Saints Row 2 | 
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Seller: Tech for Less Rating: 23 reviews Sales Rank: 1,895
Format: CD-ROM Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista Genre: sports_and_outdoors_games ESRB: Mature Media: DVD-ROM Edition: Standard Autographed: No Memorabilia: No Batteries Included: No Age: 17 - 20 years Operating System: XXX Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 49337 Model: 49337 UPC: 752919493373 EAN: 0752919493373 ASIN: B0016Q4UJE
Release Date: January 5, 2009 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | Over 40 story missions with additional bonus missions take place in a transformed Stilwater that is over 50% larger than before. | | • | Limitless Customization ? Play as fully customizable characters that are male, female or something in between. Cribs, vehicles and even gangs all have customization options. | | • | Multiplayer ? Co-op full story campaign has seamless integration (for example one player drives while the other shoots). | | • | Competitive multiplayer pushes the boundaries of immersion in a living Stillwater environment fully populated with police, innocent bystanders and rival gangs. | | • | Planes, helicopters, motorcycles, boats and cars can be piloted and used as weapons. On the ground new combat options include melee, fine aim, and human shield |
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Amazon.com A 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.
Product Description Saints Row 2 brings true freedom to open-world gaming. Players can play as who they want, how they want, and with whomever they want in this sequel to the much acclaimed and tremendously successful Saints Row. Set years after the original, the player finds himself in a Stilwater both familiar and strange and challenged with bringing the Saints back as the rightful kings of Stilwater and bringing vengeance to those who wronged him.
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If you have a fast pc...and you like games...buy this game now October 25, 2009 The Sloth (Stockholm, Sweden) 3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have a core i7 with 6bg ram and a geforce 275 gtx. This game is very fun and runs smooth. Saint's Row 2 is my favorite game right now and has been for the past few months. BTW...if your PC can't run this game, it's time for a new PC. Seriously the last sandbox game I liked was Vice City because of the overall style of the game. This game is what GTA San Andreas or GTA IV should have been. Wow.
Fun March 18, 2009 DJ 3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Playing this on a new PC with the patch- haven't had any problems. I'm finding the game very fun. There is a huge amount of customizability for your character.
BEWARE - This game will only run well on an awesome PC January 27, 2010 Ian from Maryland 3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I love this game, however I have a $4,000 computer. I built the computer myself so god knows what it would have cost from alienware.
So basically, if you have the very latest and best cpu, graphics cardS, tons of ram, asus mobo, etc, buy this game and you will love it! It will look great, play great and be fun!
HOWEVER, if you do not have a cutting edge pc, and can't afford one, just forget about this game. Play WOW or something that any pc can run.
my pc:
intel core i7 3.2ghz cpu
evga gtx 285
another gtx 285
12 gb of ddr3 ram, i forget what speed but it was the 2nd fastest corsair available from newegg in feb 2009
asus p6t mobo
1200w toughpower power supply
cooler master v8 cpu cooler
cooler master cosmos case
10,000rpm western digital harddrive
It's a good game once you overcome the bugs May 29, 2010 FordGT90Concept (IA USA) 3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I won't say much on gameplay because that topic is pretty well covered. It is a lot like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas except that all vehicles and your character are heavily customizable. You can do pretty much whatever you want in the game just like the Grand Theft Auto series. The game is a lot of fun once you get it working right.
There's two major problems with this game that aren't obvious:
1) You need a tri-core or better processor. On a dual core processor or less, it is nearly impossible to drive at full speed due to lag.
2) This game has timing issues on Windows 7. You can use Saints Row 2 Power tools to fix this: [...]
Note that even the boxed retail copy of this game requires Steam to run. Don't be surprised when Steam asks you for your serial number instead of the usual installer.
It has at least 35 hours of single player game time if you do everything. It offers cooperative and other multiplayer modes for online (GameSpy ID) and LAN networking.
Once you get it working right, I would rate this game 8/10. It gets docked one point for requiring Steam and one point for having low bit-rate music.
But it's *fun*...! March 30, 2009 Warlock One (Portland OR) 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I can sympathize with those who have had Saints Row 2 give them grief on their hardware. For a long time, such complaints kept me away from the game. But I had heard many positive things about the console versions of the game, and later that the publisher had put out patches in a fairly timely and attentive manner, and the game was much improved; finally, I snapped up a copy.
And I'm quite glad I did.
Now, to be clear, my machine is probably *not* typical. I run an i940 with 3GB of RAM and an OC GeForce GTX 280 that I put together myself only months ago. If you're running a dual- or single-core machine, particularly one that's much more than a year old, you probably want to see if you can find someone else's recent benchmarks at the very least before a purchase.
But if you have the horsepower, at its current state, Saints Row 2 is a lot of fun.
I don't share others' complaints about the controls. Yes, it's true, one cannot use the mouse in the menus, and using Control and Shift to move between columns of options takes some getting used to. But I played the game to the main plot's conclusion with mouse and keyboard, and had few problems; certainly none I would call game-breaking. The use of Control/Shift to move between options only come into play when the player is doing something at their own pace; during action, one uses a control scheme very similar to many other PC third-person games. My one real complaint is that sometimes the player's character takes a step forward before turning when one wishes to move left, right, or backwards. In a game where it's possible to stand on the edge of a high roof, and random people may become violently offended by your bumping into them, that can be a real problem.
The cars and bikes steer well, but there is a certain problem with vehicle physics; everything seems lighter than it should be. Armored SWAT vehicles little smaller than tanks overturn relatively easily from, say, being struck by a small car. Realism is not a high concern here, but you'll have no problem getting from X to Y, and you may even find yourself grinning as the game awards you "respect" for racing along in the oncoming lane, powersliding around corners, and weaving through traffic with inches to spare.
The graphics are somewhat cartoonish but more than up to the job. Watching the character you designed make his or her way through the cut scenes is particularly effective in helping the player to identify with the game's antihero (although some of said character's more antisocial acts may make that a somewhat squeamish matter, truth be told.) And there's a vast variety of locations, from brightly decorated Chinatowns to gorgeous sunsets over water views to filthy abandoned slum houses. Watching your safe houses become vibrant and garish as you gain stature and wealth is a particular pleasure.
And as others have said, Saints Row allows a fairly remarkable amount of variety in the diversions the player can undertake between missions. Watching your character flung through the air as he "fakes" injuries to scam insurance companies is particularly addictive.
To be fair, even in its current state, it's not completely polished. Some objects float weirdly through the air in cut scenes when characters are supposed to be holding them in their hands. And I did encounter two fairly random game crashes, though I will note that's *two* in the course of over thirty hours of play. And if you don't like Steam for whatever reason, I'm sorry; you're stuck with it.
But all else aside, the game is FUN. I happily put my thirty hours into it, and I hope some sour grapes doesn't cause Volition to hesitate to bring Saints Row 3, if such comes into being, to the PC.
In it's current state, SR 2 is not "the worst console port ever". Not even close (says a man who has played games that wouldn't go above 640x480.) Nor is it "broken". Nor are its graphics "last generation". It's an engaging sandbox game with its own style, and a worthy contender to GTA. By all means, buy the console version if you own a console. But if you don't, and your beige box can handle it- don't let the early negative reviews scare you away. You'll be missing a good time.
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