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Saints Row | 
 enlarge | From: THQ
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  87 reviews
Sales Rank: 647
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 100730
Model: 752919550021
UPC: 752919550021
EAN: 0752919550021
ASIN: B000BLM5PG
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Very good condition game, insert, and case. Guaranteed to play like new. Delivery confirmation will be emailed upon purchase to allow you to track your package. Ships 1st class promptly with care.
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| Features:
| • | Explore an open-world city - Go anywhere and do any of the activities you like in different parts of the city at any time | | • | Enter neighborhoods controlled by rival gangs, and come up with ways to take over their turf | | • | Thousands of customization options - Customize your own unique look, your clothes, and any car you choose, with the extensive car modification system | | • | Listen while you cruise - Twelve radio stations play over 130 tracks, from the hottest hip-hop and rock stations to classical music & talk shows | | • | Challenge other players online in gang-fight games like Big Ass Chains, Blinged-Out Ride, or Protect tha Pimp |
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Product Description
Saints' Row is one of the worst neighborhoods in the city of Stilwater - it's also where you grew up. You're tired of being on the bottom of the food chain, so you've decided to make your play. Start out as a member of the 3rd Street Saints, a local gang & work your way up to being king of Saints' Row. Then do what it takes to get the money and build the respect and power you need to muscle your way to the top of Stilwater's gangs. Form gangs, recruit gang members, and compete for cash and respect in a variety of modes including co-op
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| Customer Reviews: Read 82 more reviews...
The best Grand Theft Auto rip-off ever! May 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Saint's Row is a game that is a blantant rip-off of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, from everything right down to the way you steal cars out from people driving them on the street. But make no mistake: This isn't some rushed piece of garbage simply set out to make money off the GTA franchise. It has a little bit of TLC put into it by the game developers, as well.
Similarities to GTA:
-You can do storyline and free roaming missions
-steal and customize cars
-participate in Turf Wars taking over neighborhoods for your gang
-customize your main character
-wield a large variety of guns
-listen to a large variety of music
-and generally play the game however way you want.
Enhancements over GTA:
-Much superior graphics
-better map
-a GPS system for your maps and vehicles
-customizable cell phone, with allies you can call for backup
-customizable music playlists (in case you get sick of the randomness of the radio stations and want to hear your music anywhere, anytime)
-the hands-down BEST car customization in any non-racing video game, ever!
-health items (food) you can access anytime
-self-regenerating health that heals up from about-to-die to full health in about one minute or so
-superior firearms (albeit none of them look very unique)
-a slightly better menu interface to access your firearms (I just wish they hadn't put the food and weapons in the same system; it gets confusing)
-the police are the most minor threat in the game
-shooting style/difficulity is fair (a little harder than GTA, but without the auto-lock aiming)
-both men, AND women, can be recruited as allies in your gang, or killed in other gangs. Hurray for murder equality!
-celebrity voice acting (I instantly recognized Mila Kunis as Tanya and Michael Rapaport as Troy)
Worse from GTA:
-No bikes or motorcycles to ride which is diaspointing
-no boats or planes either (not that they're really needed here)
-character can barely swim
-only one safehouse in the entire city/game
-clothes choices are lame and uninspired
-despite the good voice acting, the dialogue is terrible and it sounds like it was written by the whitest people on the planet (shades of "187: Ride or Die")
-an excessive overuse of cursing (if you're going to use it in every other word, it's impact and gravitas is completely lost)
-the A.I. is stupid, and the enemy gangs have that "random spawning" effect whenever you have a "wanted level" by them
-it's mandatory to do the side missions as you have to earn "respect" in order to do the main storyline missions, and respect is only gained from the side missions
-many of the side missions are hard or just plain annoying, like the later level Escort missions
-the "humor" of the game is just weak and lacks any level of subtlety whatsoever, like the Wendy's burger chain parody, "Freckle Bitch's" for example
-the radio stations are horribly put together, and their names are awful, too
-the music is generic and lame, and there's only a few "name brand" artists contributing to the game's soundtrack. Mainly, the Clipse and Twista.
-there's no difficulity setting and the main missions in the game are a bit too easy (while the side missions are often too hard)
-the "escape the police" method in this game is weak and lame. It's a drive-thru confessional booth, not that you'll ever really need to use it. I never even been in "Forgive and Forget" before.
Overall, Saint's Row is a worthy edition to the GTA genre of video games. Although it's a rip-off, in every sense of the word, it's defintely not of inferior quality. In fact, Saint's Row is even better than most of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The game, at it's core is nice, but what really bogs it down is the story, which is pretty lame and generic, and the script, which is just laughably cheesy in it's attempt to sound "urban" or "gangsta" or "hip hop" or whatever. San Andreas' dialogue and script felt 100% genuine. Saint's Rows, however, sounds forced, like they were too lazy to do their research and just decided to "wing it."
It would be easy to just make a Grand Theft Auto clone that's pretty bad (True Crime has proved that, for us). It would also be pretty easy to try to make your own game, using many of the famous GTA elements involved (I.E, CrackDown). But Saint's Row, however, is a true Grand Theft Auto imitation, that manages not to photocopy the game, but use it as a worthy starting off point for their own series. I like mostly everything in this game, and the only real things keeping it from being superior to every GTA game ever made on teh older consoles, is it's cheesy dialogue and cheesy writing, and lame attempts to be funny.
Other than that, Saint's Row is a worthy duplication of the "sandbox shooting and driving" genre created by GTA itself, and it definitely deserves to be played, even if only as a week-long rental, by any Grand Theft Auto fan.
 SAINT'S ROW IS AWESOME April 28, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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Saints Row April 20, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Saints Row
Grandson loves this game and plays it all the time.
grand thef auto don't stand a chance April 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this game is really fun its way better than gta cause all the gta games are really the samething different story but samething but this game is hot you can custom mize your character the picture is not small like gta you can recruit your friends to join the fun and you can go in stores and rob banks you could'nt do that with gta. And theirs much more in this game and the grapic is amazing gta 5 better have something up their sleeves cause not than this rules gta history.
 Mediocre April 17, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Saints row, while having many interesting qualities such as weapons storage and easy vehicle repair, is deeply lacking in many areas. The incessant abuse of timers, poor AI from other vehicles and "homies", as well as a shabby plot, combine to decimate the games entertainment value.
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