Players navigate the open world and unlock missions by spending Respect, a currency earned by completing numerous off-mission activities. Set in the fictional city of Stilwater a little more than two years after the events of Saints Row, players control the same protagonist and lead a new order of Third Street Saints gang against the three rival gangs occupying their turf and the corrupt Ultor Corporation conglomerate. It is succeeded by 2011's Saints Row: The Third and 2013's Saints Row IV. The game is the second title and first cross-platform release in the Saints Row series, following 2006's Saints Row.
A mobile tie-in version was developed by G5 Entertainment and released the same month.
It was released in October 2008 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and ported to Microsoft Windows in early 2009, and to Linux in 2016. Saints Row 2 is a 2008 open world action-adventure video game developed by Volition and published by THQ.
