stemot
Companion Cube
- Joined
- May 20, 2004
- Messages
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- Reaction score
- 25
Saints Row owns the shit out of GTA. Car's are nice and arcady, they don't feel like you're driving on ice,
the driving actually allows for high speed chases, and doesn't make going faster then 40 mean you will
take half a mile of sliding to stop. The controls are nice and responsive, they favor gameplay instead of
realism, as they should, in GTA 4 it feels like you input a command and then wait until the character
decides he should move, and even then he moves the way a real character would move, by making a half
circle when you turn right for example because of inertia, Euphoria is fun in crashes but in gameplay
it just feels like there is a lag and disconnectedness between your controls and the actions
on screen. SR2 animations may not look that good, but they feel nice and direct.
The story is better, where's as rock star sees it necessary to overexpose the shitty (unfunny) caricatures
of characters that roam their games, which in turns means listening to a lot of shit that is supposed to
make them looks funny, stupid, or whatever, but comes of as unoriginal filler from writers
not apt enough to actually make dialog worth listening or a create enough story to fill the
cut scenes. The courtroom scene at the beginning of SR2 overshadows anything rockstar
has done since VC.
The character customization is one of the best I have seen, there are so many options and a good
deal of them really do give the character something unique. Unlike the shitty customizations in games like
mass effect and fallout 3 for example, where most options will just make you look like a freak, and only a
few really contribute to a distinct look.
And most important thing, the game understands fun, within the ****ing first few minutes you're already
shooting shit. When I came on land the first thing I did is ****ing shit up, I don't know why but this game
really put's you in that mental state, it's like playing the 2d GTA games again. There are no excessively long
tutorial mission, it's you, a car and population waiting to be massacred.
I won't grade it, because I have not played it enough to know if it stay's fun or go's down the drain
and/or becomes repetitive and shite like FC2 for example. But **** it was such a pleasant surprise.
Courtroom scene
The story in Saints Row 2 is shite, it's supposed to be funny when in fact it's just infantile, at least Rockstar care about lines and delivery and the quality of the acting. As for the car handling, I'd rather have GTA's cars, than cars where it it's so arcadey to control you literally can't press your sideways button without the car spinning out of control. Direct? Yes, practical, no. I'm just glad I didn't pay for this shower of crap.