Saints Row 2 officially announced! (details inside)

[QUOTE="OneWingedAngeI"]i much preferred crackdown to saints row, because it was something more than just a rip off of GTA. sure I had fun in SR for about 20 mins, but that was about it. it seems a decent game, but meh, these games arent cheap and i'd much rather have the real thing.AlwaysSoft

(EDIT) These disappearing spaces are a ridiculousnuisance.

Nobody said the genre begins and ends with GTA.

The difference between Mafia, Crackdown and even Just Cause is that those games actually tried to do something unique with the sandbox design while Saint's Row aped damn near everything from GTA. I personally enjoyed SR but it was incredibly derivative and, as I predicted when it was released, it and any potential sequels would be obliterated by GTAIV.

Volition is a talented developer (The Punisher is one of my favorite shooters, period.) so frankly I'm disappointed that they are wasting so much effort making inferior knock-offs rather than focusing on something more original. Frankly, I'd love to see them take the sandbox approach and make something like a futuristic GTA or maybe a western or WWII sandbox type game.

Now that would be something to get excited about.

Also, GTA owes the DRIVER series nothing. The original Driver was basically a racing game with cops and by the time the sequel hit store shelves, the first GTA had already become a cult hit and that's more than likely where they got the idea for Driver 2.

goldeneye a doom clone i dont think so ,,

doom doesnt have multiplayer im playinlg saints row now and i ve been since i got it at launch

gta saints row and driver are all worthy games , in this genre

[QUOTE="AlwaysSoft"]

[QUOTE="OneWingedAngeI"]i much preferred crackdown to saints row, because it was something more than just a rip off of GTA. sure I had fun in SR for about 20 mins, but that was about it. it seems a decent game, but meh, these games arent cheap and i'd much rather have the real thing.Grammaton-Cleric

(EDIT) These disappearing spaces are a ridiculousnuisance.

Nobody said the genre begins and ends with GTA.

The difference between Mafia, Crackdown and even Just Cause is that those games actually tried to do something unique with the sandbox design while Saint's Row aped damn near everything from GTA. I personally enjoyed SR but it was incredibly derivative and, as I predicted when it was released, it and any potential sequels would be obliterated by GTAIV.

Volition is a talented developer (The Punisher is one of my favorite shooters, period.) so frankly I'm disappointed that they are wasting so much effort making inferior knock-offs rather than focusing on something more original. Frankly, I'd love to see them take the sandbox approach and make something like a futuristic GTA or maybe a western or WWII sandbox type game.

Now that would be something to get excited about.

Also, GTA owes the DRIVER series nothing. The original Driver was basically a racing game with cops and by the time the sequel hit store shelves, the first GTA had already become a cult hit and that's more than likely where they got the idea for Driver 2.