I've played a huge chunk of Anarchy Reigns today.
So far, I'm in the "It's a good game" camp, so on occassion, I've seen some issues here and there...
But Saint's Row 2 is the one that has caught my attention. It's the loudest and dumbest sandbox game I've ever played. Red Dead Redemption runs circles around this game from THQ, but as a whole I prefer spending time with this one, because it's so much fun.
Presentation-wise, the game's all over the place, it might pass off as good very lookin' Playstation 2 game in high-res, there are a ton of bizarre glitches and massive slowdowns. Sometimes the audio fizzles out, other times, there are a few fingernail pulling moments that I don't understand how or why something went wrong.
But, to it's credit, the game is very satisfying, you are constantely rewarded by something missions and various odd jobs. You can spray sewage all over expensive condos, fake accidents to commit insurance fraud, cause mayhem, take hits on people, boost cars and at the same time hijack vehicles and take hostages.
You can buy luxury apartments, buy out stores so they can pay you protection money, stock up on junk food,etc,etc,etc...
Saint's Row 2 is trully the definition of Guilty Pleasure.