Saints Row Is A Good Game. However It Isn't Like How You Think It Is...
Now. Lets talk about the gameplay. The way you character runs is weird looking as you run like a gimp which doesn’t suit the game too often. The handy thing is, is that when you start to sprint there is a little yellow bar at the top right hand screen which decreases the more you sprint. Do you remember when whenever you entered a car on GTA that it comes up with the name? Well guess what. Saints Row has that feature. Remember the radio stations you can listen to on GTA. Saints Row includes that. Remember when you pause the game you can look at your stats to see how many people you have killed and so on. Well again Saints Row has it and the thing that annoyed me was the bloody adverts they showed in between radio stations because with the adverts in GTA they were funny and well written but in Saints Row it got on my nerves because they weren’t well written and it was trying to be funny when it was just plain sad and crap! The physics is quite good because in GTA when you left a car door open you could walk straight through it and if you reverse into a building or a pedestrian again the door goes straight through and nothing happens but in Saints Row the door smashes off and when you reverse into a ped they get knocked over. The collisions are not so good as it seems kind of rushed and didn’t impress me too much. Now the graphics. It isn’t as good as other games because most of the time if you look carefully there are little tiny dots spread across the screen (you can definitely notice this with the eyebrows and windows) the graphics in the cut scenes are well made and focused which gives it a thumbs up. The fire is also well textured, (far more impressive than some other 360 games).
There are also a ton load of glitches that occur during free roam like when you are driving the car disappears and you are floating in mid air. Also if you collide into a bin or post it goes into the car, not impressive and there are plenty more glitches that I can explain which would make a big ass list.
The thing that really annoys me the most is the online gameplay. GOD! It is sooo god damn frustrating! You die so easily it only takes you about 3 or 4 shots with a machine gun and you are dead! Your health runs low so fast and takes you practically 1 shot with a sniper and you dead. So if I were you I would avoid online play as it is absolutely rubbish and a complete waste of time.
All in all Saints Row is quite a good game but could definitely have hundreds of improvements done to it and I wouldn’t really recommend it as there are plent of other better games available in shops.