[XBOX 360 Deel 113] Saint's Row a Train Blowing

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Op maandag 17 juli 2006 14:21 schreef Retuobak het volgende:

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Jep, ik wacht ook eerst de reviews af. Temeer omdat de eerste impressies van de demo ook weer niet laaiend zijn:
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Op maandag 17 juli 2006 11:02 schreef gijsje79 het volgende:

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Nee alleen player match.
Ranked match kan je ook aanmaken maar er kunnen geen vrienden in.
Hoop op een patch.

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Op maandag 17 juli 2006 13:15 schreef NX het volgende:

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Je hebt grotendeels gelijk, ik zeg ook niet dat je ongelijk hebt,

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Op maandag 17 juli 2006 14:33 schreef -Dries- het volgende:

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Op maandag 17 juli 2006 14:56 schreef RichyRich het volgende:
Zet ik gisteren mijn xbox aan, is opeens mijn profiel weg. Gewoon foetsie. Ook in de games kan ik niks meer terug vinden.
Iemand die dit probleem meer heeft gezien/gehad?
Ik zag wel het knopje 'recover gamertag'. Ik heb dit geprobeerd (ook al was de waarschuwing dat ik al mijn save games kwijt zou zijn), maar tijdens het recoveren krijg ik een error dat het profiel niet kan worden opgeslagen...terwijl ik een hd heb en daar zit nog zat ruimte op. Demo's downloaden en op andere profielen saven kan nog prima.

Ik was net zo ver met...nou ja eigenlijk alles

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Op maandag 17 juli 2006 14:46 schreef NX het volgende:

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Wat snap je daar niet aan?

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Op maandag 17 juli 2006 14:21 schreef Retuobak het volgende:

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Jep, ik wacht ook eerst de reviews af. Temeer omdat de eerste impressies van de demo ook weer niet laaiend zijn:
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Okay, you guys can call me your official savior.

Went to ToysRUs in Times Square (it's a madhouse! it's like a zoo...only there are kids instead of chimpanzees) took me 20 minutes to find an available person, asked a worker, and viola! Saints Row demo.

Now for the extras.

The trailer sucks. It's like they show the whole game in slowdown. The theme and pics are good, and they are free, the best part.
I didn't watch the interview yet, so I can't say.

Now for the real meat and potatoes: the game

I only completed 2 missions. I've been basically experimenting with the game. (i.e: explodng cars 100 times) and I gotta say: the physics are SICK!!! (yep, better than Full Auto's)
The parts literally explode all over the place. Tires, bumpers, everything! Also, if you standnear the car after it explodes, you catch on fire. (since the car is on fire) and the animation is hilarious. It's only a couple seconds, but LEAGUES better than GTA's.
Car handling is very good. It feels quasi Full Auto/PGR3. Its impressive, especially for a free-roam game. 10x better than Driv3r, or True Crime. It has a great sence of speed, so you don't feel like you're driving Grandma's old Beetle when you're driving a Porshe.

Combat is pretty good, and amazingly good for a sandbox game. You can right jab, left jab, and kick. (I always kick since I always get a kick from the animations. Corny, aint it?) It works really well. Stabing annimations suck, tho. Baseball bat is where it's at. It gives you a nice 'whack' feeling when hitting it.
Shooting is just like The Punisher without the bullet-time. (which the developer happened to make) It really works well. I did a fair amount of headshots and it's real easy to get the hang of. Car shooting is just like Full Auto with alot less spunk. It's good, but it gets some time to get used to.

One thing that has irritated me with every game in existence is that no one EVER falls out of a car through the windshield. Guess what? In Saint's Row you can. It's hilarious when it happens, too. Kinda cartoonish, but you can't help but to laugh when you ram someone and the guy flies out of the car yelling 'Ahhhhhh!!!' Oh, that brings me to the game's surprising attraction: Humor.

It's sicker then GTA:San Andreas will ever be. They are straight out about it.. (No double meanings. A guy will say' Argh. Now I'm gonna be late to the stripper club!'')
I luvv it. I can't say all of the little lines, but they are dark humor, and it's all real great stuff. I didn't expect that all.

To those who want to know: There are drugs and alcohol in the game. I don't know how helpful they are, but each has it's own thing to them. (ike booze will make the screen blury)

You can eat in the game also. didn't try it yet, but I ate this dead guy's candybar. (yes, they drop money, weapons, AND FOOD!) (also there is a fast food esturant in the game)

You can swim in the same, but it's used just to make sure you don't drown. You can't jump or anything when swimming, but you can press Y to go on land. I don't know why it works like that,, but at least you don't drown...

The demo has only 2 radio stations, and there's like only one song in each and they are crap. I won't judge it by that because it's obviously limited by the demo.

One reeely nice touch is that if you pass by the car, you hear the music playing! Sick stuff...
The demo is pretty big. It's about 1/2 the size of Staunton Island, which is pretty big for a demo. I'd say that the game is AT LEAST 2.5x the size of Vice City. It looks like a really big metropolis. I love it. (and there's also a nice portion of the map that seems shaded out or some reason. Either it was cut form the game or you have to explore the game to get to it.)

The story seems pretty good so far. It actually looks surprisingly engaging. It's no San Andreas, but it's better than True Crime. (dragon kung-fu detective levels. WTF?!?!)

The city itself is very much alive and full of pedestrians. I just love eavesdropping on pedestrians. Also a nice touch is tat when you shoot a gun, people will react diffrently. Some will run at full speed, some will stare, some will cheer on, and the rest will run on their own pace. What I mean by 'own pace' is that the person, while running might trip, might waggle their arms wildly, and for women, might run in a stereotypical fashion. (i.e: very girlish)
Also, random stuff happens all the time, like a guy will run over pedestrians all the time.
People actially read newspapers in the game. Yep, an actual article. lolll
Also you'll enconter funny quirky pedestrians. (i.e: there was this old grandma walking crippled, so I shot her, and she started to attacking me ruthlessly! Funny sh!t)

In the game, you'll hear cursing ALOT. (like all the time)

I reeely nice touch: Dead pedestrians don't disappear. (though cars do)
There are plenty of cars in the game as well. I never once found a hard time finding one. One thing to point out: Drivers are VERY aggressive..almost New York agressive. (almost) They won't wait forever to steal a car like GTA. It you don't steal it with like 4 seconds, they'll just go around you.

Draw-distance is amazingly good for a Sandmox game. It's not FarCry, but it beats the hell out of Oblivion (pop-up grass FTW) No pop-up whatsoever, which is why I made the Oblivion comparison.

If it wouldn't be for the 3 big following complaints, I'd rate this better than GRAW...but here goes the bad:

Framerate: In-game, it's not so bad. Kinda like Oblivion. What is really bad is cutscenes. Have you ever played Advent Rising before? Remember the really low framerate cutscenes? THAT bad. i hope it's just the demo, but it really takes away from the game. Also, no cutscene sinking with the audio. (there is a couple of second gap) Like I said, it's probably the demo, ut something to watch for when it ships.

Police Warrent Meter: Maybe it's because i don't know how it works too well, but it seems like it's like Simpsons:Hit & Run, which is definetally NOT a good thing. It takes a while for a cop to catch you. Then AFTER you kill the police officer, more cops might not come back if no cop cars come to pass you within the next couple minutes. I never got into a chase sequence once in playing this game for 2 hours, and I ran over ALOT of people. If someone has an explanation why this happens, please say so because it bugging me out like crazy.

Health meter: Look, For COD2 and Halo, regenerating health rules, but in a GTA-type game, it kinda makkes you invincible as long as you stay away from your enemies for long enough.

If it wouldn't be for these 3 major quibbles, I'd give the demo a 10, but now I'd settle for an 8. I just hope the game isn't affected too much from the problems mentioned above.

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Op maandag 17 juli 2006 15:12 schreef MMaRsu het volgende:

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Dude, je bent echt erg, anders neem je ff de 3 negatieve punten af van een erg lovende impressie .

Hier is de rest :
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Op maandag 17 juli 2006 15:12 schreef MMaRsu het volgende:

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Dude, je bent echt erg, anders neem je ff de 3 negatieve punten af van een erg lovende impressie .

Hier is de rest :
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Op maandag 17 juli 2006 15:28 schreef MMaRsu het volgende:
Van wat ik heb gelezen is de demo een iets oudere build en dan hoop ik dat het wat erger zal zijn in de full versie .

En tja als dat niet zo is is het jammer, maar dan ga ik wel wat winkels overvallen, dan komen ze wel achter je aan

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Op maandag 17 juli 2006 15:29 schreef jorienvdherik het volgende:
Kan niet wachten op de demo, ik ga naar Amerika toe

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Op maandag 17 juli 2006 15:31 schreef Tain het volgende:

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Tis afwachten op de volledige versie idd

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+Great graphics (lighting, textures etc look great.)
+stable framerate (couple hiccups here and there but no serious issues)
+fluid control (better than GTA)
+awesome physics(never gets old)
+great audio (lots of dialog and good tunes)
+good voice acting and entertaining cutscenes
+great variety of vehicles, dialog, and city looks accurate

-Enemy A.I (I havent seen more than two cops show up and when they do they are barely a threat) I hope this is not an issue with the final version

EDIT*After running over hundreds of people and not seeing much of cops, I robbed a store and then they got agressive. They always tried to stay behind cover and acted like real policemen! So once you get two stars, which is pretty difficult to do unless you rob a store, you wont have much heat from cops.

-tearing in cutscenes. Fortunetly, I have not noticed any during gameplay, but on the cutscenes its heavy.

Other than that, the core gameplay is awesome, and much more polished than GTA has ever been. If they can get a hefty single player and multiplayer down, than your looking at a GTA killer. I have never played a "GTA Ripoff" as some call it, that presented such a threat to the GTA series like Saints Row.

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Op maandag 17 juli 2006 15:40 schreef MMaRsu het volgende:
Ja maar jij vind de game toch al niks, en de meeste mensen hier gaan de game toch wel tof vinden

Hier nog een demo impressie
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EDIT*After running over hundreds of people and not seeing much of cops, I robbed a store and then they got agressive. They always tried to stay behind cover and acted like real policemen! So once you get two stars, which is pretty difficult to do unless you rob a store, you wont have much heat from cops.

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Op maandag 17 juli 2006 15:40 schreef MMaRsu het volgende:
Ja maar jij vind de game toch al niks

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Op maandag 17 juli 2006 15:45 schreef Tain het volgende:

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Dat mogen ze echt wel een stuk beter voor elkaar hebben in de final versie

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Op maandag 17 juli 2006 15:52 schreef MMaRsu het volgende:
En ik gebruik in SA meestal auto's of motoren, zelden iets anders