Saints Row is a massive, open-ended action/adventure game set in the city of Stilwater. There’s the Westside Rollerz, who like to race riced-out rides, The Vice Kings, who have a lock on the local music scene, Los Carnales, who control the city’s drug trade, and finally your own gang, the 3rd Street Saints, whose leader, Julius, has all the aspirations of a ghetto Caesar. Helping the Saints spread their neighborhood empire is you, a.k.a. Playa, a nameless, eerily silent, newly-initiated gang member. Other than forcing you to be male, the game lets you look like anyone you want with a versatile player creator. In a move that should terrify anti-video game nut jobs, the player creator is robust enough that you can create a remarkably accurate avatar of your real-life gamer self. As much as you may like C.J. in San Andreas, running around and wreaking havoc in your own shoes is as uncanny as it is satisfying. Give yourself a pat on the back. And no matter who you are, you’ll fit right into the Saints, because it’s a politically-correct, multi-ethnic Starship Voyager of a gang with men and women of all races delivering random acts of violence with equal color-blindness. Saints Row sounds great. The engines, guns, shrieks and explosions are music to my evil ears, and the voice actors are all quite good (including some celebrities like Mila Kunis from That 70's Show), although you have no voice yourself and simply take orders in stony silence. Heavy on the hip-hop and (oddly) classical music, the game’s soundtrack is absolutely enormous and you can buy more songs and customize your playlist by going to the game’s many music stores. Saints Row also has a few multiplayer modes including the basic Deathmatch and a variation on capture the flag (called "Big Ass Chains"), there’s Protect Tha Pimp, which works like a Counter-Strike VIP mission, and Blinged Out Ride, where you must collect cash and chains to pimp your gang’s ride. Best of all you can form online gangs (clans) and fight other gangs for cred, making Saint’s Row one of few titles with a built-in clan rankings system.

Review taken from Game Revolution. Though i took out a few parts because they claim its just another imitator of GTA. I disagree