This date will try to be like GTA even though she will try to tell you differently....

User Rating: 7 | Saints Row 2 PS3
I like it, but I don't always like it; its funny, but its not always funny. I am not sure what this game is trying to be, and i am not sure if it knows either. Its a GTA clone, but tries to be wackier, but maybe its not wacky enough to justify existing in a GTA dominated world?
But overall it keeps me coming back. Bargain bin this, the one saving grace I have not tried is multiplayer, I think playing together in the same world would be a hoot! And the cell phone cheat codes keep this fun like in GTA, basically this game is mediocre, but it makes me maybe excited for what Saints Row 3 will be? it just needs to make more of an identity for itself than "A GTA that takes itself less seriously".

It just makes me think "why not just play GTA instead of SR2?". And to a point I have to stick with that, why not just play the better version of this game? GTA 4 had its flaws, but it was still game of the year material. This game not so much. Some jokes are great, some mini missions are great. But some are so cliche and written poorly, and some are just boring or straight GTA rip offs that you will not want to keep playing. Also there are a lot of bugs.... Guys disappearing, my guys killing targets that need to stay alive so i lose the mission, wardrobe changes freezing up my machine over and over, missions not producing the targets I need to kill - so they last forever..... And I have had to play a few missions over again due to some weird save issues.

I also felt some deaths were cheap (guys teleporting behind you, my bullets not killing them, etc), and the checkpoints often have you do a whole section over again if you mess up. Without entering cheats, i felt i had a lot of unfun time wasting deaths. And dying out of a mission sends you out of the way to a hospital where you have to hoof it kinda far. So that's why i say this is "hard". i mean you will never lose at the game, no game over. But it can be frustrating without cheats.....