Saints Row 2 release date?

I've been playing the PS3 version lately on rental. It wasn't bad, the storyline was fairly decent and the cutscenes were often very good, sometimes quite amusing. The gameplay was nothing special though; the missions were perhaps somewhat more varied than GTA4, but not by a huge amount. The vast majority of the time you'd just run in guns blazing, whereas GTA4 at least encouraged different approaches at times.

There are a lot of extra activities and missions, some of which were quite good. The environment is quite interesting too, there's a lot more buildings which you can enter and there's some quite interesting and cool stuff to see.

The problem I felt was that the basic mechanics of the game just feel...rubbish. The vehicle handling was utterly abysmal; all the vehicles seemed to handle fairly similarly, in a generic, arcade-style manner which just feels wrong in a game such as this, especially for one so modern. I had absolutely no desire whatsoever to just drive around, explore the map, try different vehicles and find those that I really liked; difficult to choose one when they're no different from each other. I've played games where driving isn't the main focus of the gameplay that have better vehicle physics than SR2.

The radio stations also feel more like they're just playing in the background rather than being part of the actual game, it's as if they just don't quite 'fit in'. I'm no fan of the GTA4 radio stations either, but they do at least feel and sound right.

I completed it yesterday, partly because the storyline, missions and cutscenes were decent, and partly just for the sake of having something to do. The fact that I sent it back today says a lot though; I just had no desire to keep with it after those good parts were finished with.
 
I was impressed by the car handling in the original. It had the closest to the GTAs in terms of feel. But SR2 lost a lot of cred when the devs pretended the PC release date was the same as consoles... right up until the day of release! Redemption will only be found if it runs better than the "future proof" GTA4...
 
Its out in US now since yesterday. Apparently its a crappy port as in low quality audio and frame rate lock of 30fps and only good fps on very powerful comps.

Not what i wanted to hear from their official forums. :(
 
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You’d think that the benefit of less-than-cutting-edge graphics would be a smooth frame rate, but in this case you’d be wrong. I couldn’t get the game to reliably run at more than 15 to 20 frames per second while driving around the city on high-end hardware, and bizarrely, it wasn’t significantly better even when set to low detail at 800x600 resolution
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sounds like gta4 to me, totally cpu limited and gta4 runs fine for me at 1920x1080 with a quad
 
SkeeterPSA said:
Its out in US now since yesterday. Apparently its a crappy port as in low quality audio and frame rate lock of 30fps and only good fps on very powerful comps.

Not what i wanted to hear from their official forums. :(
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Oh for the love of god!! I was really hoping that after the let down of GTA4 PC (for the majority), SR2 might redeem some faith in to console ports and PC gaming. Looks like I was wrong :(
 
yeh exactly, i thought they might learn from gta4's mistakes and release it when they at least got it running acceptable.

Whats the point in releasing terrible ports? do they test games before they release them :mad:
 
I doubt it. Seriously, is any damn game tested before release anymore almost all games are coming out totally shoddy and its just pathetic. I might just get a console and be done with it.
 
Out now in the US though.


Has AA in options and AF etc.
But it appears only the greatest specs can run it maxed, and even then it's locked to 32 fps.
Apparently poor sound quality too and no widescreen support ( some whined about 16:9 and I saw 2 posts about 16:10).
 
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