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 Posted: Sun, 30th Jul 2006 00:05 Post subject: [XBOX360] Saints Row |
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official site: http://www.saintsrow.com/
about:Saint’s Row is set on dethroning Rockstar’s famous GTA franchise. You assume the role of a low-level gang member, and your vision is to become a feared gang leader. The mechanics will play similar to the Grand Theft Auto series, as players can go on-foot or select a multitude of slick vehicles
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As you play Saint’s Row, you have many weapons to choose from and even a bazooka to cause carnage on the streets. The game will be using the Havok 3.0 engine with rag-doll physics to bring a sense of realism to the game. Just imagine seeing a rival gang in their car down the street, you sneak up to the car and roll a grenade under the car, or even using a bazooka from a distance, causing a huge explosion. When a car explodes it sends different parts of the car flying in all directions; such as the door, wheels, hood and even the person driving and any passengers in the car flying into the air. Explosions are what the Havok 3.0 engine does beautifully and it is same engine used in The Outfit (Xbox 360) and many others. The rag-doll physics brings a sense of lifelessness to the bodies once they are dead. The rag-doll effect has been used in many games previously and seems to work very well with the Havok 3.0 engine.
As previously stated, the gameplay will be just like Grand Theft Auto. You take missions to earn money and even reputation. You, as the player, can decide to do the missions carefully or just hang out on the streets. The city will be between San Andreas and Vice City in terms of size. THQ is aiming to have an open-ended type of gameplay. You will have total control of your destiny.
One neat feature is “call-a-home”, which is accessible from your virtual cell phone. You’ll call up a gang member that you added to your address book, and within a few moments they will come up rolling in their ride and follow you around doing whatever you command them to. This is just one of the many gameplay abilities that are expected to be in the final version of the game.
The cars will also have a very deep level of customization; from spinning rims, to window tints, to paints jobs, you can create almost anything you are looking for. The customization probably won’t be as close to say, some of the new Need for Speed games, but you will definitely have a large variety of choices. You will also be able to choose different clothes and physical attributes for your character to fit your own style. Saint’s Row is even going to take a step further and allowing players to receive plastic surgery to keep it one step above the law. |
screenshots:http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/saintsrow/screenindex.html
game looks impressive
got great graphic compared to gta
finnally next gen graphic for GTA style game
should be released soon(29august)
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| Posted: Sun, 30th Jul 2006 00:53 Post subject: |
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August 29, 2006 Saints Row
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| Posted: Sun, 30th Jul 2006 02:20 Post subject: |
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exactly 1 month from now. Demo in about 2 - 3 days.
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| Posted: Sun, 30th Jul 2006 09:05 Post subject: |
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seems like a decent game from the demo. feels like they added all the bells and whistles that SHOULD have been in gta san andreas(pc/xbox ver) if that game wasnt just a direct ps2 port. plan on buying if just for that.
however some of the things that should be there to make it the "ultimate gta-killer" or whatever are strangely missing. like bikes? motorcycles at least? mopeds? anything with 2 wheels? also the story seems a little weak compared to the story gta games always had. and not sure if the city has enough character to be memorable like vice was.
but i guess playing the complete game will show whether its something to just pass some time with until the next gta comes along or if its something better...
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| Posted: Sun, 30th Jul 2006 20:40 Post subject: |
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| Reg67 wrote: | | come on game devs.. give us something not done before. this sort of crap is very old and tired.. |
SR will offer at least four multiplayer online modes: Protect tha Pimp, Blinged Out Ride, Gangsta Brawl and Big-Ass Chains.
That's something Rockstar or any other game developer didn't give us before... did they?
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| Posted: Sun, 30th Jul 2006 22:57 Post subject: |
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I was hoping Saints row would give us cops and robbers mode, but any mp modes are a huge leap forward. Rockstar after all took a leap backward in removing all MP modes from GTA3, where the prequels all had highly entertaining mp action (on the PC).
The saints row demo is coming out soon isnt it? Cant wait!
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| Posted: Mon, 31st Jul 2006 00:02 Post subject: |
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comes out 1st aug on marketplace for uk peeps
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| Posted: Mon, 31st Jul 2006 14:01 Post subject: |
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| Subander wrote: | I was hoping Saints row would give us cops and robbers mode, but any mp modes are a huge leap forward. Rockstar after all took a leap backward in removing all MP modes from GTA3, where the prequels all had highly entertaining mp action (on the PC).
The saints row demo is coming out soon isnt it? Cant wait! |
Rockstar has never had multiplayer on their 3D GTA games, those modes were user modifications. Couldn't you tell by how buggy and cheat ridden they were?
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| Posted: Tue, 1st Aug 2006 14:30 Post subject: |
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demo is out now on market place.
enjoy.
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| Posted: Tue, 1st Aug 2006 16:16 Post subject: |
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It's goddamn awesome! The physics, graphics, special effects, fighting, animation, and gunplay combine to make an awesome game.
It's actually fun to shoot people now, whereas in GTA it felt like a chore, especially with the autoaim on the console versions.
One really great moment was when I was beating up this women testing out my unarmed moves and then these two guys came running over to help her. I pulled out my shotgun and smacked one in the face as he was running. Then the other guy started running off while I kicked the other to death.
Another time I threw a pipebomb at these two guys and as they went to run away one of them slipped and got caught by the explosion. It looked really realistic.
"Techniclly speaking, Beta-Manboi didnt inject Burberry_Massi with Benz, he injected him with liquid that had air bubbles in it, which caused benz." - House M.D
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| Posted: Tue, 1st Aug 2006 18:59 Post subject: |
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Anyone know if the demo is on XBL yet?
Id check myself but Im at work atm :/
May the NFOrce be with you always.
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| Posted: Tue, 1st Aug 2006 19:14 Post subject: |
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yup its been on xbl for a few hrs
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| Posted: Tue, 1st Aug 2006 19:15 Post subject: |
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what your openion about the demo ?
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| Posted: Tue, 1st Aug 2006 20:20 Post subject: |
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| dvsone wrote: | | yup its been on xbl for a few hrs |
Cool thanks man! Ill grab that later tonight! Is it the same as the NTSC demo that made it onto Usenet a short while ago?
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| Posted: Tue, 1st Aug 2006 20:38 Post subject: |
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| Vladi wrote: | | what your openion about the demo ? |
It kicks ass, go download it. There are about five missions to do, although the most fun can be had doing your own thing. You have a fairly large area to explore, although you don't get access to lots of the more advanced features. You can get hold of some pretty good weapons though but you need to kill people to get them as they're not for sale at such an early point in the game. To get a shotgun you have to kill a cop after threatening them with a pistol, and you can get an uzi and mp5 from killing pimps and gang members.
| headshot wrote: | | dvsone wrote: | | yup its been on xbl for a few hrs |
Cool thanks man! Ill grab that later tonight! Is it the same as the NTSC demo that made it onto Usenet a short while ago? |
As there is only one demo I would expect it is.
"Techniclly speaking, Beta-Manboi didnt inject Burberry_Massi with Benz, he injected him with liquid that had air bubbles in it, which caused benz." - House M.D
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| Posted: Wed, 2nd Aug 2006 00:17 Post subject: |
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the demo is good but there are some things i noticed that just i dunno kinda bug me. First of all sometimes there's some pretty nesty pop in, if you stand at the end of one of the bridges and watch the cars they appear out of no where. There's some shader errors when you look at the water.
This build is apparantly pre E3 tho so i would expect alot of this has been fixed
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| Posted: Wed, 2nd Aug 2006 03:14 Post subject: |
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the demo has heavy framerate issues... i really hope they get it smoothed out for retail... btw... cant wait for the game... this is my game of the year...
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| Posted: Wed, 2nd Aug 2006 04:06 Post subject: |
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The demo was supposedly a pre-E3 demo. I'm sure they've ironed a few of those things out by now.
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| Posted: Wed, 2nd Aug 2006 04:58 Post subject: |
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The frame rate does indeed suck major ass , combined with the major vertical tearing due to no v-sync its headache inducing. If they fix this issue up , the game will be very nice
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| Posted: Wed, 2nd Aug 2006 06:19 Post subject: |
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actually ur wrong about the v-sync thing it has nothing to do with the tearing in this case, but yea the tearing is an issue at 720p and above i tried it at 480 and didnt notice any tearing at all
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| Posted: Wed, 2nd Aug 2006 13:18 Post subject: |
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| dvsone wrote: | the demo is good but there are some things i noticed that just i dunno kinda bug me. First of all sometimes there's some pretty nesty pop in, if you stand at the end of one of the bridges and watch the cars they appear out of no where. There's some shader errors when you look at the water.
This build is apparantly pre E3 tho so i would expect alot of this has been fixed |
The pop in is actually extremely minimal and the draw distance on the cars puts an other freeroamer to shame. They go real far into the distance.
What you're noticing is the drawing edge of the map. Where those cars 'pop in' right in front of you, is a point of nothingness. If you stood on there, you'd fall through the ground and it'd reload and put in saints row.
If you get through the barrier near the hospital, you can judge just how far forward you can go by watching all the cars pop in and also pop out. If you step on a pop in/out zone, you'll fall through the floor.
I honestly thought exactly as you do, until I went through the barrier myself. Stay in Saints Row and watch a car drive off into the distance (not throught the barriers, just down the street) and watch how far they go.
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| Posted: Wed, 2nd Aug 2006 14:35 Post subject: |
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Exactly, the map doesn't exist beyond a certain point because it's just a demo.
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| Posted: Wed, 2nd Aug 2006 14:49 Post subject: |
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I love the explosions in this game and the way pedestrians get toasted lol. Also the Police cars are good and the attention to detail on damage impressed me. I expect GTA4 will be very similar with souped up visuals and ragdoll physics!
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| Posted: Wed, 2nd Aug 2006 15:15 Post subject: |
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Meh, seems like it's just a more advanced version of gta (physics and realistic movement of your charecter when running or shooting) I'll prolly play it if it gets pirated, but in the end it's just more of the same GTA, nothing original here, but atleast it's entertainment till I get the wii, then i'll be having fun looking like a complete tool in front of my telly.
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| Posted: Wed, 2nd Aug 2006 15:21 Post subject: |
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well yea, the demo does have a frame rate issue, however, if you look at videos from the game on different game sites, you can see this problem is a goner.
It's a great game, I mean, only the demo kicked ass , think about the full version...
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