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Better than GTA4
Just like the GTA but better, yes thats right it is better than all the GTA games. This game is so much fun, its not repetative, its not easy but its also not too difficult to play, my favorite 360 game so far, this game is awsome!

Good, but a little on the repetetive side….
This is one of those games for the first 6 hours your just like man this is fun. Then you play for a little while longer, and your like, havent I already done this. Saint’s Row doesnt really bring anything groundbreaking to the table, but is fun until Gta 4. The game focuese more on gangs then actual crime, like the gta series. That doesnt mean its bad its just not that great. If you need a game to tide you over until Gta, then this is probably your best bet.

overall 6.5-7.0

Welcome to the row, Saint’s Row!
In this game, your imagination is the game. This was the best sandbox game in the next-generation, until GTA 4 came out. Back to saints, it is a foul-mouth, gritty, violent game that is a good clone of GTA. If you are trying to decide which game to get, I would say do this: get Saints Row now(cheap price)play it, and in a few months you can get GTA4 when its cheaper. I had a lot of fun with this game, hope you do too.

The best Grand Theft Auto rip-off ever!
Saint’s Row is a game that is a blantant rip-off of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, from everything right down to the way you steal cars out from people driving them on the street. But make no mistake: This isn’t some rushed piece of garbage simply set out to make money off the GTA franchise. It has a little bit of TLC put into it by the game developers, as well.

Similarities to GTA:

-You can do storyline and free roaming missions

-steal and customize cars

-participate in Turf Wars taking over neighborhoods for your gang

-customize your main character

-wield a large variety of guns

-listen to a large variety of music

-and generally play the game however way you want.

Enhancements over GTA:

-Much superior graphics

-better map

-a GPS system for your maps and vehicles

-customizable cell phone, with allies you can call for backup

-customizable music playlists (in case you get sick of the randomness of the radio stations and want to hear your music anywhere, anytime)

-the hands-down BEST car customization in any non-racing video game, ever!

-health items (food) you can access anytime

-self-regenerating health that heals up from about-to-die to full health in about one minute or so

-superior firearms (albeit none of them look very unique)

-a slightly better menu interface to access your firearms (I just wish they hadn’t put the food and weapons in the same system; it gets confusing)

-the police are the most minor threat in the game

-public transportation is available to you (although you more than likely will never use it)

-if you find yourself stuck in water, you can skip having to swim to shore with the “warp” feature, which will do that for you. Pretty cool feature! Why aren’t things like that in other games?

-shooting style & difficulity are fair (The shot target is in the fixed-center of the screen and you move the camera to aim, but it’s a little harder to use then in GTA)

-both men, AND women, can be recruited as allies in your gang, or killed in other gangs. Hurray for murder equality!

-celebrity voice acting (I instantly recognized Mila Kunis as Tanya and Michael Rapaport as Troy)

Worse from GTA:

-No bikes or motorcycles to ride which is diaspointing

-no boats or planes either (not that they’re really needed here)

-character can barely swim

-only one safehouse in the entire city/game

-clothes choices are lame and uninspired

-despite the good voice acting, the dialogue is terrible and it sounds like it was written by the whitest people on the planet (shades of “187: Ride or Die”)

-an excessive overuse of cursing (if you’re going to use it in every other word, it’s impact and gravitas is completely lost)

-the A.I. is stupid, and the enemy gangs have that “random spawning” effect whenever you have a “wanted level” by them

-it’s mandatory to do the side missions as you have to earn “respect” in order to do the main storyline missions, and respect is only gained from the side missions

-many of the side missions are hard or just plain annoying, like the later level Escort missions

-your character, although he has great stamina, has terrible running animation, and trying to shoot while running just looks retarded.

-the prices of things are way too high/too much (if you’re just staring off and haven’t saved up any cash, a fifty dollar hamburger may be a bit much). I’d prefer them if they kept them at “real-world” prices.

-the “humor” of the game is just weak and lacks any level of subtlety whatsoever, like the Wendy’s burger chain parody, “Freckle B*tch’s” for example

-the radio stations are horribly put together, and their names are awful, too.

-the music is generic and lame, and there’s only a few “name brand” artists contributing to the game’s soundtrack. Mainly, the Clipse and Twista.

-there’s no difficulity setting and the main missions in the game are a bit too easy (while the side missions are often too hard)

-the “escape the police” method in this game is weak and lame. It’s a drive-thru confessional booth, not that you’ll ever really need to use it. I never even been in “Forgive and Forget” before.

-your recruited allies are complete idiots and you’ll spend more time than anything reviving them because they rushed headlong into a dozen or so shooting enemies. They’re more of a hassle to use than any kind of help, sort of like bringing young children along for grocery shopping.

-it’s pretty easy to die in situations that don’t call for it. Your health bar, despite it’s regeneration, can’t take much damage and a few shots from two or more enemies can take you from full health to death pretty quickly. Like, in three seconds quickly. This is darn frustrating and happens A LOT in the stupid Pushback missions that pop up randomally that you can’t avoid skipping over.

-there’s NO Body Armor, anywhere in this game, which only adds on to the annoying “easy to die” problem I mentioned above.

-the randomally popping up, mandatory “defend your turf against invading gangs” Pushback Missions. They were just as random and annoying in San Andreas and they’re even more annoying here. What’s worse is, in order to successfully defend your turf, you’ll have to seek out special “lieutenants” instead of just killing everybody in sight. And these 12 or so lieutenants tend to hide out in weird, hard-to-reach places, and you’ll have to make your way through dozens of enemies, risking your life, just to make your way to them. It was easier in GTA when you just had to kill everybody invading your land. Here, you’ll literally be in an urban battlefield going against dozens of enemies, making your way to one of the four spots in the area your enemy lieutenats are at. (they only hang out three at a time and are scattered wide across the entire neighborhood warzone.) The worse thing about these missions are that they’re more or less mandatory, and you won’t have time to save whenever they pop up, and they’ll pop up often after JUST completing a really hard mission or side quest. At least in San Andreas, it was fun to do these missions, partly because they were do in intervals and all you had to do is be the last man standing. Here, they’re just a REALLY annoying chore.

-each gun has it’s own set of bullets, making it hard to get ammo. In other games like GTA, bullets are shared between guns of similar types (universal pistol ammo, universal shotgun ammo, etc.), but here, each gun is different with it’s own unique bullets in them, and you can only have one gun type (pistol, shotgun, etc.) at a time. BUT, because you can’t use ammo from other guns, that you’ll often find off of dead bodies, you’ll constantly be having to decide whether to swap your gun that’s low on ammo out for the one of a gang member you just shot. If so, you’ll quickly run of of ammo for that, too. If not, you’ll just have an empty gun on you. And thus, you’ll be deciding which gun you have that is more fuel efficent, quite often in heavily heated turf wars or in missions with tons of enemies to kill. What’s worse is every single gangster carries different random guns on them. If the Vice Kings just all had Vice pistols and the Carnales had a different pistol type they all shared, it’d be a lot simplier. But, no, every time you kill someone, it’s “do I run out of ammo, or pick this up instead, even though it only has five more bullets in it than the one I already have?” Basically, you’ll easily use up all the ammo for whichever gun you have and will have to replace it for another gun (which only has a few bullets in it) and back and fourth like so. (In other words: YOU’RE *ALWAYS* RUNNING OUT OF AMMO!)

Overall, Saint’s Row is a worthy edition to the GTA genre of video games. Although it’s a rip-off, in every sense of the word, it’s defintely not of inferior quality. In fact, Saint’s Row is even better than most of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The game, at it’s core is nice, but what really bogs it down are the minor negatives, which as you can see, really begin to add up. The game is much better than Three Stars, but all these little things keep it from being Five Star worthy. Other than the numerous minor flaws, the only problem is the story, which is pretty lame and generic, and the script, which is just laughably cheesy in it’s attempt to sound “urban” or “gangsta” or “hip hop” or whatever. San Andreas’ dialogue and script felt 100% genuine. Saint’s Rows, however, sounds forced, like they were too lazy to do their research and just decided to “wing it.”

It would be easy to just make a Grand Theft Auto clone that’s pretty bad (True Crime has proved that, for us). It would also be pretty easy to try to make your own game, using many of the famous GTA elements involved (I.E, CrackDown). But Saint’s Row, however, is a true Grand Theft Auto imitation, that manages not to photocopy the game, but use it as a worthy starting off point for their own series. I like mostly everything in this game, and the only real things keeping it from being superior to every GTA game ever made on the older consoles, is it’s cheesy dialogue, numerous small annoyances, it’s and cheesy writing, and lame attempts to be “funny.”

Other than that, Saint’s Row is a worthy duplication of the “sandbox shooting and driving” genre created by GTA itself, and it definitely deserves to be played, even if only as a week-long rental, by ANY Grand Theft Auto fan.

SAINT’S ROW IS AWESOME
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Customer Reviews:
awesome
Heavy duty and long enough that i will never need another cable again!

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Customer Reviews:
Not a toy, an experience
I purchased this for my 6 year old’s 7th birthday. We followed the directions, he went to it everyday and watched the caterpillars amazing transformation from tiny caterpillars to very large, to cocoon, to baby beautiful butterflys. The experience was amazing for all of us. We bought him an age appropriate book to read. He learned so much!!! As did we from him.

This is an awesome family oriented craft. Follow the directions, don’t put your catepillars where they will get bumped in to. And watch with amazement, mother nature at work.

We’ll be purchasing new butterfly larvae in the Spring of 09!!!!

Great Learning Experience for my Son and Me!
This product delivered just as promised! I expected to get dead caterpillars or something lame. Nope! Once I mailed off the enclosed card for live caterpillars, they arrived in a week or less!

We are in the pupa stage now and are awaiting our beauties!

Great product! And you can re-use the net part. Just go buy some dill at the herb store! I did and had 14 little fellas! (ps they look like specks of dirt at first!) Be sure to buy LOTS of dill, as these guys will double in size daily!

Awesome
This is an awesome toy. We gave it as a birthday present with a read and find out book about butterflies. This was an awesome and unique gift that was really educational and fun for the kids.

Live Butterfly Garden
I bought this for my grandson who absolutely loved it. The one thing I didn’t notice is that I had to send out for the catepillars which arrived very soon after I ordered them. Right now they have turned to chrysalides and are hanging down in the butterfly house. He is anxiously waiting for them to turn into butterflies. It is such a wonderful learning experience, not only for my grandson, but the whole family as well. A great product.

Dorothy

My daughters favorite Birthday gift….
By far one of the most fun and educational products and just simply amazing to watch the transformation of metamorphosis. This teaches the child patience as well as it takes several weeks for the changes to take place. I bought this for my 4 year old daughters B-day and my son who is 3, loved it just as much as his sister. The butterflies emerged on Memorial day weekend so I put the butterflies on the kids fingers and they loved it and then we sadly said goodbye and let them go free. We received 6 caterpillars and all of them emerged completely and fully even though some fell and just lay in the bottom. We bought this along with the book “From Caterpillar to Butterfly”. I would rate this 10 stars if I could.