Saints Row 2 pimp slaps consoles Aug. 26

by Alexander Sliwinski { Apr 4th 2008 at 11:00AM }

The pimps, hoes and other assorted citizens of Saints Row are ready to return August 26 on Xbox 360 and PS3. IGN reports the release date was announced at THQ's Gamers' Day event held in San Francisco. The official Saints Row 2 website is now up and blinged to the nines with ghetto fabulousness.

Late August seems like enough breathing room between SR2 and GTA IV to give the game a chance. Then again, depending on how over-the-top Saints Row 2 ends up being, it could carve out its own niche. We're just looking forward to some co-op play, because you gotta have friends to survive in the ghetto ... and a pimp hat, yeah, we're gonna need big pimp hats.

Tags: saints-row-2, saintsrow2, thq

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Jagzi11a @ Apr 4th 2008 11:06AM

I hope thats game art, This game is not even worth the dvd's (bluray dvd's) its burned on. GARBAGE GAME!

playwhutyalike @ Apr 4th 2008 11:09AM

You think so? They have it at Target for $25 right now I was thinking of picking it up. Anybody else want to tell me what they thought about Saints Row?

theturtle363 @ Apr 4th 2008 11:14AM

IMO saints row was an incredible game. I play it pretty much every day and have since it came out. Even if it's just half an hour. But I've 100%'d it twice and I still play it.

Sir Fidlious Wong (Zeon Defense Force) @ Apr 4th 2008 11:17AM

I enjoyed Saints Row. It's funny in ways not intended and the humor goes for shock rather than clever like GTA but Saints Row is the first sandbox game I beat so that should tell you something.

xFenixKnightx @ Apr 4th 2008 11:27AM

playwutyalike

Nah Ive heard nothing but good things about it from my buddies but I personally have never played it. Dont listen to that guy.

rdj75 @ Apr 4th 2008 11:37AM

Dude, saints row was pretty good and I thought the story was pretty good. I hope the continue exactly where the first one left off.

Co @ Apr 4th 2008 12:02PM

Man whatever,

Slap 50 Cent's name on this exact game and you guys would be clowning it and not giving it a second look.

BananaBoat @ Apr 4th 2008 12:10PM

You are better off playing any of the previous GTA games, because Saints Row is basically a direct ripoff anyway (and not in a good way).

Garbage is certainly the correct term.

MegoSteve @ Apr 4th 2008 12:38PM

I must be one of the few people in the world that enjoyed Saints Row more than GTA. I prefer a customization that doesn't force me to be a preselected character. I spent a ton of time playing Saints Row... lots more than I did with any of the GTA games (probably more than I did on all of the GTA games combined).

mundox @ Apr 4th 2008 2:06PM

I found SR to be a very fun game, actually it's the only game sandbox game I've ever finished (I never bothered to finish and of the GTAs... only vice city).

I got it for $29.99 ($21.99 now) on amazon, it's definitely worth the cash.

The only thing that sucked is that your gang uses purple.

Sir Fidlious Wong (Zeon Defense Force) @ Apr 4th 2008 3:50PM

"You are better off playing any of the previous GTA games, because Saints Row is basically a direct ripoff anyway (and not in a good way)."

Umm, except for these aspects...

-GPS... added a LOT to this genre and frankly, I hate that Burnout Paradise doesn't have it. And no, GTA didn't have it before, GTAIV will be the first (and they basically took Saints Rows system and expanded on it).

-Gunplay that works. I always stopped playing GTA because I got tired of the piss poor gunplay which actually stands on equal ground with Resident Evil 3. Seriously, I couldn't take it. Loved the game, hate having to work with something that's broken and the gunplay in GTA has been broken since they went to 3D.

-Variety in how you progressed the game. You could take on any story arc you wanted and the additional things to the game actually had purpose.

THE WICKER MAN (BWF) (GT: Dalek Prime) @ Apr 4th 2008 11:08AM

PUUUKE! I will pass on this ignorant game.

Hashbrown Hunter @ Apr 4th 2008 1:28PM

Lay off man! It's hard out there for a pimp.

:D

James @ Apr 4th 2008 4:26PM

I don't know how a game can be ignorant. Unless by ignorant you mean stupid. Even then calling a game stupid is pretty ignorant of yourself.

MrLuna @ Apr 4th 2008 11:10AM

Word G!

Shagittarius @ Apr 4th 2008 11:12AM

If thats the box art it will single handedly cause me to pass on this game.

copa @ Apr 4th 2008 11:22AM

I actually had the same thought. GTA4 uses a lot of racial stereotyping in their humor, but they do it in a very sly and subversive away. The game clearly has a level of self-awareness.

I've never played Saint's Row, but I looked at that image, and found it offensively cartoonish.

Not trying to be all heavy, but I just came here after reading a New York Times writeup of MLK's assassination 40 years ago today. My first thought was, "I'm glad he's not alive to see that."

Am I getting the wrong impression from that image, or is Saint's Row just dumb blaxploitation stuff?

playwhutyalike @ Apr 4th 2008 11:31AM

Copa,

That's weird because I had my browser shut down and when I opened it they had Chasing the Dream: How Far Have We Come as the story. I was on my way to Joystiq to check this article before I left the house. Now I'm feeling, well, dirty and confused.

Shagittarius @ Apr 4th 2008 11:37AM

DEEZNUTZ I hope your being sarcastic, cause if thats what black men aspire to be...

PSN: KillaKornbread (the shirt is a lie!) @ Apr 4th 2008 12:13PM

well im black and the cover isnt offensive or anything to me. there are plenty of black people (not to mention people of all other races) that aspire to look like that. im fortunately not one of them. i may pick this up if im not still playing GTAIV then. it does seem to be playing alot on stereotypes but its not offensive. box art isnt a reason not to buy a game. the only time i played the first one was in Game Crazy for like 15 minutes. it was an ok game that i could c myself getting into given the right circumstances (like it being on a console i own lol)

oh, but yea, MLK would probably kill himself if he came back today. watch that Boondocks episode about MLK coming back if your into that show (of even if your not lol). its funny with a point.

Shagittarius @ Apr 4th 2008 12:35PM

I didn't say aspire to look like, I said aspire to be. I'm not talking about the grill I'm talking about the whole image. The whole image displays a lifestyle that should be little more than fantasy, while its of course completly exagerated, the idea of being a successful criminal, and that success being displayed in your persona via excesses should be offensive to everyone. I HATED the sopranos, I could not watch a show about pricks like that.

I can't believe someone used the term Obamafied...(Im sure it must have been a joke). I mean who would want to aspire to be like the potentially next president of the USA, when you can aspire to be like the scumbag depicted on the cover of saints row?

Look its a game, i get it, its a fantasy, i get it, I'm not usually one to bitch about such things, maybe I'm just getting older, and everyone needs to stay off my lawn, I don't know. I do know there are a lot of stupid people out there though.

I rest my cast.

Delgado @ Apr 4th 2008 1:11PM

Cast closed.

ThePremierAssassin @ Apr 4th 2008 2:46PM

Its scary but I as a black man completely agree with Shag on this one...

Nailio @ Apr 4th 2008 3:32PM

Holy crap Shag. I tend to ignore you most of the time because, well face it you like to troll. But that was well said.

deaftly @ Apr 4th 2008 11:13AM

I enjoyed Saints Row more alot more then any of the GTA games previously but with GTA4 coming this won't even be noticed.

baby sea tuna @ Apr 4th 2008 11:15AM

A lot of people seem to like the first one. Personally, it's not my speed...but then again, neither is GTA.

theturtle363 @ Apr 4th 2008 11:16AM

Dammit. Why are all these games coming out right before classes start? WTF. Why are they releasing games that people will only be able to play for a few days before they have to ignore them?

Shagittarius @ Apr 4th 2008 11:17AM

Cause not every game is still in school?

theturtle363 @ Apr 4th 2008 11:22AM

i didnt know games went to school. Is it like finishing school where they learn proper manners?

baby sea tuna @ Apr 4th 2008 11:24AM

If so, Army of Two must have dropped out after a single semester!

riggs @ Apr 4th 2008 11:34AM

*slams fist with another fist in appreciation*

Shagittarius @ Apr 4th 2008 11:38AM

If you can't find time to play games cause your in school, what are you going to do when you actually have to get a job and mommy and daddy dont take care of you anymore? When will you have time to play then?

PSN: KillaKornbread (the shirt is a lie!) @ Apr 4th 2008 12:21PM

well i go to college and work a job and i have little time for gaming. i still buy them though and play mostly in the summer since i dont have homework. i just to work and then thats it til i go in again. with school its school, homework, work, then games.

i think we go back on the 25th of august next semester (assuming the 26th is a Tuesday) so i more than likely wont get to play this one til winter break if i even pick it up.

xFenixKnightx @ Apr 4th 2008 11:47AM

I wonder if Paul Wall did that grill for him?
H-Town Baby!

Co @ Apr 4th 2008 12:04PM

Fenix, you from Harris County?

xFenixKnightx @ Apr 4th 2008 12:08PM

Yezzir!

PopKornPlaya @ Apr 4th 2008 2:04PM

Weird so am i

wait...is spring in harris county?

Co @ Apr 4th 2008 2:23PM

Cool man. UGK = Best Rap Duo EVARRRRR!!! Them and Outkast, anyways. R.I.P. Pimp C!

xFenixKnightx @ Apr 4th 2008 2:35PM

Yea Ive always jammed UGK, Bun-B and Pimp C were actually here at my job a while back b4 he passed. I work in the Medical Center and they were visiting a family member. They were rolling in a fine ride thats for sure. I love all my H-town rappers, Chamillionair, Paul Wall, Slim Thugga, Lil Flip, Who? Mike Jones, and that SWISHA HOUSE!! =P