I'm playing Saint's Row 2 and it's pretty awesome. You can pick and create your own character for story. Pick sex type, build, customize the personality to a extent, and of course jewelery, clothing, etc. Keeps a level of old arcardy feel and has a ton of in-game cheats like San Andreas. Can save a customize seemingly endless amounts of cars. Hell you can even buy music and customize a radio station. You get to customize houses you buy also.
Got to say they beat GTA in customizations easily. Game play as I said is more San Andreas, with a little level of an arcardy feel. Which is a plus over GTA 4 more realistic sim. Storyline is alright, don't have a preference over either.
I got to admit I'm having fun time with Saint's Row 2, probably better then GTA 4.
What is you guys opinion on these two series?