

Some of the more fun bits actually came as DLC, but you get them all here. At some point the developers realised if players like exploding things and shooting people and hitting them around the face with big purple dildos, hurhur, so by God, just let them do that, why don't we? And give them increasingly silly scenarios in which to do it. To be fair, the set pieces get more and more ridiculous as you go, beginning with the plane shoot out as a kind of "start as we mean to go on." This was always Saints Row's USP compared to, obviously enough, Grand Theft Auto. Wot I did on my holidays: explode a police helicopter but it mostly amounts to an excuse to shoot some of said gang members. There are various justifications for these missions - drug deals, theft, etc. luchadores the Luchadores) gains you more sway in that area. Every mission you do that undermines the incumbent gang (dominatrix vampire cosplayers the Morningstar, cringe neon hackers the Deckers, and. This means the Saints are starting almost from scratch in a new city, Steelport, and set about claiming territory from the rival gangs there. They have a sixth sense for that sort of thing. I frequently accidentally fly over restricted areas, and the feds can immediately tell. You have almost immediate access to helicopters, fighter jets, and a broomstick, if you fancy it. You can obviously steal any car you happen to be within reaching distance of, but my preferred method of getting around Steelport is in the air. So another powerful gang has decided to knock them off their perch. They have fans who ask for autographs, a line of energy drinks, and a movie is being made of their lives. See, the eponymous Saints have taken gangbanging and made it a mainstream career. Probably still the most beloved of the Saints games (though I still have a soft spot for Gat Out Of Hell), The Third opens with a bank robbery seguing into a mid-air shootout on a plane, followed by an extended skydive. It just depends what that means to you in the cold light of 2020, I suppose.

Saints Row The Third: Remastered is probably the best version of Saints Row The Third you could get.


Also, I had a massive crush on Johnny Gat. It has this kind of uplifting, ur-adolescent energy, where if you feel like you want to punch the world you probably can, and you can do it dressed as a witch or an alien. Getting remastered games feels like a bit of a monkey's paw at this point, doesn't it? The finger has curled, and we get remasters of all the old games we loved - but we have to play them a decade after their original release, and not as the person we were when we loved them. It just depends what that means to you in 2020. Saints Row The Third: Remastered is probably the best version of this classic action-adventure about gangs 'n' guns.
