With the recent release of Saints Row: The Third, fans of the series couldn’t help but realize a change in the way the game was presented. The sole aspect of Saints Row: The Third is comedy. The once comedic yet hardcore gangster game is now full of jokes, gags, strange weapons, and crazy characters. A series that so well focused on street life has now turned its attention to gimmick groups that call themselves crime rings and a phony playable movie. With what Saints Row: The Third had to offer, I see that the game has turned its back on the series true fans and promoted it the way were they would see the most sells. After all who cares about their true fans when they can makes some extra cash… right?...
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With Saints Row 3 they found there niche. GTA has seemingly abandoned that silly, do anything that you want sandbox approach, and it's truly refreshing to see Saints Row 3 capture that back.
Slapping people with dildos, driving 100mph on a hoverbike, jumping out of a parachute from a jet seconds before colliding into a building. Juevnile? Yeah, very. But at the same time all the sillyness reminded me why I loved video games in the first place.
Saints Row being non silly equates to nearly every other open world game out there. Saints Row being over the top in every single aspect is something that no open world game does today.
i got what u mean, but gta was never as silly as sr3, not even close, it was a mix of crazy things with some maturity
i hated the first 2 games, they WERE just gta rip offs and SR3 is AMAZING, i adore the direction they are taking with the series and can't wait for more.
and to Ape007,
your wrong, gta used to feature electric guns, running over elvis's and driving on roof tops, if anything gta has lost its roots
No they weren't. Did they do some unique things? Sure, the narrative in terms of gangs and stuff is interesting...but the narrative was always shitty.
The only thing I don't like is the lack of customization options in saints row 3.... The Superior I'm sort of puzzled as to what you miss so much from the previous games? I brushed through the narratives for both games...again the narratives where interesting for one time but that's all. All the times I played Saints Row was purely to roam around and cause mayhem and have fun. Saints Row 3 accomplishes this. I'm good.
Replay them? For the narrative? Seriously? Are you standards that low? Maybe some of the missions were a tad more intersting... I would agree. But let's not fool ourseleves. RDR had a brilliant narrative, that was emotional and heartfelt. Saints Row is a generic gangster tale was horribly written script and narrative.
Saints Row games have always been about juvenile stupidity and I loathed the "main character" even though he/she was a created character...utterly reprehensible.
I think I see TheSuperior's point but at the same time everyone else makes the right call in saying Saints Row 3 is not even remotely similar to GTA anymore.
For me, the first two games were like terrible versions of True Crime: Streets of LA (not that awful Streets of NY) but a lot less fun and less RPG'y and had less over-the-top action. The third game sort of aims to create its own comedic open-world sub-niche and while I don't like it, it seems to work for the series.
The Saints Row games were waaaay too easy for my taste and the only fun part was customization.
comparing it with gta 4, well, saints row the third have much more things to do than gta 4, sr 3 is crazier than gta 4, BUT in terms of game quality, gameplay quality, graphics, art, atmosphere, city design, settings, characters, story, attention to detail, physics, weather effects, car handling, car physics, sound quality, main character, voice acting, radio stations and overall feel/personality, nothing comes close to grand theft auto IV
I give sr3....8.5-8.8
gta 4....9.5-9.6
I can do without another stereotypical gangster rags-to-riches storyline. Give me something unique like SR3.
Still enjoy it though.
Don't judge!
I had thought before playing the game that SR3 would be far too over the top, but it actually was a good mix. The craziness might have been a bit too much at times, but all in all it worked out pretty well.
The basic idea of SR might have come from GTA - but it's clear that they've always wanted to take SR in a different direction than GTA. If you can't see that, then you'll always see SR as a cheap rip-off of GTA.