Saints Row 2 Collectors Edition
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.
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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.
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:
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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. |
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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. |
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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.” |
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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. |
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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:
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*The Xbox 360 thumb drive features four Xbox 360 exclusive wallpapers, buddy icons, mobile wallpapers (320×240 and 320×480), standard wallpapers (1024×786 and 1280×1024) and widescreen wallpapers (1680×1050, 1920×1200, and 2560×1600).
User Reviews
5 Stars Get The Regular Edition
Great Game as I expected, but the worthless junk included with the collectors edition is just useless and a waste of 20 dollars. But it is the game that counts and almost everything has improved (especially multiplayer), awsome new weapons, fun time-consuming activities, etc. I definitely recommend the game itself for fans of the first Saints Row and the GTA series. But please do yourself a favor and save $20 on something that you can actually use.
3 Stars Tremendous game, but…
I’m not going to get into the discussion of whether this game is better or worse than GTA IV. Both games may be the same genre (that began with GTA), but that’s the only thing they have in common. Saints Row 2 is an all-out celebration of sex and violence with it’s tongue planted firmly in cheek. There are no apologies for it’s mature content and I like that! If you’re going to be an M rated game then go all out with it and don’t hold back, and Volition held nothing back for Saints Row 2. It’s a blast to play, you get knee deep into the action right away and the wild ride never stops. There isn’t a dull moment to be found. If you’re looking for sandbox crime action, this may arguably be the best one out there (for next-gen systems anyway). Customization is king in Saints Row 2. You can customize just about everything in the game. From your crib, to your clothes, to your rides… you can alter them all. Customization can get pretty crazy too. For example, if you’re a guy you can walk around in your boxers and if you’re a woman you can walk around in just a tiny t-shirt and panties, or go naked (with your naughty bits censored of course). This can make the cut scenes pretty hilarious to say the least!
The new features of Saints Row 2 are pretty cool. Co-op play has been added (via Xbox Live or system link) and now you can play as a female, not just a male. A female friend of mine said she was going to pick up this game simply because of this feature, so more games should utilize this. There’s a lot to do in the game as well. I’ve been playing all day and I’m only 3% into the game (I’ve been doing more side missions and exploration), so the game is going to offer hours of gameplay. Also, you can double the play time by playing thru as a man and then a woman to experience the subtle changes made in the game between the sexes.
Unfortunately, not all is perfect with Saints Row 2. Like I said, I’ve been playing all day (over 8 hours) and my game has froze dead in it’s tracks not once, not twice, not three times, but four times!!! It happened during the Mayhem mode when I had tons of cops on my tail. This is really unacceptable. I’ve also noticed several small, yet annoying glitches that hamper the fun factor of the game. For example, while having several cops on my tail I had to switch cars. Several cops were on foot close to me as I tried to jack a car. I pushed Y to get into the car, instead of getting in, my character froze and one of the cops near me got inside the car I wanted instead. It was a temporary freeze, and I quickly pulled the cop out of the car once I could move again, but I have a feeling glitches like this could just be the tip of the iceberg.
With that said, I still love the game. The fun factor out weighs the glitches and freezes, but I did remove 2 stars due to these problems. If it wasn’t for that, Saints Row 2 would’ve easily been a perfect 5 star game, but things like this should really get fixed before they’re released to the public.
The collectible tin, bullet usb drive and money clip are pretty cool, but the art book is a joke and a copy of the soundtrack (ala GTA IV collector’s edition) would’ve been a perfect touch, especially since this is $79.99 and not $69.99. Unless you’re a die-hard fan of the series, I would skip this Collector’s Edition. I bought it because I simply enjoy owning collector’s editions of… anything.
So, if you can remember to frequently save your game and you don’t mind game freezes and a few glitches here and there, then I highly recommend you spend some quality time in the Row. It’s a fun place to visit!
