Saints Row - What do you think, any good?
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As i've mentioned elsewhere, in the demo (at least the one on the XBox live marketplace) the driving is pants. All of the cars handle like fidgity boats, far too eager to change direction to start with totally lacking in any sort of progressive steering. Then if you want to power round a corner you can't as they don't seem to understand such things as oversteer, forcing you to use the handbrake instead. It's tried so hard to copy GTA in every other aspect and mostly achieved it's goals as the combat is generally good, just that god-awful driving is nowhere near the class set by the GTA games. People have said it will be fixed for the final release so we can live in hope.
edit: I'm sure it will be a good game, whether i'll want to steal a flash car and go for a drive like I did in San Andreas is questionable (crap handling again...) and it will certainly do as a next-gen appetiser before the banquet begins in earnest next Autumn when Grand Theft Auto 4 arrives and forces us to put another notch in our belts of gaming pleasure.
edit: I'm sure it will be a good game, whether i'll want to steal a flash car and go for a drive like I did in San Andreas is questionable (crap handling again...) and it will certainly do as a next-gen appetiser before the banquet begins in earnest next Autumn when Grand Theft Auto 4 arrives and forces us to put another notch in our belts of gaming pleasure.
Edited by Steve_Evil on Monday 14th August 22:50
I've pre-ordered this having only read reviews on it. Not played any demos but i'm not expecting it to be as good as GTA. Fact is i love to drive around cities and cause mayhem and i don't fancy waiting over a year for GTA before i can unleash mayhem using my 360. So in the mean time this game will do for whenever i feel like getting in a car and shooting people!
jezza l said:
Just a couple of days until release!!! Hopefully mine will arrive tomorrow.
If any of you guys buy it and want to meet up for an online rumble (possible from what i've heard???) then add me. Gamertag: je33a
If any of you guys buy it and want to meet up for an online rumble (possible from what i've heard???) then add me. Gamertag: je33a
When is it out in the shops?
(and when is dead rising out too.. anyone?)
Chris Type R said:
Finding Saints Row to be a little boring. Lacks the character of a GTA game. Ho hum, will soldier on.
i dont quite get this "lacks character" suggestion...its not just you, a couple of mags have said similar things...one even saying "it lacks the intelligence of gta".....its virtually the same game, but with better graphics and explosions.
Bought this yesterday and I'm about 20% of the way through, I've stormed the los carnales dude's mansion but there's no more carnales missions, only strongholds...
It's a decent enough game and the robberies, hostage taking, insurance fraud and ho' stealing really do make it fun, but I don't like this whole idea of do a mission, lose respect, take a few hostages, gain respect, do a mission, lose respect and so on and so forth... It's like you spend all your time doing pointless side missions to gain respect to progress in the game...
Still, TDU is on pre-order and I might buy dead rising if I see it in the shops...
It's a decent enough game and the robberies, hostage taking, insurance fraud and ho' stealing really do make it fun, but I don't like this whole idea of do a mission, lose respect, take a few hostages, gain respect, do a mission, lose respect and so on and so forth... It's like you spend all your time doing pointless side missions to gain respect to progress in the game...
Still, TDU is on pre-order and I might buy dead rising if I see it in the shops...
I feel it's worth a play. I've not had much of a chance to play it and when i have been playing it, i've just been having fun getting involved in police chases (even if they do give up a little to easily) etc but i've done a couple of missions. It appears that the game won't take long to complete as after just a couple of missions i'm already 6% through!!
Shame that cars disappear as quickly as they appear! You certainly can't cause any huge pile ups.
Shame that cars disappear as quickly as they appear! You certainly can't cause any huge pile ups.
The police (FBI) are insane at 5 stars wanted level.
Seems this game gets better the more you play it, i did feel a bit dissapointed at first, i think the problem is the entire game is virtually unlocked from the get-go, unlike in GTA where you had to play missions to gain access to new areas/weapons and activities.
Seems this game gets better the more you play it, i did feel a bit dissapointed at first, i think the problem is the entire game is virtually unlocked from the get-go, unlike in GTA where you had to play missions to gain access to new areas/weapons and activities.
Frederick said:
Bought this yesterday and I'm about 20% of the way through, I've stormed the los carnales dude's mansion but there's no more carnales missions, only strongholds...
It's a decent enough game and the robberies, hostage taking, insurance fraud and ho' stealing really do make it fun, but I don't like this whole idea of do a mission, lose respect, take a few hostages, gain respect, do a mission, lose respect and so on and so forth... It's like you spend all your time doing pointless side missions to gain respect to progress in the game...
Still, TDU is on pre-order and I might buy dead rising if I see it in the shops...
It's a decent enough game and the robberies, hostage taking, insurance fraud and ho' stealing really do make it fun, but I don't like this whole idea of do a mission, lose respect, take a few hostages, gain respect, do a mission, lose respect and so on and so forth... It's like you spend all your time doing pointless side missions to gain respect to progress in the game...
Still, TDU is on pre-order and I might buy dead rising if I see it in the shops...
Your respect stacks, so you could do several full-bars worth of activities before beginning the missions. A little X1, X2, etc symbol appears near your respect bar to show you how much has been stacked.
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