Saints Row®: The Third™ Remastered

How could anyone dislike this? I had no idea SR3-remastered was THIS high quality, and its so smooth! I am using DXVK like the wiki suggested. It really butters out the performance! Using only a gtx1080 i couldnt get the game to stutter if i tried. Its so smooth! It seriously looks like resident evil 7 game engine, but even better because you can actually disable the TAA blur in this game. Not even joking this might be the best graphics to performance ratio game i have ever played for an open world. and you can actually see cars and boats now, from seemingly infinite range. Its sweet. The game can totally handle more enemies and cars and stuff on screen than sr2 could And this version is more stable than the steam version 100%. I own both and i am now playing the gog version only because im allowed to turn OFF fog in the gog version. If i turn it off in the steam version i get egregious black boxes that make my game almost unplayable. I cannot reproduce this bug on the GOG version. Its hard to ignore how many things are instantly better about this game (coming from a 140+hr sr2 playthrough with gentleman of the row) -Combat is better plain and simple, and retains that smooth physics-ey feel. The crosshair in this game is smaller and the combat is TIGHT. The weapons are nice and accurate. I can get clean headshots very satisfying gun sounds. This feels exactly like SR2 but just with like RE-Engine tier of graphics, nothing is worse about this than SR2 that ive found yet. Only improvements I like how the controls are good now, they honestly were not in SR2.

Great gameplay, great story, fun characters, cars handle perfectly, it's just amazing!

My system specs are: 13700K, 2070 Super, running from a Gen. 3 M.2 SSD on Windows 10 at 1440p Ultra settings. It seems like many of the good things that were done with this remaster induce some additional downsides, so rather than doing a point-by-point review, I think a, "Fixes this-but breaks this" review is needed. The graphic overhaul (upgraded and up-res'd character, car, and item models) really does make the game look and feel more modern when compared to the Full Package version. However, the overhaul actually makes a lot of the character customizations (hair and clothes) feel plastic and oversized/under-detailed. Also, as others have mentioned, there are new texture maps for clothes which prevent many items from showing black, white, or lighter/darker color variants properly. Also, i have noticed a few items that were "shiny" in the original, but now have matte finishes that make them look dirty. The frame rate and performance in game feel very smooth (see system specs above). However, cut scenes suffer from low frames, poor syncing, and excessive blurriness.

Graphics are great, somewhat low poly, but decent in most shots. Reflection is amazing, can see character and object reflected on puddles and cars like mirrors (without raytracing). Hair, clothes and even body parts have physics. You can kill enemies with flying debris. Every single car has is customizable and with visual mods available. Car and enviromental destruction is visually sastifying. (Flatten cars with a tank) Weapons has visual changes when upgraded. You can jump, climb fences and scale walls. There is a dodge roll as well! Swimming too. Car handling feels better most games. Speed control for cars (cruise control) and hover mode for air craft is fucking immersive. 6 voices to choose and every single line is voiced with these voices. Female and male get unique line/ personality as well. Barely any bugs, solid 120 fps on any mid tier modern pc. (Souce: AMD chill MIN/MAX 120fps). Text stuck on screen or low fps after cut scene is rare, but can be fixed with save and restart game. Story is awesome, always focus on fun and action. Hardly anything was boring or repettitive. Actually feel like a mafia boss, take over businesses, extort them for money. Gang wars. Lively feeling characters, very convincing. Recruit any gang member, call friends to fight or roam with you. There is online and co-op built in aswell. (For those with friends, unlike me). NO bullshit rockstar launcher, DRM Free GTA alternative is all I wanted and is exactly what I got. Even the radio music and DJs are great, one of the rare games where I leave the radio on. Zero woke bullshit in this game as well, peak early 2000 vibes. P.S if you crash, that just means your pc doesn't have direct X or C++ latest and 2013-2012-2010 Redistrubtable installed. (Just google what they are, very easy to install. Lots of other games needs them installed too. Source: Google it.) This game is very stable and bug free, because its a story based sandbox, not a life sim with a million tiny bottle necks.

Its a quick and dirty remaster with car sound issues and some graphical jank, but it overall has a lot better lighting than the original. Also has all DLC included. I am sure theres a patch out there to get it fixed. The real bad part is the original is around 10/15GB and this thing is 47GB. I would choose the original with all DLC over this.