ANALYSIS not news.
If you were marketing this game you could spend, say, £200,000 getting David Hockney to do the box art or you could spend the same money on Tera Patrick being a "Special Producer" and both would get you masses of worldwide publicity. But that publicity would reach different audiences. And which audience would be most likely to buy Saint's Row 2?
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.
I agree. Tera Patrick is a very clever marketing move, and she brings a surprising amount of business and production smarts to boot, beyond the obvious titillation.
As long as they keep the balance, and don't go too tacky, this should work a treat and has got a lot of people talking about Saints Row 2 that previously weren't paying attention.
It's a shame such beautiful women couldn't do something better of their lives.
Got Milk?
get a porn star to promote ur game...that doesn't look desperate at all.
i think that she fits good in the whole "dont take it too serious" style of the game.
Saints Row is full of sarcasm...and that "Tera Patrick is now a Producer" thing is nothing more to me...so...this is (like some of you said) a nice way to get some attention (THAT THIS GAME DESERVES!!!).
Saints Row was a relly entertaining game (but the most people dont gave it a try because they thought its a GTA rip off.....but its not as easy as that...look beneath the surface :D)
No...SERIOUS...Saints Row is more a parody of GTA than a rip off...Freeworld games are selling really well since GTA (i mean: GTA was the first freeworld game if im right....hmmmm...i dont know)
and as you see in the whole business "if something works and sells well" someone will come up with "almost the same product"...thats the way it was and always will be...its called COMPETITION!!! :D