Does anybody find it disappointing there is no GTAIV style multiplayer mode, for instance free play where you have the whole island to mess around in with 8+ people.

Nope, it was never there to begin with nor announced or even speculated to be.
 
Saint's doing what it does best, but we can only hope they will up it to 4 players the next generation.

Nope.  I never ever found that fun.   I honestly don't even want to play Coop.   I like playing solo and thats it.

I think a game as crazy as Saints would have benefited from the free roam mp of GTAIV.

When I play Saint's Row it's just me and my Penetrator.

GTAIV

there was MP in SR2 it was ok. shame that co-op was not 4 players though

@Napalm said:

@Hizang said:

GTAIV

What are you, trolling?

No, I really enjoyed GTAIV's free play multiplayer mode, it would be awesome if Saints Row The Third had this also.

I would also like to say I really did not like GTAIV.

Unless they made some hugely substantial improvements to the engine over SR2, I can't comprehend how anywhere near 8 players on the same map could be possible. I remember specifically a mission on a boat from SR2 where the framerate dropped to approximately 8 FPS. This was a mainline story mission. In any case, I found 2 to be quite fun and am looking forward to "the third".

Unless they made some hugely substantial improvements to the engine over SR2, I can't comprehend how anywhere near 8 players on the same map could be possible. I remember specifically a mission on a boat from SR2 where the framerate dropped to approximately 8 FPS. This was a mainline story mission. In any case, I found 2 to be quite fun and am looking forward to "the third".

Nah, I'm good without it. 2 player cooperative griefing is perfect all on its own.

I think the GTA multiplayer was really underrated, the free roam stuff would be awesome in saints

I miss the Saints Row 2 multiplayer mode.

I'm just happy they didn't fuck up the coop. I played the entire thing in coop and had a blast.
 
The only real downside was the Johnny stuff, and how much shorter and smaller the game was compared to 2.

the co op lets you play freely doesnt it not,

thats how i remember saints row 2 ,

but no its not 16 players,

@Napalm: that's not the section I'm talking about, there was a mission where you had to take control of a ship while gang members arrived by boat and helicopter. I was only able to get through the section by hiding in a small room and letting the engines come to me because with all the enemies onscreen the framerate was embarrassingly low. I couldn't believe it made it into the shipping game. The mission was called "the enemy of my enemy"

@Napalm: that's not the section I'm talking about, there was a mission where you had to take control of a ship while gang members arrived by boat and helicopter. I was only able to get through the section by hiding in a small room and letting the engines come to me because with all the enemies onscreen the framerate was embarrassingly low. I couldn't believe it made it into the shipping game. The mission was called "the enemy of my enemy"

@Napalm: Yeah, I could tell it would have been fun if it hadn't been basically a slideshow. You weren't by any chance on PS3 were you? I played on 360.

No never played GTA IV MP, don't care.