alms24sebring wrote:meh..
GTA > Saints Row
Saints row IS GTA. More specifically, it's what GTA used to be. Even more specifically, it's the best of what GTA was before it started to suck. GTA 1 through San Andreas had a satirical sense of humor and knew how to laugh at themselves and the world. GTA IV forgot that and decided to be "gritty" and serious instead. It sucked. Easily the worst GTA title of all. Multiplayer was fun for a while, but even that got old.
Saints Row brought back the early GTAs' sense of humor and over-the-topness. But SR2 is where they struck gold. The entire story mode can be played cooperatively and cheats are not disabled in multiplayer. There are so many more ways to screw around with the world in SR2 than in GTAIV. Leaning out of a limo and firing a rocket at a helicopter while a friend drives and fires his machinegun out his window at an enemy vehicle? Pure gameplay enjoyment gold.
What made GTA great was never the story, it was the world the game provided. Saints Row knows that. The story is merely a delivery device for the gameplay and never lets itself get in the way of the fun.
GTA IV was only fun in multiplayer, and its expansions were each more terrible than their predecessor.