History VideoGame / SaintsRow2

''Saints Row 2'' is a WideOpenSandbox video game released in late 2008 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, UsefulNotes/Xbox360, and PC. It is the second game in the ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' series.

* UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}}: The Sons of Samedi fighting style resembles this.

*** The Brotherhood wield [[DropTheHammer sledgehammers]], GDHC .50 pistols, 12 Gauges, [=SK9=] Threats, K6 Krukovs, pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails, and [=RPGs=].

** Bystander chatter includes the line [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2 "I need scissors! 61!"]]

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* VideoGame/GentlemenOfTheRow

* DoesNotLikeShoes:
** The employees of On the Rag clothing stores are all {{New Age Retro Hippie}}s and {{Granola Girl}}s, either wearing sandals or going barefoot. The same character models can also be seen wandering the streets as random pedestrians, most commonly in districts that have an On the Rag location.
** Some pedestrians in the Hotels & Marina District wear swimsuits, again either with sandals or barefoot.

* ForeignLandguageTirade: After [[spoiler:Gat is rescued from the hospital]], Shogo sets up a meeting between Kazuo and Vogel. Dane immediately picks up on Kazuo ranting about the meeting in Japanese.

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The [[spoiler:Ronin]] pull this twice, sneaking into [[spoiler:Aisha's place]] to lie in wait for Gat and The Boss, and in the penultimate [[spoiler:Ronin]] mission they perform a much larger attack on the Saints' main crib.

* TheAllegedCar: Subverted. You can find rusted[=/=]dilapidated versions of most of the in-game cars, but this generally doesn't affect the performance. In addition, rust and wear are automatically removed upon modification of the car.
** The Halberd in its base form could count. It has a low base speed with a high torque and while it is useful for weaving through traffic, its low mass makes it prone to tipping over. It's also one of the weakest cars in the game, with just one or two shots of a shotgun being enough to destroy it.
** The Quota, a vehicle used by parking wardens, is a three-wheeled car with a low top speed, worse acceleration, and a tendency to spin out of control. To make it worse, one of the sidequests requires you to steal one while under a wanted level, making it a challenge to obtain.

* AmbiguouslyBi / AmbiguouslyGay: Playing as a male leads to some rather odd moments with Pierce, where he jockeys with Shaundi for The Boss' attention. And there's also his love of classical music and his reaction to seeing a female stripper: "Damn, those are some nice shoes!"
** Since the Boss does exactly the same things no matter what gender they are, and nobody else's dialog is changed, playing as a female Boss lends itself to these moments:

*** Not to mention the way The Boss ogles Shaundi when she's running on the treadmill, JigglePhysics included.

* BigBad: Stilwater's resident CorruptCorporateExecutive (well, one of them, anyway), Dane Vogel. Eventually.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Multiple, multiple examples.

* TheDragon: Jyunichi for the Ronin and Mister Sunshine for the Sons of Samedi.

** One late game Sons of Samedi mission has the Boss and Shaundi infiltrate the Stilwater Police Department to hack into their system and get a bead on the General's limo, culminating in a massive firefight as the Boss and Shaundi fight their way out of the station against a massive number of cops. The mission's name? "[[Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976 Assault on]] [[Film/AssaultOnPrecinct312005 Precinct 31]]" of course!

* FiveManBand: The leading Saints
** TheLeader: The Boss
** TheLancer [=/=] TheBigGuy: Johnny
** TheSmartGuy: Pierce
** TheChick: Shaundi
** TagalongKid: Carlos

''Saints Row 2'' is a WideOpenSandbox video game released in late 2008 for the UsefulNotes/Playstation3, UsefulNotes/Xbox360, and PC. It is the second game in the ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' series.

*** Similarly, the On Thin Ice jewelry stores offers a pair of "[[Film/RevengeOfTheNerds Retaliation of the Nerds]]" glasses as one of its eyewear items.

** One late game Sons of Samedi mission has the Boss and Shaundi infiltrate the Stilwater Police Department to hack into their system and get a bead on the General's limo, culminating in a massive firefight as the Boss and Shaundi fight their way out of the station against a massive number of cops. The mission's name? "[[AssaultOnPrecinct131976 Assault on]] [[AssaultOnPrecinct312005 Precinct 31]]" of course!

* ThisMeansWar: The Ronin storyline. At first treated as a typical turf war, but after [[spoiler: Aisha's murder]], Boss and Gat settle for nothing short of KillEmAll.

* VulnerableConvoy: One of the Brotherhood missions has the Boss attack a police convoy that is transporting the titular gang members to freedom. When the Boss blows up all of the buses they wise up and try moving the prisoners by boat... [[KillEmAll no luck though.]]

** Zombie Uprising. Oh god Zombie Uprising. From unfair spawns, to the pathfinding breaking, so that last zombie is so far out of the gameplay area they may as well be in blue hell, discovering you're utterly boned when you have one final zombie to kill is slightly frustrating.

* WeaponSpecialization:

* WeaponOfChoice:
** Each gang has different weapons of choice.

** Unlocking the AR50 with Grenade Launcher is a little tricky (you need one star in every combat trick, plus 3 gold stars in Gang Killing), but it too can be unlocked during the Prologue with effort. The Grenade Launcher allows you to fire Thrown weapons without switching your equipped gun, making some missions extremely easy.
* DiscardAndDraw: The AR200 SAW has a bigger magazine than the AR-50 with GrenadeLauncher, but trades in the Grenade Launcher.

* LoadingScreen: Loading screens show a succession of two unanimated pictures from the last saved plot-related cutscene, with a yellow filter. They actually are pregenerated pictures instead of being processed with the game's engine, which means that, when such a picture features the Boss, he will only appears as the default character featured at character's creation (black muscular man with a shaved head). On a new game, it shows pictures from the finale of ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1''

* SpreadWingsFrameShot: When the Boss delivers a RousingSpeech to the newly-reformed Third Street Saints, they do so in front of the [[https://saintsrow.fandom.com/wiki/Saint_of_all_Saints Saint of all Saints]] statue -- an icon of the gang, depicting a young winged woman with a gun in each hand. Towards the end of the speech, when the Boss directs the gang to take over Stilwater, the HitlerCam very deliberately frames them to make it look like the statue's wings are theirs, casting them as a Luciferan figure (this is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjpkqK_lvRc&t=2m56s much more obvious]] if the statue is fully restored at this point[[note]]too bad it isn't possible without cheats[[/note]]).
* StealthHiBye: Several Masako members pull one on Maero when he bursts into Vogel's office the second or third time, he doesn't notice until Vogel draws his attention to them.
--->'''Maero:''' My problems are ''your'' problems... or do you need some "fresh air" to remind you?[[note]]Maero had previously held Vogel out the window of his own skyscraper in order to "persuade" him to support him against the Saints.[[/note]]
--->'''Vogel:''' No, see ''my'' problem is that a sideshow freak is messing up my paperwork. ''Your'' problem is that there's the group of security guards with assault rifles pointed at your back.

* SuddenlyVoiced: The Boss. While they had a few one-liners in the first game, they were otherwise completely mute.
--->'''Boss:''' Surprised, Aisha?
--->'''Aisha:''' That you're here or that you're talking?