![]() ![]() So to my surprise and my delight, I can now officially inform you that playing Saints Row IV first doesn't ruin Saints Row 2, and the game actually has plenty of reasons to recommend it, especially if you're in the mood to play as the villain.Multiplayer – Co-op full story campaign has seamless integration (for example one player drives while the other shoots). Coming from Saints Row IV it was definitely nice to see my guy actually lead the Saints, instead of basically being Kinzie's field operative, and what I was up in missions to generally felt more satisfying on a story level than hacking glowy things for an arbitrary amount of time because of 'just go with it'. ![]() The Boss in particular is in full bastard mode this time, as much a villain as anyone else in the game definitely not a puckish rogue. They're not quite the people I'm familiar with yet, but they still managed to make me smile on occasion. One of the first things that jumps to mind when I think of the Saints Row games is the characters, and this is the game that brings the main crew together. SR3 and SR4have some incredible missions for sure, but I think this might be the more consistently enjoyable game because it doesn't shove activities in place of story missions or have tedious mech levels etc. It's a little less refined than SR3 (and the PC port is pretty broken by comparison), but it makes up for that with the sheer amount of content and attention to detail it has. Saints Row 2 really does feel to me like the missing link between something like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Saints Row: The Third: over the top but still connected to some exaggerated satirical version of reality. Sorry I don't think I'll be able to stop playing this, ever, so I'll just finish the screenshots here and write up some kind of conclusion. Weirdly my character is wearing my current outfit in the cutscenes, so I can watch myself wake up from a coma in prison wearing a pimp hat. but then it makes me drive back to collect my stash of cash instead! And I do need the money, because ammo is ridiculous expensive in this.Īlright what else is in here? I can change my clothes, pick my weapons, upgrade my crib and watch previous cutscenes on TV. ![]() I think it's awesome that the game's moved beyond the GTA3 games by letting me save anywhere I want instead of making me drive back to my house after every mission. I can get a regular income coming in from the property I own and neighbourhoods I've taken over during missions, but unlike the other games I can't transfer the cash into my account remotely using my phone. There's other places I can buy around the city, but they're about $50,000 more than I can afford right now, and I need that money for pistol ammo and pimping cars anyway. But forget planes, check out my awesome crib! Well okay it's a tiny bit shit perhaps, but the price was right. At least the hospital didn't take my guns away. Well it immediately flipped over and exploded, so I think I'll pass on planes for now (mostly because I can't be bothered to drive all the way back down to the airport again). (Click the images to view them at twice the resolution.) It definitely seems like either the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 version may be a better choice for this one, because damn.įortunately I've been assured that the fast forward issue is a fixable problem, thanks to IdolNinja's Saints Row 2 Powertools Mod, so I'm hopeful it'll hammer this into a more acceptable shape for me. That is a pretty amazing bug all on its own, but the game apparently also has problems with prefetching memory that can cause frame rate issues even on powerful PCs. Windows 8 users are apparently safe from this, in a rare case of a new operating system actually FIXING an old game. Well not without a bit of work anyway, as this got a famously terrible port that can run in fast forward if you're playing it on a Windows 7 machine with a CPU clock speed different to the Xbox 360's processor. It's Volition's 2008 crime 'em up sequel Saints Row 2!īut is such a game even playable anymore to someone who has recently leapt between skyscrapers shooting fireballs out of their hands in Saints Row 4? If you're a PC owner, then the answer is likely to be. But it's an earlier one without sci-fi jet fighters, spaceships or super powers. Surprise! Today I'm playing a second story-driven sandbox shooter starting with an 'S', and it's another one of those Saints Row games. ![]()
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