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    Saints Row Xbox 360

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Oct 23, 2006 | 4 out of 4 found this Saints Row review helpful

    Pros: It successfully copies the oft-imitated-but-untoucha
    ble Grand Theft Auto formula; fun, responsive driving controls are as good as on-foot shooting action; impressive presentation, featuring amazing explosions and great audio; mostly well-written, well-acted story will compel you to keep playing; various little why-didn't-someone-th
    ink-of-that-sooner features.

    Cons: In some ways, it will be familiar to a fault to anyone who's played much GTA; some noticeable bugs and glitches; not much variety to the mission design.

    You begin play by determining your character's appearance, and you have what seems like a limitless number of options to choose from. There are presets for different ethnicities, but you can proceed to make your character look however you want. I...t seems gimmicky at first, but since your physical appearance--at least your clothes--do end up having some impact on gameplay, the sheer variety during character creation is impressive. The game starts with you nearly getting caught in the cross fire of a gang war. You're saved by Julius (voiced perfectly by Keith David), the charismatic leader of a racially diverse gang called the 3rd Street Saints, one of Stilwater's four biggest criminal groups. And he invites you to join up. The game's introductory cutscene has a couple of lines of painfully bad dialogue in it, suggesting that Saints Row will go on to bombard you with horrible clichés and an appalling fake attitude. But, somehow, somewhere, the story gets really good. Maybe it's the expressive characters and the excellent voice performances by the likes of Michael Clarke Duncan, David Carradine, and others; or maybe it's the choreography of the cutscenes and the quality of the dialogue. It's probably all of these combined. Saints Row isn't always clever or funny, and in the end, the story will leave you hanging. Even so, for its occasional misses, the quality of the game's writing and storytelling turns out to be one of the highlights. Read more Less

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    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Oct 28, 2008

    Pros: Great side missions

    Cons: To Short of a game

    I would say this is one good game to try and go up against GTA saga, they did great with the side missions for the respect. I think that the story line was too short and I hope that the second one is longer. I am looking forward to the next one and h...ope that they can keep it up to the first one. Read more Less

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    Saints Row may look like just another Grand Theft

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Oct 23, 2006

    Pros: It successfully copies the oft-imitated-but-untoucha
    ble Grand Theft Auto formula; fun, responsive driving controls are as good as on-foot shooting action; impressive presentation, featuring amazing explosions and great audio; mostly well-written, well-acted story will compel you to keep playing; various little why-didn't-someone-th
    ink-of-that-sooner features.

    Cons: In some ways, it will be familiar to a fault to anyone who's played much GTA; some noticeable bugs and glitches; not much variety to the mission design.

    If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Rockstar North, the developer of the Grand Theft Auto series, should be very, very flattered by Saints Row. After all, developer Volition's take on an open-ended criminal action game is almost ...criminally similar to GTA on first impression. Like GTA, Saints Row offers much the same combination of driving and shooting action; it's set in a fictitious, modern American city; it lets you run or drive pretty much wherever you want to right from the start; it's got a ton of licensed music on the soundtrack; and it's got a sense of humor that ranges from dirty to dark. But this superficial lack of originality only hurts the game at first glance, if at all. As outstanding as the GTA games are, you'll find that Saints Row is similarly enjoyable in many important respects--and even better in a couple of key ways. That is, like GTA, Saints Row finds its own careful balance between realism and fun. It's an exciting, dynamic experience that's frequently rewarding and rarely frustrating and can keep you coming back hour after shameless hour, as you cause mayhem throughout the rather large, detailed city of Stilwater. What's more, a surprisingly entertaining storyline and a number of smartly designed gameplay features make Saints Row a memorable game in its own right. You begin play by determining your character's appearance, and you have what seems like a limitless number of options to choose from. There are presets for different ethnicities, but you can proceed to make your character look however you want. It seems gimmicky at first, but since your physical appearance--at least your clothes--do end up having some impact on gameplay, the sheer variety during character creation is impressive. The game starts with you nearly getting caught in the cross fire of a gang war. You're saved by Julius (voiced perfectly by Keith David), the charismatic leader of a racially diverse gang called the 3rd Street Saints, one of Stilwater's four biggest criminal groups. And he invites you to join up. The game's introductory cutscene has a couple of lines of painfully bad dialogue in it, suggesting that Saints Row will go on to bombard you with horrible clichés and an appalling fake attitude. But, somehow, somewhere, the story gets really good. Maybe it's the expressive characters and the excellent voice performances by the likes of Michael Clarke Duncan, David Carradine, and others; or maybe it's the choreography of the cutscenes and the quality of the dialogue. It's probably all of these combined. Saints Row isn't always clever or funny, and in the end, the story will leave you hanging. Even so, for its occasional misses, the quality of the game's writing and storytelling turns out to be one of the highlights. The beginning of the game sets up how the gameplay experience itself is structured. There are several different main story arcs for you to follow, involving the Saints' war against its three rivals. Each enemy gang has its own identity, preferred vehicles, and major characters, and you may attempt to take over their turf in whatever order you wish. However, you can't just jump from one story mission to another. The game makes you earn "respect" before you can take on missions, which is mostly a contrived way of forcing you to try out the many different ancillary activities available in Saints Row, rather than just blowing through the story. This structure might seem heavy handed at first, but since there are many fairly easy and entertaining ways to earn respect in the game, it turns out to be more good than bad. The search for more respect will introduce you to some of Saints Row's many amusing minigames. Though most all of them are fun, the best ones are probably "insurance fraud," in which you must deliberately throw yourself into oncoming traffic as violently and in front of as many witness Read more Less

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    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Oct 6, 2006

    Pros: liked it

    Cons: none

    it's a great game with great graphics and sound wait for the second one soon.

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    Saints Row Rocks

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Sep 8, 2006

    Pros: Open World-Action-Shooting-Rac
    ing Game- Tons of Car and Character Customization-Multiplayer

    Cons: Radio Stations could have been better-Where are the Motorcycles-Custom Radio Station

    It took Rockstar North a few tries to evolve to the graphics and game play of GTA SA. Volition did it on the first try. I know Rockstar is looking at, and PLAYING this game.

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