IGN Saints Row 2 Review

[Kestastrophe]

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/918/918404p1.html

"The free aim controls might be a little clunky for those of you who are used to auto-aiming"
 

Nate Ahearn needs to remove himself from the gene pool

[GilloD]

he first is that of cruise control. To ease the art of the drive by players can now hold the left shoulder button to keep the speed of their car steady so their right thumb can then return to aiming. Second, when swimming you can now press a face button to instantly warp to the shore.

 

[chronovore]

Don't know why this couldn't go into one of the other SR2 threads, but oh well:

The writing in that article is painfully amateur. The inner-English teacher in me wanted to take a red pen to that review and hemorrhage all over it.

our character has been in a prison hospital stuck in a coma since he was blown off of a yacht, thus badly burning your exterior. Luckily that happens to open the door to the robust character customization. You can select from three female accents and three male accents as well as the usual huge array of physical traits. Plus later in the game you'll earn new personalities, taunts, costumes and fighting styles.

Generally speaking, irony does not work in text. I can only assume associating full body burns with "luckily" was intended as irony.

There's the all-new Trail Blazer and Septic Avenger or you can try out the analog stick-based sex mini-game. They're all just as fun and outrageous as the next.

Nate, this is trite; please see me after class.

The production values aren't at the level that I'd like to see, but every so often I would be impressed with what I was watching on-screen.

Though reviews are a form that encourages the expression of personal opinion through criticism, it's bad form to casually refer to judgment of quality from such a bloated, self-important first-person perspective.

Then again, IGN is such a shit site that it will load EVERY god damned advertisement on the page before loading the non-caching background texture for the body article. Check this beautiful masterpiece of web sorcery:
http://media.ign.com/ign/imgs/oldContentBG.jpg

PS: Yes, I'm in a pissy mood. 

[Kestastrophe]

Chrono, what's your score for the review of the review

[chronovore]

Chrono, what's your score for the review of the review

 

Two flaky Hostess Pies. Straight up.

[muckhole]

This game is a day one buy, now that I know it supports local system link. I'm hoping the system link is for more than two people, because that zombie mode + friends + beer will be a pretty fun night. So many games don't bother with the good old system link.

[pilonv1]

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/goodgame/

nice review here.

[abrader]

Ill pass - I got bored of this shit enough with GTAIV - and I dont even like rap music...

Someone needs to do a new Mercs style game with a new theme...The sandbox war >>>>>> sandbox city

How about a sandbox game of Cybertron and Autobots Vs Deceptacons? The origonal Cybertron.

[abrader]

Hulk Ultmate Destruction is better than GTAIV.

EDIT: I apologize for my foul language.

[Joe Molotov]

Got a lower score than GTA4, but its a better game.

Basically, this review just points out yet again what distinguished mentally-challenged, ball-lickers game reviewers journalists are. He admits SR2 has a lot better gameplay and is a lot more fun, but can't get over GTA4's "production values" (and no doubt it's Oscar award-winning screenplay), so SR2 gets a 8.2 to GTA4's 10.

[The Sceneman]

yep, the gaming press is still sucking that R* dick. Just keep on suckin' that dick yo, we aint listenin

[Himu]

smh

[Hollywood]

Ill pass - I got bored of this shit enough with GTAIV - and I dont even like rap music...

Someone needs to do a new Mercs style game with a new theme...The sandbox war >>>>>> sandbox city

How about a sandbox game of Cybertron and Autobots Vs Deceptacons? The origonal Cybertron

I've never played a Mercenaries game, I might get one this week though with the B2G1 free deal at Toys R Us. But I've read before this was originally supposed to be one of the Strike series games, a sequel to the old Desert Strike (there were ones after) games. That's what someone needs to make. Also, a new Road Rash game too.

[Flannel Boy]

Every one of their friends is trying to kill me, yet they could really care less.

SMH IGN

[chronovore]

Just before 3DO tanked massively, I mean like a week or two prior to shuttering, they had a decent showing at E3. They had that Four Horsemen game, SRS, and something that looked a lot like Road Rash for then-current-gen systems. It was pretty neato. And of those three, only SRS was picked up -- by Namco of all things, perhaps to fill that massive gap in their racing lineup. <cough>RidgeRacerWTF</cough>

[Hollywood]

Every one of their friends is trying to kill me, yet they could really care less.

SMH IGN

Do you even need a degree to work there? It seems like simple sentence structure escapes them. Anyone have that could/couldn't care less scale to explain it to these idiot?

[Bildi]

Every one of their friends is trying to kill me, yet they could really care less.

SMH IGN

I'd SMH but it just exploded.

[The Sceneman]

I dont really give a fuck what "review sites" say/what score they give, as long as the game is awesome

[Kestastrophe]

The free aim controls might be a little clunky for those of you who are used to auto-aiming

OH WHAT THE FUCK. GTAIV had some of the worst auto-aiming ever.

It's like somehow including a comprehensive 3rd person aiming system over a lock on aiming system is somehow assuming too much of gamers or is a detriment to the game. It seems to me that the vast majority of gamers would prefer an actually good aiming system to the crap that was GTA IV gameplay

[WrikaWrek]

The cutscenes are badass, seriously.

[AdmiralViscen]

We're 100% positive that you can get the flying saucer without preordering right? I'm gonna try and get the game from a different store today.


edit: I have it, the codes are inside the box and are phone numbers like someone said.

[WrikaWrek]

Got a lower score than GTA4, but its a better game.

Not what i hear. It's a really fun game, but the whole "It's better than GTAIV" by some of the people in the interwebz is pretty much wrong. We'll see.

I don't understand the GTA hate anyway. If you want crackdown buy...crackdown?

[AdmiralViscen]

Why can't it be better than GTA4?

[WrikaWrek]

Why can't it be better than GTA4?

It's not whether it could've been better or not, any game can be better than GTA, wtf, but it either ends up being or not. Saint's Row isn't better than GTA. And no, being more batshit with some of the stuff it does doesn't make it better.

But again, some of you have some sort of problem with GTA that i don't understand.

[demi]

No, it's pretty much confirmed that Saints Row destroyed GTA4

You're the one with the issue, are you by chance a Christian who watches Wrestling?

[Van Cruncheon]

gta4 doesn't do what the previous gta offerings did so well. gta is about virtual mayhem and emergent gameplay, not "realistic" driving controls and scripted missions and dating mini-games.

[WrikaWrek]

Imo GTA simply evolved into something a bit more grounded and serious. It still does the whole "emergent" gameplay thing better than any sandbox game.

If you think you are going to get a more "sandbox" game in saints row 2 than GTA IV you will be disappointed. But yeah, just play the game. Car chases have 0 on GTAIV, shooting isn't any more exciting, and if you think this is Cracdown think again.

And no i ain't christian or whatever fake fighting and shit

[WrikaWrek]

It didn't get beat. In anything really.

And i can be unbiased, put my opinion aside, and just compare what's out there in terms of opinions and sales, even if the sales thing doesn't tell anything.

[Van Cruncheon]

i found sr1 to have way better shooting, chasing, fighting, and mayhem in general than gta4

sr2 lets me roll all dat shiz as a fat cheeseburger

sr2

[Kestastrophe]

It didn't get beat. In anything really.

-9000

[GilloD]

Imo GTA simply evolved into something a bit more grounded and serious. It still does the whole "emergent" gameplay thing better than any sandbox game.

If you think you are going to get a more "sandbox" game in saints row 2 than GTA IV you will be disappointed. But yeah, just play the game. Car chases have 0 on GTAIV, shooting isn't any more exciting, and if you think this is Cracdown think again.

And no i ain't christian or whatever fake fighting and shit

You have the worst game opinions this side of Borys.

[cool breeze]

I just picked this up and with Dead Space delayed, I guess I will play this one first.

[demi]

I'm so tempted to just rent Dead Space instead from Gamefly, but I cant think of any two other games I'd actually want to buy and keep

[Joe Molotov]

Car chases have 0 on GTAIV

You mean the car chases where the other car is invincible until a predetermined spot?  Yeah, I'm sure SR2 has nothing on that.

[WrikaWrek]

Imo GTA simply evolved into something a bit more grounded and serious. It still does the whole "emergent" gameplay thing better than any sandbox game.

If you think you are going to get a more "sandbox" game in saints row 2 than GTA IV you will be disappointed. But yeah, just play the game. Car chases have 0 on GTAIV, shooting isn't any more exciting, and if you think this is Cracdown think again.

And no i ain't christian or whatever fake fighting and shit

You have the worst game opinions this side of Borys.

Based on me saying GTAIV>SR2?

Whatever, ah!

Car chases have 0 on GTAIV

You mean the car chases where the other car is invincible until a predetermined spot?  Yeah, I'm sure SR2 has nothing on that.

Oh i'm sure you're gonna love the on rails shooting/chases of SR2.

[Great Rumbler]

Even SR1 was better than GTAIV and so far SR2 surpasses its predecessor.

[pilonv1]

Imo GTA simply evolved into something a bit more grounded and serious. It still does the whole "emergent" gameplay thing better than any sandbox game.

If you think you are going to get a more "sandbox" game in saints row 2 than GTA IV you will be disappointed. But yeah, just play the game. Car chases have 0 on GTAIV, shooting isn't any more exciting, and if you think this is Cracdown think again.

And no i ain't christian or whatever fake fighting and shit

You have the worst game opinions this side of Borys.

Based on me saying GTAIV>SR2?

Whatever, ah!

Car chases have 0 on GTAIV

You mean the car chases where the other car is invincible until a predetermined spot?  Yeah, I'm sure SR2 has nothing on that.

Oh i'm sure you're gonna love the on rails shooting/chases of SR2.

I will because if I dont like them I can go do something else. In GTA4 I could...go bowling or have a man date.

[AdmiralViscen]

Even SR1 was better than GTAIV and so far SR2 surpasses it's predecessor.

Yup.

[AdmiralViscen]

Holy shit, co op is completely seamless and lag-free

[demi]

Nice, GTA destroyed once more

[cool breeze]

Thsi game is pretty rough, but it is a lot of fun and already better than GTA4.

[chronovore]

No, it's pretty much confirmed that Saints Row destroyed GTA4

You're the one with the issue, are you by chance a Christian who watches Wrestling?

Demi's ad hominem attacks are always the tastiest. This one tastes like cod.

[AdmiralViscen]

Just got off 90 minutes of co op. I was playing by myself, got a message saying someone wanted to join, said yes, and he appeared like 15 seconds later with no hitch on my side. We did some side missions. First was escort, where you have to drive while a hooker fucks a guy and keep the press from taking pictures. Well, in co op, one guy drives and the other guy has to do a sex minigame. It's awesome. Then I got wanted stars but didn't want to pull out the map and get arrested, so he set his own wavepoint and talked me to a Forgive and Forget.

Then we did the demo derby. We completed it, raking in like 8 grand, earning 15% off all vehicle modifications at the shop, and unlocking the full set of derby cars at our garages. We also unlocked all the demo derby upgrades, like cattle catchers and boarded up windows.

Then we went clothes shopping

Then he quit, which was also completely seamless.

This game fucks GTA4 in the ass.



edit: Oh, and I upgraded my apartment with a big screen TV and a stripper pole, and it changed in realtime on his screen. We played some of the Zombie attack game, but lost.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

So you can still get the UFO even if you didn't preorder?

[AdmiralViscen]

It's in every box. And you can just find it online, it's nothing special.

The vehicle mods are insane. you can change EVERYTHING, right down to tire profile and wheel size.

[MrAngryFace]

This is so awesome. I made a japanese raver chick and used a parking meter to beat up a guy asking for change hahahahahha omg awesome.

[Joe Molotov]

This is so awesome. I made a japanese raver chick and used a parking meter to beat up a guy asking for change hahahahahha omg awesome.

 

[cool breeze]

I might try out co-op tomorrow.  So far I've been messing around and doing single player stuff.

The character customization is actually amazing.  Rarely does a game have a character creator that lets me get exactly what I want, but this one had it.  The only problem I do have is with the voices since if you're a white guy, you don't have a standard white guy voice but some badass aussie.  It's still awesome.  My character is basically me if I was a badass aussie with a samurai sword.

[AdmiralViscen]

I wish I could ahve uploaded my guy from SR1. I just made my guy as skeevy as possible, as quickly as possible.

Anyone wanna do co-op? Check me on Cafe de Bore.

[MrAngryFace]

Haha im in the middle of a gang fight and this mini-van jumps the sidewalk and hits me. What made it so great was the happy family inside as I rolled off the hood.

[MrAngryFace]

bwahahhaha karma chamelion as I drive through a rain of bullets on my motorcycle.

[AdmiralViscen]

I bought the University Loft for $15k, gives me a newspaper board that lets me replay any mission

Required for the co op achievements.

Do level 6 of the Demo Derby for cash, $5k a pop and it's shit easy.

[Van Cruncheon]

goty

[Positive Touch]

i know you can change your clothes, but can you also change your sex and voice mid-game?

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

i know you can change your clothes, but can you also change your sex and voice mid-game?

Yeah, there was a video on YouTube of someone doing that.

[Positive Touch]

TOMORROW IS GONNA BE SO AWESOME

[pilonv1]

Couldn't get a good shot of the money clip

[AdmiralViscen]

How much extra was that? It's pretty cool.

[drew]

GOTY

[pilonv1]

How much extra was that? It's pretty cool.

AUS$160, game was $99 and Collectors $120. The money clip and basketball singlet really sold me.