Instead, we have you beat a male doctor to death with an IV stand, to ease you into the killing. For instance we changed the gender of the first character you encounter, since beating a female doctor to death with an IV stand wasn’t the impression we wanted to leave with the very first player action in the game. There was a lot of stuff we had in that didn’t register very high on the human decency scale, so we dialed some things back. Another had you using a high pressure fire hose to wash homeless people off the street and into the gutter. One prototype had you driving a truck full of smuggled underage foreign prostitutes across the city while rival pimps rammed into you, knocking the girls out and cutting into your human trafficking profits. JT: In the early stages of development we had some really crass stuff in the game, the kind of things that put you in that weird place where you’re laughing and squirming uncomfortably with guilt at the same time. Saints Row 2 is a 2008 action-adventure game developed by Volition and published by THQ.It is the sequel to 2006s Saints Row and the second installment in the Saints Row series.The game was released in October 2008 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, January 2009 for Microsoft Windows, and April 2016 for Linux.A mobile tie-in game was developed by G5 Entertainment and also released in October.
James Tsai, SR2’s Lead Designer, in and interview with IGN revealed that some content had to be removed from the game before it was published: Saints Row 2 is a sandbox / action game game developed by Volition Inc and published by THQ for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2008.