Looks pretty fricking good.
Ill probably get it.

Looka truely stunning, I'm defo gonna this game.

And notice that one of the FIRST lines in the interview was that you TAKE OVER THE WHOLE CITY? Gee, I thought this was going to be another "rags to better rags" story. How I wish this would be morbidly depressing and overly realistic to! <eyeroll>

He mentioned take over the city from other gangs.. A little like the gang wars from SA, or the property system from VCS (which, BTW, I loved)?

He makes it sound as if you go and choose the activity you undertake. It seems to me that missions won't be random, but something like the sidejobs in Driver. For example, you go to a mission marker which says "Pimping" and do a pimping mission, or go to a marker with "drugs raid" and attack the opposing gang, and the same missions will repeat throughout the game, with difficulty being the only thing changing.

I don't know if you follow me, people who have played the sidejobs in Driver will probably have an idea of what I'm trying to say.

They had very similar fun things like this in Saints Row. You could go to various side job locations and do Pimpin', Insurance Fraud, Destruction, Drug Dealing, etc. FUN stuff. And the side missions gave awesome rewards as well.

As long as the missions are as diverse and wacky as in SA, I won't complain.

Did the sidemissions have levels, like in GTA, and did they count towards 100%?

Yeah they did. Many of the missions went from levels 1 through 8 and ALL were required for 100% completion.

I hope they aren't like III, VC, SA, LCS in which you had to start from lvl 1 of you messed up lvl 12. VCS had a really cool concept with the checkpoints.