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The Third Is The Word

HIGH “Power” by Kanye West is the best superhero theme music.

LOW The treatment of women.

WTF I would exceed this review’s word limit listing all the WTFs here.

What’s it like revisiting 2011’s Saints Row: The Third nine years later? It’s crude, brash and sometimes offensive, full of dick jokes and ’80s references, and the entire thing feels like a twisted cartoon trying to overload the player’s senses… And yet, there’s still plenty to love and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Originally released for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC, Saints Row: The Third was the third entry in Volition’s third-person open-world action series. Spearsoft has remastered it for modern consoles and added mild visual upgrades including improved lighting and a general graphic cleanup, but up close it still looks like a title from 2011. Thankfully, the visuals are just stylized enough — I’d say it hasn’t aged horribly. This remaster also includes all of the DLC and unlocks bonus weapons and costumes from the start.

SR:tTR takes place five years after the events of Saints Row 2. The members of the Third Street Saints gang have become international celebrities, their faces and names plastered on everything from energy drinks to science-fiction blockbusters. Adjusting to life after fame (and a botched bank robbery) they find themselves caught up in a turf war of epic proportions between several rival gangs in the city of Steelport.

The player controls the leader of the Saints, and they are fully customizable — and seriously, the customization is crazy, including everything from voice options to, uh… more ‘intimate’ aspects of the body. Creating a character feels like a game unto itself, and the player will be granted even more options down the line.

The central plot is a basic revenge tale as the Saints try to take over Steelport while avenging a fallen member, but it largely feels like a cobbled mess built on references and gags that teenagers wrote — the bombastic setpieces and humor sometimes work, but it also suffers from a serious lack of originality since many of them are parodies of other games and movies – things like an entire sequence that’s just one huge Tron reference that also nods to the arm cannon from Capcom’s Mega Man games. There are also some wacky survival minigames that parody Japanese game shows, and more.

While some of these worked more than others, the understated and sarcastic banter between the Saints was what had me laughing hardest. For example, there’s a pimp named Zimos who only spoke in autotune and managed to steal every scene he was in. I also loved how my main character would frequently reply to every command with a smartass remark amidst the gunfire. It’s not much, but those subtle moments made me laugh out loud more than some of the Looney Tunes-esque gags.

Thankfully, the story takes a backseat to gameplay. Steelport is home to many, many diversions, and while SR:tTR never reinvents the open-world formula, the content is enjoyable enough to stomach mild genre fatigue.

Some missions have the player protecting AI companions with a sniper rifle, there are city-ruining tank rampages, assassination contracts and even a mode where the player has to cause bodily harm to themselves in order to earn insurance money. One particular highlight was when the player jumps from a helicopter and onto a penthouse while Kanye West’s “Power” is blasting in the background. Of course, not every mission can be that great, but there’s enough variety here to keep open-world players engaged.

Experience from completed missions grants players enhancements, which makes up a large part of the experience. By the end of the game, my character was able to sprint for an unlimited amount of time while shooting flaming rounds from an assault rifle.

Mechanically, Third shows its age. The characters feel weightless and there’s no option to toggle auto-aim like most modern third-person shooters offer. Driving is a little clunky, and the guns players will use have different properties, but they don’t feel different. The hand-to-hand combat is also a bit creaky, since it’s damn-near impossible to land a punch.

It’s also worth noting that the enemies feel like bullet sponges and are relentless. On the Normal difficulty setting I found myself often having to restart at a checkpoint after getting annihilated. The AI companions meant to give backup are useless and need to be saved by the player far too often.

In spite of all this, revisiting Steelport after so long was still an enjoyable experience. Seeing my custom character discuss very serious plans while wearing samurai armor and an angry tiger mask is the best comedic relief any game has offered me in the past ten years, and replaying it brought me back to a time in middle school when I wanted nothing but open-world. It’s also the perfect starting point for those new to the series, and any game that lets me dress up as a hot dog while flying on a motorized broomstick deserves a glowing recommendation.

Rating: 7.5 out of 10

— CJ Salcedo

Disclosures: This game is developed by Volition, remastered by Spearsoft and published by Deep Silver. It’s available on XBO, PS4 and PC. This copy was obtained via publisher and reviewed on PS4. Approximately 25 hours of play was devoted to the single-player and the game wascompleted solo. No time was spent in co-op.

Parents: According to the ESRB, this game is rated M for Blood and Gore, Drug Reference, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content, and Strong Language. While the humor of the game is very juvenile, this not one that kids should be playing. Characters constantly swear with words like sh*t, f*ck and b*tch used in abundance. There are plenty of sexual references ranging from strippers, prostitutes, the ability to make the player character fully naked (with pixelation covering any sensitive areas) and a bat that looks like a marital aid. The game is also violent, with characters getting shot, stabbed and bludgeoned to death. Definitely not for any kids below the age of 17.

Colorblind Modes: Colorblind modes are not present Cisco vpn client for windows 10 download. in the options menu.

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Gamers: I played a majority of the game with no sound and found it easy to manage. Enemies appear as red blips on the minimap as well as collectibles and mission markers. There are subtitles though they cannot be resized or recolored. I’d say it’s fully accessible.

Remappable Controls: No, the controls are not remappable.

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The Remaster Dilemma

Remasters are tough cookies to review. Odds are, if a game is popular enough to be getting remastered, most people already “get” what it's all about. It’s likely a good game, and there’s probably already been hundreds of reviews talking about the quality of the base title. So, how do I review the remaster? Do I spend my time going through every detail and fine point of the main game as if playing for the first time (I’ve put quite a few hours into the original Saints Row: The Third)? Do I do a deep-dive into the technological improvements and rate the game based on how much of an improvement it is over the original? Both seem flawed, so I’m going to hodgepodge them together and give you a little bit of both.
If you somehow aren't familiar with the Saints Row franchise by now, it’s actually a fairly interesting story how it got to where it is now. Way back in 2006, the original Saints Row launched as a relatively grounded knock-off of the Grand Theft Auto franchise. You had your gangs, your city, your cars, and all the other good stuff that GTA is known for. The problem was that it just didn’t really do much that it’s bigger brother didn’t, and it didn’t do any of those things better. So, as GTA IV came out and showed a grayer, more dreary GTA experience, Saints Row found its niche by going the other direction. Saints Row 2 was a little brighter and a little more light hearted. Saints Row: The Third cranked the wackiness up, turning the whole thing into the beautiful, raunchy comedy that the series is known for today. The fourth game may have taken things a bit too far in that direction, leaving the third in many people’s eyes to be the series’ peak. Now, 9 years later, number three is showing some of its age, and this remaster aims to bring the experience to 2020.

What is My Purpose?

It’s important to understand that this game is absolutely a remaster and in no way a remake. The game plays exactly the same. There isn’t new content, voice acting, or anything else. It’s the same game with a new coat of paint and better performance. If you’ve already played and enjoyed the original Saints Row: The Third

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, I don’t really see a huge reason to jump into the remaster. If you haven’t yet experienced the mayhem and have been interested in checking it out, this remaster is absolutely the definitive way to play. In that regard, it succeeds in its objectives, and for that it’s hard to give it too hard of a time.
Things are definitely improved visually, most notably the lighting. More contrast results in a less muddied look, and colors have a much more satisfying pop. Faces look better, too, with more depth and clarity. Driving at night is perhaps the biggest improvement, with darker darks and the presence of better light reflections on shiny surfaces. It’s nothing groundbreaking and, even on ultra, isn’t what I’d call gorgeous, but it’s certainly not hard to look at. The thing is, the original has aged well enough that, while the difference is noticeable, it still doesn’t look bad. Given that this overhaul is largely the only reason this remaster exists, it becomes a bit harder to recommend. While it’s definitely the best way to play, and newcomers to the title should pick it up over the original, I’m not sure it’s enough draw for anyone that’s been on this ride before.

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A Sense of Humor

While I find the game absolutely hilarious, your mileage is going to depend almost solely on if this brand of middle school humor works for you. To me, most everything works, from the ridiculous self-ragdolling side games to the giant purple dildo bats, but if that kind of thing seems unappealing to you there isn’t really any way around it. That humor is the game. It’s its essence. Its raison d’être. If you don’t dig it, no amount of solid gameplay or customization is going to win you over. If it is your bag, the laughs start early and don’t stop. Of course, humor isn’t all the game has to offer. Controls are tight and the game runs well (barring some so-bad-they’re funny environmental glitches), and the willingness of the title to keep one foot on the ground and one in the absurd makes for some breathtakingly beautiful action segments. In the opening two missions alone you’ll be hanging from a giant bank safe suspended from a helicopter as you mow down other helicopters, then you’ll blast your way out of a corner by raining hell down with drone-fired missiles. It’s beautiful mayhem, and the whole time the same words will be running through your head: damn, I feel like a badass.

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Overall there isn’t much more to say about Saints Row: The Third Remastered because, all in all, it’s the same game I loved back in 2011. Underneath a fairly fresh coat of paint is the same adrenaline pumping, juvenile story of a gang-turned-media-sensation trying to rebuild itself. In that regard, assessed purely in a vacuum, this game is a smash hit. In context, though, I can’t help but feel this release is a bit premature. With the original

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Saints Row: The Third still being recent enough that it looks alright and plays well, I can’t shake the feeling that letting it nap for another few years may have resulted in a more impressive remaster.

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