Here’s a bit of sad news for those of you wanting to play more Grand Theft Auto-style games without actually playing GTA: THQ has announced that Saints Row 2, which was originally scheduled for release on August 26 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, will now be delayed until October 14.
“Product quality and marketing considerations” were the official reasons behind the delay. Honestly, you can’t really blame them for wanting to distance Saints Row 2 as far away from Grand Theft Auto IV as possible. Sure, the two games take different approaches to the open-world genre, but people are still going to draw comparisons anyway.
No offense to the guys at Volition, but I can’t see Saints Row 2 getting the same critical acclaim that GTA IV has received. Hopefully, though, this delay will help get the game that much closer to reaching a similar level of success.
[Via Gamasutra]
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9:04 PM on 05.29.2008
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And the animation when you throw someone off a roof/through a window is priceless. Too much fun.
Either way, I can hardly blame them, but I really would like to give it a go sooner.
I'm also quite happy it won't have that much critical acclaim, it means less news coverage and people calling it a murder simulator.
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I personally can't wait for this. As long as it doesn't pull a GTAIV and remove so many of the fun side missions and gameplay options that made the first so much fun, then I will be extremely happy.
TBH I personaly think they will push it back again to the 1st quarter of next year.
The reason why I reckon is to simply re-texture everything (just my guess) and sharpen it up a bit.
Also... Saints Row in my opinion was not really story driven, I wonder if they are going to try and put an engaging story in SR2 seeing as GTAIV is a good onep; or if they are going to cut there loses and simply going to use the cut scenes like in the 1st one to get the gamer from mission A to B etc.
Why people think GTAIV simply because it has a better written story than the previous ones is beyond me. Game-wise it plays exactly like all the old titles and even has less to offer than other titles in the series.
I can't wait to write my review and get flamed for it.
The cut scenes in GTAIV gives you insight into the characters and there history and relationships (IMHO).
I never felt the cut-scenes in the original Saints Row was more than short simple "he has annoyed me now go kill him" basic type thing, no depth or anything apart from explaining what to do next.
Hope that makes it clearer for you to understand my view.
I've been playing Godfather recently and it reminded me that sandbox games don't have to be up to GTA standards to be fun.
It will be in their best interest to push SR2 back even farther, so that people will be over the GTAIV hype and ready to dive back into Stilwater.
Gang wars, FTW.