The characters (including your own) are incredibly one-dimensional and you just plain don’t care what happens to any of them. To its credit, the story is original, as it doesn’t draw its inspiration from movies or TV shows ala the GTA series, but it’s just not that engaging. You play as the leader of the Third Street Saints gang, and are determined to reunite the gang, after they disassembled following the events of the first game. This mission serves as a tutorial to the game’s basics, but also as a catalyst to the story. Saint’s Row 2 starts just after the end of the original game in a prison hospital, and you are quickly given the task of breaking out. Now that the newest installments of both series are available, Saint’s Row’s positives and negatives have never been easier to see.
Though constantly overshadowed by the much larger and much more successful Grand Theft Auto series, Volition’s open-world gangster simulation gave more to the growing genre than most games dubbed “GTA clones.” For instance, the original Saint’s Row was responsible for the now standard GPS feature and even multiplayer online functionality.
The Saint’s Row series has always been underappreciated. Saint's Row 2 - Cheat Happens Game Review
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