These diversions also gain you Respect, which is crucial to progress in the main storyline. Activities such as spraying human waste onto houses to devalue property prices, or roughing-up fans who try to get too close to their favourite celebrity, all gain your money and special unlockables like new guns and outfits. In a sense it feels like the spiritual successor to GTA: San Andreas, in that there’s always something to do, and you’ll frequently find yourself sidetracked from the main missions by the optional entertainments on offer. The variety of gameplay present is almost overwhelming, and even after 20 hours of play you still won’t have close to seeing all that Saints Row 2 has to offer. Your map is chock-a-block with shops and activities. Once you set foot in the city of Stilwater the whole city is open to you from the start. Whether you’d rather be a black cockney buck-toothed obese woman with a purple Mohawk and a bushy green beard, or an anorexic Oriental Latino-voiced man with huge breasts and a traffic-cone on his head, this game has you well catered-for.Īs swiftly as the opening jailbreak mission, which sees you gunning down helicopters from the back of a speeding boat, you know this is a far cry from Liberty City.
As they’ve suffered disfiguring burns, the local plastic surgeon has had to rebuild their face this conveniently allows the player to customise their appearance to an astonishingly huge degree. Our second trip to Stilwater is set five years after the abrupt explosive finale of the original Saints Row, with the unnamed protagonist waking up from a coma in a prison hospital. Saints Row 2 never tries to pretend that it’s anymore than a video game, designed around the central concept of the fun that can be gained from lack of morality and an abundance of freedom.
With Grand Theft Auto IV taking a more serious cinematic route that’s mostly grounded in reality, and Saints Row 2 revelling in over-the-top insanity and mayhem, the differences have never been more pronounced. The shadow of Rockstar’s franchise loomed over the first Saints Row and caused many people to overlook how Volition was trying to do things differently. It may be impossible to review Saints Row 2 without mentioning the words Grand, Theft and Auto.
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