So, uh.
On the weekend one of my mates told me Saint's Row was a fun, mindless romp. I saw it for $24 in a bargain bin (that is a pretty good price in AUS) so I picked it up. The guy behind the counter quite obviously didn't want to be there that day, and he obviously made some kind of delicious mistake because I wound up getting Saint's Row 2 instead.
I played it for a bit last night and Jesus Christ it is pretty immediately a riot. I started out playing it as if it were GTA IV, but by the end of the tutorial I got the picture that while it may be a GTA clone in look and feel it is very very dissimilar in tone. You wind up running a gauntlet of Police after breaking out of prison, then you wind up on some kind of dock. I was mucking around brutally eviscerating people and expecting to have the cops come after me fairly quickly, but it seems that taking out the population of a small area doesn't warrant a mention and other people around you will generally just go about their business. It makes for a less realistic but extremely fun experience.
Here's a few of my favourite scenarios so far:
While breaking out of jail I picked up a shotgun. I was in the middle of firing at some cops when my break-out buddy ran in front of me and I accidentally headshotted him, gibs flying all over the place. A message comes up on the screen "you have 30 seconds to revive him." Revive him from what? I blew his fucking head off. (I did successfully revive him, btw)
I walked off the boat and saw a bunch of pimp-dressed gangsters standing about. I didn't want to annoy them because I figured they'd mess me up, but at some point I aggro'd one of them and maybe 15-20 of them ran after me. I ran onto a nearby ship and found a choke-point and eventually shot them all. After things quieted down I walked off the boat and saw a handful of them floating in the water for some reason. Obviously a bug, but a pretty humorous one.
After this I (with some difficulty) earned the ire of the cops. I kept killing them until more and more arrived and I couldn't take the heat anymore. I ran into a storehouse and stood at a doorway, attempting to use it as a choke point. What I didn't expect was for he cops to drive into the storehouse, run me over, then blast me with shotguns.
One last one, I was driving around and saw a group of gangbangers huddled around some kind of drum. I drove at them as fast as I could, smashing through them only to find out that the barrel was some kind of explosive, which wrecked my car yet somehow left me entirely unscathed.
Realism? Pffff, too busy having fun. Anyone else playing/played this? If so, what do you think?
