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First it was the three red rings of death. I had to wait forever for them to ship my console back to me! And now my Xbox 360 console won’t play games anymore from disc. Fallout, Crackdown, Orange Box, and COD world at war, I tried them all and none of them will play. I can get on Xbox live and play Castle Crashers just fine, but any attempt to play a game from CD and it acts like the disc is all scratched up.

Here’s what I found out, and it fixed the problem for me. I don’t know if this will help you, but after performing the maintenance through a set of hidden commands from my controller, my xbox magically started working again. This reminds me of the old Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start code from Contra, except in this case, I hope it just gave my xbox 30 extra lives.

Go to the dashboard.
Highlight "System Settings", push X.
Highlight "Memory", push X.
Highlight "Hard Drive", push Y.

Now you should be at a “Device Options” menu that has two choices, “Rename” and “Format”. This is where you input the special hidden code and get 30 extra xbox lives.

And the magic code is:

X, X, Left Bumper, Right Bumper, X, X

You should get a new window pop up titled “Maintain Storage Devices”, with this message:

This will perform maintenance on your Xbox 360 storage devices. Do you want to continue?

Select Yes.

Get back to gaming…

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First off, don’t be afraid of insane mode.  It just means you shoot from a little further back than normal most of the time and don’t bother trying to get up close to chainsaw anyone.  So you’re left with the multiplayer and the horde.  The horde mode really is the shining star here, but it’s too bad this is where things also began to fall apart.

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And my bonus gripe:  In the campaign mode, you’ll find yourself running around as a group of 4, sometimes splitting into 2 and 2.  Why couldn’t they have made it FOUR PLAYER CO-OP?!  Tweak the story a little here and there and wam, it would have been great.  I give this game a 7 out of 10.  And no, i’m not paid to rate this game at all.  After the initial wow factor wears off, you’re left with just “meh”.  Screw this, i’m going back to Call of Duty 4…

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There’s a lot to do in Saints Row 2, so in order to get from mission to mission the quickest, you’ll want to surround yourself with the fastest cars available.  Get to your crib and find the “Customize Gang” area.  You get three gang cars that will randomly appear throughout the game in your hoods.  Ditch the slow ones you start with and use some exotics and maybe throw in a hummer or 4 door sport sedan.

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This will make it easier to get to wherever you want to be because whenever you’re in your gang lands, you’ll see your cars all over the place.  When you see one, just press up on the dpad to recruit the driver and he’ll stop the car and get out immediately.  Normally when you try to carjack exotics on the street, they take off as soon as you make your move.  I like the exotics because they turn and brake quickly and get up to full speed the fastest, but it seems like all cars have the same top end speed.

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Fly helicopters when you can.  The best ones in the game are the ambulance, police, and news helicopters.  That is, until you get the attack chopper.  But you won’t get to fly it outside of a mission until you’re at the end game.  All of the choppers fly about the same, but you’ll probably notice the Thompson chopper is almost broken.  You have to fly it pretty slow or else don’t even think about raising your altitude and flying straight at the same time.  You’ll end up upside down, crashing into stuff, and then exploding.

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There were a lot of things in Grand Theft Auto that I didn’t like, such as annoying cousins calling me every five minutes wanting to get picked up.  The story line just got boring.  With all of the side missions and diversions available in Saints Row 2, you won’t get bored for a second.  And the story throughout the cut scenes is the best I’ve seen yet.  Other than the occasional glitch or complete freeze up, it’s one of the best games i’ve played. I like the idea of having melee styles, but the developers should have put more work into the hand to hand combat system

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