Saints Row inching closer to GTA in quality? - SRIV = 86 on Metacritic!

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misterchoc90 said:

psrock said:

I'm trying to be objective here, since when is 86 close  to 98 if we are using metacritic. And Have we seen GTA5, come on now. 

I'm pretty sure GTA IV wasn't really worthy of that 98 metacritic. And something tells me that V is going to be a lot better than that boring real life simulator, but still won't reach 98. I don't really know what the reviewers were thinking when this game got 98. There are so many better games than GTA IV that don't even reach 90.

 

I assume they gave it such a high score due to its scale and detail for a sandbox game in 2008.  Comparing to other games of the time, most of them don't have the living world like GTA4. In fact, it basically gave the foundation to the sandbox trend that started with it.  Most sandbox games that followed had hijacking, guns, and the main character joining a gang/ rogue cop and missions in  same format