Saints Row (360)

Yes, its attempts to be cool and urban are teeth-grindingly awful.

And its attempts to be funny are buttock-clenchingly horrible.

It's a GTA clone with none of the wit, imagination or intelligence of Rockstar's masterpiece in terms of script or world.

But at its core, on a base game level - physics, controls, interface, mission design - it takes the GTA formula and - whisper it - makes a number of brilliant improvements, which all goes to make it huge amounts of fun.

Yes, fun.

It's just massive, massive FUN.

And, before we forget, incredibly awful.

I can forgive the rubbish wrapping paper, because the present inside is so great. But I understand why people can't.