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Based on 14005 ratings
8.6
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Score Breakdown Based on 14005 ratings
  1. 10 (3339)
  2. 9 (6705)
  3. 8 (2818)
  4. 7 (604)
  5. 6 (165)
  6. 5 (88)
  7. 4 (55)
  8. 3 (31)
  9. 2 (42)
  10. 1 (158)

Most Helpful Positive Player Reviews

  • Rating:8.5

    Not just another GTA clone.

    Some info you might want to know before I get on with the review, I am about 40-50 hours in the game and beaten the main storyline. My Gamertag is ShottyOwnage You begin the game by making a custom character of your c... Read Full Review

    12 of 12 users found the following review helpful

What Gamespot Users have to say about Saints Row (2006)

  • Rating:8.5

    What looks like a GTA clone is actually a game with great potential.

    On the surface, Saints Row looks like a cheap clone of Grand Theft Auto. While this isn't entire untrue, it still has some unique features and gameplay that separates itself from GTA. In Saints Row, you are a citizen ... Read Full Review

    0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:8.5

    It's a worthy GTA-like experience!

    This is a Grand Theft Auto alike game, so you'll be familiar right away if you happen to play any of the previous iterations, and it's a very competent game on his genera. The game offers a very familiar, start from the ... Read Full Review

    0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:8.5

    Mint!

    Calling Saints Row a Grand Theft Auto knockoff is understandable and partially correct. But where I believe the comparison ends is the creativity of Saints Row over the more realistic style of the Grand Theft Auto series... Read Full Review

    0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:9

    Better Than Gta

    Ever since GTAIII I have been an avid GTA and Rockstar fan. I own em all, GTA3, San Andreas, Vice City, liberty City Stories, man even Bully. Not one has escaped the ravenous craving for terrible heartless violence, lawl... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:7.5

    Saints Row in 2012. How does it hold up?

    Saints Row is another game that follows the open world, sandbox style gameplay in the vein of the Grand Theft Auto series, and while I could just compare Saints Row to GTA for the whole review, it does some neat things o... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:7.5

    A GTA rip-off? Not completely.

    When i first played this, 2007, i thought it would be a rip off of San Andreas. To my surprise it wasnt. The concepe is to take out the other gangs in the city and thats pretty much it. San Andreas started off like that ... Read Full Review

    0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:7.5

    saints row is a good game to rent if your desperate to play a gta clone

    saints row is a good game to rent if your desperate to play a gta clone the game is not bad its fun but not the best.the missions are fun but they could off been longer and more intresting like have better shootouts like... Read Full Review

    0 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:8

    In this game it pays not to be a Saint but you may well have to get in a boat and Row to get to the place you are going.

    Saints Row like GTA is a game that has you playing a role in the street life of a city. Starting out from the low lifes you break through and help your gang to the top draw so to speak. That does not mean that both Saint... Read Full Review

    0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:8

    What initially appears to be a GTA rip-off tuns into so much more

    One look at saints row and it's clear to see that it draws it's inspiration from GTA: San andreas, in fact it might as well just come out and say it, but just because this is a cheep knock-off, dose that mean it's bad? H... Read Full Review

    0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:8.5

    An Addictive and More Fun Version of GTA That Cannot Be Put Down

    OK now this game was released in 2006, before GTA4 came along and so it was compared to the older San Andreas title for its ghetto setting and urban crime tale but as many saw Saints Row was only similar to GTA in contex... Read Full Review

    0 of 0 users found the following review helpful