Well, yesterday like many of you Gamespot subscribers out there, I tuned in to watch the 8-hour gameplay marathon of Saint's Row for the Xbox 360. My analysis is that I am sold on this game now and I am getting it definitely come this Friday and have me some fun like I seen Greg have yesterday in a variety of ways.

Sure it is a GTA clone and does have a lot of aspects from GTA: SA but of all the GTA clones out there, I have to say judging by the 7 hours I watched of it (will explain why I didn't get to watch the last in a moment), it looks set to be the best of the bunch and I hope I am right when the review comes out.

The graphics are not the best now but the explosions and the physics etc certainly are pretty cool and some of the things that Greg did in the marathon were just funny and sometimes he didn't know what the hell he was supposed to do which made it all the more funnier.

The activites in the game look to be some fun especially the insurance fraud where it kind of took a page out of Amped 3's book in that you have to hurt yourself badly to get money and respect but it looks cool.

Some of the car designs look interesting and the crashes and explosions are a hell of a lot better looking in this than in GTA but it is a next-gen console anyway so we knew that was happening.

The multiplayer in it looks alright now but the blinged out ride mode judging by what I saw looks set to be the most interesting mode of the bunch and hoping come Friday, I enjoy it too.

Well, I did stay up for 7 hours (it was 2am here when the last hour came) and unfortunately that is the time that the feed had to go out on me and went to the blank screen with the Ready text. I tried several times to get it back on and all I got was a screen with some sort of program on a desktop with blue background (anyone else get this?) and unfortunately just gave up in the end.

That was too bad because to tell you the truth, I haven't had this much fun watching somebody else play a game ever and hopefully we will have more funny and great marathons like this in the near future. So thanks to Greg Kasavin for putting on a great marathon, Gamespot for providing us with it and THQ and Volition Inc for creating the game in the first place.