The best game on the 360 so far.

User Rating: 9.1 | Saints Row X360
So Saints Row came out during a bad time and what turned out to be the perfect time for me. Because this was the time when all of the hype I had was going to Dead Rising I was one of those people bashing on SR and calling it a GTA rip-off. Of course I know far better now.

Gameplay:

What can I say here that hasn't been said? Not to much really, basically everything you have seen from GTA with a few new ideas like robbing stores, spray painting, hostage situations and a bunch of new mini-games based on what GTA offers you but far more interesting. Not only is the story in SR interesting, the cut scenes nice, but what really takes the cake are the mini-games. In GTA they were a problem never fun and mostly just annoying and thrown in to make the game longer. Here however they are far more entertaining, things like insurance fraud, demolition derby, racing, mayhem and various things that people want to do in a game and get rewarded.

Graphics:

Of course the game looks great, the cut scenes are nice and explosions are fantasic of course there are better games out there right now. But still for a first try they definitely made a valiant effort.

Sound:

Wow! This is usally a downside to me even in games that do it well but not here, they offer you a huge selection of music to listen to in cars, not only that but actually entertaining commericals (though they can get annoying after a while) but they offer a new feature like a walk man where you can go to certain stores around town and by music to listen to when not in cars at all.

Value:

Probably the best feature in the game is its value, considering you want to play through a game more then once or go online and rough it out for a while. Because online is never a big thing for me in any game I won't go into detail here but suffice to say it's a really nice touch for someone who didn't even care about the online from the start.

Overall:

This game surpassed COD2 for my favorite 360 game to date because of its fun gameplay, interesting story, graphics, weapon variety, and overall length. I can spend an hour a day even after I have completed the story working towards 100% or just messing around.