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Original von IGN
So here we go. When you create a character in the single-player game using the hefty creation feature, you can bring him online via Xbox Live. But none of the cool bling you accumulate in the single-player game carries over. You start out in a basic outfit and earn cooler and cooler gear and bling as you spend more time online and kill people. You can immediately tell which player is good at Saints Row because he looks like a freaking baller. From the lobby, you will choose one of six gamemodes that will support 12 online players. There will be a clan-like system where you form your own gangs -- just choose your color.

There's the obligatory, every-man-for-himself deathmatch as well as six-on-six team deathmatch. Then there's Protect the Pimp, a team-based game in which one team has to escort a pimp to a designated part of the city; the other team is charged with killing said pimp. The player-controlled pimp carries only a cane and is dressed outrageously and walks with pimp-like swagger. The cane is used as a melee weapon and is one-shot-one-kill.

Big Ass Chains is a game mode in which every player starts out with a gold bling chain. When you are killed, your chain falls to the ground and the other player steals it, so he has two chains. You can kill a bunch of people and load up on chains, but if you are killed before reaching the jewelry store, you lose all of your chains. The goal is to sell the chains for points, and the player that reaches a designated score first wins.

Bling my ride! Then blow it up.

Bling My Ride is a driving based game in which you have to protect your tricked-out ride from other gangsters. At the same time, you try to destroy enemy tricked-out-rides and with each hit, the value of the car decreases.

Obviously there's a lot of replay value in these modes if they prove to be fun. The idea of a persistent character in this genre is a good one, and we like the idea of bling and clothes acting as a walking, in-game leaderboard.