Saints Row 2 PC Review

Saints Row 2 has amazing variety and depth in all areas of development, from the open-world design, to the fun and engaging combat, Saints Row 2 is solid destructive entertainment.

Embracing the part of the dirt bag is immersive at times when playing Saints Row 2; you can get an unrelenting joy and delight in terrorizing the citizens of Stilwater.

Each mission in Saints Row 2 tries to be more outrageous and the actions become even more over-the-top as you progress through the game.

Saints Row 2 includes a comprehensive and deep character creation tool that is fun, engaging, and satisfying to use. You can change your weight, height, age, there's four different racial profiles, you can fashion your facial features and even choose to be a boy or girl. There are six different voices to choose from and if you get tired of your look there's the option for visiting a plastic surgeon and doing a little tweaking to your face.

 The AI included with Saints Row 2 is a mess, game characters can get stuck in doors and even on a bench, one didn't know how to get in his car, and they're slow and unresponsive during firefights.

The console versions of Saints Row 2 have excellent aim control mechanics that allow gamers to lock-on at long range and take enemies out of the picture. This ability hasn't been transmitted to the PC version of Saints Row 2, so you'll need to run up and grab your enemy and use them for cover, and then dispose of enemies up close.

Saints Row 2 displayed a few problems when running on my Gamer Paladin F875 - Intel X58 Chipset MB, Corsair 6 GB DDR 3 - 1333 Memory, 1000GB SATA II 7200 RPM Hard Drive, NVIDIA GeForce GTX-295 1792MB Video Card. There were occasional frame rate problems when there was lots of on screen action, but fortunately they didn't happen often. These problems when they occurred resulted in problems with the aiming and cover mechanisms.

 Saints Row 2 has the same outstanding graphical presentation that the original Saints Row showed to the world. The city of Stilwater has amazing depth of field, while the buildings, characters, and objects in the environments have nice detail and average textures.

The character animation in Saints Row 2 works well, unless there's a lot of action occurring on screen, then the frame rate can occasionally slow down and cause them to become jerky or stuck in place for a second.