[quote name='option.iv']I recently got Saints Row 2 as well and have to agree with you. SR2 is just more genuinely fun than the grayish GTAIV. Though I'll have to give GTAIV the multiplayer aspect, SR2 seems to be riddled with glitches and it's hard to get a multiplayer game going these days.[/quote]
I was trying to find a fellow CAG with Mercs 2 for the longest time to do some co-op time in the game with. Some of the missions in that game just ramp up the difficulty to an insane level, plus the glitches don't help either.
For example, the one really hard mission where you have to defend a church against an onslaught by tanks and troops from every direction, I was defending a smoldering ruin for 60-80% of the mission the one time and waiting for the mission to end because of the destruction of the church.
My progress only ended once a tank hit me with a shell while I was skulking around inside of the destroyed church.
About the only thing I really wish R* would've added to GTAIV via a patch was the ability to base jump from buildings in the game. I mean, why have things like the Rotterdam Tower when all you can do is walk around the top of it and go 'look at the view'.
Admittedly, it's a hell of a place to have a final standoff for a Cops & Crooks game, assuming the cops could get attack choppers from the helitours on souther Algonquin and come flying up Apocalypse Now style in formation and take out the crooks perched atop the building.