Amazon.comA 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.
Take back the streets of Stilwater
Welcome back to Stilwater View larger.
One of the new faces on the Row. View larger.
Customization down to the taunt. View larger.
Extreme posse creation. View larger.
Take the battle to the air. View larger.
Weapons that go bang. Viewlarger.
Throw down some skin. View larger.
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 reflectsyour 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:
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 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.
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 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.
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 wellas 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.
REVIEW
Potentially better than Grand Theft Auto IV! A clone without shame Name-drop time. I had never heard of this game before the commercials, which I dismissed as a typical "gangsta-ass" Grand Theft Auto clone like "True Crime: Streets of NY/LA", which I tried and found to be utter trash. Then came the video review by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, who thoroughly convinced me through the magic of getting points and money for everything from destroying and killing things to streaking naked and jumping out of flying vehicles.
And so I bought the game and discovered that indeed, this is a shameless clone of Grand Theft Auto IV. But where GTAIV disappointed some, Saints Row 2 ups the ante.
For example, colors. GTA IV is all the same shades of gray and dirty, gritty brown and gray like a real city would look if that city were run-down and perpetually so pallid that not even sunlight could brighten up the cityscape. Saints Row 2 flushes its large world with so much color that every neighborhood looks almost like an entirely different city.
In GTAIV, your character was the perpetually dreary, mopey, and fiendishly ugly Niko Bellic, who was dragged down by his fat cousin asking him out on dates that wasted gametime in between receiving tutorials on how to work anything with a keyhole or just a hole or a stick, and watching in-game TV. In Saints Row 2, you have the ability to play male or female (with the storyline equally satiating a bloodthirsty, merciless man either English, Hispanic, or Black, or a bloodthirsty, merciless woman either White, Hispanic, or Black), with enough customization to make your character a morbidly obese acrobat with a mohawk or long dreadlocks, or a sexy slim model with bright green hair and yellowish eyes.
If you're sick of looking at them, you can get plastic surgery in-game, in which you can even completely change your character's sex, race, body shape, and every customization option you had in the beginning.
In comparison with GTAIV, GTAIV wins out with realism, as the ragdoll physics in Saints Row 2 are highly entertaining (and seemingly never get old) but are ultimately cartoony in how ridiculously over the top they are; examples include the Insurance Fraud activity, where you take dives and throw yourself in front of cars for money. If you fill your adrenaline meter full enough, a speeding car can have you flying fifty feet in the air, where you can control your fall, and even bounce off the tops of other cars to go even higher, for even bigger bucks. Another crazy example I experienced was performing a wheelie on a motorcycle at fullspeed, and ramming into the back of a pickup truck so hard, the truck flipped over and landed several yards away from me, whereas I only suffered a headwound that a jelly donut easily fixed.
Yes, there is regenerating health, but I've found that even on normal mode (though even more so on Hardcore mode) this is going to be praised by the player for being a lifesaver---you take so much damage in so many missions, that without regenerating health, it would be utterly impossible to pass certain missions.
Again name-dropping Yahtzee, he mentions that whereas GTAIV spent much time not encouraging, or even punishing the player for causing wanton destruction and death, the game here encourages and rewards you for it, whether it's sandbox mayhem throughout a neighborhood, or activities that gain you respect and money, such as assassinations, carjacking, jumping out of helicopters, Insurance Fraud listed above, racing, and one of the highlights of the game, spraying buildings with raw sewage.
I say highlights because it's one of the most cleverly devised and hilarious activities in the game, in which not only do you cover things in sewage, but your truck is being driven by someone else, who deals out some of the best-written and most hilarious one-liners in any video game I've ever played.
And just like you, they are in it for the same reason: to have fun! For teh lulz. To blow stuff up and laugh at society.
That is what Saints Row 2 focuses on, and it succeeds wildly because of it. Even the missions are innovative and fun enough to have me wanting to track down every one to see what happens next in the entertaining story and the variety of challenges awaiting me.
With any game, though, comes the bad. Though thankfully I can say it's not very much.
- Vehicle acceleration. There is a serious problem with almost every car that isn't a luxury sports car or a police cruiser, and that is a seemingly scatter-shot "whenever i feel like it" acceleration in which you can press and hold the A button to accelerate, and within several seconds, the car will come to a complete stop, despite you never lifting your finger off the button. In the heavier cars, this results in your vehicle moving so sluggishly slow that you'd be better off ditching it, and running in search of a sports car to steal. This is also insanely frustrating when you're supposed to be chasing someone or running from someone else, and you can't get your fat POS to do more than 20 miles per hour without smashing down on the A button so much that it becomes lodged within its hole in the controller.
- "Bonding Experience" mission glitch. For some people online, I've found that this only seems to happen once. For me, this happened many times in a row, so frequently I almost killed my TV with my controller. In this mission, the useless character Pierce succeeds in bitching his way into coming along with you on a mission to shoot down helicopters. Since he's driving, you expect him to do so on a set path. HOWEVER, a glitch occurs in which after the second helicopter appears, Pierce decides to do one of three things; either he rams straight into the side of a building, pulls back, and rams right into it again, continuing this until the car slides off the edge and continues on to option two, or does option two alone in which he rams straight into a powerline, then manages to slip past and ram right into ANOTHER building where he continues to perpetually ram into the building without ever escaping. Option three consists of him coming to a total stop by the side of the road, and never starting up again, despite nothing in his way.
- A seeming removal of gore after game development. From the sort of things you end up doing, it seems like they originally intended there to be a variety of gory options which end up looking like glitches themselves. For example: the katana, in which a special move can be deliveredwhere you drive the sword up through your opponent's chin and have it burst out the top of their head. While there is a quick blood-flow, the sword lodged through the head looks completely unrealistic, like an issue of clipping. Another involves the chainsaw, which is utterly useless for regular sawing unless you come up to people and apparently saw them in half as you catch their head, and slowly grind down to their pelvis. Except not only does the person NOT end up cut in half, but they sport absolutely no scar or cut of any kind from the chainsaw, or any bleeding outside of the blood-flow that occurs during the chainsaw. Similarly, limbs don't come off, heads don't come off or explode, and no scars, fleshwounds, or serious injuries appear on anyone.
Despite those issues, the game more than carries its own on pure entertainment value, and virtually all the buildings you can walk into are pre-loaded with the whole world so there's no need to have the game load up the inside of a store every time you walk in.
Amazon.comA 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.
Take back the streets of Stilwater
Welcome back to Stilwater View larger.
One of the new faces on the Row. View larger.
Customization down to the taunt. View larger.
Extreme posse creation. View larger.
Take the battle to the air. View larger.
Weapons that go bang. View larger.
Throw down some skin. View larger.
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:
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 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.
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 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.
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.
REVIEW
very vast and fun saints row 2 is a very fun game with great customization opptions. i think the customization was alot better than GTA IV. i have had some problems with the game freezing though, as in freeze where you have to restart the system and lose your unsaved progress. other than that a great game.
Saints' Row is one of the worst neighborhoods in the city of Stilwater - it's also where you grew up. You're tired of being on the bottom of the food chain, so you've decided to make your play. Start out as a member of the 3rd Street Saints, a local gang & work your way up to being king of Saints' Row. Then do what it takes to get the money and build the respect and power you need to muscle your way to the top of Stilwater's gangs. Form gangs, recruit gang members, and compete for cash and respect in a variety of modes including co-op
REVIEW
fast paced I like the action in this game, but I'm troubled by the content. The action is non-stop. I like that. I know where the game is going and how to get there. The clues to what I need to know and dois accurate and timely.
I am troubled by the content. It's crime run amok. The more crime the main character engages in, the more he's rewarded. This isn't right. Right and wrong is treated as a flippant subject not worthy of consideration or thought.
There is no right and wrong. Everything that should be considered wrong is rewarded.
I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone. It promotes by proxy, the wrong message...that crime is OK.
Amazon.comA 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.
Take back the streets of Stilwater
Welcome back to Stilwater View larger.
One of the new faces on the Row. View larger.
Customization down to the taunt. View larger.
Extreme posse creation. View larger.
Take the battle to the air. View larger.
Weapons that go bang. View larger.
Throw down some skin. View larger.
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 yourterritory, 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:
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 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.
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 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.
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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Xbox 360 Collector's Edition Features Include:
Saints Row 2 Game
Saints Row 2 Embossed Tin
Saints Row 2 Money Clip
Double-Sided Game Poster/Map
Exclusive Art Book
Silver Bullet Shaped 512 MB USB Thumb Drive*
*The Xbox 360 thumb drive features four Xbox 360 exclusive wallpapers, buddy icons, mobile wallpapers (320x240 and 320x480), standard wallpapers (1024x786 and 1280x1024) and widescreen wallpapers (1680x1050, 1920x1200, and 2560x1600).
REVIEW
Get The Regular Edition Great Game as I expected, but the worthless junk included with the collectors edition is just useless and a waste of 20 dollars. But it is the game that counts and almost everything has improved (especially multiplayer), awsome new weapons, fun time-consuming activities, etc. I definitely recommend the game itself for fans of the first Saints Row and the GTA series. But please do yourself a favor and save $20 on something that you can actually use.
Amazon.comA worthy successor to the open-world gameplay hit, Saints Row, 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.
Take back the streets of Stilwater
Welcome back to Stilwater View larger.
One of the new faces on the Row. View larger.
Customization down to the taunt. View larger.
Extreme posse creation. View larger.
Take the battle to the air. View larger.
Weapons that go bang. View larger.
Throw down some skin. View larger.
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:
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 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.
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 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.
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.
Amazon.comworthy 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.
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 youare 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:
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 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.
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 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.
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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PlayStation 3 Collector's Edition Features Include:
Saints Row 2 Game
Saints Row 2 Embossed Tin
Saints Row 2 Money Clip
Double-Sided Game Poster/Map
Exclusive Art Book
Gold Bullet Shaped 512 MB USB Thumb Drive*
*The PS3 thumb drive features a Saints Row 2 "PS3 Theme" with four PS3 exclusive rotating wallpapers and updated Saints Row 2 icons for the Cross Media Bar (XMB).
REVIEW
Fun to play, graphics could use some work This game is absolutely fun to play. One must compare this game to its competition and that is GTA IV. GTA IV has the better story, is more serious, and has the better graphics. Saints Row 2 is more fune to play and has much better online game play. Saints Row 2 offers full co-op which allows your friends to jump into one of your games and leave just as easily (or vise versa) and has specific online modes. In-vehicle controls are also better for Saints Row 2 as one can easily fire out of a moving vehicle without having to hold two buttons like (like GTA IV). Saints Row 2 has many screen tearing issues and the graphics can come off as a little cartoonish when compared to GTA IV. The PS3 version also had muddier graphics (ie darker, less clear) than the Xbox 360 release. I actually think that this is a plus as it takes away from the cartoonish feel making things grittier. Is the game a perfect 10/10 (or 5/5 in this case)? No. Wat GTA IV perfect? Absolutely not.
I think that Saints Row 2 is the perfect compliment to GTA IV as it allows you to explore the competition. Get both games and you wont be disappointed.
Hilarious character dialogue and a catchy original soundtrack set the stage for this addictive bingo game with something for everyone. In Saints and Sinners Bingo, you play in 20 different cities across the country, competing alongside a colorful cast of opponents as you make your way to the International Bingo Championships. The special Good Luck Charms you'll collect along the way add a dash of strategy to a classic game of luck, giving you strategic 'moves' that improve your chances of winning! With 3 game modes and over 100 bingo patterns, Saints and Sinners will have you in bingo heaven.
Fully analog with dual joysticks, dual vibration motors, pressure-sensitive analog action buttons and triggers. Also designed for supreme comfort, features include grooved rubber grips and unblockable 2.4GHz wireless technology with a 30' range. Powerful vibration for rumble compatible games.
REVIEW
cool This is great if you can keep the batteries in it. They keep popping out and my boys wont even use it now.
Be ready to maximize what the most powerful next generationconsole has to offer with the Officially Licensed NFL Mad Catz Wireless GamePad for the PLAYSTATION 3. Featuring unique quick-fire triggers, analog joysticks and a razor-sharp precision 8-way-D pad, this controller has been ergonomically designed to satisfy the discriminating taste of elite gamers with optimum control and accuracy. The home button grants access to the many features the PS3 has to offer within its main interface while a lag-free 2.4GHz wireless signal allows for playing anywhere in the room. Functionality and comfort make the Officially Licensed NFL Mad Catz Wireless GamePad the premier choice for taking next generation gaming to a new level. Mad Catz promises you innovative, quality products for all your gaming needs.
Features
Featuring unique quick-fire triggers, analog joysticks and a razor-sharp precision 8-way-D pad
