Posted on: June 11, 2016
NotTheOne
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Saints or Sinners?
In Saints Row: The Third, you play the (male or female) boss of an alleged crime gang named The Saints in the fictional city of Stillwater. It is an open-world sandbox action game with RPG elements, essentially a shameless clone of the Grand Theft Auto series. Whereas GTA takes the narrative in a serious dramatic direction, Saints Row goes the opposite way towards the satirical and whimsical; a mix of hilarious over-the-top action, political incorrectness, obligatory zombies, outlandish aliens, and a large dose of ribald humour. When this game was first released, it received a considerable amount of malign coverage from well-intentioned social media for its use of excessive and gratuitous violence. It was even listed as one of the most violent games of 2013 by website commonsensemedia.org which had the following to say about the game: "Saints Row: The Third: This story about rival gangs revels in actions both depraved and violent. In an attempt to push the M-rating envelope, the game encourages players to go out and do bad things to innocents. They can take chainsaws to enemies, resulting in tons of blood and chunky flesh. They can drive into people with vehicles and use weapons including pistols, shotguns, grenades, rockets, and swords to destroy both enemies and innocent civilians. Players can also kill police. Plus the game boasts sexual imagery, drugs, and profanity." Given this glowing endorsement, gamers worried that this game is nothing more than a simple misogynistic murder simulator can rest easy. Saints Row: Third Third is really a sophisticated equal-opportunity murder simulator with multiple amusing methods to commit non-discriminatory murder and mayhem. There's sure to be something for everyone and fun for all the family. Although a console port, it is a competent one. In particular, mouse+keyboard works really well without the need for the modding or config file hacking that is endemic to bad console ports. Even for the driving/flying parts of the game, mouse+keyboard controls are responsive and precise. There are lots of vehicles and weapons to unlock, but some of the later unlocks such as Infinite Ammo and Invincibility can make the game too easy. Stillwater itself is large and fun to explore. Numerous side-quests, challenges, and opportunities for random violence provide plenty of entertainment in between main campaign missions. Sure the plot is stupid and nonsensical, but at least it doesn't go full-retard like the average Presidential campaign. Overall, Saints Row: The Third is funny, irreverant, and a great game. Which is fortunate, otherwise it would be called Saints Row: The Turd. An iconoclastic work of art, and a worthy purchase for anarchistic misanthropes everwhere.
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