Yeah, on its own its a decent game but as co op its a blast!
Saints Row 2 £2.50
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Yeah, on its own its a decent game but as co op its a blast!
Works on mine
I picked this up before Christmas for £1.98 in Blockbuster. Ask the girl about it and she said it's probably miss priced but she'll sell it to me any way. I love minimum wage employees
So, the forums seem split between 'yet, its worth it' and 'no, its rubbish'.
Deciding vote goes to Yahtzee, who seemed to quite enjoy it, so I'll give it a punt. Hope its worthwhile
Remember that yahtzee played it on console. Nothing wrong with the game, we're talking about the abysmal pc port here.
I don't think it's even worth that to be honest, perhaps, if it'd have come out in 2003 it would have been awesome, but while they have tried adding the ''fun'' factor in, it's ruined by the poor graphics, ( especially draw distance, abysmal), performance ( quite gpu intensive while looking about the same as GTA SA), Sound ( music sounds very low quality, screeching tire noise sounds distorted, etc) and the relatively poor experience while driving ( about GTA VC like driving, fine in 2003, but not in 2008 or 2009 when it came out...).
Tempted to try it again on better hardware ( C2D>C2Q, 8800GTS512> GTX260 216) but I'm also thinking ''I won't play that **** anyhow''.
Tempted to try it again on better hardware ( C2D>C2Q, 8800GTS512> GTX260 216) but I'm also thinking ''I won't play that **** anyhow''.
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Not worth it 
I love cheap games too, but wish i hadnt bust £20 on this!
I love cheap games too, but wish i hadnt bust £20 on this!
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I loved the game. While GTA is a good story line and big missions with Saints Row you just "have fun" with mad little missions. 
. A game like this must always at least do the driving bit right.As bad as the vehicles were as soon as i started moving/shooting on foot I was put off. It didnt matter how much fun the missions might be when the engine felt so horribly shoddy. Found it to be unplayably bad
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The game itself is great but the performance is terrible,many sections are virtually unplayable due to lag/stutter,very frustrating as the gameplay is seriously fun and quite often LOL hilarious. It may have received further patches since I had it installed and performance may be better,probably worth a try for just £2.50.
How is the 360 version different, is it a completely different game ?
Not trying to take the ****, just genuinely interested why the 360 version would be any better or what the differences are ?
Performance issues I would imagine,sloppily ported to say the least.
Hmmm, I remember performance not being great ( well, **** for the gfx you get), really improving in a patch, andt he game being gpu limited...
But a quick google reveals this on xbox forums:
Which leads me to believe the consoles don't run it optimally either.
However, a beefy pc with the latest patch should run the game fine now, iirc one of the earlier patches, the 1.2 one, boosted performance up to 25% and drastically reduced lag spikes.
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There is only one way to describe the Saints Row games and that is as the retarded cousin of the GTA games. It does everything GTA does but 10 times worse while trying to have the focus on being "street".
Diarrhea.
Diarrhea.