[YoungCalgar]

Anyone who says this isen't a GTA clone is pretty much delusional, good news though. It's a clone in all the right ways, and is not it most of the right ways.

It is a clone in the gameplay section, as most of the stuff so far is very basic GTA like missions, beat this guy up, steal some hoes and maybe you will shoot some people.

The Graphics are of course nigth and day compared to GTA so there is not much suprise, but again with a new generation of consoles we all new this was coming.

One of the best additions was Havok, and it was thought out rather well the bodies act alot what I imagine a body would really do most of the time. it is most noteable in the rather rare occurance fo you being thrown from you;re car in a crash, you are still alive but you go all ragdoll and fly, slam, bend and bounce like you think you might if you were really under those forces. (yes I know you don;t really fly that far in a car accident but for what it is it looks realisitic.....the physics of it that is)

The voice acting... is a bit dodgey, the one leader character has a great voice over job, and the other guy they pair you up with is okay, but most of the others are lack luster to say the least, As for actual dialauge....over the top seems to be a bit of an overstatment. it seems almost like what you think "thugz" might talk like if you were a forty something year old white guy who has lived in cosey neighborhoods and it always seems plastic and forced, unlike GTA:SA where it was done alot more believe-ably.

And that brings us to controls, they are pretty much set up exactly like they were in GTA, with two changes the camer while driving and the shooting, both of which will put out alot of the hardcore GTA'ers but with about an hour of playing they become second nature, not better or worse, just different.

Unfortunatly one thing they took from GTA that they got horribly wrong was there sence of humor, GTA is now almost famous for it sugestivly puned names for restaraunts and stores (like lil' ***** Dog food and Rusty Ring dounts) where as Saints row seems to not have worked it out as well, like a five year old laughing because someone said fart (Tehehehe) with names like Freckle bitches.

AS far as how it plays so far it is great fun, at least for me, and when me and my friend figured out how to get past the walls and found us an AK47 (which is suspiciusly out in the open and respawns every twenty seconds leading us to belivev they knew you could get through and left this as a present) we had our most fun shootout yet. Also they added the ability to use ANY one handed weapon in the car, so pistols, smgs, and most importantly one handed explosives also adds alot to the fun.

So all and all, if you like this kind of game Rent it, you will probably buy it, but give 'er a rent first.