Not bad, nice to have a game like this on the Xbox 360..
User Rating: 8.6 | Saints Row X360
In all honesty, its nothing special, nothing bad, nothing that great and nothing new. But none the less its still a great game to have in your xbox 360 collection since there are no other that fit this particular GTA genre so well at this time. The game basically takes all the elements that you would see in a GTA game and expand on them and make them better, resulting in some pretty fun, impressive and innovative new features. Its still the running, gunning, driving and navigating through an open ended city like you would think. The differences are the ability aim your weapons when shooting manually and quite impressive in a third person manner, similar to games of the hitman series. The driving in some areas feels more solid than that of the GTA games. You can even shoot while in cars quite nicely to a great extent, though requires some skill. The is a lack of vehicle types in terms of there being no boats, planes or motorcycles which would of added a fun factor but is not really necessary since there is a vast amount of cars to choose from each varying in scale, some faster, some slower. The weapon load out is quite nice and the firing of guns suprisingly feels quite nice, alot better than GTA. Another major pointer is that story is somewhat better than GTA in which it is more interesting though nothing extravagent. The graphics are not bad nor the best but you can tell the game is being played on a 360. The sound is also quite good from atmosphere, ambience, soundtrack to sound effects as well the voice actors. The online play is probably the biggest surprise for me because as most people would think it to be stupid its actually pretty fun, given that if you actually find a lag free game. The patch I believe fixed all of the online problems which is good allowing people to enjoy a entertaining online mode with multiple variants of game modes though the onlne is nothing amazing nor not that addictive or challenging. Just a surprise and nice add on to a pretty lengthy game. I have yet to still finish the game and its worth mention that the interface and extra and new features are done quite well such as the mini game of insurance fraud. With that being said, if your looking for a game and going through a phase of boredom, then consider taking a look at Saints Row. 
