well i still have to finish saints row 2 but i doubt my opinion will change much after the ending...
...so what i think of the game? i got cheated by it in the same ways i got cheated by darksiders,people talked about the game "like gta but fun!" but instead i got "like gta but like gta!" personaly i don't like the game for the same reason i never liked gta that much,i'm not a fan of the drive and gun gameplay,i don't like how the music consist of a bunch of random selected licensed piece's and everytime a cutscene starts inside a strip club i feel like the game is being "ehy look at me! i'm edgy and trying to end up on some cheap news bulletin about enraged soccer moms!"
that said,i think it plays better,car have more arcadey controls,if the cops gets you the game don't just declare "BUSTED!!!" and proceed to remove all your weaponry,missions have checkpoint....
the side activities are also really fun,especialy when compared to the awful side jobs of gta (though it's not like this game doesn't feature any crappy taxi/ambulance side mission

) and i like how you get tons of cool reward like reduced damage and extra ammo but there are also tons of stinker (like septic avenger... no pun intended!)
i had fun in some bits and it's not like the lame bits were bad but i can't help but think i should have got crackdown instead
that said while the game has a definite lacks of whimsy barring some visual gags (like being able to turn every gang member into a ninja) i have to say it
i love how the game makes constantly fun of him,when he switch radio to some cheesy 80 pop music and the main character goes "i didn't know you grow a vagina!" i smirked like an idiot,now that was clever and funny
anyway next up i want to pick something japanese... i'm really weighting toward something like infinite undiscovery but i'll hear someone who can make a convincing argument about why i should give a try to any musou game