Saint's Row (demo)

[JRMacumber]

I got my OXM in the mail today, and the 360 demo on the disk was for Saint's Row. Now, I should say, I'm not the biggest GTA fan on the planet. I have nothing against the series, and I enjoyed GTA 3 quite a bit, but Vice City really didn't do it for me, and San Andreas did even less. So, I booted up Saint's Row with little enthusiasm and expectation. Luckily, I came out of really impressed.

Yes, it is a huge ripoff of the GTA games. The control scheme is damn near identicle, even down to Y being the Jack The Car button. And, the way the map is laid out and the stores that are available to you are lifted straight from Rockstar's games. But, and perhaps it was just because this game had graphics that completely bitchslapped anything in the previous GTA games, but I thought this was the better game (for a demo, that is). I thought it was fluid, I was never left wondering what I should be doing, the voice acting was spot on (they even have Keith David doing the voice for your gang leader, and that man has one of the smoothest voices in Hollywood), and the combat was fun (though, unlike GTA, there is no lock-on feature).

Anyway, the game could end up being a mess, but I don't see how. It was incredibly polished, and I can't wait to get the full version.

[cohen205]

JRM, from the demo, would you say the game was any better than any of the GTA Ripoffs - True crime, Getaway, Driver? (if you have played them)

[JRMacumber]

JRM, from the demo, would you say the game was any better than any of the GTA Ripoffs - True crime, Getaway, Driver? (if you have played them)

Well, from the bit I played, I'd say much better. I'd say it is better than San Andreas, but I'll wait until the full version comes out before committing to that statement.

[Simmy]

Thanks for the info JRM, looking forward to trying the demo out next Tuesday now.

What sort of range of vehicles are in it ? I've only seen cars so far, do we have bikes, bmx's, choppers, planes etc alla GTA ? Can't play a sandbox game without me chopper

[Dezm0nd]

Wasn't really up for this game at first, because it looked like a GTA clone, but hearing from quite a few people it's actually GOOD with Live modes makes me want it more and more... Roll on Tuesday. Does it have an official release date? (the full game)

[Gavin]

Play have it down as the 1st September, whether that is right or not though....

[Simmy]

End August is being tauted for the States, a few days later in Europe.

I still find looking at this game a bit painfull, as it does seem such an absolute copy of all parts of GTA, but if it plays as well then who cares. No way I can wait until October next year for my next gen GTA fix, hopefully this will fill the gap until then.

Anyone able to confirm on vehicles. I'll stuggle if it is just cars tbh, will miss the bikes and aircraft to much - and BMX drivebys from San An are just to fun to ignore

[Rossco]

Yeh, hopefully there a great range like in GTA too. Can you swim in this?

[Myth]

I know that it's been confirmed that there's no Bikes or Aircrafts but they said something about them being in the sequal if I remember correctly.

[Jebus]

That's the thing, people complain about "GTA Clone" etc but then what could they do differently in that genre? I don't hear people complaining about every single FPS ever claiming "Wolf 3D clone".

At the end of the day its a different company taking a stab at that genre, good for the market I reckon. It seems people are raving about how good this is as well. I was never gonna buy it, but to be honest the demo could sell me on this!

Incidentally, I love xboxyde but I can only ever watch the streaming ones...the torrent downloads are always SO slow I give up...anyone else have that problem?

[Yoshimax]

The live sold it for me ages ago - the fact live is good is a bonus

Just think - 4 NTSC-er's cruising in an open top caddie with molotov's and AK's

Doesn't get much better for me

[Jebus]

The live sold it for me ages ago - the fact live is good is a bonus

Just think - 4 NTSC-er's cruising in an open top caddie with molotov's and AK's

Doesn't get much better for me

Indeed! As I say, I thought the next spend for me would be Dead Rising (drool) but this is looking mightily appealing. The demo will definitely make or break it for me...

[Simmy]

That's the thing, people complain about "GTA Clone" etc but then what could they do differently in that genre? I don't hear people complaining about every single FPS ever claiming "Wolf 3D clone".

At the end of the day its a different company taking a stab at that genre, good for the market I reckon. It seems people are raving about how good this is as well. I was never gonna buy it, but to be honest the demo could sell me on this!

Incidentally, I love xboxyde but I can only ever watch the streaming ones...the torrent downloads are always SO slow I give up...anyone else have that problem?

Yeah I know what you are saying m8, but you have to admit they are copying everything to the letter, that's why I mentioned the kidnap, yeah fine put that in the game but don't set the exact same task to extract information from him, than they did with GTA - They're are ways to be the same but different is I guess what I'm saying, where as the brief for this was deffinately "Make GTA 4" - Well without the bikes, bmx's choppers planes etc.

Live sound great - not seen much on how it is implemented though !

xboxyde I just use the openxbox360 links at the bottom of the links page below the torrents !!!!!

[Concept]

Looks like hi-res San Andreas, and we've already had that for months on the PC. The thing with Saint's Row is that it's feature set looks nowhere near as in-depth, expansive or as interesting as SA.

[Simmy]

Yeah it deffinately looks a step back from GTA SA and even VC - but I still get enjoyment out of playing GTA 3, so I'm sure I will like this.

I do fear though that once you've had choppers you can't go back