On first inspection, Saints Row 2 delivers the predictable. The open-world action-adventure game offers more of everything that the first game had. The landscape is about 50 percent larger than the original. It takes place about 15 to 20 years after the first game, stars your character as the Saints gang leader, and it's deeper and more customizable in every foreseeable way. The highlight feature focuses on two-player co-op, in which a second player can jump in and out of the campaign at any time to participate in the madness from beginning to end. The core combat layers in various degrees of new functionality starting with the use of human cover, the ability to throw the human cover (preferably through a building window), and the ability to drive or pilot a cluster of vehicles from helicopters to jet skis to powerboats.
The 2000s was a great decade for a lot of brilliant video games. Here are the ten best games of the 2000s that you may not have played.
You know usually when someone says "you may have missed" it's games that were lesser known, hidden gems, underrated games. These are all super high profile games that sold extremely well.
What is this list? These are all hugely popular games. I was expecting games like Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, Advent Rising, Arx Fatalis, etc.
I've only played 3 on that list. Part of me feels bad about how little I used all the consoles I've owned as a kid. One bright side is, there's over 30 years of games to experience for the first time.
News Wire - "Today, we’re excited to reveal Games with Gold for July! On Xbox One, command your rally car to victory in extreme conditions in WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship and rule the court with high-flying dunks and confidence-smashing rejections in Dunk Lords."
Dunk Lords has a sort of NBA Jam vibe to it so that might be fun. I like rally racers but much prefer the Sega type (arcade style) over the more realistic ones. So that may be a pass. I already have SR2 on disc so I dont need that one. Juju looks cute in a DKC/Rayman sort of way so that might be worth a try. Overall though... its pretty bland month.
Plenty of games seem guaranteed to get sequels. But sometimes, companies surprise people and give them the additional installments they didn't know they needed.