Saints Row 2 360/PS3

[Spatial]

Well that was disturbing!

I don't know if they're in the game on their own but in a cutscene for The Brotherhood I just got

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flashed by some freaky, grotesque bald headed man in a trench coat. His eyes were plain black shapes in his face and totally devoid of life!

That face will be haunting my dreams tonight!

[Riskbreaker]

I've had a couple of moments where I've been stood in a shop and a streaker has suddenly run in and scare the customers. The only time I've seen a trenchcoat flasher is when I've been doing it

Played some co-op with Elan last night. Spent a good while trying to complete the basejumping diversion, it's well worth doing it for the prize

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no damage from falling.

Also managed to steal the Tornado chopper which spawns on top of the Police Station. Instant 5 stars when you steal it, but more than worth it if you make it back to the garage. The Station is worth a visit for anyone who played the first game and wants to fill in some of the details between them.

Anyone else found that their income from the various territories has locked at 8k? Mine doesn't seem to go higher despite buying shops and taking over more areas.

[Spatial]

I'm finding that too.

Why has it become compulsory these days for every single game to include Woman by Wolfmother?

And what's up with them using the theme for the ITV lunchtime news for the news reports?

edit: And the bare faced cheek of using the guy who voiced Roman in GTA for one of the radio adverts?

[Welrain]

Been playing this now for a fun filled 10hrs. I was a bit of a fan of Saints Row but never really got into the whole activities sidelines. However in SR2 they are just so much fun I've been kinda ignoring the main storyline for them (my respect has x42 at the moment!)

I've completed (up to lvl 6) 1 of each of Mayhem, Fuzz, Crowd Control, Escort and Fight Club. I can honestly say I enjoyed these sidelines more than the whole of GTA 4. There is also the added benefit of some kicking unlockables - currently dual weilding kobra's with infinite ammo. I'v also been working hard on my style rating by buying loads of clothes, businesses and upgrading my bike of choice. It really is a lot of fun.

Main storyline wise I've battled the Ronin (and doing there strongholds) and found some of the missions to be brilliant. I won't mention them here to avoid spoilers. The violence is crazy and everyone is just stone cold in their treatment of each other, especially Johnny Gat.

[Spatial]

The cutscenes for this also have some amazing surround sound in them - without spoiling anything for anyone who's not played it, there's the start of one Ronin Mission (the one where Gat shows he's a real bad ass for the first time) where the gun fire and action was just insane. Combined with the OTT action it was a pleasure to watch.

[Welrain]

Lets see some pics of your characters?

[Riskbreaker]

I played through all of the Ronin missions with my character dressed as The Bride from Kill Bill Albeit a bride with tattoos and piercings, but it still looked ok. Worked quite well especially during the missions that

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end with a sword fight

. Customised one of the Tetsuo motorbikes to fit the part as well. I'll put a pic up later.

[Spatial]

Word.

[Dazzyman]

Finished it Friday night took me around another 3hours to do the last ones after a marathon 9hour session on Thursday (21hours total mainly missions). Yet again the bit getting up to the boss was a nightmare on hard level and pretty much cheap due to not being able to aim as well as the mobs attacking me.

Again when I actually got to the boss and i started shooting him he just stood their so I could eat his health away.

Ending is disapointing after all that and theirs no would you like to restart the bosses which is a shame so I guess the saves stuck on doing bits of sub stuff which dont intrest us reallly or restart a new save in the future.

I also didnt get one gratitude for doing the whole thing on the hardest level and if your a points whore forget it this game gives you very little.

Even after all the niggles I still give it a 9/10. Some of the last bits are very hard on the hardest level and I had to do them over and over (and the usual great checkpoint system goes off abit) and I was swearing like mad which I dont really on games (I didnt do it on veteran on COD4) because they where that cheap so Id suggest playing it on just standard. Its really designed for full co-op in mind but it works just as a single player experience.

If they had upped the engine graphics and sorted the bugs out it would be better than GTAIV. Id suggest if you play the story to do the Ronin one last though and do them as one part all in one (ie dont do bit of ronin go off and do zombies then back and forth) as they are proper solid storys in their own right. Ronin easily has the best story and boss fight so thats why Id say do that last

Voice acting is very good as well Michael Dorn aka pastie head (Worf) out of DS9/STNG does one boss and Dushku out of Buffy does the main lass.

With Too Human probably my fav games recently and both impulse purchase buys after getting average/slatings.

[Daragon]

I can't believe how many times I've had to restart this game now, due to either bugs or my PS3 going to ****.

First off, the game fails to inform you that the preorder vehicles are cheats until you're on the main menu loading your game (what's up with that?)

Secondly, my stats from saved games that I've seemingly deleted carry over to a new one - apparently I've beaten the Ho ing distraction before I've escaped from prison (wtf? Happened to me 3 times before I figured out what the problem was)

And just yesterday, the game somehow ****s up my console with a hidden corrupted file, meaning a full system format was needed to get rid of it, causing me untold grief

When it's not screwing up, it's a quality game but by God, someone needs to sort this **** out...

[Phar]

Ending is disapointing after all that and theirs no would you like to restart the bosses which is a shame so I guess the saves stuck on doing bits of sub stuff which dont intrest us reallly or restart a new save in the future.

You can replay all the missions you've done though can't you?, haven't tried it myself yet but theres a newspaper icon in some of the safehouses that let you do this.

Id suggest if you play the story to do the Ronin one last though and do them as one part all in one (ie dont do bit of ronin go off and do zombies then back and forth) as they are proper solid storys in their own right. Ronin easily has the best story and boss fight so thats why Id say do that last

I liked those missions as well, especially the bit where you had to escape from the

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hospital, gun in one hand while pushing Johnny Gat around on a stretcher.

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[Dazzyman]

Id like a complete reset though m8 like Crackdown be able to do them all as a story in seqeuence with all me dosh than just as a click on mission to redo it. Its not a biggie as just start a new save but it would have been a good feature.

Yea that mission was great infact they all where really even the take over dens what were not classed as missions still had little cut scenes and I did them all. I think if it had the same engine as GTAIV peeps would have been raving about it more and Im totally with Eurogamer on the review score. Scarey (in a good way) to think as well that I could have done the whole thing in co-op

[Asholay]

I've only been playing this co-op with Brats... 40&#37; through, and an absolute hoot!!! Far more fun, and extra 'cheevment points as well! (but hell yes does it collapse a lot)

[Brats]

Aye, we seem to have at least one crash a night. Last night it was right at the start when I 'accidentally' mowed down Ash during a Fuzz activity and from then on it was well behaved.

Still lots of fun though - the activities are great. We've unlocked double Kobra pistols with infinite ammo and they are incredible. Massive long range and just four clips will take down an attack helicopter.

[Riskbreaker]

This is how you do the Ronin missions: