Saints Row: The Third
Saints Row: The Third
Game
Game2009
Saints Row 2
Developer Volition
Saints Row 2 is a 2008 action-adventure game developed by Volition and published by THQ. It is the sequel to 2006's 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 2008. Saints Row 2… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
454 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
74
Fresh
233 positive · 82 negative
95% range 69–79%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 233 | 82 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 58 | 3 | 56 |
| Mastodon * | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| Lemmy * | 4 | 0 | 6 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
10,068 of 13,364 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
73% recommend · 192 yes, 72 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 264 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (16,605 of 21,872 positive).
Players widely praise the game itself as a classic open-world experience. [1][2][3] Many note the PC port is broken and requires the Juiced patch to be playable. [4][5][6] Some reviewers express frustration over the port's issues and the need for mods. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [15]
Never forget they went back on their word to a man dying of cancer to finish the Saints Row 2 PC fix. The same man who spent his very last days working on said fix purely out of love for Saints Row 2 and its fans. R.I.P. IdolNinja
- [1]
So I finally tried this classic and I have to say I finally understand those people who say that Saints Row 2 is the best one in the series. For a game that came out in 2008 the attention to details is simply amazing. Cool npcs that can do more than just walk and sit. Many nicely made interiors. City full of life, activities and action. For example shootouts between gangs or between gang and police can happen out of …
- [4]
very poorly designed PC port, but Juiced and Clean Gentlemen Of The Row more than make up for it. Don't buy this game unless you're willing to find and install those packs/fixes. R.I.P IdolNinja
- [6]
GET THE JUICED PATCH!!! The game is an unplayable broken mess, but the juiced patch turns it into the definitive way to play the game. Also, with the juiced patch, you can even get the DLC from the console versions that never made it to PC.
- [2]
Man, they don't make 'em like that anymore. Don't trust the reviews. With the JUICED patch, which is absolutely required, this is a straight up 10/10 videoGAME. Build up your gang, customize every aspect of your character, and claim the city district by dictrict in your OWN way. The story is actually good and doesn't rely on cheap stereotypes or sex references to be forcibly funny. It's a game that does its best to …
Summarised from 34 of the 370 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Saints Row 2 sits at 74% positive across 315 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 releases of the game received "generally favorable" reviews, according to video game review score aggregator website Metacritic, and the Windows release received "mixed or average" reviews. Yahtzee Croshaw of The Escapist's Zero Punctuation named Saints Row 2 his 2008 game of the year. It was a runner-up for GameShark's overall and Xbox 360 games of the year. Game Developer named Volition in their top 50 developers of the year for their work on the game, and THQ in their top 20 publishers. The console version of Saints Row 2 garnered generally positive reviews. The PC version was relatively less well received due to frame rate issues and visual pop-in. 1UP.com…
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Reactions
60 of 454 · most liked firstNever forget they went back on their word to a man dying of cancer to finish the Saints Row 2 PC fix. The same man who spent his very last days working on said fix purely out of love for Saints Row 2 and its fans. R.I.P. IdolNinja
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Open-World Games with Drivable Motorbikes?. I'm looking for good Steam games to wishlist for the Steam Summer Sale coming soon. Mainly, I'm looking for any open-world game that features motorbikes/motorcycles as drivable vehicles. It doesn't have to be a racing game. (Side tangent: I wish Forza Horizon 6, or any Forza game, had motorbikes in it.) Games I already have that do have bikes in them: - Cyberpunk 2077 - GTA IV and V - Burnout Paradise - Just Cause 2 and 3 - Saints Row 2, 3 and 4 -…
neutral · AI labelView post →Juiced Patch and the DLC make the PC port finally the best way to play the game. RIP IdolNinja
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Promise Mascot Agency is really good. Hits that dreamy ps2 feel I remember getting when I played Saints Row 2 (even though the game isn't anything like that). You should by it
neutral · AI labelView post →So I finally tried this classic and I have to say I finally understand those people who say that Saints Row 2 is the best one in the series. For a game that came out in 2008 the attention to details is simply amazing. Cool npcs that can do more than just walk and sit. Many nicely made interiors. City full of life, activities and action. For example shootouts between gangs or between gang and police can happen out of nowhere. The graphic showing its age but it is still looking very decent if…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Man, they don't make 'em like that anymore. Don't trust the reviews. With the JUICED patch, which is absolutely required, this is a straight up 10/10 videoGAME. Build up your gang, customize every aspect of your character, and claim the city district by dictrict in your OWN way. The story is actually good and doesn't rely on cheap stereotypes or sex references to be forcibly funny. It's a game that does its best to not waste your time and I really apprechiate that. Just straightforward classic…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →PLAY WITH THE "JUICED" MOD FOR ABSOLUTE BEST EXPERIENCE You can find the mod down below, it genuinely fixes everything! Juiced Mod: https://github.com/kobraworksmodding/Saints-Row-2-Juiced-Patch/releases Review - I grew up with this game back in 2009 on my Xbox 360 and have countless memories. I bought this game nearly a decade ago and was discouraged from playing it ever again due to the condition the game was left in. The game is unoptimized to all hell and basic functions didn't work…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very poorly designed PC port, but Juiced and Clean Gentlemen Of The Row more than make up for it. Don't buy this game unless you're willing to find and install those packs/fixes. R.I.P IdolNinja
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →live now hunting down video game myths & legends to see if theyre real.. including SAINTS ROW 2's infamous THE FREEZER.. twitch.tv/socpens
neutral · AI labelView post →seems like a very fun game broken port so dont bother steam can you PLEASE up your standards on quality control, please?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For my 100th review, I had to review a very special game. Saints Row 2 is one of my favorite games of all time, and I have played a lot of games. Before I talk about the game itself, keep in mind that this is one of the worst PC ports you can come across. But don’t worry, there is a community made mod called Juiced Patch that fixes almost everything. It makes the game play the way it should on PC and adds several quality of life features, such as uncapped FPS, faster loading times, removing…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →for people complaining about the pc port, get juiced patch. it fixes 99% of the issues with it and adds some enhancements too
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →With the Juiced MOD - This game is GOOD AS NEW... if you had fond memories of playing this as a kid, oh boy it's better than you even remembered it. Love this game, love how well it can run in the modern day.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →35) Saints Row 2. The best open world crime game.
positive · AI labelView post →Amazing game but a awful port. Juiced patch+ Dlc mod (and maybe dxvk) fixes this game to where it should've been.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a very good game but you gotta use community patches to make it work right, Thanks to the JUICED community and to the late IdolNinja for allowing this marvelous game to be played almost 20 years after release
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →tonight’s video game map is Stillwater from Saints Row 2
neutral · AI labelView post →Childhood game that I miss. It's annoying how the PC version crashes all the time and has a lot of problems and glitches. Only buy it if you're down to mod the heck out of it just to make it playable
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Juiced Patch makes this the best way to play. Elite game. We need another (proper) Saints Row making!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →GET THE JUICED PATCH!!! The game is an unplayable broken mess, but the juiced patch turns it into the definitive way to play the game. Also, with the juiced patch, you can even get the DLC from the console versions that never made it to PC.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →great game, terrible port. just get it for xbox tbh. constant crashes no matter whats changed in settings or pcu stuff, you will eventually have constant crashes and lose progress. not worth it. esp for regular price.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Without a single doubt in my mind, this is one of the greatest open world games ever put together. Saints Row 2 is just such a genuine experience, with lots of main missions and objectives to do as well as plenty of side activities and "diversions" too. All three gangs feel distinct and unique, each with its own set of characters that have enough depth to give them meaning to the story events. One of my favorite things to do in this game is to just walk around and look at the details in the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the 360 version of Saints Row 2, Title Update 1 with the DLC I'm running it on Xenia Manager Canary with the repository game settings, 60FPS cap, 1x res + CAS scaling, and the uncap FPS, bleach filter + vignette removal patches
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the BEST GAMES EVER MADE. Would I ever play this game on my computer? ABSOLUTELY NOT. Even with compatibility patches this game has never worked well for me. HOWEVER, IF YOU HAPPEN TO OWN A STEAM DECK, THIS GAME RUNS BETTER THAN IT DOES ON THE NATIVE 360 VERSION. I don't know what kind of sorcery they pulled with this ♥♥♥♥, but if you own a Steam Deck, and own this game, PLAY IT. If you don't own one or both of these things, buy them. Yes, Saints Row 2 is so PEAK I am telling you to buy…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🌟FIRST CONTENT SCHEDULE OF THE YEAR🌟 TODAY: Uploading my shenanigans in Saints Row 2 on YT TUE: More Saints Row live on Twitch! ALSO SPINNING THE WHEEL OF INDIES! Wed: Indie game revealed Thu: Tekken! Fri: ROBLOB SHRIMP GAMES Sat - Sunday no stream. But expect youtube shorts!
neutral · AI labelView post →Note: Download the Juiced Patch if you want to even open the game let alone see the main menu. Link found here: https://kobraworks.com/juicedpatch.html (Download, open the zipped folder, open the single folder and drag all the contents into the game's files). After waking up from a coma caused by a traumatic blast from a bombing, a notorious gangster breaks out of prison and seeks to reclaim the city they once handed to their old gang. But with that gang mostly disbanded, it's time for our…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Juiced Patch FTW, took me less than 2 minutes to set up and I've never seen Stillwater look so good even on my bucket of a gaming PC.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →buy it on gog for 1$ where the game actually runs without the need of mods <3
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is only somewhat related but when I failed my college classes one semester I spent the winter break playing Saints Row 2 and I DESPISED the game. I felt like its jovial tone was mocking me at my lowest and it only made me more depressed as I played if those dozens of hours.
negative · AI labelView post →My thoughts: Everyone should leave a negative review on this game in protest. The Steam version is shipped with broken content, filled with crashes, major FPS drops regardless of your hardware, and other really odd bugs. Using a patch (either Gentlemen of the Row or Juiced) you can fix this, but it's even still not recommended to use the steam executable, which is broken. I had to buy the game on GoG (luckily it's on sale right now), grab the executable from there, replace the steam…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I stopped throwing boxes full of lyme infected lone star ticks into midwest fields to beat this game. Gloinky experience. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →every single new video game that comes out on steam is mixed reviews because they all run like shit now we had like a good decade of PC games having decent ports but now were back to the Saints Row 2 era
neutral · AI labelView post →first game i ever had for xbox 360 it was a birthday present from my dad before he died when i was 6 and it holds a special place in my heart thank you dad and thank you volition for the great memories
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the game doesnt even work, i can NOT leave the hospital in the beginning. Its always crashing. The only way to fix it is going through a process of extended modding, and using multiple programms. Even if i am capable of doing this i WILL NOT. It takes extra time. Time the developers SHOULD INVEST. Its not MY JOB to make a game playable. ITS YOUR JOB!!! dont recommend...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🄵🅁🄾🄼 🅃🄷🄴 🄵🄰🄻🄲🄾🄽 🅅🄰🅄🄻🅃🅂 #365xFalconGames24 A game a day keeps the doctor away! Game 3️⃣6️⃣1️⃣ This is Saints Row 2. A much better entry than the first imo. What are you sharing today?! #gaming #GamersUnite
positive · AI labelView post →Best games I’ve ever: GTA 4, Baldurs Gate 3, Max Payne 3, Max Payne 1/2, Okami, Pokémon Blue, Batman Arkham Asylum, Zelda Link’s Awakening, GTA San Andreas, The Warriors, Resident Evil 4, Metal Gear Solid 3, Saints Row 2, Bioshock Game that kind of sucks that I love: Kane and Lynch 2
positive · AI labelView post →One of the best GTA clones I have ever played. I recommend installing JUICED patch, as it fixes various amount of issues due to the bad PC port, boosts game performance and adds as well modern-day stuff such as Borderless Full-screen and Graphical tweaks which make it a bit sharper.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I also remember in Saints Row 2 you could choose your gender, whereas in 1 you had to play a dude. Since canonically you play the same character in all four games, this creates a discrepancy. How does the game address this?
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ll cry about it for the better reason. I want a million sliders. I don’t want gender locked binary options. Saints Row 2 was all sliders and that game is positively ancient now. Make a toon look however you wanted with whatever hair you wanted. Then you could make them wear whatever you wanted.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'd like to link you to this WordPress blog I'd found, in which a trans gamer expresses the sort of rhapsodic joy through Saints Row 2 she'd always felt had been denied her in AAA gaming spaces. thetransgamer.wordpress.com/2014/04/26/w...
neutral · AI labelView post →No, but also I was never going to buy GTA6. I loved GTA3, Vice City & San Andreas. Played for hundreds of hours. I played GTA4 for a few hours but it never really clicked the same. I also played Saints Row 2 and Saints Row 3, which I really enjoyed and scratched that same itch (those games eventually went a little over the top, but I still had fun.) When GTA5 came out all I ever heard about it was it being "online" which turned me off of the series completely. I think I later understood that…
positive · AI labelView post →They're asking a lot for a game that's basically the boring version of Saints Row 2
neutral · AI labelView post →So i played this game on xbox360 more then 20 times but now i bought it for pc and it is very bad. In the first mission when you go to the store to change clothes it crashes(and i have tried it 10 times)Is unplayable DO NOT BUY THIS GAME ON PC
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You need to use the juiced patch, or the PC port is unplayable. I enjoyed my time replaying this game for the first time in years. Has the early 2000s edge. It's the last "believable" gang-based Saints Row game, before it got too stupid and over the top. The main story and cutscenes are mostly realistic and directed well; the only over-the-top things in the game are the side activities. Credits rolled after 12h30m with 66% game completion 7/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some preamble while it downloads, Saints Row 2 is the best open world gta-like game in history, and will likely never be topped. If you think otherwise, that's great but you are wrong. It also came out at the right time after the gritty, realer gta4, and leaned into the silliness SR became known for
positive · AI labelView post →This is almost as close as we got back in the day to perfection of a lost art, the "GTA Clone", a term I stopped hearing around 2014 once GTA 5 got cemented as an all time best seller, the rest of developers just sort of gave up I guess. The last big game of this type might have been Watch Dogs: Legion, huh. Anyway, this is a classic, controls hold up fairly well, if you install the Juiced mod you`re more than good to go. Check out Sleeping Dogs, too. Always check out Sleeping Dogs.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Resuming my playthrough of Sinking City. My moot @saintwalker98.bsky.social had opined, wrt Saints Row 2, a great video game city is one that understands every neighbourhood or district has its own distinct character. The later games in the series neglected this, becoming a…
neutral · AI labelView post →Morrowind, Fallout New Vegas, Skyrim, Saints Row 2, GTA San Andreas, Ultima, beside few indies, Pragmata and Fallout London, this and retro console games are my main playthroughs
neutral · AI labelView post →Come for the Xbox 360 era nostalgia, leave when you realize its a buggy mess. Sadly... I cannot recommend a broken game to anyone. Oh... SAVE OFTEN.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a masterpiece and an era locked game which is beautifully done and a cornerstone in my childhood memories. (Works well with SR2 Juiced)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →8/10 gameplay, 1/10 port, so I'm splitting the difference. Love the depth of character creation, love the amount of clothing to collect and the way the game plays with audacious side missions like insurance fraud without flying off the deep end like the later games. But also I was fighting the controls every damn step of the way, even after modding in fixes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, but requires Juiced Patch to play on modern hardware. Also linux native version has horrible performance and doesnt support Juiced Patch so I recommend using Proton compatibility layer.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the city was a buggy mess even with settings tweaked and game crashes. wtf happened to saints row dude
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Saints Row 2 was one of my favorite games mainly because you had the option of picking people up and throwing them to fight. I made my character a giant, and I'm pretty sure I played through ~75% of the game without ever needing to use a weapon because I could just pick everybody up and take them out with one or 2 throws. I also remember giving her the derpy face option.
positive · AI labelView post →Game keeps crashing. It's crashed 3 times in 3 hours of gameplay. I want to play, but fear I'll get somewhere and then it won't matter because it will just crash.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bro, SR2 Boss would smoke SR3, SR4 and the new SR without a doubt. I went to play this game 'cus lotsa people were recommending it on the internet and it stands out. Jesus Christ I understand what they meant by it tooko a real nosedive when they got to SR3. Don't get me wrong, I love SR3, but damn.. thing was on another new level.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🄵🅁🄾🄼 🅃🄷🄴 🄵🄰🄻🄲🄾🄽 🅅🄰🅄🄻🅃🅂 #365xFalconGames25 A game a day keeps the doctor away! Game 1️⃣7️⃣2️⃣ We’re talking Saints Row 2 here! Lovely little set with a usb stick pretending to be a shell. What are you sharing today? #gaming #GamersUnite
neutral · AI labelView post →So this is a confusing one because this game is amazing, I loved playing it, the story was good and the introduction of new characters was amazing I'd recommend the game if it wasn't for the fact that you can't run the damn thing without installing external patches. Unfortunate, but it didn't ruin my enjoyment too much once I had figured that out.. Kind of flew through this game and didn't do a lot of side stuff so can't say how amazing those are but just like the first game they can be a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[h2 ]People werent joking when they said this port was horrible Having at least the JUICED patch installed is mandatory for the game to be stable enough to be playable, and even then you can forget about having consistent FPS. Hitting 60FPS in this game felt like a rare breath of fresh air in a headache inducing stutter fest. As for the game itself; this is my 1st time playing SR2 and I was both pleasantly surprised and completely underwhelmed. SR2 offers a well rounded city as your…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was able to use Radmin VPN do play co-op with my friend and used the JUICED patch to make the games performance and customization even better. Have had a blast and the game is just as amazing as I remembered it. WOULD NOT recommend if you aren't willing to at least use community mods like the JUICED patch to make this game playable on PC.
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