Here you’ll be able to engage in traditional bouts of both gang-based and free-for-all deathmatch, along with Volition’s ace in the hole: a brand new mode they’re calling ‘Strongarm’. Once you enter a ‘proper’ match, you’ll be taken to one of seven maps based upon districts from the full-sized city of Stillwater.
There’s no real scoring or penalty for death in these stages, just an open opportunity to cause some carnage while you bide your time.
While you’re waiting to join a game, players will be allowed to run around a variety of small lobby levels, blasting seven shades out of each other – one that we saw was based around the Saints HQ, while another appeared to be modelled on a college basketball court. The first neat touch is that the gangster action will actually kick off even before you’ve entered a proper match. Well, the good news is that Volition has also been working to diversify Saints Row 2’s true multiplayer mode – and from we’ve played so far, it’s shaping up rather nicely. If you’ve read the hands-on preview that we published earlier this month, then you’ll know all about the expanded range of Activities and Diversions that will be available in single-player and co-op play – allowing you to do everything from impersonating police officers to spraying the town of Stillwater with liquid sewage. What we’re trying to say, albeit in a rather perverse way, is that Saints Row 2 is going to have a really snazzy multiplayer system. And Fonzie says that’s the kind of murder that’s just not cool.
To be honest, if you try to do it by yourself then it’s not really gang warfare at all it’s just some crazy Billy No Mates, running around the streets shooting innocent civilians. Like a lengthy game of tennis or “The Mummy and Daddy Dance”, gang warfare is something that’s a lot more fun when you do it with someone else.
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