Saints Row: The Third (PC)
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DESCRIPTION
Saints Row: The Third is the third title in the popular Saints Row franchise, and this is an action-adventure game played from a third-person perspective. This open-world game provides a blend of action and driving gameplay, and the player can freely explore the game environment choosing to complete the game's main story missions or various side missions presented throughout the game world.STORY:
The Third Street Saints gang have become superstars in Stilwater after their exploits in Saints Row 2 and are now a household name, and even have their own clothing line and energy drink. Unfortunately in Saints Row: The Third the international crime organization, the Syndicate, has moved into the Saints turf and have now taken full control of the city of Stilwater. This forces the Saints to relocate to the run-down industrial city of Steelport.
The Syndicate has now started to move into Steelport, and this is where the Third Street Saints gang decide to take a stand. The Syndicate control three separate gangs in Steelport, the Morning Star, the Luchadores and the Deckers, and now it's all-out gang warfare between the Saints and these three gangs. The government Special Tactical Anti-Gang (STAG) units have also been tasked to prevent any gang warfare in Steelport.
GAMEPLAY:
In Saints Row: The Third you take control of the leader of the Third Street Saints gang, and completion of missions earn you money, cars, weapons as well as respect. Respect earned can be spent to improve your character's attributes, such as firearm or hand-to-hand combat skills.
Money can be used to purchase clothes, weapons, cars and upgrades for existing weapons and cars, such as adding a grenade launcher or scopes to an assault rifle. Money can also be used to upgrade your gang's appearance and headquarters and also to purchase properties and shops within Steelport.
Weapons from previous Saints Row games return, and include pistols, SMGs, assault rifles, grenades, chainsaws, satchel bombs, swords and sledgehammers. New weapons in Saints Row: The Third include:
- Air Strikes - Laser guided attacks which allow you to take out groups of adversaries at once.
- Predator Drones - Using a top-down view you control your drone and can drop various bomb types onto your target.
- RC Gun - Shoot this innovative gun at a vehicle to attach a bug to the vehicle. This bug allows you to remotely control the vehicle.
- Sex Toy Bat - It's a sex toy and it's a bat...
Saints Row: The Third also offers a cooperative game mode and the game can be played co-operatively with one other player. The second player can join in all missions and activities within the game.
IGN Reviews - Saints Row: The Third Review
 Score 8.5 Great | News flash: people find sex and violence entertaining. Saints Row: The Third gives the people what they want and drops us into an open world adult theme park where we can treat ourselves to delightful acts of bloodshed and perversion. It doesn't take itself too seriously and only asks that you don't, either. Presentation: 8.5 Plot points mostly serve as a way to get you into ridiculous situations. I really like the phone/menu interface. Setting up co-op is a breeze. Graphics: 8.0 The city of Steelport looks great, but you'll notice a lot of pop-up and jerky animations. Sound: 9.5 The licensed soundtrack is fantastic and voice acting - for the most part - is very well done. Gameplay: 8.5 Saints Row 3 isn't trying to be anything but fun, and it succeeds. RPG elements incentivize every little thing you do, making for an addictive open world game with no pretense. Lasting Appeal: 8.5 There were 14 hours on the clock when I beat the campaign, but I've since kept playing to the 22 hour mark and am still at only 86 percent completion. |
 Score 9.5 Superb | THQ promised us bigger, better, and wilder with Saints Row: The Third and, boy, did they deliver. Never one to hold back, Saints Row: The Third is packed with sex, drugs, and guns - everything we love and everything you need for that true 'WTF' experience. . . . Don't expect Saints Row: The Third to shock you with graphics, but it's enough to get by and a definite improvement over Saints Row 2. Should you find yourself in the car, the radio pumps out some pretty good tunes. Any game that jams out to Butthole Surfers is good in my book. With a station featuring Adult Swim and Cartoon Network content, you probably won't get bored. Saints Row: The Third is a fun play that shouldn't be taken too seriously. Hell, the characters in the game don't even take themselves seriously, often pointing out the ridiculous situations they find themselves in. Each mission is carefully crafted to provide a unique, memorable experience. While there are always improvements that can be made, Saints Row: The Third effectively accomplishes what it sets out to do: provide fun, over-the-top gameplay that will result in a lasting, or somewhat scarring experience. |
 Score 9.3 Excellent | Likes
Saints Row The Third surprised the heck out of me. The GTA comparisons are inevitable, but they are vastly different games. While both hold a mirror up to reality, the reflections are vastly different. As absurd as GTA gets, it still keeps one foot firmly planted in reality. Saints Row has taken a flying leap off the roof of reality, howling the F-bomb while chugging a licensed energy drink all the way down… and I wouldn’t have it any other way. |
 Score 7 Good | There's so much that can be done with the open-world idea, and there was an opportunity here to ditch the tired old gangster tropes and twist the freedom that a virtual city offers into something truly memorable and weird. Instead, we get another game defined by its adherence to the GTA formula, distinguished mainly by its funny costumes and enjoyably daft toys. Amusing, but hardly the mind-boggling insanity we were promised. 2011 has very much been the year of playing it safe as far as blockbuster threequels are concerned, but in a sandbox sold on the prospect of crazed excess, the world itself needed to change and the things we do in that world needed to get more and more outrageous. There are traces of that excess here, but they arrive too late and change the formula too little to really make a meaningful difference. It's still a cynical slice of dirty fun, but the most damning aspect of Saints Row: The Third is that where the all-important lulz are concerned, there's precious little here that you couldn't already do in Saints Row 2. |
 Score B+ Good 85% | Saints Row: The Third is The Craziest Game You've Ever Played The game revels in its own absurdity with a wink and a nudge to the player. Strangely, the humor doesn't overstay its welcome - even near the end of the thirteen-hour plus main campaign. While it occasionally misfires with groan-worthy puns or references to tired Internet memes, The Third keeps things fresh by constantly upping the ante on its own weirdness with each new campaign mission. . . . Once you're done with the main game, you can try out Whored Mode, where you'll take on waves of scantily clad prostitutes. There's not a whole lot of depth to the mode and the humor inherent in defending yourself and your friends from waves of vicious sex workers wears off in about five seconds. You won't be missing much if you skip out on this section of the game. Lackluster side-content notwithstanding, Saints Row: The Third is so crazy and over-the-top that you can't go wrong with this game - provided that you're the sort that would appreciate the game's knowingly juvenile sense of humor. |
