This game is just pure awesome.
Pros: Voice acting is excellent, well written story, solid game-play, interesting mission design, large beautiful city, well thought out controls, excellent graphics, in depth character creation, exciting missions, excellent lighting, detailed car and character models, diverse selection of music, etc…etc…
Cons: Occasional bugs (very rare) cause crazy on-screen rendering though this is rare and short lived. Some of the missions can become repetitive. Multiplayer can experience lag issues.
Saint’s Row for the Xbox 360 is a GTA styled free roaming game which players assume the roll of themselves entering into the life of a gang member as a member of the Saint’s. The game is a complete knockoff of Grand Theft Auto, however, this does not take away from the fact that the game is genuinely fun to play and addictive to say the least. Missions
Missions in Saint’s Row are setup very similarly to Grand Theft Auto. Players must do various activities and side missions to earn enough “respect” to fill their respect meter in the game. Filling your respect meter allows you to continue in the games main missions such as the Vice Kings missions or the Los Carnales missions. The mini missions are often well thought out and fun to play and give the game a feeling of openness and ability to roam to various parts of the city to complete missions of choice. Every time that you fill your respect meter, you get a credit which can be used to carry out one of the games main missions. The main missions are excellent and benefit from a strong storyline, excellent characters, voice acting, and mission design. Any gamer can tell that careful planning went into the details of each and every one of these missions and the results of the completion of each of the mission can be compared to what one might think would happen in real life if this were to happen. For example…after destroying the Drug Labs of the Los Carnales gang and completing the mission, your character receives a phone call (sometime while you are driving around) and this phone call is to inform you that your neighborhood is being attacked by several members of the Los Carnales gang in their pimped out el-caminos and clever voice acting which draws the player in. In short, the missions in Saint’s Row are fun and well designed.