The co-op online, for instance, is greatly appreciated from me but I have a feeling they are going to charge me for downloadable missions as they only offer 2 to begin with. And those 2 missions can not be more different than anything in the world as one requires you to do nothing but rush through and kill people and the other makes you carry a box of goods with a teammate while trying to get through the level which I still have yet to accomplish on any difficulty. That I can handle, however, as I'll eventually get it finished but what I cant stand is how every mode lags horribly and will even kick players out. It's next to impossible to play a good game on the online mode thanks to the horrible connection. I've read that Volition says it's not really their fault. Well in a lot of gamers opinions that's a complete load of crap as the lag and connection problems are due to packet loss between players and it happens no matter who your playing with. For instance, I played with some of my usual friends I play on Live with and who I've never experienced a slight lag with even when were all hosting custom games. This was just a small group of 4 friends, the lag was horrible and we just called it quits. Sometimes the packet loss on the game isn't horrid but most of the time it makes it unbearable to play unless you adjust to it and put your faith in lady luck who, to quote Louis Logic is sadistic. More often than not you end up winning only by luck and it makes it impossible for your rank to actually count. Again the patch is supposed to fix this though so hopefully it will come and the lag will be greatly cut down and the online play will not be as huge of a let down. They will also have to offer downloadable content and hopefully not charge an arm and a leg for to improve as well as they're are really only 3 maps to play on which makes the game lacking compared to many other multi-player online games.

Overall while Saints Row has a slew of graphical negatives and a horrible online experience for the time being, the single player still is a hell of a lot of fun to play. The game is not any better than a Grand Theft Auto game for the most part but it does what it was supposed to do and challenges Rockstar to do something completely outside of the box they have built to prove that they are still king. As is, I'd say on a fun level comparing Saints Row to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Saints Row is better just because of how much more it offers in different areas. Then again looking at Saints Row to review, it's hard to give it an official rating without knowing how well the patch will be at fixing the issues. If the patch fixes some of the HDTV frame rate issues and the online play the game will be a lot better but as it is. I can only give Saints Row a 3.5 out of 5 due to its horrible online and graphical glitches even though it is by far one of the most enjoying experiences I've had in gaming in awhile due to the lack of games in this particular genre that I along with many people enjoy.