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A dead liberty

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 18
Date: September 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Beware this game!

If you have a none HDTV the retail version of this game may disappoint you big time!

I have a 480i widescreen TV. The demo played ok on it, the graphics shone out--zing, zing.

However, something has gone horribly wrong with the retail version. It looks like a dog on my TV (jaggies and low res textures)! The graphics dont look 'next gen' more like poor quality early PS2 games.

The word on the forums is that there is a technical problem with the Widescreen encoding on some resolutions. A patch will be released sometime to fix it--However, no confirmation that this will improve the graphics or ETA on the patch.

GTA ripoff big time, how about some originality?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 24
Date: September 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

After playing Dead-Rising at a friends house on his 360, I had pretty much decided I was going to buy one for myself, but after playing this boring, cheap-looking GTA rip-off, I'm not so sure. I was never a huge GTA fan to begin with, so you can imagine my 'joy' when after playing for 45 minutes or so, besides being totally bored, I felt like I had been playing San Andreas the whole time. I'm not kidding people, this is the exact game, drugs, ho's, pimps, ridiculous dialogue, lame tricked-out cars, lots and lots of guns...........yawn, been there, done that!!!!!!!! Now, don't get me wrong, I have nothing against violent games, Silent Hill and Manhunt are two of my favorites of all time, but the violence in those games serves a purpose, it's needed to tell the story and define the lead characters. The violence in Saint's Row is a joke, just glorified gang-warfare with so many dumb and un-necessary explosions I was closing my eyes most of the time to save myself from a seizure.

The dialogue between the pimps and ho's will absolutely crack you up, I'm pretty sure pimpin' today is nothing like it was in the 70's, but someone forget to tell this game that, absurd!!! I'm pretty sure a few woman's groups are gonna' have a field day with this title. Like I said earlier, after about 45 minutes of playing my friend and I just turned and looked at each other and just started bustin' out laughing, we both commented on how we had'nt played a game this bad in years. He bought it at Game Crazy, and upon returning it, the guy at the counter said he had had many complaints, and it wasn't the content he said people were upset about, it was just the fact that it was a lousy game-play, poor control, GTA missions we've all already done, and just a huge bore. So, needless to day, my friend was very happy cuz' the clerk understood and gave us a full refund........

Skip this one people, if you're that desparate for an envelope-pushing 'adult' game, play 'Dead-Rising' a few hundred times more (what an awesome game) or go old skool and play Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Manhunt, or hell, even go back and re-visit San Andreas, any are better then this re-tread!!!!!!!!!

Bad development full of bugs and half finished

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: September 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I swear the developers lost half their plans for this game in a fire or something. This is the worst game I have ever played. This game is more annoying to me that TMNT for NES was.

AI
The AI on this game though sometimes good is limited to about a 60 IQ when fighting. Though at first the AI seems great soon enough you realize that your homies are dumb. They will go running into a gun fight against 5 gang members with big weapons and they will die every time. When you throw a grenade, they run straight into it. They will run right in front of you when you are shooting and die.

Plot
Though at first the plot seemed good and even though the voice acting is superb, you soon find through the missions the plot gets less and less deep. In fact some of the plot is missing. You'll find yourself wondering if you just missed a whole cut scene, but you didn't. Also it gets very very simple. You can basically guess what's going to happen next.

Missions
Not only are some missions near impossible because you will be up against 8 guys with RPGs but the game will throw such insane things at you that you can't possibly survive. Like going into a mission or defending your turf. You will be doing fine then suddly when you're almost done 3 or 4 cars of guys will drive up and they will all jump out and shoot you full of holes with machine guns. You have 3 seconds to kill them all. You don't have enough time to regain health. Some missions seem simple like hijack a truck and bring it back. Simple except 3 gang cars will be shooting at you and blowing out your tires while trying to run you off the road. Not only that, sometimes the cops will join in too. One time I was run off the road and the truck was stuck. I couldn't move it. I couldn't do anything but wait and watch the timer reach 0.

Glitches
This game is full and packed to the brim with glitches and bugs. Not only will it sometimes slow your game down so much you can barely move but will sometimes freeze the screen and you have to load from save. Glitches go so far as falling through the highway and crashing your car in a ravine. Not falling off the highway falling through it. I've gotten out of a car and appeared waist deep in concrete. I've had my guys decide not to get in a car. I've been unable to get out of the car. I've had a car impossibly flip over a small curb and start on fire and it wouldn't let me out. I've had the controls freeze up so I can't move while people are firing at me. I've had my car disappear when I get out and move the camera away to kill someone. I've had cops come bust me when I didn't do anything. I've had a guy hit me and my guy wouldn't get up then I was blown up by a grenade. I was hit with an RPG and then couldn't get up in time to be hit with another RPG and die. I've had enemies spawn right behind me and kill me. I've had people kill me with a machine gun or handgun from such a far distance I couldn't even see them. I would need a sniper rifle to kill them they were so far away. I had a guy shooting at me with a gun and taking half my life away. I shot back at him with the same gun and even though my sight was dead on I didn't hit him once. I've died when nothing was hurting me. I've had cars randomly appear and run me over killing me in a mission. I've had my character magically disappear a loading screen comes up then I appear somewhere completely different on the map and it wasn't a hospital or store. Just a random place. I've had enemies I'm supposed to chase down disappear from the road right in front of me and appear somewhere completely different on the map I can't even get to. Your homies have no accuracy but the gangs against you are dead on with the most inaccurate weapons.

Some glitches in this game were so bad I couldn't play it. Some parts were so rediculously hard it took pure luck to beat it. I'm not bad at this game. I've had witnesses. I'm not the only one to say these things. I'm going to try and get my money back from THQ. This game is badly developed and seems only half done. All the glitches I stated were playing the game normally and using cheats doesn't have any affect on it. I've tried both.

This game isn't hard it's badly designed. It's nothing wrong with my 360 or the disc it's the programming. I've done debugging on program code before so I know the difference between a hardware error and a software error. If you go to THQ's website you can't get online support for this game. This game didn't have a website or any link on THQ until a few days ago. This game had absolutely no quality assurance and this makes me afraid to purchase any THQ game. This game has more glitches and problems that any other game I have ever played dating back to NES. I would not buy this game and don't recommend it. This game would be great if it weren't littered with problems. It's just a horrible halfway done rehash of a Grand Theft Auto game. It is NOT worth even a dollar. This is a faulty product.

Fastlane Revisited

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 22
Date: November 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you are a fan of the GTA series; play GTA: San Andreas. Saints Row is yet another poor imitation of the real thing. The gameplay is repetitive and uninteresting, and the story and dialogue don't work on any level.

The Worst Game in XBOX 360 Game History

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 75
Date: November 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is the worst game I have ever played in my lifetime. The Offical XBOX Magazine said it was even better than Grand Theft Auto San Andreas...I think not.. I achieved 100% Complete they are not comparable at all. I payed 63 dollars including tax at 6.8 percent at the Quil Ceda Walmart in Marysville, Washington AND I will only get 25 dollars trade in at EB Games at the Everett, WA Mall.

GLITCHES GALORE!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: December 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME...IT IS FILLED WITH GLITCHES!!!...IT'S LIKE DRIVER 2 FOR PLAYSTATION IF ANYONE HAS EVER PLAYED IT AND SEEN HOW UNDERDEVELOPED THE GAME WAS...I CAN'T DO MUCH IN SAINTS ROW WITHOUT FALLING THROUGH THE GROUND OR FREEZING UP IN A CAR...THE GLITCHES HAVE KILLED THIS GAME FOR ME

Don't Believe The Hype (as Public Enemy used to say)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: April 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Don't believe the hype. This game is not only derivitive of the Grand Theft Auto series, it is quite repetitive and boring. Most of all there are too many glitches and bugs that wasn't fixed before it was even shipped. You will find yourself walking away from your car only to find it gone. Then there are those ridiculous challenges where you are expected to go from point A to point B while being gunned down by several enemies from unrealistic angles. If you like your game with lots of swearing then this game is for you. But if you look more than lots of swearing, then stay away from this highly over-hyped rubbish.

Big disappointment - rent, don't buy!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 19
Date: September 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Overall I was disappointed with this game. The other reviewers have pointed out some real improvements to San Andreas, and I suppose there is something to that, but there's something about not being able to fly a plane that just sucks. I finally found an airport, drove around for like 5 minutes before finding a plane only to learn that I can't fly it. What a huge letdown as a gaming moment, I mean I gave up on Saint's Row right there.

Okay, the map function is much better, the navigation is much better, there are lots of activities, ways you can modify your character, etc. The graphics are better, but not by that much. But there are no motorcycles, bicycles, planes, helicopters, or jetpacks! The reason why Rockstar is so brilliant is that they exponentially improve each version of GTA, but these guys basically cloned San Andreas (without the rural parts) (and without the vehicles) and improved it ... sort of, in some areas only.

Rockstar is going to eventually come out with something so much better than Saint's Row that everyone will completely forget that game even existed.

After San Andreas, I just can't be asked to play any GTA-type game that does not have a working submarine (plus skateboards, bikes, many different kinds of motorcycles and planes, a hot-air baloon, a space shuttle, parachutes, speedboats, jetskis, roller-skates, windsurfers, canoes, and maybe a shopping cart.) It's just not worth my time and I have no idea why a game maker would think it would be. All those things WILL be in the next Rockstar game because those guys are not idiots.

Rent this game but don't blow 60 bucks on it, not unless you really like the whole "activities" thing.

They're selling a game that's barely halfway finished

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: September 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

In a pathetic effort to cash in the on the success of grand theft auto, the people at volition created what is a shining example of what grand theft auto would be if the people at DMA didn't care about the gamer.

I can hardly put into words how disgusted I am with this obscenely over hyped piece of garbarge, but I'll try for the sake of this very honest review.

Saints Row is a video game where you drive fast cars, that go beyond the speed of the xbox 360's ability to program your surroundings.

I too recall playing some areas of grand theft auto, and it taking a short while for the surrounding buildings to render. In Saints Row, a game made in 2006 mind you, you'll find yourself sitting on the road in the position you'd be in while driving the car that just dissappeared.

In Saints Row you play a guy who doesn't speak at all, and deal with idiotic cutscenes where characters from "you got served" try to exploit that for some comedy relief.

The storyline is as enthralling as playing the turf war missions in Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, because that's pretty much all you do as far as that goes.

The challenge in this game isn't simply dodging bullets and driving really fast, it's dealing with unrefined programming code.

In a mission where I had to protect someone, they wouldn't get into the vehicle I had for them, simply because the vehicle was on a slope. Forget the fact that bullets were tearing through his flesh, he just wasn't comfortable getting into a vehicle that was on a slope.

While shooting back at gang members at the end of a dead end alley, I was suddenly shot from behind. Looking behind me, the game placed a car full of gang members directly behind me in that dead end alley. I died, and at that moment decided to sell this piece of garbage game.

There are no motorcycles, boats, or helicopters (that you can pilot). They put all their effort into the cars, which fell short in my opinion.

I encourage anyone interested to rent this game, and prove me wrong by getting excited more often than you want to just throw your controller at the tv. Fair warning, you might want the five dollars you paid to rent the game back.

Dont buy this game, wait for the new GTA

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: September 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game was a dissappointment for me because it doesnt raise the bar, it falls short of the bar set by the GTA franchise.. GTA san andreas is a much better game than this. The only thing better about this game is it's graphics( and that's because it's a 360 game) and it falls short in all other categories.. A completely new version of GTA will be release on 360 and PS3 at the same time, i suggest gettin the new GTA instead. it will be way better than this game.

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