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New Saints Row 2 trailer takes cues from GTA IV
BY Mike WehnerAugust 27th, 2008 More on:

When there’s a game in the sandbox genre that revolves around fighting crime and shooting bad guys while driving really fast cars, you’re inevitably going to draw massive comparisons to GTA. The new Saints Row trailer will definitely give you a GTA vibe, and probably in more ways than one.

If you remember back from when GTA IV was just a few days away, one of the biggest buzz topics around the web was the fact that the trailers didn’t show any actual in-game footage. It was peculiar, as the trailers are the main source of hype surrounding any game, but it did eventually pay off for GTA IV in the form of record sales numbers across both the Xbox 360 and PS3. The guys over in the THQ marketing department must have watched those trailers plenty because in this latest Saints vid you won’t see a lick of gameplay. You’ll see plenty of bullets, bad guys, and busted-up automobiles, but gameplay is quietly absent. The trailer will surely get you pumped for the game either way, and I guess you really can’t argue with a formula that works, right?

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    Adam Sandberg
    August 27th, 2008
    at 11:23 am

    I think it’s good if they don’t release anymore gameplay trailers.

    I saw one the other day, showing some dude trying to escape from prison. The controls looked horrible, the A.I was stupid and all that looked good were the shadows and the textures on the people. The physics wasn’t hooray either - a cop flew like 15 feet just by being punched.

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    BFeld
    August 27th, 2008
    at 7:40 pm

    The 15-foot punch might be intentional given that Saints Row is meant to be a caricature of GTA

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    Adam Sandberg
    August 28th, 2008
    at 12:13 am

    Just because it’s intentional doesn’t make it good ;)

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    Big Dogg
    September 22nd, 2008
    at 10:26 am

    The game great is I don’t know why ya think gta4 is the sh** because it’s not .GTAIV has been out seens Apr 29 the game is old now Saints Row 2 is about to come Oct 14.

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