Saints Row: The Third - The Full Package

I played Saints Row 2 just before this and I won't understand, why some consider that to be better than SR3. - Gamplay-wise, there is an enourmous amount of love developers have put in this game. SR2 had great mechanics, this game improved every one of them. - "One" reviewer told this game is boring, because it has dildos in it. In like two missions. At the same time, it doesn't have a feces-spraying mini-mission, which somehow makes it bad again. Oh, I get it, feces are intellectual. - Mini-missions ARE better. In SR2 you HAD to do them to be allowed to do main missions and get bonuses like pricedamage reduction. There were 12 levels for each type. Here it's 3 levels, separated by distance so you don't feel like you grind them. You get money for their completion, which in turn you spend on any bonus YOU want. - The balance is great with bonuses. This game has several complete damage reduction bonuses, but I got my first one at about 90+% game completion. And just the moment I got bullet invincibility, a mission started where all damage is melee and there is not reduction against it. It's like a cheat, except it's not. I could only buy all bonuses after all missions. - There is a purpose for the money! - I'll never understand the "plot is better in SR2". It's hard to blame a whole game because of one man fault. But the plot is fantastic here. In SR2 you had three non-connected storylines and then a super-short fourth one in the end. It had memorable plot moments, sure, but at some moment I was reinstalling my system and failed to backup my save files. And god, it was boring to do the brotherhood and mini-missions all over. And the ronin are cliche chinese. Only Mr Sunshine was funt to kill. - Closing note, I've also heard someone complaining SR3 game is worse, because you can't choose your undershirts and socks. Is that serious? You can't even see those the whole gameplay, unless you are playing a mad streaker. Buy this one.

Saints Row the Third is one of those games that you may find yourself beating many times on many platforms because of the sheer focus on over-the-top fun and ridiculous personalities you encounter. I've done a playthrough with each voice for the Boss (player character), and every time it felt like a fresh game because each voice has their own lines and unique reactions to all the shenanigans that goes on in the game. If you need a break from Grand Theft Auto's more serious tone then you need to play this series NOW!

There are many reasons to love this game, most are well known. The GoG release however misses mod support and character import/export. I don't care for the missing online multiplayer part, but I miss the rest :s And that is the reason why right now I am reinstalling the Steam version of the game.

Having never played the first two Saints Row games, I decided to leap directly into "The Third" as I had read that this edition was where the series really shed its GTA-clone roots. Designed my character, bemoaned the fact that there was no "Asian" voice for her, and... found myself robbing a bank where tellers were armed with submachine guns, out of nowhere. The banter between the crew during that mission, and the subsequent one (in which you manage to jump out of one airplane, fall through another airplane to steal a parachute, and catch someone who is falling, all in time to parachute to safety), really set the tone for the rest of the game. Its quirky, raunchy, and downright rude at times, and I found myself laughing throughout the main scenario and the two mission packs. However, the make busy work -- writ, capturing the city of Steelport -- was not nearly as fun, despite some of the dialog being no less wacky, and so I have to dock a star for that. Nonetheless, I'd still say it was thirty hours well used.

This game is amazing. It's very silly, but it's alot of fun. Dare I say it's almost as good, maybe even equal to some of the modern Grand Theft Auto releases. The creators of this game had alot of imagination.