Saint's Row: The Third
- Return to the streets of Stilwater and discover how fame and fortune as the kings of the town has affected the Saints ? for the better and for the worse
- Take the fight to Steelport, a struggling city of sin where you must battle it out with the dangerous Syndicate gang
- Get some serious air while driving a massive tank ? right through the sky
- Take on a Mexican wrestling gang in a satellite-targeted airstrike
- Defend yourself against a highly trained military force in an incredibly outlandish scenario
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| 30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:  Love the Saints, but..., By = Fun: Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Saint's Row: The Third (Video Game) Okay, don't get me wrong. Speaking as someone who is 100% behind the Saints all the way, I was very disappointed by The Third.For one thing, notice how they hyped up customization? Customize cribs, clothes, cars, "you can make a blue guy with a zombie voice", everything. Well, the developers actually REMOVED some of the customization features. 1) You CANNOT customize your crib. Once you enter a crib's building, you press a context button labeled "access crib" and it opens the wardrobe, weapons, garage, etc menu. This can be annoying, seeing as how opening a door is also a context button, leading to accidental opening of the menu if you are not standing completely against the door. This might be a nitpick, but it is still slightly aggravating. 2) Players who played previous SR games will remember how you could completely customize an outfit - have a hat tilted in specific directions, choice to tuck shirts in or out, layer clothes, etc, etc. That's gone- they give basic underwear, one top (shirt OR jacket) and one bottom, but multiple options for accessories like jewelry and piercings. The game gives you several outfits that are essentially the same. Seriously, they give you the same button down shirt at least 3 different times under different names. It's very similar to the sims 2 (without player created content) versus the sims 2 console as far as player customization. Also, when picking colors for things, some sections of the clothes apparently have a dark overlay on the textures because the color is mostly black or distorted. These are usually on small sections of the clothing or underwear, though. 3) I really don't mean to offend anyone by this statement but it needs to be said. As a black female myself, I was very disappointed by the exclusion of a black female voice option. Let's be real here- This is Saints Row, a story about gang bangers working their way up from the hood with a rags to riches theme, and the voices for a female are a white chick constantly talking about 401k plans and massages, a clearly foreign woman with a heavy accent, like northern european/Russian, and a Latina woman. And the voice acting isn't very good either. There are noticeable cringe worthy moments where the dialogue is simply garbage, no matter what the voice option is, and you are waiting for everyone to SHUT UP. BTW, I hate the new angry/PMS Shaundi, and miss Eliza Dushku. Cars do not have spinner rims nor hydraulics and it is hard when you are personalizing details both on your person and the car because it does not zoom in enough. Also, driving is a little different. Again, it might be a personal thing, but I didn't mind the old driving scheme. For me, holding down the x (a for xbox users) button for the gas make shooting and driving a little easier. When I found it was different, I thought, "no problem", and went over to the control scheme to change it. I found that due to the lack of manual, the controls are listed in game, but you cannot change them. SIGH. As a side note, when you put in a gps marker, the game produces racing game-like arrows around the city to direct you to your destination. Chop shop missions are stupid. They want you to get the car from a certain location, then drive all the way across town to the chop shop. So, for example, they tell you to find a Zimos in Bridgeport. You cannot find one in The Grove and go from there- the chop shop is triggered only when you get the car from the specific location, which in this case would be Bridgeport. A similar method happens for the Hit list, but I find that situation a little more intuitive instead of looking for and chasing some random guy all over town. Okay. Now here's the good! Better graphics, better driving (cars feel heavier, but those with good acceleration feel REAL good), guns feel powerful, the upgrade system is pretty cool, and minigames are still pretty fun. Defend your territory has a mini arcade thing going on where you either survive for X amount of time or kill X amount of people in X amount of waves. Which brings me to another point. Rival gangs will overwhelm you in this game. There are no friendly saints walking down the street to help you out when you get ambushed. if you start trouble with one gang member, you have approximately 10-20 seconds before a carload of guys come to find you, which quickly multiplies until you have at least 4 flaming cars on screen fighting off 15+ attackers. I am not kidding- there will be multiples of times where your map will show a thick red knot of enemies with you at the center. Thankfully, one of the upgrades is calling for backup homies, and it is very satisfying to see those purple cars roll up when you are one bullet away from respawning at the hospital. Buying properties really helps the money system. Im 1/3 through the game, and bought around 65% of the buildings and am making 000 every 15-30... Read more 18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:  Time for some insurance fraud!, = Fun: This review is from: Saint's Row: The Third (Video Game) Saints Row The Third is great fun. Something GTAIV was missing for me. It's got a better engine this time, and the game runs pretty smooth unlike Saints Row 2 which got pretty choppy at some parts. Graphics have a major overhaul. Character creation is some of the best I've ever seen. Controls are also tighter and driving is better. I picked up Saints Row The Third at Midnight and played it for nearly 6 hours straight. Story based missions are awesome. All and all I would recomind this for anyone who likes a open world game and likes a lot of varied side-missions. 8 of 9 people found the following review helpful: Saints Come Blasting In, By TYE JR "CAKEMAN23" (Milwaukee, WI USA) - See all my reviews = Fun: This review is from: Saint's Row: The Third (Video Game) I'd like to start by saying, I bought this game with exceptionally high expectations based off the great impression SR2 left, so all I have to say is... This game blew me away!!! I love the opening story it's directly falls in line with SR2 ending as The Saints regaining their spot and respect as top gang and expanding it into an empire and becoming a celebrity brand. This game comes on with action as you robbing a bank which goes bad and leads to you getting locked up. But some bigshot the leader of The Syndicate gets you released in hopes of you doing business with him and you decide not to then a huge gun fight takes place on his airplane. The Syndicate somehow finds a way to start messing up your money and the war is on from their. Now without giving you anymore spoilers Of course in true Saint Row fashion you have new gangs to face and more obscene gamplay, missions, weapons, customizations and more. This game truly defines open world gaming. The Saints are back and they've proved their here to stay with comfortable controls, better graphics, more comical aspects and much more to offer than past titles. If you looking for an open world game... get this, if you liked Saints Row 1 and Saint Row 2... get this because it won't dissapoint you. Now for my ratings... GRAPHICS 4stars it looks better than the previous titles but not perfect, GAMEPLAY 5stars it feels great, easy and familiar controls, STORYLINE 5stars based upon what I've played so far it's great new gangs in a new city, NEW FEATURES 5stars, SAINTS ROW: THE THIRD 5STARS. |
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