Saints Row 2

What is next-gen? Is it just a case of more processing power pumped into graphics? Larger and larger explosions? Some would argue that a truly next-gen game makes use of the mammoth power of a new console to produce not only a better-looking and sounding game, but an entirely new experience.

GTA4 did that. Love it or loathe it, (And opinion is certainly divided), it wasn’t just GTAIII with better graphics. Everything from the physics, to the storyline was given a huge sense of weight. Gone were the videogame conventions of bonuses for doing wheelies, and fighting off hundreds of keystone kops in a city-wide killing spree. It was no longer okay to plough into crowds of civilians and casually drive into a nearby pay-n-spray as if it never happened. Suddenly, actions had consequences, and your on-screen avatar was no longer a mindless killing machine, but a realistic character with regrets about the path his life had taken.

Saint’s Row 2 just acts as...