Tries too hard and fails.
The graphics are pretty ordinary for this generation's detailed and intuitive blend, it's colourful, and boring textures on the environment are really dull and nauseating. The characters have almost no detail, the only thing with detail is the clothes and overall the quality of the graphics is atrocious.
The game's in game soundtrack is larger than last time and features many famous singer's and rapper's latest songs making the sound the only likeable thing in this game for me.
The run and gun gameplay is too old and used to be fun anymore as well as the boring old arcade racing (which I thought would have stopped 3 years ago) is still here like a linger of sweaty sock smell haunting my bedroom. The over-the-top and, frankly, dumb cut scenes try to be brief and action packed, but instead are stupid scenes of violence which could have been handled better by the player. The difficulty is so easy I was "smoked" about twice in the whole playthrough and gained about 50x respect for gunning down gang bangers, which actually saved lots of time as the cheap arse game designers try to get you to play longer by making you do the minigames to unlock the next mission making me hate this game more.
Saints Row 2 is plainly a bad game, with capital BAD, and shall never be played by me again, in my eyes it was a waste of money and valuable time. Why? You ask me, "Why oh, why, Jirf, did you fully play this game through" "I wanted the Achievements" I reply looking ashamed. I normally would say something like 'this game could have been better if…' but I'm not, they should've stopped at one.