SummaryWelcome to Stilwater, a city where the streets are everything but tranquil. Divided by rivaling gangs, you’ll need to adopt savvy street smarts to build respect, make money and gain notoriety, let alone stay alive. As a member of the 3rd St. Saint’s, you need to push back against a city looking to wipe you out, in order to rise up the ranks and e... Read More
Rated Mfor Mature
Developer:Volition Inc.
Saints Row (2006)
Released On:
Aug 29, 2006
Metascore
Generally Favorable
81
User score
Generally Favorable
7.5
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
81
85% Positive
63 Reviews
63 Reviews
14% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
1% Negative
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1 Review
100
The game is the deepest and most exciting to date of all the freewheeling street shooter games. There are missions and activities galore.
90
Saint's Row has done something that "Grand Theft Auto" had never managed to do for me: the game is so over-the-top, so exaggerated, so hyperbolical, that it really makes you suspend your disbelief and just "act a fool", getting into the role of your own personalized character and becoming a gangster.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.5
59% Positive
145 Ratings
145 Ratings
34% Mixed
82 Ratings
82 Ratings
7% Negative
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
Nov 13, 2022
10
This game, this game , an amazing start for a beautiful series , it is NOT a GTA clone , the gangs , customizations , the details, damn , They Got Everything right, Definitely a 10/10
Sep 9, 2020
10
10/10 and I don't give a f*cking **** how late I am to review this dirty bastard of a masterpiece. Best game in the gangsta/crime genre you'll ever play, while the graphics are kinda dated on this game, but the ragdoll engine that SR had was leagues above any other open world crime shooter. GTA SA doesn't have f*ck all on Saints Row in any way. People, including me, calling it a GTA clone, though I never meant that in a negative way. SR did everything that GTA did 100 times better, the gangs, the story, the clothes, the jewellery the guns, the cars etc. I wish I could play it again, but I sold my 360 about 9 years ago, so there's no way. But to anybody who's interested and owns a 360 and is into crime games, this is a f*cking must.
87
The missions and activities are fun, and the shooting action is perfectly tuned. Even as a serious imitator, Saint's Row manages to transcend its plagiaristic tone and delivers a genuinely engaging experience.
80
While Saints Row won't win any awards for originality, it does manage to weave a pretty interesting story with great game play and a lot of fun activities to do.
80
Volition tries and fails to re-create GTA’s sense of style, but their attempts at humor, from the naming of the businesses to the radio commercials, just comes off as even more derivative and less-inspired than its current gen doppelganger.
75
It’s good, messy fun, even if everything but the multiplayer is “borrowed.”
22
I don't want to see anyone play this badly built junk even once, let alone own it for the "joy" of multiple playthroughs. The single player experience was so bad I refused to even try the online mode. I don't want to see anyone else go through the pain of being tempted with such an immersive experience just to have it ripped away by the shortcomings of whoever was responsible for these game-breaking glitches.
Aug 30, 2022
7
review: story: 7/10 characters: 8/10 driving: 5/10 combat: 5/10 laughs: 0/10 animations: 8/10 ragdoll: better than sr3
Feb 20, 2019
7
Wish they would remake this one. Remaster it or something, release it on all platforms, let everyone have fun with the saints. A good start of the series. Pickens approves.
Aug 23, 2023
4
Boring, repetitive, shallow and below average in every way possible. I played it out of boredom.
Apr 11, 2017
2
Voilà un GTA encloné par Volition et le résultat n'est pas des plus heureux : il en reprend les défauts comme les missions longues et chiantes sans points de passage, le manque permanent de munitions, les dialogues à la Tarantino qui se croient drôles parce qu'ils placent un fouack toutes les 15 secondes et la ville qu'on doit traverser d'un bout à l'autre pour un oui ou pour un non (et ça soûle...). Cela dit la maniabilité est dans la moyenne d'un (bon) TPS et s'avère très supérieure à celle (calamiteuse) d'un GTA mais la conduite des véhicules est en net retrait et la technique est faible : c'est moche et saccadé, tout le temps. Autre souci, bon nombre d'éléments du décor sont indestructibles et bloquent carrément le véhicule : insupportable lors des poursuites ! Si les activités sont plus originales que dans un GTA, elles sont clairement mal foutues et à l'état de brouillon mal dégrossi ; il faudra attendre les Saints Row ultérieurs pour qu'elles atteignent leur maturité ludique... tout comme l'ensemble du jeu à dire vrai : tout y est trop bancal et branlant pour prétendre faire de l'ombre au célèbre concurrent Rockstar, lequel ne pond certainement pas des chefs-d'oeuvre mais produit des simulateurs de racailles un peu moins pourris que cette copie bien veule de Volition.
