exact finishing moves if you choose, but beware. How you commit crimes affects your notoriety, which determines the response of police.
  • Expanded Multiplayer options - Along with a compelling singleplayer mode, enjoy a variety of multiplayer play options including:
    • Strong Arm: A team-based multiplayer mode batching together prominent activities from the singleplayer campaign into one series of timed events, with the goal to earn the most cash as a team at the end of the events.
    • Gangsta Brawl: A standard deathmatch mode with the single player with the most kills winning.
    • Team Gangsta Brawl: A standard team deathmatch mode with the team with the most kills winning.
    • Co-Op Mode: Full drop in/drop out coop support and ability to play through the full single player campaign with buddies and with the ability to set online co-op games to public, friends-only or invite-only status.
  • Lots of Wieldable Weapons - Whether you talking chairs, parking meters, street signs, newspaper dispensers or your neighbor's garden gnome, use whatever is on hand to take out an enemy.
  • An Explosive Weapon Arsenal - When a melee weapon just won't do, send a message to your enemies by dipping into an arsenal that includes: rocket launchers, shock-paddles, stun-guns, satchel-charges, mini-guns, uzis, automatic shotguns and flame-throwers; Some of which can be duel wielded.
  • A Vehicle for Every Surface - Put the pedal to the metal in a large selection of cars, motorcycles, ATVs, planes, watercraft and helicopters.
  • All New Music - Saints Row 2 will feature an entirely new soundtrack of songs and the ability to create a custom in-game radio station, accessible from any vehicle by building a playlist of songs purchased in-game, with in-game money.
The Silwater sprawled before you as you wake in Saints Row 2 is both familiar and strange, but you will find that the explosive conclusion to the original Saints Row not only has left you wounded and betrayed, but also thirsty for revenge. Now it's time to take back the city that has forgotten you and only you will decide how far you'll go to achieve that.





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Saints Row 2
  • Video Game: 0 pages (2008-10-14)
  • Platforms: PLAYSTATION 3
  • Publisher: THQ
  • Label: THQ
  • Studio: THQ
  • Our Recommended Age: 17 - 20 years
  • Average Customer Review: 4 Star based on 9 reviews
  • Sales Rank in Video Games: #869


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Avg. Customer Review:4 Star

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Customer Rating: 5 Star
Summary: believer!!! 2008-11-10
Comment: well i had been hearing about this game from one of my co-workers for about a month. he said it was sooo much better than GTAIV, so finaly one day while playing that classic Rockstar title & almost dozing off during I said heck with it and went out to buy this. my buddy was right, this game is loads of fun. if you liked GTA San Andreas, then you'll love this game cause it's basically the same thing except that you create your own player. this game's similarities to GTA San Andreas almost makes me believe that maybe some ex-Rockstar employee's help make it. you run a crew, you drive ho's around, you own real estate all over town, man it's great. when you customize a car and it gets blown up, when you get back to your crib, it's back in your garage, oh and you can store alot of vehicles in your garage. i love that there's semi trucks & tow trucks, & huge tractors & all of that that you can own. controls were a little difficult at first but once you got the hang of it, alls good. one thing this game really doe's better is car handling which is a major problem on the GTA games where you flip upside down at the most simple contact. the races on GTA are almost impossible to win for that reason. and no disrespect but what if i didn't wanna be a russian guy. the game of GTAIV doe's have it's positives but it's not better than Saints Row 2, get this one instead...


0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Customer Rating: 3 Star
Summary: Glitch heavy, poor quality. 2008-11-10
Comment: This game feels and looks like it was thrown together by a bunch of people with horrible attention to detail. There are repeated glitches throughout the game. The graphics look last-gen. The combat system is difficult to manage. Your teammates are bullet-sponges that are ineffective at returning fire. Missions are ill-designed and not explained to the user, causing unexpected twists that immediately result in mission failure. Interiors of buildings are confusingly and maddeningly designed.

After missions, you are transported to the place where you started. Only your vehicle has disappeared. Since the city in Saint's Row 2 have as many cars as a hick town with dirt roads, you have to sprint around hoping a car spawns. When you see one, don't look behind you to see if one spawned there. The one you saw originally in front of you will probably disappear. And what is up with the mission that, once completed, spawns you inside of a building without visible walls?

This game will help you waste time on a weekend, but it will frustrate you at the same time. It is more entertaining than Mercs 2, but the glitches and quirks may make you wish you could just blow stuff up instead of playing missions.


3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Customer Rating: 4 Star
Summary: Stupid but fun experience...... 2008-10-30
Comment: I must say, before this game came out I was really getting sick of these "serious" game titles like GTA4 and MGS4. I thought both had great gameplay machanics but I felt like they were trying to beat me over the head with the "moral choices" and trying to make you feel bad for doing immoral things.

Thanks to Saints Row 2 we finally have a title that doesn't take ANYTHING seriously (least of all itself ;) ). The humor is VERY juvenile and the story requires no thought what so ever. But I think this is a good thing. You don't HAVE to feel bad about mowing over civilians and casualties in gunfights. You can just jump right in and have FUN. The customization is awesome as well.

The only other thing I can say about this game is that it can be taken as VERY offensive in it's portrayal of different ethnic groups. I realize that it's making fun of EVERYTHING it possibly can but be warned if you're easily offended by stereotypes.

IN any case it's a game that gives players of sandbox titles exactly what they want: Fun without consiquences :)



2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Customer Rating: 5 Star
Summary: This... Is... AWESOME!!!! 2008-10-21
Comment: Yes, it's that good. I got this game this morning and I noticed a few tweaks to the whole thing, some good, some bad. One of the good points of this game is that they have included air play. You know, planes, army helicopters and such. That's pretty cool. Oh and the large number of random things to do is also heavily great. You can play a game called trail blazing which is a game where you're set on fire and have to ride on a quad and hit as many people and cars as you can. Also a game called crowd control is pretty cool, you're a body guard for a famous celebrity and have to get rid of the crazy fans. How do you do this? Pick them up and throw them over a cliff.

So the story is set a few years in the future (I'm not sure exactly how many, I haven't gotten that far) and you are in a prison hospital and have just woken out of a coma. This is where you enter into the character customisation which is quite dense. I chose a terrible cockney accent for the voice and haven't gotten around to changing it. Word to the wise, don't choose this voice, I think it was voice number 3. You should check.
Being a few years later, you find that the Saints are no more and Stillwater has been taken over by a new law known as Ultor who have given it a completely new skyline. Now you and Jonny Gat must re-unite and get the Saints back in the ruling position they once had.

Well I guess the only game comparison that can be made is to GTA 4, but honestly this game has so much over GTA. GTA has the reality factor whereas Saints Row 2 has the fun factor and that in my eyes places it above GTA. There is simply so much to do, not just in the leisure activities but there are a lot of things you can find and do that isn't even labelled on the map. That in my eyes makes this game that much more fun. Not only to find the hidden games and general secrets, but just giving you something to do aside from the initial missions. I've also hears there are a ton of easter eggs to be discovered at your leisure including a Merman and a mysterious "Cabbit"

I have yet to try the co-op plays and stuff like that so can't really touch on it. I will update my review once I have experienced these different things.

The graphics are a bit crummy, but in all honesty I would trade graphics for a dense game with a hell of a lot to do any day. Buy it, you won't be disappointed.


4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Customer Rating: 4 Star
Summary: Comes as a surprise 2008-10-20
Comment: I wasn't planning on picking this up, but I'm glad I did.

It's like the developers were watching the GTA series and noted everything that's been wrong with it. The only thing that GTA4 does better is graphics. Everything else, I have to give to SR2.

This game reminded me that games used to be fun, as opposed to either a realistic simulation or an interactive drama. For the first time in the sandbox game I feel that side mission are actually interesting and are fun to do, rather then just "worth doing". Second is your character customization. Can't relate to an Italian Gangster in Florida or an L.A. Gang member? No problem - character creation is flexible enough to create anything you can imagine. Brilliant move on the part of game designers and will probably become standard in these type of games.

The game is just plain fun and at no point tries to take itself seriously, similar to early GTAs. Do yourself a favor and pick this up, just don't let your 9 year old play it. From the first time I saw the loading screen, I realized that this is an "after-the-kids-are-asleep" type of game.

P.S. The side misiion "Septic Avenger" deserves to be it's own game.



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