Saints Row borrows a lot from GTA, but gets away with it simply because it works.
User Rating: 9 | Saints Row X360
How many games have we seen to steal from Grand Theft Auto throughout the years? True Crime: Streets of L.A., True Crime: New York City, DRIV3R, Driver: Parallel Lines, The Godfather, Scarface: The World Is Yours... And so on! You get the point. While some of them weren't bad, none of them were as good as Saints Row and none of them came so close to GTA as Saints Row. Graphically, it's not the best looking 360 game, but it's by far better than any GTA game before, which it should because this is on the next-gen. Gameplay wise it blows Grand Theft Auto away. Still no surprise, because it's running on stronger hardware. The physics are amazing. They're simply some of the best ones in the business. Havok Physics at its' best. As far as the story of the game goes, it's nowhere close to even being on the same level as GTA. The story lacks dramatic sequences and that's a bad thing. They have the "gangsta" stuff going on, like in GTA: San Andreas, but without the interesting twists to the story. It's you taking over the town. Really original *sarcasm*. But, hey, it's not bad. It still has a lot of surprises, but you'll often hear too many sex-jokes and after a while it gets old. The story is not bad, but i can't match GTA. Also you can only drive cars. No motorcycles, boats, helicopters. But at least there are a lot of different cars. So overall the game is really good and if you enjoy GTA, you'll enjoy Saints Row. 
