Volition has announced that they’ve found the source code for the game! Fans of the series have known for years that the SR2 source code was the missing link needed for a new port to ever happen, and Volition devs Thomas Jepp and Mike Watson finally obtained a copy through repeated queries to THQ, the long-bankrupt company that sold Volition the Saints Row rights. It also has the only stealth mission in the franchise, not counting the heavily-scripted Metal Gear Solid parody from SR4.īut all that will soon be a thing of the past.
Its one major problem is that the PC port is downright terrible, making it a chore to even see the great game underneath the choppy framerate, unplayable vehicle sections and constant crashes. Yet it was also before they veered off the deep end into wacky zany nonsensical insanity, which leaves Saints Row 2 as the perfect middle child of both worlds. It was the first one where the devs stopped trying to make gritty GTA clones and instead created a gangster sandbox that didn’t take itself seriously. Saints Row 2 is among my favorite games of all time.
