Saints Row 2

Took the open-city formula toward comedy and deep character creation, defining the GTA alternative.

Released 2008 Developer Volition Publisher THQ Platform Xbox 360 Genre Action-adventure Era Digital storefronts & indie Website saintsrow.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Saints Row 2 inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Ragdoll Physics ~~1998~~Seamless Streaming Open World ~~2001~~Drop-In Co-op Campaign ~~2001~~In-Game Creation Suite ~~2008~~

The Saints Row series in this dataset

2008

Saints Row 2 ~~this page~~

2011

Saints Row: The Third ~~2011~~

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