A better Grand Theft Auto
The first great function is the fact that you can create your character and make him look like you want. You can make your character fat or thin, muscular or well not muscular. You can choose eye colour, skin colour and hair color (you can have different haircuts as well).
Then in game you can buy and receive different sets of clothes and not just clothes but hats earings rings and big bad necklaces.
The story of the game in short is that youre a kid that after almost getting killed in a gangfight gets invited to the saints a small gang that wants to take over the town. It's all about you taking down three other rival gangs:
The Vice Kings which is some big town gang led by a man named benjamin king (he got the cops on his side)
The West Side rollers some street racer gang led by an old man whos name eludes me.
And the los Carnales a hispanic gang dealing drugs drugs and drugs.
Aside from theese families you engage in side activities like streetracing, drugtrafficking and assassinating people. This you do to earn respect and monery to do quests and get weapons and clothes.
The combat in-game could get overwhelming because of the controls but if you stick to cover it usually goes well. The car chases though are annoying because all NPC cars that comes out of nowhere. It is quite understandable that its annoting when a truck suddenly appears in front of you and you crash loosing precious time.
And i just have to mention the cars ohh the cars. dossens of customizable cars are at your disposal and with the havok engine crashing with them have never been such fun.
But generally Saints row is a must play for everyone