Agreed, I have a scathing review on Steam. Its ONLY strong point is the ability to drive wherever in a 3D world. That's it.

The quests are built on a "try again" fake difficulty a la Super Mario: try once, fail. Now you know what to do. Undergo the unskippable cutscene again, and do the thing you learned to do. And then you fail because you don't know the NEXT thing you need to do. Rince, repeat, and remember, THE CUTSCENE IS UNSKIPPABLE.

Oh, some of the music was nice.

And frankly for me, I really enjoyed Vice City, San Andreas was pretty fun, but 4 felt too damn stiff and serious, so I stopped there.

I remember playing Saints Row 2 immediately after GTA 3 and man was that ever a 1000x better game!!! I didn't get as much from SR 3 & 4 though. I hope the reboot is more like the second. And I keep wishing I could play the first without having to get an original xbox.