If you don’t feel like granting yourself these permanent attribute upgrades, you can spend cash on new clothes, vehicle customization, or weapon upgrades. The massive upgrade system allows you to buy faster health regeneration, increased sprint, damage resistance, and the ability to call in vehicle and helicopter deliveries, among several dozen other options. The economic side of things has expanded dramatically buying up property in the new city of Steelport earns you a steady cash flow, and the myriad ways you can spend it is almost overwhelming.
It’s just one of the ways that this sequel feels like a more complete package than its predecessors. Whereas the previous two games sectioned off missions based on which gang you were going after, this one features a cohesive narrative throughout. If you think I’m spoiling the most wacky bullet points, don’t worry – there are much crazier twists that I won’t detail in this review. You’ll start by airlifting a bank’s vault out of a skyscraper, move on to a mid-air firefight, and wind up grappling with luchadores, escaping an S&M club on a rickshaw, piloting futuristic aircraft, and even participating in a text-based adventure before it’s all said and done. Missions vary wildly, and they’re almost all bombastic, popcorn-movie affairs. It may be easy to get distracted by the nonsense occurring onscreen, but Saints Row: The Third is thrilling as an action game. Making a funny visual even better is the deep character customization feature, which allowed me to cause mayhem as Larry David, Pantless Colossus, Ric Flair, and GI’s own Joe Juba.Īs much as the game made me laugh, it wouldn’t deserve such high praise without solid gameplay at its core. Volition’s love of groin shots would make America's Funniest Home Videos blush, with dedicated (and very specifically targeted) melee animations for each weapon. You won’t find much in the way of social commentary here, but it’s hard not to laugh when you’re running around pantless and dishing out tornado DDTs to passersby. Saints Row: The Third’s humor is low-brow yet self-aware, featuring the silliness of the Naked Gun movies with the adult edge of South Park. I was expecting something crazy, but was still surprised by the sheer amount of absurdist humor packed into this over-the-top sequel. With Saints Row: The Third, Volition has succeeded in making one of the most unpredictable and insane experiences in recent gaming memory. In the span of two sequels, we’ve gone from the drive-by shooting of that trailer to areas ripped off from Tron and weapons like bottled farts and Mega Man-like arm cannons. When the teaser trailer for the first Saints Row debuted during a console reveal for the Xbox 360, gamers saw what appeared to be a derivative open-world crime game.
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