Kicking ninjas in the balls. Let that statement roll around in your mind for a bit. Sounds pretty cool right- Now what if I was to tell you that isn't even close to the most awesome thing you can do in this game-

Rolling down a hill shooting at cops with the final countdown playing- Check. Re-enacting your favorite Fight Club scenes in an underground… Well, fight club- Check. SPRAYING CIVILIANS AND VEHICLES WITH FECAL MATTER AS YOU DRIVE PAST-! Oh you best believe that is check!

This is without a doubt one of the most insane and hilarious games I have ever played! Combine the absolute balls-to-the-wall insanity with an actually coherent story and you have something quite special.

I will say the lack of trophies was kind of a let down, but that would just be spoiling us further. If you want a genuinely fun sandbox game, be sure to pick up Saints Row 2!

This is a game thats along the lines of GTA but you can do alot more in terms of side missions. I loving that you can just run free doing the missions in any order you like and you can mug people to. Very great game and plenty of different things to keep you interested.

Saints Row 2 has got to be undoubtedly one of the funnest games released in 2008. It has it all, funny characters, outrageous physics, fun weapons, awesome… AWESOME activities to do which are creative and depending on what genre of gaming you prefer they'll be a activity in Saints Row for you.

The story is quite nicely put together, it has some great moments and the missions that you have to do are also varied and creative. The weapons are fun to shoot, the pedestrians fun to kill xD and cops not too hard but challenging if on a higher difficulty level.

There are three different gangs and each own their own territories. They wander the streets and if you ‘accidentally’ shoot one, then more will come after you and your gang metre thing will fill up like on GTA with the police notoriety, which is also featured in this game. As you go through the story, you'll conquer more and more territories which gives you money and access to stores which you can buy for your own and gain addition money.

You have cribs (houses etc) which act as kind of safe zones where you can just mill around, replay old missions, change clothes, weapons, gang style (ninja anyone?), gang cars (the cars your gangsters drive round in), gang symbol (like how they insult people) and gang tag. You can also get a few homies to follow you (up to three by the end of the game) which is always fun to do.

The multiplayer isn't that great, just because it took far too long to get into a match. Co-op is great fun but the only downfall is it's online only. Cheats are fun too, so don't worry bout having a ‘cheat free’ game cause it's just worth using cheats! =P

Overall a brilliant overthetop game which harkens back to the good old GTA San Andreas days before they decided to go realistic. If you prefer to just have pure awesomelicious fun then get this game. It has so much content, such overthetop action and a great cast of characters that ACTUALLY have damn decent voice acting!