Saint's Row

[Bleeders]

I quite like this, I didn't think I was going to, so it's a nice surprise. Although IMO, it does lack the wit and charm of the GTA series (well, Vice City anyway), this is quite good fun to play.

I find that it tends to "hold your hand" through most of it though, although personally, I quite like the GPS plotting the best route for you to get from A to B, lack of this annoyed me no end in GTA...

[Yoshimax]

the absolute business - I said it was all about the live - I ended up playing almost exclusively on single player last night.

The engine runs a lot better than the demo with much less slowdown - In turn it means the cars handle much better because of the higher framerate. Some of the stuff in there is fantastic - Did some drug trafficking, hooker reconaissance, burgled some shops, took some hostages - didn't even do the "main" missions really as was way too busy with other stuff.

The physics are magic - there's a lot of laugh out loud fun to be had playing this. Held Up a big fattie in a shop last night, she cracks the safe, I grabbed the cash then gave her a boot up the ar*e which knocked her over - Gave her another couple of digs and she got up and ran - I casually followed her to kill her off and the fat b!tch rang the store alarm !!! Popped a cap in her skull for that, ran out the back door into the alley and it was just flashing red & blue from the cop lights - cops everywhere. What a bloodbath that became

Online co-op is a great laugh - two modes so far to play. Online versus is setup exactly like the Halo2 party system but you're all in a warehouse and you can run abuot shooting each other and practicing stuff between matches - host can do the matchmaking stuff or you can play privately - I think this is the first game since Halo2 to use the system - fantastic.

Except the 2 versus games I played with Cammy last night against a few other boys were lag of the highest order - really bad. I'm putting this down to it picking a poor host - Once there are more Euro players on (i.e today onwards) I expec it'll be a lot better.

Basically I could have played it SP till about 4am this morning no problem - You don't get many games like that. I want to go home right now and play some more.

[Ajay1986]

I was playing the online multiplayer last night and well i got hooked on Protect the Pimp its a really addictive mode. The only prob is it uses matchmaking meaning you are generally with Americans which meant there was quite a bit of lag.

[supersmithy]

Wasn't sure about this - but reading the first couple of impressions, gonna trade in some old tat and get this tonight!

[robrymond]

I've become really hooked to online now. I practically ignored it for the past week (partly due to few people online) but I played the Gangsta modes and it had the magic of a Halo feel but in 3rd person.

And the fact some levels have cars etc make it even better.

[Yoshimax]

Just the lag ruined it for me but when it was ok it was really, really good fun.

For example the car park level - at first it seems really basic & cramped but then factor in a couple of cars and the stairwell and it changes entirely - Gonna be mayhem with 12 people playing

Should be on tonight - I believe I have an invite to Metal Thug X let's get some battles on the go.

[chopemon]

volition have confirmed that there will be a patch released shortly to fix lag issues and some clothes stealing exploit

[smokedog]

How do you do the hitman missions? The target comes up on the HUD but it doesn't tell you where they are on the map?

[Jusatsushi]

I've struggled with those too, it tells you the area they are in, but the areas are huge. I was searching for that damned granny for ages before giving up and doing insurance fraud... any tips would be appreciated!

[Bleeders]

Does Sisko provide the voice for Julius in this?

[MartyG]

Does Sisko provide the voice for Julius in this?

Nope - it's done by Keith David

[Concept]

The Arbiter in Halo 2 too and in numerous small and big budget films.

Didn't realise he was so busy. That's some CV considering it only starts 80s onwards.

[Bleeders]

Ah, always get Keith David and Avery Brooks mixed up.

EDIT - Bloody hell, didn't realise Darla from Buffy/Angel did Miranda Keyes either.

[Yoshimax]

Aye that was doing my box right in - Couldn't work out where the target was and couldn't find "downtown" area which it was saying was his location ???

I take it that this can be a "side mission" and can run concurrently with another mission you are tackling ?

[Crisp_Rapper]

someone find out if i can play this game southpaw plz...