For those who have completed Saints Row - endgame SPOILER

[tomster2300]

I just finished Saints Row (all gangs conquered, all endgame missions completed) for the xbox 360 tonight and feel like I just hit a wall head on. That was an amazing twist of events, and pretty creepy when you begin looking back at not only the entire game, but even the initial story in the game manual as well. It looks like there was this entire parallel story going on simultaneously that you only begin to realize at the end. Even though I felt extremely frustrated at the end, I was actually impressed on Volition's creativity in a storyline. The ending isn't just your character ruling the city - there's a much, much darker side to the entire game that leads perfectly into a sequel. It shows there was actually some thought put into the entire project, especially when the slap in the face makes you want to go back through the game and look for clues that would lead to an explanation.

Now onto the questions...

Was Troy an undercover cop (is that why he's holding the badge at the end)? Did everyone turn on you in order to take out the mayoral candidate(s)? There's no way they could simply not know you were on the boat.

I looked the ending up online and read where someone watched all the cutscenes over again and thought he picked out some subtle clues that hinted at the ending (or at least a theory which does make sense).

Quoted from the IGN boards - user ~ jiggsaw07 (the writing is rather poor):

Quote: "THERE is sumthin else goin on if you look at how julius was talkin to dex about him talkin to the columbians with out him in the chain of command cutscene i found out that dex is a doing durt behind everyones back with that columbian dude miguel look at the los carneles missions movies look how sneaky he is and after you blow up that plane that girl pulls up an he says what are you doing here then she ask wheres miguel then he wants you to shoot before she says to much. he didnt want her to say to much around your guy i believe all three are in it together mex girl, columbian guy, and dex then they say the only reason the columbian dude miguel would be in town is to help hector or make a big money deal WELL HECTORS DEAD and they said the place where to find him would be at the strip club at the cutscene when julius gets pulled over where is dex going to....... the strip club TO MAKE A DEAL thats why dex didnt want to kill the columbian guy in that cutscene. look at it real good peeps an youll see what im talkin about there might be a story like that for the others"

I've heard there's an alternate ending at 100% completion, but I'm not sure if I'll ever make it that far. Has anybody done this, and if so, is it true?

[tomster2300]

No one?

[nocturnx]

Haven't played it but now im interested....

[Jaggannath]

Yeah, never even heard of it, Ebaying as we speak =)
My g/f will kill me when she finds out, I've got a shelf-full of games to still complete