Should I play Saints Row 2?

Sure, try it! =) Except for terrible car handling, it is pretty good =)

Saints Row 2 is a great game, but it's also a lot more serious than The Third or IV (a + for me, may be a - for other people)

I recommend you to play sr2 in co op. There is many bugs, but worth to play it on the hardest difficulty (hardcore i think), if you like challenges. Most of the time you will die cause of bugs, but you will get a lot of fun anyway :D

I loved Saints Row 2, but mainly on consoles. I couldn't stand playing it on PC mainly due to the driving. But it's a fun game nonetheless and definitely worth playing.

I was in the same situation about a week ago and yesterday I finished the second game. I really liked it. To me it seemed a bit harder than the third and indeed more serious but that didn't stop from putting about 20 hours into it. So go ahead and start playing! Also from what I saw in the Saints Row IV you'll also meet characters from the second game so it would be nice to get the references if you already played it.

Haven't played Saints 3 or 4 but by the looks of them and watching lets play I think they are trash.. well thats Saints 4 what I think. But Saints 2 was soo much fun and it stuck to being a 'saints row' game, All about gangs and working your way from the bottom to the top

The car handling is just... just... how to describe it... fascinating. You can t go in a straight line pretty much, but except for that it is dumb fun.

I personally think that saints row 1 and 2 are the best in the series unfortunately is saints row 1 console exclusive

I was super excited for saints row the third but it was a huge disappointment

I tell you what. I bought SR2 as part of a sale and didn't even plan to seriously play it, at least for now. I just launched it to see how different it is from SR3 and if there's any background story worth knowing before going back to The Third. I ended up abandoning my DOTA2 learning curve, my Black Ops 2 card farming and 3 demos I downloaded prior to SR2. And 1/3 of my sleeping hours on top of that. I have 87 hours played (that's from website, strangely my client says it's 92) and I'm sure I'll get well over 100.
First thing, it's poor port and I had to spin my CPU to exactly 3,2 GHz (X360 clock speed) to get rid of the slowdowns, meaning it's more power hungry than The Third.
Second, it's has some bugs, it crashes from time to time and I strongly recommend Gentelemn of The Row mod (installation is very simple), it fixes some major bugs and improves experience.
It's a rose with some thorns and if occasional crash to desktop (save often, especially while doing insurance fraud or browsing wardrobe) doesn't scare you off, it's very much worth playing.

I've heard the second one was better than SR3, so I think it's a worth a shot. And congratz on winning Saints Row IV, sounds like a giveaway group thing...

SR2 > SR3 Played both of them saints row 2 was much more enjoyable by my standards and saints row the third was average

Go play Pong instead.

You can activate that SR IV, you know.

Just saying.

Yes, its better then 3.

Make sure to get the fixes/patches.

Definitely you must play Saints Row 2, if you liked Saints Row III.

I certainly enjoyed SR2. Also it helps with knowing the events of 2 for the events of 4.

SR2 is horribly optimized, don't even bother trying to fix it.

The story is fun and there are a lot of jokes in SR3 you only get when you played 2. The engine is notably worse tho, everything is very clunky, the interface is not PC-optimized and some characters look pretty bad.

There are some missions which are a lot of fun tho.

Just make you you hunt out the user mod that lets you set modern resolutions. It's a great game though.

If you're playing vanilla SR2, I hope you like your SA-style sandboxes, because only then I'd recommend suffering through that horrendous port.

Apparently there's a mod everyone recommends for SR2, but then I also heard it adds/modifies a lot of ingame stuff, and I don't know if it's possible to use it only for framerate/crash fixes.

I was in a similar position (except I don't have IV :D), where I played 2 after finishing the Third. To be honest, I didn't see it as anything but a clunkier version of 3. There was slightly more character customisation, and a minigame where you fling poo at houses that I didn't see in 3, but other than that, it just seemed like a broken version of Saints Row: The Third (although I didn't play with any patches).

Seeing as how its the only really good one I say yes.

Not sure if anyone mentioned it or not, but SR2 is a continuation of SR1, so a lot of the story elements kind of get lost if you have no idea what they are talking about. With that said, it has a lot to offer, go for it.

No.

If on PC, I recommend not. It is a terrible port.