Saints Row
Major Nelson celebrates podcast #200 We'd like to congratulate our favorite Microsoft employee with the 200th anniversary of his podcast. Larry has been providing the Xbox community with inside info and fun podcasts for almost 2 years and to celebrate his 200th one he went all out with a 2 hour long show featuring interviews with Bioshock's lead designer Ken Levine, Megadeth singer Dave Mustaine, Jeremy Ludes from TreyArch, XBLA manager Greg Canessa, Aaron LeMay from the Saints Row team and much more. Young receivers keep Saints pass-happy NEW ORLEANS -- If New Orleans Saints opponents thought they had caught a break when veteran receiver Joe Horn or rookie sensation Marques Colston went down recently, they were mistaken.
Devery Henderson and Terrance Copper have made big plays filling in, helping New Orleans maintain the most prolific passing attack in the NFL.
"It's fun to know that with this offense that we have the ability to do so many things," said Saints quarterback Drew Brees, whose 3,463 yards passing leads the league. "I'm happy for the guys around me _ the guys like Devery Henderson, who has stepped up and played so well."
Colston, the league's leading receiver through his team's first nine games, sprained his left ankle only a few plays into a game against Cincinnati two Sundays ago and has not played since.
Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto III is the Star Wars (Episode IV) of video games. GTA has spawned numerous sequels and brazen imitators like Saints Row and the forthcoming Crackdown, creating a new genre of "sandbox" gamesa name that reflects their strengths and limitations. The sandboxes contain vast, wide-open landscapes with few constraints, where the kid (or mass murderer) in you can get lost for hours; they are also plagued by choppy graphics and sloppy gameplay. But the style and sophistication of Bully, Rockstar's latest, proves that it's possible to think, yes, outside the sandbox. 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins has been expelled from several schools, his mother just got married for the fifth time, and he has recently been dumped off at the worst prep school in America: Bullworth Academy.
Stilwater. Gangs control this metropolis, and now its time for the Saints to take back the streets. Here on in, its bitches, badasses, pimps, hoes, violence, sex and of course gangstas. Saints Row is the gansta version of Grand Theft Auto. Not releated to the Rockstar title in anyway (being a THQ production) it pretty much lays down the gauntlet when it comes to open story violent gameplay. Sure the concept is not original, so how does this relate to the GTA franchise of which it is impossible not to compare it to.Well, quite well to be honest. It’s about as different to GTA without being different as you can get. You are the newest member of the 3rd Street Saints. They just saved the back of your favourite head from being blown off so therefore you are a bit grateful. Start off by setting up your homie.
Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City, San Andreas, Liberty City Stories and now Vice City Stories. It's five games in six years, which could hardly be described as overkill compared to the antics of other publishers. The enormous sales (over 40 million copies worldwide) and high review scores also suggest most people's appetites for carjacking and mischief making are not yet satiated. But when you add "GTA clones" into the mix, like The Godfather, Saints Row, The Getaway, True Crime, Scarface, Driver, plus other free-roaming games like Destroy All Humans, Mercenaries, Total Overdose, Just Cause and Rockstar's own Canis Canem Edit, there's a lot more chance that many players will have had their fill. Reading the reviews and early consumer feedback for Vice City Stories, it seems some critics and players have had enough. Microsoft trumpets Christmas software line-up Not to be out done by the hype surrounding the launch of rival consoles, Microsoft is shouting about its software line-up for the Xbox 360 - a year after it first hit Europe. Xbox 360 exclusives Viva Piñata, Gears of War, Test Drive Unlimited, Saints Row, Dead Rising and Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 are leading the marketing push of over 160 titles available for the system. "Xbox 360 offers the broadest and deepest selection of mind-blowing experiences this Christmas," commented Chris Lewis, Microsoft's Xbox 360 Euro boss. "We're excited, just one year after launch, to be able to offer such a diverse games line-up offering exclusive new titles and established blockbusters," he said. Few angels on the streets in 'Saints Row' Playing "Saints Row" is like having the same mixed drink at different bars. You know what's in it, but there's a little added tweak here or a twist there to maintain a sense of uniqueness - and you either like it or hate it. VIDEO GAME REVIEW: SAINTS ROW ONLINE EXTRA: Check out "The Start Button" games blog at dailybulletin.com/thestartbutton, as well as Redmond's weekly contributions on the "All Games Interactive" podcast at www.allgames.com. When it comes to this free-roaming gangsta epic from THQ, the taste is mostly familiar: a large city that serves as a virtual violent playground where players can - you guessed it - do whatever they want to whomever they want. THQ announced today that the first Saints Row map pack is now available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace. Called the Industrial Map Pack, this fast-paced level takes place in an abandoned factory and can be played in Gangsta Brawl and Big A$$ Chains multiplayer modes. The cost is 80 Microsoft points. Word on the streets is that more downloadable content will be available in the months to come. Stay tuned.
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