Saints Row provides an unprecedented amount of freedom to experience the game as the player sees fit. The game, based in the fictional urban surroundings of Still Water, is action adventure with its core as a third-person shooter.
GenreAction Adventure
Platforms xbox360
DEVELOPER Volition Inc. | PUBLISHER Codemasters | RELEASE DATE
Saints Row Reviews xbox360
freep.com review
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entertainment.timesonline.co.uk review
In this “18†certificate title set in the mythical city of Stillwater, rival gangs wage war, and players sign up for the church-affiliated 3rd Street Saints. You start out as the gang’s rookie, rising rapidly through the ranks after a series of challenges. Thereafter, a series of missions and sub-games boosts your notoriety and standing in the gang.
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gameshark.com review
The character customization is impressive (the only limitation is that you have to be a dude instead of a chick), and some of it even has gameplay effect. You get an experience point multiplayer based on your clothes, jewelry, and tattoos. Early on, you’re rewarded for wearing your gang’s colors, which means stuff like purple socks, purple doo-rags, and purple track pants. That’s right, purple. Short of something pastel, the Stillwater Saints couldn’t have picked a worse color. The joke is on min/maxxers.
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gamepro.com review
Better yet are the seemingly never-ending array of side-jobs and mini-games, some of which made us think "Mafioso Mario Party." Our favorites were Insurance Fraud, where you fling yourself in front of speeding cars to cash in, and Drug Trafficking, where you ride shotgun with a dope dealer as they make their "deliveries." Other side-jobs will have you hijacking cars, dodging paparazzi, and assassinating people from a mysterious hit list. These side missions are downright addictive, and are some of the game’s biggest strengths. And since their difficulty levels and cash rewards scale ever upwards, they’ll keep you playing for hours.
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game-over.net review
Saints Row is worth your money, plain and simple. Its Grand Theft Auto inspired gameplay is not only very well done here, but through many refinements and advances in the feature set, Volition has delivered a game that is… dare it be said… better in some respects. Although it would be impossible for any title like this to have the same impact GTA III did back in 2001, Saints Row succeeds in raising the next-gen bar for this genre not only for themselves, but for the series that inspired them as well.
xboxaddict.com review
Saint’s Row will follow you and your posse as you rise up the ranks, earning respect by doing activities across the city or taking down rival gangs. Respect is actually the name of the game, because without respect, you can’t advance through the story. Told through in-game cinematics, the cutscenes feature a whole array of characters.
The missions of Saint’s Row range in variety; gathering prostitutes from other pimps to bring to another one, taking out rival gang members, heading to the local hideout to take down a crime boss, smuggling drugs, robbing liquor stores, etc. Beyond the missions, since the game is built as a giant urban sandbox, you can make your own fun in the game. If you want to jump on the hood of a car and go surfing, you can do it. If you want to mug people off the street for money, you can do it. If you want to practice running from the police, you can do it. If you want to take pipe bombs and watch the lovely explosions…well you get the idea.
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gwn.com review
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gaming-age.com review
The butts and boobies and everything else in the game are rendered beautifully when you consider how much content is being kept track of in the game. The people are very detailed, the lighting effects are realistic (sometimes to a fault since it makes driving at night or in the rain very hard) and the buildings and environments are all realistic and pleasing to the eye. Your character especially looks great, especially if you tried not to make them look as silly as is possible with the body and clothing customization. I know character customization has been done before and it’s not something to get worked up over, but Saint’s Row has it, it’s implemented well with a full range of sliders that affect different areas of the face or body after selecting one of the predefined body types.
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darkstation.com review
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gamingtrend.com review
The reason I could NOT give this game top marks would center around the multiplayer, which at this time still has major lag issues. A patch is going to be released but this should have been dealt with before release. Value you say? Replay value is painted all over this game. There are a ton of options within the game and a theater, which lets you replay any and all of your favorite missions.
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gamezone.com review
Aping all of the things we love about the Grand Theft Auto series, Saint’s Row is an Xbox 360 game that is definitely not very original but is still one hell of a fun ride. While you can point out a number of elements taken from San Andreas, the game does try to bring its own sense of style plus a robust online multiplayer to make this a Grade A gangsta-themed imitator with a lot going for it. If you can only buy one 360 action title this summer, make it Saint’s Row.
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gamingtarget.com review
Saints Row offers several multiplayer modes as well and while they’re all passable, there’s really nothing special about them. Saints Row really shines as a single player experience and that’s its forte. The multiplayer isn’t particularly inspired, offering a few basic deathmatch scenarios, as well as a co-op mode – unfortunately; you can’t just roam the city with a buddy. Co-op missions are restricted to a designated area. Blinged Out Ride and Protect The Pimp at least attempt to interject something different into the online play, but ultimately reveal themselves to be pretty shallow overall. No matter, SR really does work best as a single player adventure.
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gamingexcellence.com review
jumping into this one will be like a bicycle if you have dabbled with GTA, having a learning curve of about fifteen minutes. The simplicity of the quick switch inventory is yet another ‘why-don’t –they-do-this-kind-of-stuff-more-often’ addition, simply holding ‘B’ and using the left joystick to select the gun from the direction it is located. The rest of the controls are typical while on foot or while driving, but always showing crosshairs as your character will lean out and shoot in any direction you are looking. Everything handles well, and the vehicles are all beautifully done, actually having a decent amount of variability on the effects to the car when damaged in certain areas.
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ign.com review
But Saints Row, despite its distinct lack of originality, is fun. It starts out fun and it stays fun. It gets deeper and more engaging, and the storyline and the characters come to life, and you’re compelled by seeing the narrative unfold just as much as getting all of the 10- and 20-point Achievements. Saints Row offers a kick-ass online mode with at least two out of four compelling online modes totally worth your while. Hate it if you want to, snicker at its obvious me-too qualities, but don’t forget to recognize impressive, kick-ass gameplay as you walk out the door.
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extremegamer.ca review
One area where Saints Row can be separated from Grand Theft Auto is online. In this respect they are a step a head then the similar GTA. The multiplayer offers up some generic gameplay that is disused as funky names like Protect the Pimp (Escort), Gangsta Brawl (Deathmatch) and Big Ass Chains (Capture the Flag). Saints Row also has two levels which you can play co-op with a friend. Co-Op is a good feature, too bad it’s a little limited. Saints Row although generic in its online modes has one innovate feature where you gain cash online to purchase clothing for your character. The clothes are real expensive, but this is one way to see who the newbie’s and veterans are online. Winning match online obviously gives you more cash, so it’s a nice extra incentive for the skilled gangster.
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gamerstemple.com review
One of the ways Saints Row sets its self apart from GTA is they way it handles progressing the story. Instead of having a main mission with some optional side quests, Saints Row makes the side missions much more important. Really the only way to continue the main story is to finish side missions and earn respect. The side missions include the familiar ones from the GTA crowd and a few new ones like “insurance fraud†where you “take one for the team†by tossing yourself in front of a moving car…and what isn’t more respectful than a man who will jump in front of a truck just to earn some extra cash. As the game moves along you acquire more and more of rival gangs turf but of course the old gangs will keep trying to reclaim what was once theirs, so you can expect a few cell phone calls alerting you to some action. But say that the heat gets a little too much for you? Like repainting your car in GTA will get the police and others off your back, Saints Row has a drive-thru confessional and even a plastic surgeon that will let you change your entire look.
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gamernode.com review
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thunderboltgames.com review
The niggles are a bit of a set-back – online play could almost be labelled a farce – and there are times when you just need to put down the controller and walk away after some dodgy AI calls. But no game is without its faults, and having to follow in the footsteps of Rockstar’s established giant, Saints Row could certainly have made far bigger and a greater number of glaring errors. Better than Grand Theft Auto? From what I’ve experienced, both games focus on entirely different concepts of crime, so much so it’s almost a treat to flick backwards and forwards between each series. GTA is far more high flying, with huge drug raids and mafia troubles and I found Saints Row to be more down to earth, focusing on petty crimes and taking over gang turf. Perhaps I’m just avoiding answering the question – there’s no denying that these are two incredibly similar games – but I’m far more happy owning two games that show the contrasting lives of crime than one title in a genre in which no-one is bold enough to try something a little different. You have to give Volition credit for that.
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cheatcc.com review
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gamesradar.com review
The missions are, for the most part, fairly enjoyable, but a frustrating handful are aggravated by the massive distances you’ll need to travel to reach them. It’s not so bad driving for five minutes across the entire city to reach your destination, but when a particularly troublesome task makes you retry the commute several times, you’ll be more than ready to shoot someone. A mid-mission checkpoint would have gone a long way towards easing the pain.
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g4tv.com review
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