Saints Row 2 to explode

Mike Bantick
Tuesday, 25 September 2007 05:40

Your IT - Entertainment

THQ announce the return of potty mouthed mo-fo’s in Saints Row 2

With dialogue giving players a significant education in words beginning with ‘F’,  Saints Row blazed an exciting action filled path through a violent open world, that was good enough to break out from the Grand Theft Auto comparisons that were always going to be applied.

Saints Row went on to sell millions of units, encouraging THQ to announce the sequel.

This time around, online co-op will be available for the entire single-player campaign.  Taking place a few years after the original, in the familiar yet altered city of Stilwater.

It is revenge time, against a city that has left the protagonist broken and forgotten

Saints Row 2 features all new customization options, including gender, age, voice, crib and gang customization.  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 set the bar for next-gen open-world development, earning praise for its unmatched customization, controls, and the genre’s first-ever online multiplayer,” said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of sales and marketing, THQ.  “The team at Volition, Inc. is leveraging invaluable experience gained on Saints Row to build Saints Row 2 into a game that sets the standard for combat, player freedom, customization, vehicle game-play, team-based co-op and the most compelling online open world experience to date.”

“Saints Row 2 has a much darker and more sinister story that leads your character down a path of betrayal, revenge and redemption against the city that has left him for dead, although we’ve blended that with the same light-hearted humor from the original.” said Greg Donovan, lead producer, Volition, Inc. “Couple that with the most robust open-world feature set ever developed in the genre, and Saints Row 2 promises a gaming experience that will offer players the perfect balance of gripping narrative and compelling gameplay options.”

Saints Row 2 is due for release on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 sometime in 2008.