- #SAINTS ROW 2 CHARACTER CREATION MOVIE#
- #SAINTS ROW 2 CHARACTER CREATION TRIAL#
- #SAINTS ROW 2 CHARACTER CREATION PS3#
You can drive around a prostitute and keep the car away from the paparazzi before the deed is done. Mark over rival gang tags or impound cars for cash. Injure yourself for some insurance fraud, or spray houses with raw sewage to devalue the property. Don a flame-retardant suit, and you can race around on an ATV while burning everything in your path. Players can also initiate drive-by shootings or take a combat army chopper and rain death from above. Players can impersonate cops and earn money by having a camera crew shoot footage of you trying to dispense justice in the most unlawful ways possible. Some of these things have been done before, but just about every activity has something that makes it more over-the-top than the rest. Side-quests are another thing that make the game different from the rest. While the respect given for doing all of this isn't exactly a lot, it's good to see the development team recognize the fact that players will do these things anyway and reward them for doing so. Killing rival gang members earns respect, as does driving on two wheels, taking big ramps for jumps, and driving on the wrong side of the road. Saints Row 2 encourages the player to continue doing these things by giving them respect points. In other open world games, players often find themselves killing off other people for the fun of it or doing other crazy things, like driving on the other side of the street or performing stunts with their characters and vehicles. Respect points can be earned either through side-quests or doing other activities. While you can go through each gang in just about any order and manner you want, you'll need a sufficient amount of respect points to do so. Saints Row 2 begins to set itself apart from other games of its type through the respect system.
Everything there ranges from taking out key gang members in certain areas to getting into shoot-outs with cops and escaping to trying to run one gang out of their drug trade business. Story-based missions are pretty standard stuff, though. Except for a few key events, you can choose any way you want the story to play out. You can also try to take on all three gangs simultaneously if you wish. You can, for example, choose to take out the Brotherhood of Stilwater first or save them for later. The story structure is very loose, letting you play out the events of the game in just about any order you want. Your mission is to rebuild the Saints, take out the other gangs, take out the Ultor corporation, and re-establish the Saints as the rulers of Stilwater.
#SAINTS ROW 2 CHARACTER CREATION TRIAL#
After helping an old gang member escape a trial where he would have faced the death penalty, your objective becomes clear. New gangs have taken over, a major corporation rules most of the city, and your old gang, the Third Street Saints, is all but a forgotten memory. After an action-packed first level where you and a fellow prisoner escape from the island, you find yourself back in the city of Stilwater, a city that has undergone major changes since you last stepped foot there. Five years after the end of the events of the first game, your character wakes up from a coma to find himself (or herself!) in an island prison. The story is about as basic as they come and certainly won't make people forget about other open world adventure games. Like the original, this is a game that is not only proud to copy some of the things that Grand Theft Auto did right, but it also does a few things on its own to make it more fun than the original title. Two years after the release of the original title, THQ and Volition have teamed up once again to release Saints Row 2 for the Xbox 360 and PS3.
#SAINTS ROW 2 CHARACTER CREATION PS3#
The game was such a huge hit that there was talk of a PS3 port of the game before it got cancelled. More importantly, it beat Grand Theft Auto to the online punch by adding multiplayer games for up to 12 people. The game had a goofier vibe to it thanks to the various side-quests that became more ridiculous than the last. Once the demo and subsequent game were released in August of 2006, however, many opinions changed.
#SAINTS ROW 2 CHARACTER CREATION MOVIE#
The early screenshots and movie clips made the game seem like nothing more than a cheap knock off of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in high definition and without the depth of the Rockstar Games gem. When the first Saints Row game was announced in 2006 for the Xbox 360, people quickly dismissed it as just another Grand Theft Auto clone.