Saints Row 2 is out now on PC in the US, both at retail and on Steam. It doesn't reach Europe until the 30th January. The delay is apparently due to localisation, which seems odd for a months old console game. I've had a copy for a while now, and below is Wot I Think of the single player game. We'll take a look at the multiplayer once the game arrives in Europe.

It had me with the shit-spraying. Of the very many non-story tasks available in the sandbox world, the one that made me realise I love this revolting game was the septic tank challenge. I was tasked to reduce the property prices of an area for a corrupt real estate agent by coating the buildings, the cars and the people in gallons of faeces. The police keep coming, and I kept splattering them in the brown stuff until their cars careered of the road, and the officers lay drowned in the crap. Enough damage racked up, the challenge was complete, and offered me level 2. Then 3, 4, 5 and 6.

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