Another interesting thing I noticed was that the Saints have a headquarters which is decrepit and invested with hobo’s which, as you progress through the game, gets rebuild by fairies and looks nicer and more respectable, along with gaining a lift which makes travelling from street level down to your homies a lot easier. By completing missions you gain more members for 3rd Street and decrease the other crews presence, along with collecting guns, clothes, cars and properties which you can upgrade with the money you earn form basically killing people. You two have to start up a new 3rd Street Saints and own the city of Stilwater by wiping out the other crews – The Brotherhood in red, Sons of Samedi ingreen and The Ronin in yellow who look like they just jumped out of Kill Bill. SR2 is basically just silliness with some story missions thrown in – you were the top dawg in Saints Row 1 and now your crew has pretty much disappeared except for you and one other guy, Johnny Gat. I felt more attached to my normal looking, sassy red-headed woman straight off rather than trying to be a character who was nothing like me. Equipped with a pink bra to match, free of charge. As for the tone, you can make the most masculine man with a tough guy hair-do, biceps as big as Hulk Hogan’s and so forth, but also give him a ladies voice and a very strange facial expression (anguish looks more like a stoke victim) and boobs. The first thing that sort of sets the tone of the game is right at the beginning the first thing you do is choose what your person looks like, acts like and sounds like – completely different to Grand Theft Auto.

So, without further ado, watch as I kneel at Saints Row 2′s alter of fun while laughing at Niko Bellic’s realistic and harsh environment in Grand Theft Auto 4… I’ve watched a lot of Zero Punctuation’s vids and this review is probably the most complimentary of them all. Well he did pick up on some things but it was generally very positive.

If you’d prefer not to watch it yourself (it’s animated and very funny) I’ll sum up why I trusted it of all things Yahtzee always finds something to complain about in a game and usually takes the piss but with SR2 he didn’t. I use the word “review” lightly because it is more Yahtzee just ranting about things. However I did first see a “review” of this game from The Escapist Magazine. I knew nothing about Saints Row 2 before I downloaded it (which probably isn’t the cleverest thing to do – jumping into a sequel without playing the previous game or knowing anything but the title), what can I say, I’m impulsive.

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