Review: Saint’s Row 2: Corporate Welfare

Review: Saint’s Row 2: Corporate Welfare

DLC is an awesome way to keep an aging game fresh and alive. Many games try to put DLC in the game and attempt this, but not all succeed. Corporate Welfare is a great way of using DLC to keep a game alive, with its awesome missions and added extras.

MISSIONS:

The missions in this DLC are great, and are way better than the missions in the first DLC pack. Essentially, you are again taking down the Ultor corporation, and this time are taking missions from a Mafia-like guy. There are three missions, like the first DLC. However, these missions are more fun than the first DLC missions, and come with a lot of added bonuses. The last mission in the DLC is probably one of my favorite missions in the whole game, and involves sniping random people, including a pirate, a team of ninjas, and a guy in a hot dog suit, as well as taking out an entire gang of mimes. The missions are way better quality than the first, and the missions in the first were the only thing I really disliked about them.

VEHICLES:

In the first DLC pack, I really praised the vehicles for being generally awesome, as well as being useful outside of the DLC missions. While the cars in this DLC are pretty cool, the aren’t that useful for missions and pretty much are just for show. The vehicles included are the Apex [the motorcycle pictured above], the Bee [a plane], the Elite [a sports car], the Commander [a tugboat], and the Relic and Lightning [both of which are old time gangster cars]. The cars are fun and handle fairly well, but they aren’t useful in anything besides driving around, even with the plane and the boat. It would have been nice to have a vehicle with some sort of gun/missle that would be used in missions.

CLOTHING:

The clothing in the DLC is fairly decent. It includes 10 new mustaches, for the obvious mustache fans, as well as a barbarian outfit, a nurse outfit, an eyepatch, a football helmet, a Jason like hockey mask, baggy jeans, a Ronin jacket, bandanas, and bunny slippers. There is a lot of clothing here, but the clothing included in the first DLC pack seemed better and more outrageous and fun.

OVERALL: This DLC pack is very much better than the first, in terms of missions. While the clothing and cars are lacking in quality, the missions more than make up for it.

THE GOOD: Well made, fun missions. Added achievements. Added clothing, cars. Added bonuses after finishing missions. Only $7.

THE BAD: Only three missions. Clothing and cars don’t seem to be of good quality.

SCORE: 7/10.

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