Saints Row Vs GTA

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I've only just started playing Saints Row, after completing GTAIV :eek:
I haven't played any of the previous GTA's so was wondering; Did SR nick ideas etc from GTA?
To me, if GTAIV was called Saints Row 2 I wouldn't know any difference lol.
It's so uncanny, GTAIV really seems like a polished Saints Row :confused:

(Apologise if this has been discussed before, but I'm still playing catch-up on my games)
 
saints row ripped off GTA badly

and more importantly was fun to play.

I still think its superior in a lot of ways, and i have been anticipating SR2 for ages can't wait for it tbh :)
 
Saints Row added extra's and took what was established in the GTA series. GTAIV took stuff from Saints Row and then went to serious IMHO, whilst SR2 looks like it will continue the humour and probably be better than GTAIV and be more fun gaming wise. A lot of people didn't like Saints Row and said it was a poor man's GTA but i prefered it more and still do over GTAIV so lookiing forward the SR2 even more so than GTAIV
 
ScarySquirrel said:
It would be impossible to have made SR without using ideas from GTA. They are both 3rd person open world driving/shooting games.
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Yeah I appreciate that, but I was more concerned about the small details, such as:
In car radio, GPS & waypoints, when in a Police car clicking left thumbstick activates siren (although in SR everyone seems to ignore the siren, whereas in GTAIV they get out of your way). Things like that (there were more but can't think off the top of my head).
 
Yeah Saints Row did pretty much build a GTA clone. But to be honest, when your entering the world of third person, open world gang warfare... your always going to be called a GTA clone.

Like McManicMan said, Saints Row pretty much took everything that GTA did in GTA3, GTA:VC and GTA:SA and expanded on it. It did a lot of things better, and introduced a lot of new features as well.

It aimed to bring the genre back to a fun, humorous style again. With Saints Row 2, they haven't been scared to knock Rockstar for how serious and realistic they've taken the GTA series.

Unfortunately, because it got labelled as a GTA clone... many of the "hardcore" gamers never even bothered picking it up, or played it for 5 minutes and instantly decided it was crap.

For those people who liked GTA for the attraction of running around blowing things up and driving real fast without the fear of missing your favourite TV show... then Saints Row 2 should be back to what this genre is all about :)

I think the SR2 trailer said it best itself...
"Would you rather watch TV in a game that your playing.... on your TV?...
Or would you rather push somebody in front of a moving train, grab a bazooka blow up half of the city your in on a drunken rampage, steal a tank and blow up the other half then crash a super car at 150mph into a hooker?"

Honestly, I don't see any reason why GTA and SR can't live side by side... GTA IV's long term appeal this year seemed to die after you completed about 80% of the game unfortunately - and it isn't as easy to jump into a Single Player game and just blow things up any more.... which surely was 90% of the fun?
 
It's an obvious GTA clone. It's obvious that it was designed as a GTA clone.

It added a lot of features that the GTA3 games were missing - notably multiplayer. However, I always thought it was missing the finesse and originality of GTA. Wandering around Liberty City is breath-taking and I never got that same feeling playing Saints Row.

Lots of people liked it though and it's available cheap.
 
Tunney said:
It added a lot of features that the GTA3 games were missing - notably multiplayer. However, I always thought it was missing the finesse and originality of GTA. Wandering around Liberty City is breath-taking and I never got that same feeling playing Saints Row.
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That is true, the first Saints Row was touted as the "First GTA-style game on Next-Generation consoles!" when it came out... it certainly didn't give you an awe factor that GTAIV did.

Saints Row's graphics are more comparable to San Andreas really, even though they're a console generation apart!

I don't think SR was ever intended to really make you want to stand around a look at the game-world though :p
 
wow epic post nikebee, nice one ;)
I am looking forward to SR2 even more after playing SR, I just hope they sort the graphics out and make it as pretty as GTAIV - to me SR looks more like a Xbox title than a 360 title.
17th October is quiet a while away, so hopefully THQ have looked at the competion (no doubt after their brilliant trailer) and taken on board what they need to do ;)
 
Saints Row was a lot of fun and apart from some obvious graphic problems was a good game with emphasis on fun like GTA once was, whereas GTA seems to be going more in the direction of a gangster lifestyle simulator which is a bad thing imo.
 
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RichieM said:
:eek: :confused:

D&A Optician are doing half price eye tests atm dude, get yourself down there :p

(Granted it would look nice for a Xbox title but not a 360!)
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Actually on its release it did look pretty good, it was a launch title wasn't it?

If you play SR after a session on GTAIV though, it's quite impressive how different they look.
 
I can't believe people are comparing the graphics to SA?! :O
I thought SR looked really good and I've enjoyed it considerably more than GTA4.
 
I think GTAIV's problem was it didn't want to copy some ideas off a GTA clone. SR had some exellent side missions. The hooker runs, insurance jobs. Another big factor was the gang side of things. Wander into the wrong neighbourhood or kill the wrong person and you were in trouble.

Don't get me wrong, i thought GTA4 was a brilliant game. The cinematics, graphics and sound were amazing, but it just didn't feel like a GTA game.
 
At release Saints Row looked very nice, you can't seriously compare it to SA, graphics wise.
I'm of the opinion that you make your own fun in games like this, for me, Saints Row was more fun to play than GTA IV.
 
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