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Saints Row 3 Review
Three games in, and Saints Row is now much more than a Grand Theft Auto tribute act, growing from a feeble, shameless copycat into the gaudy celebration of wanton debauchery the tabloids believe Rockstar's game to be. Now it's no more like GTA than Mario; indeed, the comparison with Nintendo's series isn't entirely unwarranted, as Volition's game shares the same generosity of ideas, and avoids being hamstrung by the need to conform to the rules of a pseudo-realistic gameworld. This is a game that constantly prioritises the needs of the player. It's very smart at being stupid.That said, the first hour or so creates a false impression. Sure, it begins with a bang: a crazy gunfight inside (and out of) a cargo plane flying over the city of Steelport, involving two daring airborne rescues and a moment where your protagonist skydives through the cockpit of the falling craft to beat up a single enemy at the back. But the early game settles into a very familiar rhythm as you attempt to rebuild the Saints' empire in a new city, taking on a series of tasks that amount to little more than driving to a place and shooting a lot of people on arrival.It's not helped by a stream of lowbrow gags.
Saints Row: The Third
Some games create atmospheric worlds that attempt to draw you in with moving stories about characters seeking a second chance, or cast you as troubled superheroes who push themselves to the limit to fight evil. Saints Row: The Third is not like those games. Rather, it's the kind of game that gives you weapons called apocafists with which you can punch people, instantly making them explode in a bloody mess. The Third won't impress you with knockout visuals, move you with an absorbing story, or engage you with challenging combat. What it does, better than just about any game before, is embrace the idea of an open world as a place for play, constantly giving you access to awesome new toys and providing you with no shortage of exciting opportunities to use them. No knowledge of earlier Saints Row games is needed to jump into the insanity of The Third. Following an incredible opening sequence that involves the kind of bank heist that only the Saints can pull off, the gang is transplanted from their hometown of Stilwater to the city of Steelport. As their leader, it's up to you to lead them from upstart newcomers to rulers of the town, which means frequently coming into conflict with the local gangs, the masked Luchadores, stylish Morningstars, and Tron-inspired Deckers.
Saints Row: The Third
When the teaser trailer for the first Saints Row debuted during a console reveal for the Xbox 360, gamers saw what appeared to be a derivative open-world crime game. In the span of two sequels, we've gone from the drive-by shooting of that trailer to areas ripped off from Tron and weapons like bottled farts and Mega Man-like arm cannons. With Saints Row: The Third, Volition has succeeded in making one of the most unpredictable and insane experiences in recent gaming memory. I was expecting something crazy, but was still surprised by the sheer amount of absurdist humor packed into this over-the-top sequel. Saints Row: The Third's humor is low-brow yet self-aware, featuring the silliness of the Naked Gun movies with the adult edge of South Park. You won't find much in the way of social commentary here, but it's hard not to laugh when you're running around pantless and dishing out tornado DDTs to passersby. Volition's love of groin shots would make America's Funniest Home Videos blush, with dedicated (and very specifically targeted) melee animations for each weapon.
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Review: Saints Row: The Third
Not many games can go from being a clone of a chart-topping title to a respected companion piece of the same bestseller in three iterations or less. But the Saints Row series, which began life as a Grand Theft Auto clone trying to exploit Rockstar's slowness in getting to the "next generation" market of HD-gen consoles, has evolved into something else entirely -- the game that many people wish GTA still was. Not to diss GTA IV -- it's still in my top 5 games of all-time -- but Rockstar made a conscious decision to make that game a platform for better narrative storytelling and its world more of an interactive dramatic stage than a sandbox full of rocket launchers. The only problem is, a sandbox full of rocket launchers is a hell of a lot of fun, and the game makers at Volition seem to have focused the evolution of the Saints Row franchise on that: how do we let gamers have a ton of ridiculous fun? So instead of going darker and grittier like GTA, Saints Row has gotten brighter and sillier. That's how it gets away with some of its more egregiously vulgar moments: by planting its tongue firmly in its cheek. In a sense, it sort of has to -- how else can you justify driving a car down a sidewalk at 70 miles an hour, tearing through pedestrians like a wheat thresher without any kind of serious moral repercussions?
Review: Saints Row
Saints Row: The Third stars Lara Croft, Christina Hendricks, and Zack from Dead or Alive. At least my playthrough did. The game, like its predecessor, lets players change their appearance any time for any reason. As the leader of the street gang turned international celebrities (The Saints), you can duck into a plastic surgeon's office at any time and change from an Elvira look-alike to a 300-pound blue-skinned cross-dresser with a beehive hairdo and a pink Snidely Whiplash mustache; and your fellow gang members won't bat an eye. It's also worth noting that this is probably the least absurd thing about the game and its story. The Third doubles down on what made Saints Row 2 a notable game in a post-Grand Theft Auto IV world. It opens on your gang robbing a bank in order to give a ride-along actor inspiration for his upcoming role in a Saints Row movie. The mission begins with your gang barging in disguised as giant bobble-headed versions of Saints superstar Johnny Gat. The heist gets foiled not by the cops, but by an international crime syndicate that would feel more at home on The Venture Brothers than in Grand Theft Auto.
Saints Row: The Third Review
A video game's first responsibility -- arguably its only responsibility -- is to show the player a good time. To say that Saints Row: The Third is a good time would be a severe understatement. Running naked around the fictional city of Steelport wiping out rival gangs with mind-controlling octopi delivered some of the most fun I've had this year. There may be a tendency to dismiss Saints Row as a Grand Theft Auto clone (it isn't) or as juvenile antics (it is) but when you just want to indulge in some mindless violence and sexual depravity, this will more than suffice. Saints Row the Third takes you out of Stilwater, the setting for the first two games, and drops you into the new city of Steelport. Three local gangs are well-entrenched, but the Third Street Saints aren't going to settle for fourth place. Your job throughout Saints Row the Third is to take over this new city and crush the competition. After an intro mission sets up your exit from Stilwater you'll get the chance to customize your character. Customization plays a big part in the entire game, from your body to your dress to your vehicles.
Saints Row: The Third (Preview)
Saints Row: The Third wants you to kill midgets in a gimp suitI'm using a sentient, gun-toting purple question mark as a human shield. I've killed men in luminescent rabbit suits, fired a stream of rockets at a thirty-foot prostitute, and smacked a horde of gimps to death with a dildo big enough to split someone's rectum clean in half.And they say games can't be art!This is Saints Row: The Third's Whored (do you get it?) mode, which pits two players against thirty bizarre waves of enemies across three different maps. The rounds are predetermined and eclectic, so you might find yourself fighting a throng of enemies dressed up as energy drinks mere seconds after knocking away a gaggle of crazed midgets.I'm playing on the Daedalus airship, a circular map scattered with convenient pillars for cover, a dangerous drop in the middle, and a raised helipad to retreat to as a last resort. Elsewhere, you can dip into Whored on Zombie Island (pardon?) and Angel's Casino.There are five characters to choose from, but I stopped on the first - the ever-affable Gimpy, whose defining characteristic is that he wears a gimp suit. You might fancy Cowgirl or Cyril, perhaps.
Saints Row: The Third (Preview)
Creating the Incredible Hulk with a massive penis in Saints Row: The ThirdMowing down pedestrians in a taxi is great fun, but it's even better when the room you're playing in suddenly fills with six scantily clad ladies of the night. They weren't real prostitutes of course. I wasn't sure if all six were actually real women, but there were, by my count, five female models dressed in little more than some thongs and corsets. The other, and I apologise if she was of the fairer sex, looked like a skinny man in drag. But that's fine of course, and quite apt given how free players of Saints Row: The Third are to create whatever character they wish.After a brief intro mission to rob a bank the gamescom demo dumps you outside an image consultancy, which for a fee of $500 will transform your total body look to anything you desire. And I mean anything: from a gigantic hulk of a man to a scrawny gal with shiny silver skin, red hair and a massive royal nose.After a brief moment of voyeurism messing with the option of a female character I switched back to the male avatar and got sunk into the daunting number of customisation options and tweaks available.
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Video Games: Saints Row: The Third (XBOX 360) | $59.99 | See it |
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Saints Row: The Third - Xbox 360 | $59.99 | See it |
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Saints Row: The Third For Xbox 360 | $59.99 | See it |
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Video Game: Saint's Row: The Third Platinum Pack Collector's Edition (XBOX 360) | $79.99 | See it |
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Saints Row: The Third Platinum Pack Collector's Edition | $99.99 | See it |
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Saints Row: The Third Platinum Pack For Xbox 360 | $99.99 | See it |
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Saints Row: The Third [Japan Import] | $103.99 | See it |
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