I played this on PC while it still worked, lol. As many other reviews state, it is very unlikely you'll be able to get it in working order.
That's a damn shame, because Saints Row 2 might actually be the best open-world game I've played, and it rightfully at the time gave two middle fingers to Rockstar's "ultra-serious" and cliched approach to making open-world games, with the grey, drab, GTA IV.
Saints Row 2 is different. It operates on a massive, silly scale that really shouldn't work. The first mission is a prison break. You bust someone out of court, and even the fucking judge blows down the door with a shotgun and is an enemy who's shooting at you. Everything is just next level crazy, and it's especially true whenever ANYONE dies. I don't think there's been a game to take death as seriously as Saints Row 2 most of the time.
The gameplay is pretty much a standard open-world affair like a GTA game, but better. Instead of hanging out between missions going bowling, or doing some other boring side activity, Saints Row 2 does not back down. It tells you to go in a sewage disposal machine and paint down buildings with liquid shit. It tells you to set yourself on fire and drive an ATV through gasoline cans. It's not just another open-world game, it's an open-world game in which they say "fuck you" to the realism aspects in just the right way that you're still playing a gangster game, and the story is still serious for the most part.
The missions are fun, I think two out of the three gangs have some of the best villains, writing, and twists in any game, ever, with the Ronin and The Brotherhood, both gangs that do some pretty fucked shit to get where they are, and you have to match their crazy to pull ahead as the Third Street Saints. I don't really love the Sons of Samedi, and I'm refusing to mention them because they're a lot more humorous than serious, which disrupts the flow a bit.
Regardless, I just don't know how this game hasn't gotten a remake or a better version. It's really better than most open-world games, and walks the line between humorous and serious perfectly, along with creating likable characters, fun missions, and plenty of side content to keep you on the game. Play it if you can!
That's a damn shame, because Saints Row 2 might actually be the best open-world game I've played, and it rightfully at the time gave two middle fingers to Rockstar's "ultra-serious" and cliched approach to making open-world games, with the grey, drab, GTA IV.
Saints Row 2 is different. It operates on a massive, silly scale that really shouldn't work. The first mission is a prison break. You bust someone out of court, and even the fucking judge blows down the door with a shotgun and is an enemy who's shooting at you. Everything is just next level crazy, and it's especially true whenever ANYONE dies. I don't think there's been a game to take death as seriously as Saints Row 2 most of the time.
The gameplay is pretty much a standard open-world affair like a GTA game, but better. Instead of hanging out between missions going bowling, or doing some other boring side activity, Saints Row 2 does not back down. It tells you to go in a sewage disposal machine and paint down buildings with liquid shit. It tells you to set yourself on fire and drive an ATV through gasoline cans. It's not just another open-world game, it's an open-world game in which they say "fuck you" to the realism aspects in just the right way that you're still playing a gangster game, and the story is still serious for the most part.
The missions are fun, I think two out of the three gangs have some of the best villains, writing, and twists in any game, ever, with the Ronin and The Brotherhood, both gangs that do some pretty fucked shit to get where they are, and you have to match their crazy to pull ahead as the Third Street Saints. I don't really love the Sons of Samedi, and I'm refusing to mention them because they're a lot more humorous than serious, which disrupts the flow a bit.
Regardless, I just don't know how this game hasn't gotten a remake or a better version. It's really better than most open-world games, and walks the line between humorous and serious perfectly, along with creating likable characters, fun missions, and plenty of side content to keep you on the game. Play it if you can!