rootninja

There’s a lot to do in Saints Row 2, so in order to get from mission to mission the quickest, you’ll want to surround yourself with the fastest cars available.  Get to your crib and find the “Customize Gang” area.  You get three gang cars that will randomly appear throughout the game in your hoods.  Ditch the slow ones you start with and use some exotics and maybe throw in a hummer or 4 door sport sedan.

This will make it easier to get to wherever you want to be because whenever you’re in your gang lands, you’ll see your cars all over the place.  When you see one, just press up on the dpad to recruit the driver and he’ll stop the car and get out immediately.  Normally when you try to carjack exotics on the street, they take off as soon as you make your move.  I like the exotics because they turn and brake quickly and get up to full speed the fastest, but it seems like all cars have the same top end speed.

Fly helicopters when you can.  The best ones in the game are the ambulance, police, and news helicopters.  That is, until you get the attack chopper.  But you won’t get to fly it outside of a mission until you’re at the end game.  All of the choppers fly about the same, but you’ll probably notice the Thompson chopper is almost broken.  You have to fly it pretty slow or else don’t even think about raising your altitude and flying straight at the same time.  You’ll end up upside down, crashing into stuff, and then exploding.

There were a lot of things in Grand Theft Auto that I didn’t like, such as annoying cousins calling me every five minutes wanting to get picked up.  The story line just got boring.  With all of the side missions and diversions available in Saints Row 2, you won’t get bored for a second.  And the story throughout the cut scenes is the best I’ve seen yet.  Other than the occasional glitch or complete freeze up, it’s one of the best games i’ve played. I like the idea of having melee styles, but the developers should have put more work into the hand to hand combat system