Saints Row 2 pimp slaps consoles Aug. 26

by Alexander Sliwinski on Apr 4th 2008 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.

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Tags: Action, Microsoft, PS3, Saints-Row, saints-row-2, saintsrow2, Sandbox, thq, Volition, Xbox-360

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

"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.

PUUUKE! I will pass on this ignorant game.

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

:D

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.

Word G!

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

Cast closed.

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

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.

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

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

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?

Cause not every game is still in school?

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

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

*slams fist with another fist in appreciation*

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?

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.

That's awesome..... I personally love the graphic. That dude in the background has a gold rifle hanging around his neck!

I found the first game to be quite amusing. I didn't finish it 100%, but I actually played it through to the closing cut scene, which is far more than I do for 90% of the games I get.

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

Fenix, you from Harris County?

Yezzir!

Weird so am i

wait...is spring in harris county?

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

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

lol and to think we started off so poorly! I dont care what they say bout ya Fenix ur alright by me!

Awwe shucks!

You serious? Paul Wall? Lil Flip? Mike Jones? Houston rappers are garbage. Chamillionaire is the only decent one.

Someone needs to brush his teeth! Get that gold out of your teeth, it doesn't belong there!

Wow, based on that picture alone I already hate this game.

Wtf? I thought april fool's was over.

"These Ferrero Rochers candies are so yummy, I am going to eat them all without unrwapping them!

OM NOM NOM NOM NOM"

that was the funniest thing i've read all day

YO YO YO, check this sh*t!!! We be ignant mofo's with diamonds in our teefs. Don't like it? We be bustin' caps up in yo a$$, don't trip!

Wow, i can't believe how retarded some people are.

So did you, or did you not, just perpetuate a stereotype with your idiotic attempt at making fun of stereotypes.

Wow, I can't believe how retarded some people are.

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