Saints Row is What Grand Theft Auto Should Have Been

JimmyJames70 - 396 days 3 hours ago

If that's true, I think it speaks higher of Rockstar's advertising and marketing budget as compared to THQ's.

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bunbun777 - 396 days 2 hours ago

reviews will give this game a solid 8 and expect millions of copies to be sold. If that is a flop then whatever, this is day 1 for me.

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NMC2007 - 396 days 2 hours ago

those purchased 10s and the huge budget of Microsoft marketing it like it was their own? Well SR will have none of that but I am sure I will enjoy it much more than I did GTAIV.

GTAIV is far from a damn 10, and I think it got a few of them.

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DavidMacDougall - 396 days 2 hours ago

This game "Could" be he best game of all time but it will never beat GTA games in sales and reviews

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NMC2007 - 396 days 2 hours ago

not with the state of today's gaming press it nor anything else will ever beat GTA, Zelda, Mario, Final Fantasy, Halo, or any other high profile game, I don't trust reviews at all, if I did then I wouldn't have a lot of games that I actually enjoy, like Eternal Sonata & Blue Dragon.

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ape007 - 396 days ago

sr2 have more features and maybe it will beat gta 4

but gamers who havent't played sr1(mainly ps3 owners)
the problem is,that most people didn't play the first game and just see gameplay videos of sr2 and say"hey it looked like a ps2 game"

just gimme a break

just play the damn thing yourself and you'll see it's a very good game

and after seeing multiple leaked sr2 vids on tube(please guys give it a chance and try it YOURSELF,whiners aren't true gamer),I can easily say it's going to be amazing,holy sh!t sr2 reminds me a lot of san andreas,I saw quad bikes I saw katanas,chainsaws,stunguns,fla sh bangs,mini guns,amazing sniper rifle,air plans,jet skies,base jumping,amazing shooting and fighting mechanics(and tbh the shooting is much and I mean much better than any gta game and am a gta fanboy,the shooting in sr is the best that I've ever seen in an open world game,due to fact that volition developed red faction and the punisher),finishing moves with your fists,sword,pistol etc... and you can even take hostages and even you can wield to guns like in sa(it looked awesome),amazing new activities like assassination with your helicopter,insurance frad,drug trafficing,car surfing,the amazing cop activity where you dress like a cop and another cop rides with yu and film everything on his camera(most of you will wonder what's activity?),massive customization options,you can do it on yourself,the voice,the cars,the bikes,and even costume your gang,and even you have taunts,which make the game more gangsta and add a lot of enjoyment to the gameplay,and they add an amazing amazing feature,everything you do in the gameplay add you respect point,headshots,finishing moves,near misses,whillies,and even when you fly near a building with your airplane,it's a good rewarding system that makes gameplay a bit more satisfying.

please guys,most of you ps3 owners(trophy support confirmed) haven't played sr1(it was very good)

so please don't judge yet,see more leaked videos and PLAY IT YOURSELF,that's my advice for you guys:)

cause am 100% sure that this game gonna be sweet

again give it a chance,am sure it will rock your world,judging from vids alone is totally different than playing it yourself.

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Rock Bottom - 395 days 23 hours ago

From what I've seen so far, this game takes every thing I hated about GTA and makes a game out of it, it's more "random", more repetitive, with a bad AI, buggy animation and really really really bad aiming system.

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ShiftyLookingCow - 395 days 5 hours ago

I love GTA4, it had its style but it felt like an entirely new game when compared to its predecessors. The activities weren't that good. I also played Saints Row 1 and loved that game for being so retarded and silly.

I don't care what you say about Saints Row but its shooting mechanics were really good. In this, GTA4 was like Gears of War but Saints Row is more like playing the older GTA games on PC and so, imo it was a lot more fun.

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JimmyJames70 - 396 days 2 hours ago

How could you know? It doesn't release for a week. Do you have access to an early copy?

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bunbun777 - 396 days 2 hours ago

maybe if you take your cues from some bogus pre development video and not from the actual shots of the final build. I dont think Vice City on the PS2 could support all the customization, the 6 voice actors for the main, the multi player (drop in campaign! sweet!)
Why hate on this game? I dont hate on GTA4, i really liked it even if i was disappointed- the cool thing with SR2 is my expectations are fairly small and i know they will be exceeded.
You should get the game Dr Phil, i would very much like to t-bag you.

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DavidMacDougall - 396 days 2 hours ago

Bubbles for you both the game looks like sh!t and is made for 9 year olds ,the story in GTA4 alone makes me want to play it and the realistic shooting is just a plus

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Pennywise - 396 days 2 hours ago

Come on Arrggghhhh - There was a lot of people DYING to get their hands on GTA on this site before it released. I am included. Once people played it, true colors shined.

This game was watered down and boring. Like everyone always sites - Its not all about graphics.

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chasuk08 - 396 days 2 hours ago

Well if theres any game that can be as good as vice city then it will be day one for me. Vice city was the best GTA, followed by San Andreas, then GTA4, then GTA 3.

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bunbun777 - 396 days 1 hour ago

It's like we got the rogue's gallery of saints haters, which also seem to be some of the guys i notice always yelling at ps3 fanboys. 9 year olds? oh sorry i guess having a fun time playing video games is pretty childish, no wait just saints row. When i put on my big boy serious time pants then its all GTA.
What's next- wanna take a dump on Farcry 2?

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ChrisGTR1 - 396 days 1 hour ago

well SR2 does seem like a ps2 game, the car physics are TERRIBLE!! they drive like bumper carts or something. and I bought and completed SR1 100% i have 920 gamerscore on that game. im kind of on the fence on getting this or not. all the leaked videos from the piraters look pretty crappy.
did you know protect the pimp, gangs, pimped out ride, AND big ass chains are all OUT of this game! everything that was good is now gone!!

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bunbun777 - 395 days 23 hours ago

If i really thought the game was going to be as bad as those pirated videos then yes, i would be dogging on this game. And I can only hope the new additions of gameplay make up for the loss of the aforementioned modes.
But you know what? You mentioned your gamerscore and that you played the old one, I respect that and your opinion a lot more now. I hope that this game is not flopage- we will see in just a few more days!

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ape007 - 395 days 23 hours ago

man,gta vice city was the best gta game of all time,most of the hardcore gta community says that,am a hardcore gta fan,gta 3,vs and sa all of them 10 out of 10,yes the ps2 gta games were legendary,gta 4 was very good butit's not addictive as old gta games,gta 4 for me was like 8.5-9.5,I love it I play it from time to time and am looking forward for dlc

imo vice city in my top 5 greatest games of all time

sr2 looks very very good but it will never touch vc,gta 3 or sa

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JimmyJames70 - 396 days 2 hours ago

I do have to say that I liked GTA IV enough to finish the game and much of the side missions. I'm not hating on GTA IV at all. I'm just saying that it wasn't what I was led to believe it would be.

Saints Row is more fun. Not necessarily better, just more fun.

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silvacrest - 396 days 1 hour ago

"Saints Row is more fun. Not necessarily better, just more fun."

arnt games supposed to be fun before anything else??
forget graphics, realism or whatever it has to be fun before anything else otherwise the game has already failed

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ape007 - 395 days 23 hours ago

exact words from my mouth(you even said it better),bubbles for you

you gave an absolutely perfect verdict,you have one hell of a brain man.

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Cenobia - 395 days 21 hours ago

I tend to agree. I didn't really like GTAIV, but I have no doubt it will be better than this.

I also think the people marketing it are douchebags. They totally made fun of GTA when it is the series they practically copy-pasted. I totally lost any speck of interest in this game when I saw that commercial/trailer.

It doesn't really matter though. The chances of me picking this up were slim to none. It just doesn't interest me, and I have to agree that from the videos it appears to be comparable to the GTA's of last generation. There are way to many better games coming out to even give this a second look.

The whole premise of this game seems to be running around blowing stuff up and making trouble. That was fun on the PS2, but now that online play plays a bigger role I just don't find it fun anymore. I think that's part of what made GTA disappointing for me (among a long list of other things).

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NMC2007 - 396 days 2 hours ago

And fun, GTA IV was a damn chore of a game that I just couldn't finish, even if someone paid me I couldn't because I wasn't interested, to be honest I think I tried to force myself to like it at one point but it didn't work, I got up to Playboy X and called it quits.

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Enigma_2099 - 396 days 2 hours ago

Not our fault you found it hard. Why not go back to casual gaming if it's too much for you?

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Close_Second - 396 days 1 hour ago

...I didn't find the game hard - I just found it incredibly boring.

Nothing impressed me about GTAIV. The much hyped graphics, although an improvement over previous GTA games, suffered from slowdown, texture popping, jaggies. It just didn't look good a lot of the time.

The story...average. Nothing more in depth than a made for TV movie.

The missions...more of the same rubbish which is why the game failed for me. I simply hate shoot outs with gang members in a parks and no one outside the shoot out reacts. No calls to the police, etc.

I'm afraid GTAIV has put me off the franchise for good.

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Enigma_2099 - 395 days 17 hours ago

You're gonna hate Saint's Row 2... isn't that over 50% of the gameplay right there? Gang shootouts?

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ape007 - 395 days 23 hours ago

vice city is the best gta game ever

I will not forget summer 2003,I play it everyday and every second with it,my mind just pop"best game ever made"

I will not forget these days as long as I live.

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silvacrest - 396 days 1 hour ago

You just don't like his opinion so you come up with silly remarks :P

this is still a day one purchase for me and for anyone interested in this game, watch a review or 2, give it a rent and try it out but DON'T allow the biased GTA fanboys/haters make your mind up for you

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 396 days ago

How was GTAIV in any way a letdown? I don't get it.

It had an intriguing storyline and it was a lot of fun. What's not to like?

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Cenobia - 395 days 21 hours ago

First of all I was totally on the hype train for GTA IV, which I have no doubt led me to dislike it. Here are some key things I found disappointing:

1.Online wasn't fun, had large amounts of lag, and a broken level system
2.There were a number of plot holes (like your first girlfriend)
3.I hated playing mini-games with "friends" and being interrupted by their calls. As far as I could tell it had no real bearing on the game's plot.
4.Money meant absolutely nothing about 5 missions in. The whole motivation for Niko was money, and yet you had nothing to spend it on. By the end your supposed to be worried about cash when you have like 100 grand in your back pocket. You couldn't even buy anything beyond a hot dog and a couple of jackets.
5.Not many buildings could be entered, despite what the hype train led me to believe.
6.The ending. I played the last mission like 30 times before beating it (I'm not exaggerating, the boat section is broken). They also punish you for doing "the right thing" which I thought was stupid.

I could keep going, but those were some of my main problems. Personally I loved the new driving physics, which some people seemed to hate. I also liked the realism of the NPC's and outside world in general.

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Jason 360 - 395 days 16 hours ago

Looks like droids are still bitter over the loss of GTA IV, and are putting hopes into Saints Row 2 as some sort of redemtion for that loss.

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