Saints Row: The Third (PS3)
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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 | Fantastic missions, outrageous weapons, and awesome vehicles make the open-world mayhem of Saints Row: The Third an absolute blast. The Good
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 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 9.3 Excellent | More fun than shooting a man dressed in a hot dog suit out of a cannon. Likes
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 Score 8 Great | 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. . . . Ceaselessly crass and juvenile it may be, but then Saints Row: The Third has no higher purpose than to entertain you in the most ridiculous way possible - though that in itself is a lofty ambition. Its surprisingly clever and thoughtful design ensures that it succeeds - and then some. It is, as I said before, very smart at being stupid.
✓ Riotous fun in co-op mode ✓ Decent soundtrack and good voice acting ✓ Constant silliness with solid design to back it up x A few technical kinks that should have been ironed out |
 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 A- Fabulous 90% | Saints Row: The Third doesn't give a crap about precious modern design with its storyworlds, complex strategy-based gameplay systems, and magniloquent commentaries on the state of humanity. All it cares about is showing you a good time - how you want it, when you want it, and where you want it. It's instant gratification for days on end. I don't know about you, but I'm already sold on Saints Row: The Fourth. REVOLUTION REPORT CARD
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 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. |
 Score 9.0 Gold | Equal Parts Entertainment And Absurdity As much as the game made me laugh, it wouldn’t deserve such high praise without solid gameplay at its core. It may be easy to get distracted by the nonsense occurring onscreen, but Saints Row: The Third is thrilling as an action game. Missions vary wildly, and they’re almost all bombastic, popcorn-movie affairs. Concept: Take the insanity of Saints Row to new heights in a new city. Graphics: Explosions and environments look great, but character models could use some work. Sound: Killing gangsters with lasers while listening to The Karate Kid’s 'You’re the Best' or Rocky IV’s 'No Easy Way Out' is incredible. Playability: Everything controls smoothly, regardless of whether you’re in an on-foot gunfight or piloting the Warhawk-like VTOL. Entertainment: Action-packed missions and frequent turns for the ridiculous keep the humor and entertainment coming. Replay: Moderately High – Good for a long while, but the thrills won’t last forever. |
