Posted on: June 9, 2024
wayworser
Verified ownerGames: 93 Reviews: 12
Didn't age well at all
Saints Row 2 is a gang violence simulator in an open world. It has main story missions, and a lot of side activities. You are a leader of the gang called the Saints, and you fight rival gangs. The latter represent bikers, Haitian Voodoo stereotypes, and Japanese stereotypes. The game frames it up as over the top, absurd action comedy. Beavis and Butthead and South Park come to mind. Beyond morality, you do tons of violence. Only that it's not clear what's the point of it beyond the mindless fun. At some point we kill a horde of homeless junkies, who turn into zombies trying to get drugs from us. We kill them, the main characters conclude that they are not human at all, and killing them doesn't matter. If it's played for laughs, it's not the ones would expect from any point of compassion. There are others. We have prostitutes, junkies, potheads, pothead girlfriends sleeping with anyone who has pot. It's all very stupid. Most of the game is like this, and then they try to take a shot at rich real estate developers trying to use militarized security and police to evict poor people from high crime areas to rise the property value. It doesn't make any point, just a short part of the cutscene. I'm unimpressed. The gameplay is fine. The game gets unfair near the end, you are easily killed by random stuff. At some point you have a fight inside a multistory shopping mall, and for some reason there are cars with enemy reinforcements driving around. That's probably the most memorable moment from this game. This is a game they show a kid play in a movie for people who never play videogames themselves. The kid plays this game and grows up to be a nihilist who can't tell a political protest from a racist riot. He spends most of the time crying how games are not good anymore, because of the woke agenda. This game is not woke at all, and it's shit.
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