Saint's Row is better than GTA.
Gameplay: 10
The gameplay is one of the games two high points. The gameplay is amazing. There are four storylines in which you take down 3 rival gangs like the Vice Kings, the corporate gang, The Westside Rollerz, the rich-kid-from the Suburbs-gang, and Los Carnales, the Spanish gang. Then there is another storyline and another gang called the 3rd Street Saints which is the gang that your character is in. Then there are the activities. There are many to choose from including, Drug Trafficing, Hijacking, Racking, and my personel favorite, Insurance Fraud. There are all really fun and really cool. Graphics: 9
The graphics in Saint's Row look really good but there are problems. All player models and stuff looks good. The cars look good but they seem to just appear out of nowhere. The city is reall in depth and looks good. The graphics do seem to chop and clip every once in a while.
Sound: 10
The sound in Saint's Row is the other high point. There are numerous well-known actors and actresses doing the characters voices. There is Michael Clark Duncan (The Green Mile, The Scopian King), Mila Kunis (Family Guy, That 70's Show), Danial Dae Kim (Lost), and my favorite Michael Rapaport (The War At Home, Chapplle's Show). Also the radio stations are fantastic. All the songs are pretty good and the the talk shows are really funny.
Overall, yes, the game Saint's Row is a GTA ripoff, but it is much better than the actual GTA game. It takes everything that made GTA great, made that better, and then they took all of GTA's flaws and fixed those up. I would highly reccomend this game to any action game fan.