Zero Punctuation: Saints Row 2

[AceDiamond]

Having played SR2 and enjoyed it immensely, I apprehensively settled in to watch the video. I knew it was very likely the problems inherent with the game could be easily used to rip it apart (perhaps fairly)

So I'm surprised he liked it, ironically for the same reasons my friend did (that Saints Row 2 doesn't try to present itself as anything else, and just lets you go on a massive sociopathic tear through Stillwater)

 

[RAWKSTAR]

My word that was fantastic!, I just bought Saints Row 2 yesterday and I do agree it is mindless fun!

 

[internutt]

Pretty good review. I'm tempted to rent the game, if not download a demo of it.

 

[Aptspire]

I'm surprised...
I expected a Fable 2 review
Old ladies

 

[RTR]

So he likes Saints Row 2 over GTA IV? Yahtzee's mind sure works in mysterious ways. Anyway, thanks Mr. Croshaw. I will pick this one up thanks to you. Personally, I do prefer mindless, cartoonish fun over realism. Why should playing a video game feel like something very close to real life?

 

[smallharmlesskitten]

Have no fear Yahtzee. I shalt be writing a treatment.. And then making an amateur version for you eventually....

Oh god doesn't that sound fanboyish..

 

[Erikaiht]

So he likes Saints Row 2 over GTA IV? Yahtzee's mind sure works in mysterious ways. Anyway, thanks Mr. Croshaw. I will pick this one up thanks to you. Personally, I do prefer mindless, cartoonish fun over realism. Why should playing a video game feel like something very close to real life?

Please, any fan of the sandbox game has known this since Saints row 1, which I've always said was better then nay GTA ever made.

The fact that police in t he mall come after you on mini quads, or that you can make your entire gang ninja themed is just so frecking cool.

 

[Fratboy]

oh wow, a friend and i were just discussing the games that Yahtzee likes... time to add to the list (sorta)

 

[Undead Dragon King]

Ragdolls flying into the distance Team Rocket Style! Holy crap, I'd totally forgotten about those guys!

That just made my week, Yahtzee. Well done!

 

[Platinum117]

Of all the games you could have reviewed.... you better do dead space next week or i'll slit your wrists with a rusty penis.

Good review i laughed a good bit, entertaining as ever. Keep it up.

 

[herodotus]

Found myself laughing at this one, rather than just smirking as of late. Personally though, I'll be waiting for Mafia 2 as I've had the GTA series up the neck (as of San Andreas), and Saints Row holds no interest for me as a non-American.

 

[herodotus]

As for a review of "Dead Space", that would be interesting to say the least. I hope he mentions the truly atrocious PC port of the game (the key-non-mapping function/non-function). And I didn't think EA could get worse...I was wrong.

 

[HardRockSamurai]

Brilliant review!

 

[SimuLord]

I can't believe he actually went for the 9/11 joke. Tasteless even by Yahtzee's standards, which might be why I found that joke so uproariously funny. Brilliant review, one that actually makes me want to buy the game, bugs and all, so I can (as Yahtzee so eloquently put it) fuck shit up.

 

[wildcard9]

read the fine print: at the credits, he wrote that it bugged out on him so "imagine the review with 10% more bile in it".

I giggled at the "team rocket" bit, though. Ah, nostalgia...

 

[Qorn]

I have always found just blowing shit away is the funnest thing you can do in these type of games that's why mercenaries always intrigued me, but just a little. The thing that mercenaries 2 didn't seem to exceed in was story, but apparently that's not the point of the game and was asking too much. i guess going into this kind of game i shouldn't expect as much from the story as i do from the actual gameplay. I hope it's worth the rent for the moderate praise that yahtzee gives so few games.

 

[Tsumi91]

was that a Jackie Martling reference? laughing at dead baby jokes?

 

[King Brian]

I'll never be able to think of 'car jacking' in the same way again

I totally LOLed at that scene.

 

[DannyDamage]

Hahaha, Pokemon reference.

Another awesome video, offering relieving laughs after a long day at work.