Saints Row 2

by THQ

Product Features

• Limitless Customization – Play as fully customizable characters that are male, female or something in between. Cribs, vehicles and even gangs all have customization options.
• Multiplayer – Co-op full story campaign has seamless integration (for example one player drives while the other shoots).
• Competitive multiplayer pushes the boundaries of immersion in a living Stillwater environment fully populated with police, innocent bystanders and rival gangs.
• Planes, helicopters, motorcycles, boats and cars can be piloted and used as weapons. On the ground new combat options include melee, fine aim, and human shield.
• Over 40 story missions with additional bonus missions take place in a transformed Stilwater that is over 50% larger than before.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0016Q6V8C
• Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 5.3 x 7.5 inches ; 5 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 14, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,370 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #92 in Video Games > Xbox 360 > Action > Shooter
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Xbox 360 | Edition: Collector's

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A worthy successor to Saints Row, the first open-world title on next-generation consoles, Saints Row 2 features all new customization options, including player's: gender, age, voice, crib and gang. In addition, the sandbox just got larger with a totally transformed and expanded city of Stilwater, offering all new locations to explore with new vehicles, including motorcycles, boats, helicopters and planes. Saints Row 2 will be playable online in 2-player co-op through the entire singleplayer campaign or in the all new open-world competitive multiplayer mode never before seen in the genre.

Take back the streets of Stilwater

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Backstory
Five years have passed since your former Saints crew betrayed you. As you awake from a coma for the first time since that fateful day, you find the Stilwater you once ruled is in disarray. Unfamiliar gangs have laid claim to your territory, rival factions have taken over your rackets, and cash-hungry corporations have laid waste to your once proud 3rd Street home. Abandoned and left scarred with an unrecognizable face, you seek out a plastic surgeon to begin your new life on the streets. Yet some things never change in Stilwater.

Respect can only be earned and that requires a lifestyle that reflects your unique personality. Your crib, your crew, and your character define who you are on the streets and how you are perceived. The image you portray is as important as the decisions you make in a city ruled by false bravado and impulsive behavior. The only constant is the need for an identity that reflects your individuality. But style and image can only take you so far in a world where actions speak louder than words. Sometimes sending a message to your enemies requires heavy lifting, like that of a rival gang member into oncoming traffic. Respect in Stilwater needs to be taken, and what better way than to grab it from the hands of a gang full of enemies by means of a satchel charge, a flame-thrower or those minigun rounds you've been saving for a special occasion.

Meet Your Homies
But remember that the fight to reclaim Stilwater does not have to be waged alone. The Saints once ruled these streets as a crew of brothers, and their return to the top can help be secured through co-operative alliances. The time has finally come to seek revenge against your rivals to reestablish your crew as the rightful kings of Stilwater, but the streets are crawling with bangers. Check out the crews you'll run into and remember their faces and their ways:

	3rd Street Saints Once the kings of the city, the Saints have been forced out of their titular home of Saints Row by the Ultor Corporation, a giant conglomerate that gentrified the once poor neighborhood. Now operating out of an abandoned underground hotel, the Saints are looking to reclaim the glory that they lost several years ago.
	Ronin One of the newest gangs instilling fear in Stilwater, the Ronin recruit from both the city's Asian population as well as among the immigrants. Their crimes involve peddling vice through gambling, prostitution, street-racing, and protection rackets, and their power has reached even into the boardroom of corporations like Ultor.
	Sons of Samedi Influenced by Voodoo and a history of military corruption in Haiti, the Sons of Samedi are known for their potent combination of spiritualism and fearlessness. Members are attracted to the gang out of respect for their methods, through coercion or a desire for easy income generated through trade in their designer drug called "Loa Dust."
	Brotherhood Formed from the cast-outs and dredges of Stilwater society, the Brotherhood is a solid force of strength and intimidation intent on revenging itself upon the police and city. Specializing in violent extortion, they forego subtlety and nuance and simply take what they want, all the while flashing their allegiance with piercings and tattoos, bright colors, and gas-guzzling trucks.
	Ultor Corporation A ruthless corporate contender, the Ultor Corporation's gentrification of Saints Row created a new skyline for the city and a headquarters for their corporate office at the expense of the poor and the 3rd Street Saints. Now they're targeting another neighborhood, the Shivington projects, fueling gang wars and waiting for the prime moment to move in and reap the profits.

Key Game Features:

• Freedom to Explore Through Open World Gameplay - Balancing story progression with all the time-wasting mayhem imaginable, Saints Row 2 contains more activities, diversions, races, cribs, city districts, and interiors than ever before.
• Extensive Mission Play - Over 40 story missions with additional bonus missions take place in a transformed Stilwater that is over 50% larger than before.
• Limitless Customization - Saints Row 2 allows you to customize everything connected to what you wear, drive and where you live as well as gives you access to countless character combinations from facial expression, body type, voice, taunts, gender to walking style. In addition, players can customize gangs various and extreme physical looks (some pretty crazy), fighting styles, gang taunts and tags and vehicle preferences.
• Improved Combat Functionality - In addition to the usual run, jump, punch, drive, stab, shoot model of combat, Saints Row 2 allows you to take human shields and exact finishing moves if you choose, but beware. How you commit crimes affects your notoriety, which determines the response of police.
• Expanded Multiplayer options - Along with a compelling singleplayer mode, enjoy a variety of multiplayer play options including:
• Strong Arm: A team-based multiplayer mode batching together prominent activities from the singleplayer campaign into one series of timed events, with the goal to earn the most cash as a team at the end of the events.
• Gangsta Brawl: A standard deathmatch mode with the single player with the most kills winning.
• Team Gangsta Brawl: A standard team deathmatch mode with the team with the most kills winning.
• Co-Op Mode: Full drop in/drop out coop support and ability to play through the full single player campaign with buddies and with the ability to set online co-op games to public, friends-only or invite-only status.
• Lots of Wieldable Weapons - Whether you talking chairs, parking meters, street signs, newspaper dispensers or your neighbor's garden gnome, use whatever is on hand to take out an enemy.
• An Explosive Weapon Arsenal - When a melee weapon just won't do, send a message to your enemies by dipping into an arsenal that includes: rocket launchers, shock-paddles, stun-guns, satchel-charges, mini-guns, uzis, automatic shotguns and flame-throwers; Some of which can be duel wielded.
• A Vehicle for Every Surface - Put the pedal to the metal in a large selection of cars, motorcycles, ATVs, planes, watercraft and helicopters.
• All New Music - Saints Row 2 will feature an entirely new soundtrack of songs and the ability to create a custom in-game radio station, accessible from any vehicle by building a playlist of songs purchased in-game, with in-game money.

The Silwater sprawled before you as you wake in Saints Row 2 is both familiar and strange, but you will find that the explosive conclusion to the original Saints Row not only has left you wounded and betrayed, but also thirsty for revenge. Now it's time to take back the city that has forgotten you and only you will decide how far you'll go to achieve that.

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Xbox 360 Collector's Edition Features Include: Saints Row 2 Game Saints Row 2 Embossed Tin Saints Row 2 Money Clip Double-Sided Game Poster/Map Exclusive Art Book Silver Bullet Shaped 512 MB USB Thumb Drive*

*The Xbox 360 thumb drive features four Xbox 360 exclusive wallpapers, buddy icons, mobile wallpapers (320x240 and 320x480), standard wallpapers (1024x786 and 1280x1024) and widescreen wallpapers (1680x1050, 1920x1200, and 2560x1600).

Product Description

The sandbox just got a lot bigger! Featuring a totally transformed and expanded city of Stillwater, Saints Row 2 offers all new locations to explore with new vehicles, including motorcycles, boats, helicopters and planes. The explosive conclusion to Saints Row has left the player wounded, betrayed and thirsty for revenge, and now it's time to take back the city that has forgotten him. Set years after the original Saints Row, this sequel follow the first open-world title on "next generation" consoles in a world both familiar and strange. It features brand new customization options, including gender, age, voice, crib and gang customization. In addition, Saints Row 2 is playable online in 2-player co-op through the entire single-player campaign or in the all new open-world competitive multiplayer mode -- something never before seen in this game genre! The Collector's Edition includes: Saint's Row 2 game, Embossed metal collector's tin, double-sided poster/map, exclusive art book, Metal Saint's Row 2 money clip, and a bullet-shaped 512MB USB drive (silver colored). The Xbox 360 USB drive features four Xbox 360 exclusive wallpapers that are sized as follows: Buddy Icons, Mobile Wallpapers (320x240 and 320x480), Standard Wallpapers (1024x786 and 1280x1024), and Widescreen Wallpapers (1680x1050, 1920x1200, and 2560x1600).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's True What They Say: You Can Be Anything You Want To Be, April 23, 2009

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Russell Savage "russorat" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Saints Row 2 Collector's Edition (Video Game)

Ok, here's the deal. You can do anything in this game. On the average day, I could leave my pimped-out crib in my birthday suit, flash a few old ladies, stop by the quickmart and grab a hooker, pick up some weed from the same quickmart, hop on a bike I stole from some rival gang members (I'm still naked BTW) and ride across town to do a mission, and, well, you get the idea. There is so much to do, it is overwhelming. In fact, I find it hard to figure out just what is going on in the game because I'm too busy with the side missions. And every day, I find a new side mission to play that's more absurd than the last. I mean, when the mission involves you wearing a flaming suit and driving an ATV across the city trying to blow up as many things as you possibly can, you start to wonder what kind of people think up this stuff.

As I said before, there is so much to do, who has the time? Some people play sandbox games for the story, while opting every now and then to get caught up in the absurd and do something they would never do in real life. Those people will like GTA better. Some people like sandbox games because they allow you to become super human and do whatever you want. Those people will like Crackdown better. And then there are people who like sandbox games because they do everything and find every secret and collect all the coins and finish all the missions, etc. Give them this game. I dare you. You won't hear from them for months. And when you do, don't be surprised if they're buck naked, speaking in ebonics, high, and on a bike.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic game really., November 23, 2008

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Johnny Fett - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Saints Row 2 Collector's Edition (Video Game)

I'm not going to compare this game to GTA IV or anything because they really aren't the same game. I hate when people argue for one or the other without playing them both. Personally I have played them both and love them both and I don't see why I should hate one or the other.

Saints Row is an amazing game. It's a blast to play and it really goes tongue in cheek, petal to the metal all the time. I love insurance fraud and mayhem the most out of everything one can do in this game and those are just activities, not missions. I've played through quite a few of the missions and the cutscenes are sometimes incredibly funny especially if your character is walking around in a costume (hot dog suit, ninja suit or like two dozen+ others) or half-naked or just wearing everything mismatched. You can customize everything just like it tells you in the product description and on the box cover. (clothes, body, gang, etc.) I would not recommend the game for children though (because of the sheer amount of sexual and drug references) but if you're mature then it's a great game to play.

This game understands what it is it's supposed to be, pure fun. Do whatever you want, be whoever you want, drive whatever you want and do things you wouldn't ordinarily do or even think of doing. It isn't a game that focuses on realism (which is a popular trend right now) and I love it for that. Don't judge it before you play it! (there is a demo of the first saints row on xbox live...how I knew I had to get into the game)

NOTE: It does glitch. It doesn't seem to glitch to any particular thing though (which is actually a good thing) and it usually doesn't freeze, you just need to be a bit patient and the game will start working again. I've played it for probably a good 40+ hours now and it's glitched on me perhaps 2 times where it didn't start up again shortly. IT really isn't enough of a turnoff to the game by a LONG SHOT. It's usually actually really funny. (My character once lit on fire and I was driving around on fire without my health being affected for a few minutes screaming like a maniac and I was just laughing) Honestly an amazing game that is worth the $60 easily. IT ALMOST ALWAYS FIXES ITSELF WITHIN ABOUT 3 MINUTES, which actually spices up the gameplay at times because like I said before they aren't predicable glitches and I've NEVER had the same one twice. (which is actually the MOST frustrating thing about glitches because then you can never do anything) The game autosaves as well so you don't have to do anything over again (unless you want to) if something goes wrong.

Worth the money! (only a 4 out of 5 because of glitches)

4.0 out of 5 stars Best sandbox game around, April 13, 2009

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C. Raley (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Saints Row 2 Collector's Edition (Video Game)

Saint's Row 2 is by far the best sandbox crime game at this time. It's a colorful, vibrant world. The nameless people in the world have enough personallity to make you feel like you are in a living breathing world.

The cutscenes are short and fun for the most part, and the supporting characters are very well done. The story is very easy to follow and keeps you interested.

The missions tend to be the same thing, drive here, blow up this, kill this guy, pick up this stuff, take it back to the hideout, and avoid capture. They are all fairly straight foward, but a few of them will test your patience. The activities are very well thought out. There are just too many to name, but my favorite would have to be the Insurance Fraud. There is just so much to do in this game.

The music selection is great. There are hits from many different types of music. GTA 4 had a decent hip hop selection but lacked any recognizable rock.

Overall I was very happy with my purchace. It doesn't take long to finish the story, but there is so much to do you may never be truely done with this game.

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