The thing about Stilwater, all of the inhabitants, the cast of the game and the main character is that they’re all assholes. Saint’s Row 2 separates itself from the pack by being completely over the top, and after playing games with tragic main characters or serious stories this is sort of refreshing.
It seems to me that recently games have become darker and more serious in tone, and for some reason add a lot more of the color brown than you would think necessary. In that time several other games of this type have been released, and the question with Saint’s Row 2 is if it can still improve on the pre-existing formula for this style of game, or if it just rehashes stuff from the previous Saint’s Row game. The excellent GPS system, free aiming, using a cell phone as a menu, ability to retry missions, and overall streamlining are several features that were frustrating from other sandbox games. While many saw the first Saint’s Row game as a sandbox style game to kill time with until GTAIV came out, it was one of the few games of this style that added a lot to the genre. With the original Saint’s Row game, that changed. The problem is that while many of these games where similar, they didn’t deliver on the scale that the GTA series did, and many of them didn’t do anything different and felt like they were just trying to cash in on the success of the GTA series. After GTA burned up the sales charts years ago a bunch of similar games appeared to take advantage of the popularity of that title, with such games like Mercenaries, The Godfather, Scarface, Just Cause, True Crime, and so on. The genre still doesn’t have a term that defines it, so the easiest way to describe a game like this is to just say, “It’s like Grand Theft Auto“. However this is more of a problem with the language of video games since terms like “Sandbox” make a game sound like something my cat takes a dump in, and “Open World” isn’t the best fit either since that brings up images of a massive open area. Comparing the two games is something that is easy to do since there are several similarities between the two games. Let’s just get it right out of the way, Saint’s Row 2 is sort of like Grand Theft Auto.
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