Saints Row 2 goes a little farther in terms of body types, but it absolutely blows every other game out of the water when you look at clothing options. Many games, across several genres, let you create your own character. Just as an example, take character customization. It uses the GTA formula, but at every opportunity it goes further and does more. I don’t like to gush, but Saints Row 2 is one of the finest video games ever made. I suppose that makes sense - if it had been a failure, we never would have got the masterpiece that is. To my surprise, I recently learned that Saints Row actually got pretty decent reviews. Penny Arcade, 2006, ⓒ Jerry Holkins, Mike Krahulik I was only aware of Saints Row for two reasons - a Youtube video showing some pretty terrible bugs in the game, and this Penny Arcade strip : It was an XBox exclusive, and I haven’t owned a console since the first Playstation (that’s not an elitism thing, it’s purely a money issue). I don’t think the term has ever been more appropriate - the Saints Row games as a whole hew VERY closely to the GTA formula, and while they have since deviated from it, that all came well after the original Saints Row. Similarly, games like Saints Row used to be called “Grand Theft Auto clones”. Saints Rowīack before the term “first person shooter” was coined, that genre was just called “Doom clones”. I replayed the series as a sort of tribute to him, and since the reboot is about to come out, this seems like a good time to see exactly what these games are all about. But he is the man who almost single-handedly saved the Saints Row series. It’s OK if you didn’t hear - he wasn’t well-known.
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