Saints Row: The Third was the most mental, ridiculous game I played last year. I, along with many others, perceived it as exactly what GTA should have been: a bonkers affair which turned everything up to eleven and then decided that wasn’t quite far enough. There were some mind-bendingly awesome missions in that game and I had a lot of fun with it.
Peter thought similar; noting the bizarre humour, huge amount of fun and style as brilliant contributions to this great big ball of madness. He scored it an 8/10, summing it up by saying:
Saints Row: The Third has no pretence. It’s a hugely enjoyable videogame and seems happy just being that. And so it should be. There are no heavy plots to become embroiled in, each mission is essentially just a method of throwing you into another zany situation and then rewarding you for getting out of it.
That’s the strength of this game: that it just wants to make you smile. Sure, occasionally the humour is like something a twelve year old might find hilarious – out of place in this adult-rated title – but there is also a thinly veiled intelligence to a lot of the comedy.
Overall, there are much better creative works available for your chosen console but it’s difficult to imagine there being many that are more fun than Saints Row: The Third.
Yes, basically, Saints Row: The Third is a lot of fun. Well, we thought that anyway. It might be different for you; and that’s who we want to hear from. You might think Saints Row lacks a cohesive story, and that’s what you were looking for; you might think that Saints Row isn’t a patch on GTA; you might even think Saints Row is just too fun and people should avoid it for this reason alone.
Who knows, though? Saints Row might be someone’s favourite game ever and another person’s worst nightmare. All I know is that there’s bound to be a few conflicting opinions. We’ll round all of your opinions up next week, but for now: post a comment below, saying whether you loved or loathed Saints Row: The Third, along with your reasoning and anything else you’d like to fit into a mini-review.
Once you’ve done a little review, then make sure to tell us where you think the game sits on our simple, tried and tested, Buy It, Bargain Bin It, Rent It, Avoid It rating scale at the end. If you’re up for doing that then make sure it’s all done by this Sunday afternoon, or there will be no chance for us to compile it into the round-up next Monday!
Mickey2010
its like a hollywood blockbuster its over the top non stop relentless action the story may not be good but it is one of the most fun experiences i have had since the old GTAs it is GTA on steroids
BUY IT
Nylon_Angel
OMG, I love this game. Its so fun and enjoyable. It doesn’t take it’s self seriously and you need that in a games sometimes. I don’t want to play game with heavy, emotionally charged story-lines or boss battles that can take far too long all the time. Sometimes I want to play a game that will make me laugh out loud, a game I can just pick up without remembering some long winded story.
And this game does that, yeah its flawed in places, its not the best graphically looking game out there. But its fun, relaxing.. Oh and yeah I can run around naked all the time lol
BUY IT NOW
OneShotWook
I’m going against here and saying Rent it.The barebones of the game is one constant horde mode after another and then onto a brief ‘zany’ activity.
I love the ‘room’ in open world games,here there is none.Add in the selection of awful toy guns,annoying as hell red torch wielding snipers,same again for the rattling lazer quest guns you get later on.I could go on but you get the picture,perhaps a story would’ve helped me ‘get’ the new direction but i fear it’s more that i’m just too damn old and this isn’t aimed at me.
It’s designed anarchy and feels like videogame pop music,irritatingly catchy for a weekend then you never want to hear it again.
I say rent mainly because i recognized that some folk will love it.
MrSpeedyGonzales
Amazing…. that is all.
Foxhound_Solid
Never played one…
Rocket_345
Buy it.
In what other game could you be escorting a tiger at one point, then be whacking people with an enormous dildo to riding through a computerised world in a hacking minigame Tron style. Do you need another reason.
KeRaSh
This was the first GTA kind of game that I bought since… well, GTA on the PS1 actually… I’m generally not a fan of the genre but this game was just so ridiculous that I couldn’t resist.
Had a lot of fun with it in the few hours that I played it but I’m definitely going to finish it once I’m finished with a few oter games (Amalur, Stranger’s Wrath HD, Journey).
Buy it!
element666
Brilliant game, pure fun and makes you laugh hysterically! The streaking especially !