Exclusive: Saints Row 2 - Would you rather?

Cheeky! But I rather play the 10/10 game :)

Actually, scrap that, we really need more people to be brave enough and try compete with GTA. Specially after so many failed attempts that ended up going nowhere (Trucrime, Getaway, Godfather ...). So, good luck to them!

"Exclusive: Saints Row 2 - Would you rather?"

Play GTA?

;)

that trailer was brilliant.

Cute. But really, the gameplay they've just shown you CAN do in Saints Row 2 (like beating people up, blowing shit up etc.) you can already do in GTA and have been able to for 10 years. Rather than cloning and adding, why not try and be a bit clever about it?

Besides, I'm assuming this is American, so they never really "got" the humour side anyway did they (hence the voice over that sounds like CliffyB got a bit too close to the script).

Cheeky! But I rather play the 10/10 game :)

+1, but funny ad!

Good add, if that style of humour runs through the game then I think it's well worth a look

Where'd you get the inspiration for Saints Row, guys?

Very cheeky of them to rip on GTA IV, since you just know it's going to be a load of wannabe arse by comparison.

That trailer was absolutely fantastic and I love that they have the balls to just come right out and say "What we're trying to do is make a game that is GTA but better". But to be honest I just can't see it working, the first game was good but not GTA good and had some SERIOUS flaws (not that san andreas didn't mind). I have a feeling this is going to be brilliant fun but not have the kind of depth and longevity that GTA always manages to achieve.

To sum up: I'm thinking one to rent.

Best GTA clone so far (by a country mile) is Bully. It just worked a treat. Good trailer though. It raised my interest in the game from zero to... um... well I'll wait for the reviews.

Looks like it's got in it all of the fun ridiculous things they took out of GTA.....

I'll buy this and i'm sure i'll enjoy it like I enjoyed the last one. Do I care that its a game just like GTA? no. In the same way I play COD4 and CS or World in conflict and C&C.
Different takes on the same enjoyable genre.
Why limit the fun you have by refusing to play a game that feels the same as one you already enjoy?

"Besides, I'm assuming this is American, so they never really "got" the humour side anyway did they"

That kind of sums up SR for me. Yeah it's pretty much the same game as GTA but without the Rockstar humour a lot is missing.

I never thought I'd say this but I ahven't touched GTAIV for about 2-3 weeks, whereas Saints Row I didn't play anything else till it was finished.

I can't put my finger on it put GTA isn't calling me back for more.

niko, any day.
GTA has a soul. This doesnt , and never will.

Good stuff!

Really looking forward to this.

Would you rather... go back to a graphics engine that's several years behind a certain 10/10 current game?

hmm, like the look of that.....

Lets be honest though (and I bum GTA as much as the next guy) having to take people out to play pool or play darts or whatever to keep them happy with you and give you unlocks was a really bad idea on Rockstars part.
If I want to invest time hanging out with friends i'll do it in real life. When I play a game like GTA I would rather blow things up, steal cars, have shootouts in the streets and screw hookers for health. The taking people out could have just as easily been included but with no negative consequences.

Tongue in cheek trailer :)

TV in GTAIV is better than real tv. I'd happily swap channel 4 and 5 for Weazel and CNT. Inspired viewing :)

tesco, you don't need to keep going out with them. When you reach 100% (or the desired percentage), every time they phone say yes, then call back (immediatly if you want) cancelling. No penalty.

Sain't Row is very good (the 1st one at least), but I admit I can't measure the "soulness" or whatever counts this day to bash a game one hasn't played.

I can't believe people are saying this is funny. Our plummet down to the moronic levels of US humour and IQ deficient entertainment is complete. The US wouldn't know humour even if it wore a big red nose and slapped them in the face with a custard pie. This is so unfunny, unclever and a seriously poor marketing decision. If you're gonna try to go up against something like GTA at least have some substance to back up your claims. This just looks terribly desperate. Good luck to 'em but defintiely sack the marketing team.

UW: you definetly didn't play the 1st one, the one that sold +1 million copies and was praised by the critic. Houser also an American citizen now, because he choose to.
Prejudice for the sake of it ?

Yeah, because GTA contains such subtle and biting satire...

hurhur Burger Shot hurhur

vid would work if game was good but its not :/

I was actually commenting solely on this trailer. I really don't care what either game sold in the past, present or future. This trailer simply doesn't do what a good trailer should for me. I'm not comparing it to anything else. I'm simply saying the humour is seriously poor for anyone over the age of 10 and the intention to challenge GTA just doesn't come off. I'm not even a GTA fan. I simply feel this trailer is way off the mark when it comes to decent marketing. But then again maybe I'm putting too much faith in the intelligence of the kind of people who'll watch this.

Yeah, it really says something when the humour of a fucking GTA game puts the humor in your game to shame, doesn't it?

You know... maybe, just maybe Saints Row will have all the good stuff that they neutered from IV.

some of the fun for instance? things to do perhaps?

Looks a million times better then the first SR, if the extra activities play as well as the trailer suggests then we could have a GTA beater at last. But if it turns into just a load more "yo yo me homey" shit like the first then i'll pass

This one is a no brainer. I will own on day of realease. Bring on the row.

Good ad (why do people keep saying 'add'?) and I agree that most of the 'extras' within GTA are boring (taking people out to clubs etc, the TV blah) but the graphics look absolutely 1999.

I couldnt play something that looked so second-rate I'm afraid (frame rate looked pretty low too, not to say GTA's isnt at times).

Same font as GTA as well? C'mon thats too much :D

I like their intentions, to put more things that people actually want in the game (I am stunned you cannot BASE Jump in GTAIV!) but its technologically way behind its rival if that trailer is anything to go by.

7/10 max

The script and humour will never be as good as GTA, but this game still looks like a hell of a lot of fun. With the addition of full online story co-op this is a definite purchase for me!

without any judgement, because I really dont have any pretension to think I'm better than anyone, but these forums (disregarding exceptions) are flooded with ppl who actualy think they are "smarter".

'would you rather watch tv within the game that your playing on your tv' hahahahahahahah genius

p.s. believing a 10/10 is actual is like believing the white bearded man to the left of the screen is god haha

I quite liked the bowling....

But the cars handled too much like real cars. And the camera was in a silly position. Not like the heady arcadey days of Vice City...

Apart from that, GTA4 is excellent. And Niko rocks.

Really looking forward to SR2. I thought the 1st was great fun, and I think the 'elitist' GTA fanboys on here should just try it. It isn't GTA, but it is far more fun (like Crackdown). Rockstar will not give you anything for praising them- There is plenty of room for more games of this type.

Looks like a PS2 game.

And i dont like if. How can you take the piss out of the game thats gave you the engine to do your game. Nah GTA is 1 million times better than Saints row.

Not for me

I like GTA and I like Saint's Row. I don't "piss" neither.

On the other hand, on "who-gives-a-shit news", I'm at 94.25% in GTA4! (those pigeons took a while, but they're all dead now! 114 hours later...)

lmao
(L) the trailer
not sure ill love the game as much tho xD

Yeah, at this point, I definitely would rather play Saint's Row 2, as it looks like a lot more FUN. Without all the high-maintenance bs.

So they use GTA "like" humor to take the piss out of GTA, which is far better in every department....jokes on you.

good ad, il try it, but lets be honest gta is totally awsome! cant think this will top it

I thought it was fun to watch, didn't make me laugh, but it wasn't annoying either.

I say its a good trailer, and I will probably pick up saints row 2. I played the first one and I liked it.

There is plenty of room in the market besides GTA

Saints Row had a habit of, whilst not being as ambitious as GTA, getting stuff right tha6t GTA should have fixed ages ago. And tbh, there are quite a few things mentioned in that trailer that you can't do in GTA. Whether it will be better overall, who can say. I think they will actually turn out to be reasonably different games. SR2 does seem to have its focus quite firmly set on fun though, which can't be bad.

Saints Row 2 - Would you rather just play Crackdown again, instead?

its tryin to show you things that u can do in saints row that u cant in gta, but to be honest they all look pretty shit!
poor graphics aswell, dont think its a gta4 beater

hahaha

Fantastic ad!

oh dear... i see what you did there....

Sold.

i thought gta4 was shit, it left out so many fun activities and turned it too serious imo. the only thing that makes it better is the storyline and the graphics, it has no real gta fun in it at all, what happened to rc cars, miniguns, chainsaws, jetpacks, and fucking jumbo jets and fighter jets. it's just stripped bare of all the brilliantly fun stuff from gta sa and bunged in a new shiny load of graphics and a better story. this looks content wise alot more ...FUN to be honest.