I am about 65% of the way through Saint's IV. Not as good as the magnificence that was Saints II, but still fantastic fun.
I can look at GTA IV objectively and know why, from a reviewers perspective, it gets more hype. GTA came first and the production values are a lot higher. But Saint's games are just ridiculous fun for me in a way that GTA games stopped being a long time ago. Its like GTA tried to become story-driven games (which is fine) but didnt get the story good enough to make the drop in gameplay fun worth it.
Saint's 1 and 2 would likely feel a bit dated now (especially 1), but I strongly advise people who want sandbox games to go back and play them anyway. You can probably pick up the first three games for absolute peanuts, and you'll get 15-25 fantastic hours out of each one.
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