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 Send to email | Saints Row 2 Shakes Its GTA Roots [Impressions] in Impressions Original Pax PAX08 Penny arcade expo 2008 saints row 2 Top |  By Brian Crecente
el 03-Sep-2008 |  I was about ten minutes into the Saints Row 2 demo on the Penny Arcade show floor last week when it hit me: The game didn't feel like a GTA rip-off.
It was still free-roaming and featured detailed 3D avatars. It still had plenty of running and gunning. But the vibe, the feel of the game didn't have the same GTA-ness to it that, to many, marked the first Saints Row a Grand Theft Auto clone. I actually mentioned this to the Saints Row folks on hand and they agreed with me. Even the marketing for the game has been geared toward differentiating the free-roaming shooter from GTA. But it's hard to put your finger on exactly how the games are different when playing Saints Row 2. It sort of feels that GTA and Saints Row were both heading down the same road and at some point GTA veered off in one direction and Saints Row headed off in another. The chunk of demo I played through had me playing around with a skinny bald chick escaping from a prison. (I'll avoid the obvious Britney jokes.) The controls for shooting felt fairly tight and melee combat was a joy. I could also, I discovered, run up on a hapless victim, using them as a shield before dispensing them. The game was packed full of humor both of the developers making and my own. For instance, after one particularly fierce battle with a guard I back-hand bitched slapped him to the ground, killing him. I'm not quite sure yet how well Saints Row 2 is going to hold up once I have the full title in my hand, but I do know with absolute certainty that more games need fatal bitch slaps.
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| Saints Row 2 Shakes Its GTA Roots [Impressions] | | I was about ten minutes into the Saints Row 2 demo on the Penny Arcade show floor last week when it hit me: The game didn't feel like a GTA rip-off. It was still free-roaming and featured detailed 3D avatars. It still had plenty of running and gunning. But th [..] Read complete article | | Published 03-Sep-2008 by Brian Crecente in Impressions Original Pax PAX08 Penny arcade expo 2008 saints row 2 Top
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We return to the roots of Joystiq's WRUP series, celebrating one of the best examples of a "missing link" between handheld and home consoles. Nintendo's Virtual Boy wasn't exactly sure which one it wa [..] Read complete article | | Published 18-Oct-2008 by Ross Miller in nintendovirtual-boyvirtualboywhat-are-you-playingwrup
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| Metareview: Saints Row 2 (Xbox 360, PS3) |  Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Metareviews
Fo' rizzle, there be nothin' really wrong with Saints Row 2. Actually, it's quite amusing to read through the reviews of T [..] Read complete article | | Published 15-Oct-2008 by Alexander Sliwinski in saints-row-2thqvolitionvolition-inc
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| Saints Row 2 Delayed [Saints Row 2] | | Don't look so surprised. THQ have announced that they're pushing the release of Saints Row 2 back a couple of months, "due to product quality and marketing considerations". In other words, due to "oh man, that GTA IV is p [..] Read complete article | | Published 28-May-2008 by Luke Plunkett in Newssaints row 2Thqvolition
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| Joystiq impressions: Saints Row 2 (360/PS3) |  Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Online, GalleriesNever before has a videogame so accurately allowed characters to pantomime taking a dump on a slain enemy. Years from now, when every game has a dozen user-sele [..] Read complete article | | Published 05-Apr-2008 by Zack Stern in gtaivopen-worldsaints rowsaints-row-2SaintsRowsandboxthq
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| THQ delays Saints Row 2 until October 14 |  Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action
THQ has broke our gold-plated hearts (and teeth) by announcing that it will delay the launch of Saints Row 2 until the company's third quarter, from the Augu [..] Read complete article | | Published 29-May-2008 by Jason Dobson in Breaking-Newsdelaysaints-row-2saintsrow2thqVolition
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| Don't trip dawg, Saints Row 2 be comin' 2 PC | | Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action
THQ has confirmed to Big Download that ghetto fabulous Saints Row 2 will be poppin' caps on PC. Originally announced for Xbox 36 [..] Read complete article | | Published 03-Jun-2008 by Alexander Sliwinski in saints-rowsaints-row-2saintsrow2thqvolitionvolition incvolition-incvolition-studiosvolitioninc
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