Turning Gangster into Gangsta!
User Rating: 9.5 | Saints Row X360
"Checkity Check it foo's, for all ya'll playa haters out there i present to you Saints Row baby Chicka Yeh" - Says a member of saints row... if you talk like that in England you will probably be **** slapped in the face and told to go eat some poo cookies. Saint's row is another urban chaos, free roaming, sandbox game (Like there isnt enough already) which has been heavily compared to the GTA series. Saints Row is vitaly different in some way and is more as i mention Gangsta' than gangster. Saint's row takes the slang of the streets of Stilwater and starts its huge urban killing spree as 3 rival gangs are brought into a turf war. You end up getting caught in the crossfire and end up proving yourself to the saints that you yourself could be a worth advesary. The gameplay is repetative but many things were introduced to keep you going if you wanted to play to the end. You would have to participate in side missions, basically mini-games, in order to do the main missions. By doing the side missions you earned respect, you had to have built up enough respect before doing the main story. Most of the main missions consist of either, taking over turf, participating in a push back (Defending your turf), races, killing a certain group of people or blowing something up. Alot of the missions consisted of NPC driving which was terrible since the NPC's AI meant instead of driving normally on a road they went speeding into a wall (This is bad since if the vehicle is to be protected and has a health meter it was usually destroyed by the NPC's bad driving). The game itself did have many fun things to do, also due to its marvellous physics engine (courtesy of Havok). You could walk into most stores and rob the place of what it had just by sticking a gun in the store owners face. There were ways to also pull of successful heists... but always ended up in trouble since you would always take the subtle way in my kicking the front door down. Much of the game is glitchy and buggy, such as when driving on some motorways (Highways) the floor beneath you would dissapear and reappear, the towns would flash from invisible to visible. Sometimes your car as you were driving would dissapear and you would look like an absolute turd sitting in mid air with one hand on the stearing wheel and one hand on your cock Sometimes the game would also mysteriously crash for no apparant reason. I am aware the game is one of the first to be realeased on the 360 but that is no excuse for its buggyness since games like Perfect Dark worked like a dream. The soundtrack makes up for the buggyness since it is one of the most impressive soundtracks i have heard for a while in games, the urban beats of heavy guitar riffs suit the look of your character and whats happening in the game. If you jump out of your car whilst listening to the radio the radio still plays inside the car, so as you approach it you can hear the muffled tune from the inside, these small features make games more likeable. Customisation is the other big thing with this game since this makes it impressive also, unlike GTA you could make your character basically from scratch giving him either an afro, making him asian, giving him a big hobo beard you name it you could give it to him (Not being sexist you can only be a bloke). You can customise your clothing right down to your underwear, make it whatever colour you want and change even the smallest things like the position of your cap or wether one trouser leg should be higher up than the other one.
There is one las thing and the one thing i disliked and thats the multiplayer. Multiplayer seems to have recently become one of the most competative things you can do on the planet. Many people on there are wanna be gangsta's who cant tell their arse from there elbow... but since i checked recently hardly many people play Saint's Row online. Overall- a very good game, decent graphics, good but repetative gameplay but nothing to be ashamed of. 
