Eh, with GTA coming, really no interest in this. The first was ok, but with GTA out, don't see much point unless this is drastically better.

Kyle81

@ErskinPig:

that's what a lot of the regs on the 2k forums said. I remember the first time I played morrowind, I hated it. I made a horrible character, no idea what I was doing, and ended up getting killed by guards over and over. I then put it away, picked it back up a month later, and fell in love with it.

Sometimes games need second chances.

Lot Krotan

@Witzbold: Never played it. What makes it enjoyable and not a GTA clone? Just wondering...

Spoony Bard

@Lot Krotan: Summers are getting better, but apparently August is getting worse. (c wut I did thar?

Bam345

@Lot Krotan: STALKER has its flaws, but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It's a truely remarkable game. You might face a bit of inertia getting into it, but once you do get it, you'll be glad you decided to install it. Fairly meaty game too, I clocked up 40ish hours on the SP campaign.

Great game.

ErskinPig

Sorry for the re-post, but I want to add that the replay value is much greater than GTAIV. Why, well its very simple, the fact that you can customize basically anything even that main character. SR@ vs GTA IV gameplay & re-play value.

TheTime

DUDE Saints Row SUX! Left for dead AWESOME! Thats the august title I'm Getting

Jagzi11a

@ErskinPig:

Forgot all about that. I still haven't installed my copy of STALKER...

I wonder when Fable 2 will be out, it's in the polishing parts of the game now.

All the haters of Saint's Row probably didn't play the first.

Voice Acting was great, side missions were interesting, story was a tad better than other games in the genre (crackdown), driving was better, and it kept a distinct, albeit a little borrowed, sense of humor that didn't get too whacky or too serious.

Basically, co-op campaign is enough to make me rebuy the game, everything else they've added is just extra imo.

Lot Krotan

Why play Saints Row 2 when there is GTA IV? I'm only half serious but I'm not so sure I'll be ready for another Open World Crime simulator when this comes out.

greeble

This year is gonna be better than 2007. History does repeat itself doesn't it.

TheTime

THIS year is going to be better, bigger, and more badass in every way.

TheTime

As a GTA clone you have to give them credit for the first one. Who knows?, maybe they'll even add their own touch to make it more distinctive.
It takes balls of brass to go up against something like GTA, kudos to them for doing it.

Cruithne

@Lot Krotan: STALKER Clear Sky is out then too. Good times.

Last year was a disgrace up until Bioshock's release. Then the floodgates opened and loads of must-have games were released. Fucking pisses me off actually, this targeting Christmas business. Release your game when it's finished, stop holding it back!

ErskinPig

@Witzbold: Same here, I'm almost as excited for this as I am GTAIV. Looks like this summer is going to be pretty good!

photoboy

Full Co-op campaign. I'm down.

Derigor

o and I forgot, the bugginess of the graphics in the first was a major turn off as well, this one better run smoothly or what's the point of quality contol?

Grumps

@Lost_Fable: Mercenaries 2...Right? Riiight?

Bam345

When this game comes out I'm going to sell my copy of GTA IV to get it!

No...Not Really...

Iceking5

I wasn't a big fan of the first but will definitely give this one a rent at least when it comes out. I just don't wanna have to drive hos around to advance the main story, i'll do that later when I'm doing side missions. Is the respect system going to be the same? Having to do errands to unlock main missions?

Grumps

August = Saint's Row 2, Left 4 Dead, and a few other decent titles

Last August = Bioshock and nothing else

Summers are getting better!

Lot Krotan

And 5 days later, Mercenaries 2 comes out. Hmm, I wonder which I'll be buying.

Lost_Fable

Wow this summer is really looking jam packed to the hilt with hot titles. I just hope all of the release dates stay intact.

acez2087

Im totally looking foward to this one. :D Had quite a good time with the original thats why.

Witzbold

@PHILOSOPHER541: Probably the "gangsta" setting. I hated San Andreas also because of the whole gangsta thug feel to the whole thing.

Kyle81

@acez2087: yeah. you see if just one of those games (like gtaIV or mgs4) gets pushed back we would have a gaming void! it's like last year when both of them were pushed back, i was left with a ps3 with very few games (i don't buy that much games.) thankfully there was assassin's creed (c'mon start the hate now!) and i got to play it till february.

i thought they were going to stand toe to toe with GTAIV on this one? why is the release date on august?

holyOrange

saints row to me is just not a very exciting game at all. then again i hated san andreas gta

PHILOSOPHER541

you go to the features page on the SR2 website and its just a list of things that either are already in GTA IV or were in the original version of the game, customisation is all good but they knew when they started this game that GTA was gonna be coming out around the same time. They really need some kind of ground breaking feature to even take a shot at capturing peoples interest in the wake of the GTA release and I just dont see it....

Brokenlynx

I couldn't play the first one, the framerate was extremely uneven on my 360, so I got motion sickness from trying to drive in a straight line. If they fix that, I'm all up for a second chance...

...but allow me to express some scepticism over the fact that they have a set release date 4 months away, but basically no media out besides a handful of undersized screenshots. Not a great way to build up hype.

The Whaleman

@Witzbold: I really enjoyed the original, too. It sounds like they've added enough to really get me interested again.

@Figcoinc: GTA would have been out for 4 months (at least here in the states) ... I can't really imagine putting 4 months into any game, but it's definitely more than a couple.

jayntampa

Mercs 2 should of came out in june, it would give everyone time to play through each game. Late august is a bad time to release a game as it is, school begins on Sep 2nd for me. Saint's Row really wasn't that long of a game either, but it was pretty fun.
I hope there's some more songs from Aisha. DFM me like your wife was good.

akilshohen

Saints Row is pretty fun. Honestly, with GTA only being out for a couple months by then I will hold off. I can only handle one "Crime Genre Sandbox" at a time.

Figcoinc

I expect that I will still be playing GTAIV by the time August 26th rolls around. I bought the first Saints Row and had some fun times with it, but it felt like something to tide me over until GTAIV came out.

coalhalo

I can just see both publishers for Saints row and Mercenaries 2 debating when best to release their games so as not have to compete with the other open world game Gta4.

I mean surely this is going to hurt both games sales. I would imagine there is a quite fair overlap between people that want SR2 and people that want Mercs2. How many people are going to buy 2 massive open world games in the same week?

Zim

"As a GTA clone you have to give them credit for the first one."

Why ? The developers basically stole the entire game, and didn't add anything of their own to it.

I refuse to support such a blatent rip-off of a blockbuster title.

Sure it's not a bad game, because it just photocopied every aspect of the GTA series. When your blueprint is a multi-million selling series, it's hard to screw up.

jynxycat

Well the first one was a lot of fun and Saints Row is pretty much the only other game of its kind that could hold a candle to GTA so yeah im down.

Jackel2072

*snigger* I bet there finished making the game but there just waiting...waiting so it doesn't get ecilipsed by a little game by Rockstar

excel_excel

I really enjoyed the original. Sure, it's a total clone hack, but it was really good fun. The graphics were pretty colorful (unlike last-gen clone fluff like True Crime) and the satirical ads were even funnier (to me, at least) than the stuff in GTA-- I mean, freckle bitches? That STILL makes me laugh. The title's minigames were good, the car and character customisation were pretty elaborate (if purely cosmetic), and the writing and voice acting were really solid-- all that stuff worked together to make Saint's Row one of this generation's surprise pleasures for me. I'm expecting good things from the sequel.

wild homes

In SR2, I'm going to make my fat purple jumpsuit guy from SR1. He runs around eating cheeseburgers and showing random pedestrians the bad end of a baseball bat. What a great way to spend the afternoon in front of the Xbox. O and Where is Alan Wake?

panfriedcharlie

@greeble: that's what i'm saying.

@Kyle81: vice city thugs=good

san andreas thugs=bad
whatever

isn't killzone 2 coming around sept? just asking....

jfx316

I loved the first one and I am most definitely going to buy part 2.

HurricaneDave

Saint's Row has done something that everyone in that's remotely interested in GTA should be thankful for. They forced Rockstar to step up their game. SR beat them to the punch in online Multiplayer, Next Gen Graphics, improved targeting and much much more. If it wasn't for SR, GTA IV could've been a helluva lot less drastic change than we see now.

Why is it that you elitist fanboy gamers allow so many FPS games to flourish, yet you believe there can only be one Urban Sandbox game?

NEWSFLASH: That is how progress is made! Throughout history, we've been taking the ideas of others and adding our own little tweaks.

I'm tired of defending Saint's Row each and every time there's a post here about it. If you want to blindly hate the game because you read a few reviews about it and keep coining that old "it trys so hard to be gangster" routine, then fine, I obviously can't change your mind.

However, if you have a few dollars and a few hours to spare, I strongly suggest you rent/buy the game and give it a play through, even if for no other reason than to get a taste of whats to come from Volition and Rockstar this year.

Laidbackga

@jfx316:

""vice city thugs=good
san andreas thugs=bad
whatever""

Vice City = Mafia
San Andreas = Thugs

Get it right.

dead_red_eyes

@Grumps: It's called Quality Assurance in video games, not quality control.
@jynxycat: I found that Saints Row was actually way more adult than GTA, and actually did away with many of the annoying aspects of GTA (not being able to restart a failed mission immediately, precision aiming, all guns unlocked at the start, and many more.

ColdBloodedBMC

NOT, too.

KaneRobot

@jynxycat: Are you serious ? The character customisation was poor at best

Ok, yeah. You most certainly have NO played Saint's Row.

KaneRobot

@jynxycat: Why ? The developers basically stole the entire game, and didn't add anything of their own to it.

Looks like someone hasn't played Saint's Row.

I refuse to support such a blatent rip-off of a blockbuster title.

Uh-huh. Then you must not play many games at all, since ripoffs abound throughout the industry.

Even if all they did was have a better targeting system and allow character creation (which is most certainly NOT all they did) Saint's Row would have been a worthy purchase. SR2 is easily a day 1-er for me.

KaneRobot

@wild homes: "character customisation were pretty elaborate (if purely cosmetic), and the writing and voice acting were really solid"

Are you serious ? The character customisation was poor at best, and the ... writing... was ... solid ? Take any stereotypical gangsta talk, crank it up to 11, and there you go, Saint's Row script in a nutshell.

jynxycat

@TheTime: Am I the only person who doesn't care about character customization?

I want to blow things up and get into gunfights with the cops, not play dress up dolls.

Canadian Impostor

@Laidbackga: well said man. Well fucking said.

excel_excel

I got bored of Saints Row. It was still a good game, considering they did the old CTRL+C -> CTRL+V job of it from GTA, but it suffered from a typical poor story and such. The game just did not seem to grab me at all and overall they could have really made the game alot better. It did offer some nice mechanics that Rockstar themselves seem to have snatched and CTRL+V'd into GTA IV, e.g using your mobile phone to call a police car or ambulance and stealing it.

-MoarPlz-

Too soon if you ask me. GTA IV will have some serious legs, so Saints Row 2 needs to come at least 6 months later.

I liked Saints Row a lot, but GTA is king and I doubt that I will be ready for a GTA clone 4 months after GTA IV.

I say they should push it back to October or November. I bet it get's delayed anyway so it will probably hit closer to October that August IMHO.

Parabolee

Well, at least this'll give PS3 owners something to do while 360 owners are prepping for the first GTA IV DLC ep. :D

DARTH_TIGRIS

@DARTH_TIGRIS: I heard it's just random missions they add. Nothing special or mindblowing that isn't already in the game.

-MoarPlz-

GTA 4 DLC? PS3 owners will be playing MGS4 or MGO.

notalkjustrock

@jynxycat: I don't know, man. I didn't say the character customisation was a game-changing thing (in fact, I stated it was purely cosmetic) but it was definitely a good time-- and the fact that you could have 'plastic surgery' whenever you could afford it gave you more chances to play the game exactly how you wanted to, which definitely made it more enjoyable for me. And I thought the writing was good, and made me feel like I was part of a living world-- michael rappaport's character and mila kunis' ultra diva character especially. You're welcome to your opinion, and I'm not saying GTA won't be great.

wild homes

@-MoarPlz-: no one really knows yet so please stop thinking that. I like to stay optimistic just in case MS diddnt waste 50 mil on random crap.

Jmontilla2786

@Jmontilla2786: Actually I read in a 13 page interview with Sam Houser, that it basically adds side missions or an extra mission story arc or something. He only briefly touched upon it, but the upshot was that you're walking along and some guy stops you and says 'Look, there's a guy in that apartment up there who is fucking my wife....' etc. Sounds quite interesting and he did say that in the future the game will expand and grow through many DLC's. It's a shame I have been fucked over like this, like many PS3 owners. Hurray for 'exclusive content'... :(

-MoarPlz-

Grand Theft Auto: Saints Row

Go CJ!

octoSink

guna be crushed by Mercs. 2.

Lanhoj

Why would anyone play this when the could be playing GTAIV or Mercenaries 2?

jackal888

Good to see they will have Motorcycles this time around.

CaveHonkey

I need to quit my job just to catch up with all the previous year. Now comes another action pack release schedule.

CaveHonkey

@Kyle81 "I hated San Andreas also because of the whole gangsta thug feel to the whole thing."

Its 2008, get that hate out of your heart.

nyckrazy

@jackal888: Because it's a good game.

Foxstar Sixtail

@dead_red_eyes: ohhh. right. owned.

vice city-scarface ripoff

SA-boys in the hood ripoff

and, oh yeah, the mafia doesn't have thugs. right? who was coming to see you if you wrote a bad review about Frank Sinatra? uh.....thugs.

jfx316