Saints Row the third

I've tried to refrain from cursing in the vain hope that one day a prospective employer may stumble across my words of wisdom and think, wow this is the guy we need (fat chance) well anyway that refrain has come to an end for reviewing Saints Row as after playing the game you just can't help but think What The Fuck!?!

I have played both of the previous games and enjoyed them for what they are, a light hearted over the top GTA for people that think GTA is too stuck up its own arse, well in this third incarnation of Saints Row thinks just got a whole more fucking crazy.

Just hangin out with my homies

I think the developers just got to the stage where, after sticking to GTA's style for the most part they just thought, you know what Fuck It! this is our game and we'll do what we want. Gratuitously Big tits or willies? check, 12 inch purple dildo's? why not? The scene out of the A team involving a tank? How about we turn it into a full on battle scene.

The game is quite simply bonkers.

You all know the premise by now so there is not really that much to say about that other than sandbox game, free roaming world, crazy side missions including escort, insurance fraud etc etc been there done that got the t-shirt.

I must say that although it certainly won't win awards for originality I enjoyed almost every minute of playing the game.

However where I feel the game does fall flat from time to time, in particular the parts of the game involving freefall from planes, buildings or any other highup places (more frustrating than enjoyable) I must say that the game does have generally have more hits than failures.

What I will say is that I played through the game in probably less than a week so despite all the extra things to do, the main story is quickly despatched with, and to be honest not all that great. I didn't really care who I was blowing the shit out of and who my allies were (although Hulk Hogan showing up as a luchalibre is always going to be cool) In fact where I always felt the story was pushing the game along somehow in previous Saints Row games, the story this time is simply just about setting up another epic fight/battle scene.

Just your average trip down the road to pick up some milk

Not that that is a big issue, as I'm pretty sure most people picking up Saints Row are going to be expecting a plot more like Crank than The Godfather and they would be pretty pleased with the outcome. It's definitely more popcorn, brain at the door, than Oscar worthy.

In regards to the game itself I also think that by including tanks, combat helicopters and other military spec weaponry the game is made a lot easier, as you can simply jump in a tank and go nuts to complete a lot of missions. Other missions were I was supposed to be guarding/escorting homies only ended up in failure due to my carpet bombing the area around them with missiles (and the vehicle they were in unfortunately)  as opposed to the enemy actually posing a threat. Now of course no one is saying you have to use this weaponry that is at your disposal but hey why give it me if that's the case?

On the whole I found Saints Row a good bit of fun from beginning to end and worthy of any other 18 gamers time, if only because it wants you to, you know, actually enjoy the game and have fun, something many games nowadays seem to forget somewhere along the way.

So I give Saints Row an emphatic 8 inch dildo out of 10