Saints Row (Xbox 360)

Reviewed by Grant on September 26th, 2008

All in all, Saints Row was good - a nice character customisation system, pretty sweet gameplay, and fun to play mini games and side missions after storyline.

But the dissapointing side to this game is its depth. The city, the NPCs, the characters and the vechiles just wernt exciting to be around. First of all the city your set to play in, just wasnt anything maazing to look at, and had no point in exploring - as you know all youll find is a burning drum, a sofa and an apartment building.

The NPCs were quite entertaining at times, but were pretty boring, just walking/running in circles, the most exciting thing about the NPCs is there is a girl that rollerskates, says alot doesnt it?

But, i must say - it was a great game to play through. Every mission is different, and the way they allow you to decide which opposing gang, at which time, in which order you wish to take over is good.

Worth a couple of play throughs - or maybe just wait for the sequel.

Reviewed by Mike from NZ on December 26th, 2007

I do like this game but it mimics GTA to much it's just to similar. It's cool how you can create your character which means you can either a Gangsta Rapper or a Redneck cowboy it's your call. Graphic wise its good but not amazing. Parents say this game is too violent but the killings are far from graphic, i think it's more the concept. If you can't wait for the new GTA this will fill the void until then it's cheap enough. Lets hope the new GTA brings us something new to the table.

Reviewed by Tim from christchurch, NZ on September 26th, 2007

game looks good. if only sony had made the ps3 earlier it would have come out on there as well. i cant wait till saints row 3 though coming out in late 2008

Reviewed by Anonymous on April 19th, 2007

Potty mouth badass dialogue, machine gun totin' homeboys, nitrous burnin' rides, kind-of challenging game play.... it's really pretty fun and enjoyable. I only have two gripes; 1 is that quite often the missions seem to rely on luck more than skill to complete, and 2 no matter how hard it's trying, it just doesn't quite have the magic that is GTA. It has a couple of xtra features that GTA doesn't to be sure, but they don't quite make up for that spark of magic that rockstar seem to have.

Still, it'll tide you over until IV comes out, fo' sho'.

Reviewed by Rhys from Australia on January 27th, 2007

Saints Row is an awsome game with loads of action and so many things to do. On the down side I wish that ther could have been more variety of vehicles. You only get to drive cars, but not motorbikes or planes or boats. The online play is fun but sometimes the gameplay is really laggy and hard to play at some points. All round this game is a must buy for the 15 and up age group [Editor's note: The game is R18!]