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Saints Row 2 Interview: More Gang Warfare

Posted on April 17th, 2008 at 19:17 EDT

(continued from previous page) ...store clothes, cars, weapons, money and some even have helipads and docks for choppers and boats. You can buy a hangar at the airport to store your plane.

PSU: Visually, what have you been able to push with PlayStation 3’s processing power?

Phillips: The animation in the game has been improved, which allows us to seamlessly grab any character in the game for a human shield. We’re able to do more with two-person animation, which also allowed us improve melee combat. The combat’s much more visceral. You can slam people on the ground or against walls and do all types of violent stuff that just wasn’t possible in the first game.

PSU: From a technology standpoint, how have you been able to up the ante with this new Stillwater?

Phillips: Since we worked on the original, we’ve been able to improve every aspect of this game’s visuals from the environments to the characters. We’ve added new features like buffer effects and depth of field effects. We took everything from the first game and streamed it faster and made Stillwater an even larger world to explore. It’s really paid off with the new vehicles. You can drive fast on land, sea or air and there are no streaming issues.

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posted 7:31pm EDT - April 17th, 2008
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I'm so getting this game!! After i beat GTAIV of course...

 

posted 7:47pm EDT - April 17th, 2008
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Oooo now I can be a virtual gang banger. Or not.
posted 8:16pm EDT - April 17th, 2008
3

this game is sounding better everytime news pops up about it

posted 8:28pm EDT - April 17th, 2008
4

This game is sounding better, but its gonna take a lot more to dethrone GTA IV.

posted 8:33pm EDT - April 17th, 2008
5

might be decent but probably nothing like GTAIV

posted 9:41pm EDT - April 17th, 2008
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I will play this when i'm done with gta... which will probaly take a lot of months, however it still sounds awesome

posted 9:44pm EDT - April 17th, 2008
7

wow more gang banging..dosent meen its good..just a knock off wanaB like grand theft auto...its nothing special, just cant get as hype as gta III (first of its kind and best of its kind)

posted 10:45pm EDT - April 17th, 2008
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PsStedUP..Dont call this game a "GTA wannab"  you should be saying "Thank God for this game" as long as games like this come out we know GTA will push to be better.. The day there isnt a "GTA wannab" then GTA will start to get old  and with less and less improvements with each game.. I mean crap look at Madden!

posted 10:48pm EDT - April 17th, 2008
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Y do some developer like to copy rockstar? well i never play this game at all so im guessing ill be buying saints row 1 and 2 after i buy the GTA4 first and then i will beat it hahaha lol

posted 11:49pm EDT - April 17th, 2008
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i knew it you guys want play it right ha ha ha ( but of course after GTA4 )

posted 11:54pm EDT - April 17th, 2008
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i MIGHT rent it....if it is ok...maybe a bargain bin...

posted 12:33am EDT - April 18th, 2008
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hah I love people who worship a single game like a religion and get angry when other companies give it a try.. I mean nothing ever goes wrong when only one company makes games I mean look how awesome EAs games are! ya in the nex madden they might just add a new play! WOOT

posted 1:35am EDT - April 18th, 2008
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gta stays improving no matter what game comes out. they can try to B like gta , all i see is them trying to B like gta, they jus wont
B like gta ever. i know wen a game is a waste of money , and i know wen a games better that the other... 3 spectactular games in 4 years with out any competition that mattered inbetween each year. they know how to make good games and they blow the competition out of the water every time someone trys to imitate

posted 1:38am EDT - April 18th, 2008
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@ Solidus_Snake223: You're right.  Competition creates innovation.  While I believe GTA is the best of its kind, I still think it needs to have competition to make Rockstar keep their heads in the game.

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As long as this game doesn't have any issues, game wise or price wise (I heard the 360 version is cheaper), I might pick this one up.  I've always liked games where I could customize my character.

posted 1:41am EDT - April 18th, 2008
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you cant compete with gta. they know what their doing, their not new to this, they dont look at what other people are makeing or what the next games got, they dont care, they made it happen year after year and i was never dissapointed, all im saying is they got knock off competitors that they dont need for them to improve, i playedsaint row 1, yea its not bad, but what game is when it has the same theme as gta, they cant top it, so why waste the living money when you got gta

posted 4:11am EDT - April 18th, 2008
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Im interested because the coop and the editor, but Im afraid of two things in the interview:

-When they asked how big, they talk about the history and no the size of the world.

-When they asked about coop, they talk about two player in the same vehicle and not driving two vehicles. 

Sounds like evasives to me, maybe the coop it's similar to the San Andreas two players mode, the cant take two vehicles at the same time and can't get too far one from another.

Sure that im wrong, but the answers, I don't know, sounds like they are hidding something.

posted 4:25am EDT - April 18th, 2008
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I enjoyed the first Saints Row on the 360, very fun game. After GTA4 has been played to death I'll be willing to revisit the city of Stillwater for sure!

posted 5:03am EDT - April 18th, 2008
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Cant wait hurry hurry it sounds so good.

posted 7:26am EDT - April 18th, 2008
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Sounds like a sequel to San Andreas to me. I never played Saints Row (cus I don't have a 360) but this game seems to pick up where San Andreas left of, and not moving in a different direction like GTA IV. So I think both will be great games in their own way.

posted 10:32am EDT - April 18th, 2008
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This does sound quite impressive, hopefully it will play well.

I'll probably be at that stage with GTA where all i want to do is destroy everyone and everything anyway !

posted 2:36pm EDT - April 18th, 2008
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i guess im unique, i dont turn to impersonatas for a different yet  the same experience i can get in gta, gta never steered me wrong.....why turn on them  now. why start makeing sales for their competitor, thats not how i play the game.

posted 4:33pm EDT - April 18th, 2008
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it only seems fair that if xbox gets gta we also get saints row

looks like a good game (Y)

love the amount of customisable options ;)

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