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Oh yes, Saints Row 3 a.k.a. the Third has been announced! Not much yet, though there are two Game Informer covers on-line and a hopeful taste of the insanity that's bound to come.
Will have to keep an eye out for it then as I enjoyed the last two. Not so much for the stupid gang stuff, but more because they're fun like GTA used to be.
Nothing is known as of yet other than you going to a new city: Steelport.
I never did like the gang stuff myself, but other than that one of my personal top three games of all time. This is everything GTA should've been, to me.
I love the second game, so will be keen on this. I didn't really care for the gang stuff either, just found it an amusing aside to the game. I hope they don't make it serious like the pile of m'eh that was GTA IV.
I played SR and SR2 because I could drive a bulldozer everywhere over everything while dressed like a mime and blaring classical music through the sound system. Gang stuff? IDEK what you guys are talking about.
I liked the first one for the sheer amount of OTT hilarity. Hopefully if there's a PC port, it's done WAY the hell better than SR2 though. God there were some TERRIBLE flaws with that.
BrookM wrote:Tell me about it, I got it for both 360 and PC, 360 version is way better.
Here's hoping we can pimp helicopters, planes and boats as well now!
Not to mention all the DLC was 360 Only. If a company wants to repeatedly punch themselves in the groin, that's certainly one way of going at it.
It was good DLC though, I got most of them. The SWAT uniform is fun to wear during the chopper missions and lo and behold, finally a female hairstyle that doesn't suck.
Yea I just Downloaded Gentlemen of the Row mod, which gives me all the DLC and NPC clothes. I kitted myself up in Purple Swat Gear to look like my gang members with the PMC gear. Add some purple, decal-less APCs, purple Humvees, a few purple jeeps and some purple attack choppers and transport helos and I had an honest to god private army
Honestly, I feel like this game, judging by the description they gave it, is really making a statement in the Hip-Hop industry.
I might just be reading into it too much, but it sounds like they're talking about going up against the famed Industry Illuminati.
I don't know how many of you believe in that gak, like the Illuminati are destroying artists and such (Tupac, Eminem, DMX) but it sounds very familiar.
Okay, my interest is piqued. I heard a lot of good things about the first two, so I hope this one is good as well, and on the PC.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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More of the same is always good, especially paired with those extreme forms of revenge that the Boss has shown with, for example, the Brotherhood.
Spoiler:
"You refuse my offer, here have some radioactive tattoo ink. You kill one of my dudes, okay. I'll kidnap your bitch girlfriend, toss her in the booth of her car and let you run over her with your monster truck. Allow me to gloat now."
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BrookM wrote:More of the same is always good, especially paired with those extreme forms of revenge that the Boss has shown with, for example, the Brotherhood.
Spoiler:
"You refuse my offer, here have some radioactive tattoo ink. You kill one of my dudes, okay. I'll kidnap your bitch girlfriend, toss her in the booth of her car and let you run over her with your monster truck. Allow me to gloat now."
This was my favorite cutscene. R.I.P. Carlos. (or whatever his name was...)
BrookM wrote:More of the same is always good, especially paired with those extreme forms of revenge that the Boss has shown with, for example, the Brotherhood.
Spoiler:
"You refuse my offer, here have some radioactive tattoo ink. You kill one of my dudes, okay. I'll kidnap your bitch girlfriend, toss her in the booth of her car and let you run over her with your monster truck. Allow me to gloat now."
This was my favorite cutscene. R.I.P. Carlos. (or whatever his name was...)
Yeah, it was Carlos. And it was a fun cut scene depending on what your character is wearing. It's funny to see the boss in a bikini with mime paint pulling that gun from nowhere and giving the sad angry look as Carlos joined Old Yeller.
Speaking of fun moments in the game with your own character:
Some ideas are just too extreme to put in a videogame, even when that game is the new Saints Row.
Saints Row: The Third's senior producer, Greg Donovan, says that Volition, the studio behind the series, is playing it by ear when it comes to deciding what is and isn't appropriate for the game. He compared it to "defining porn," saying that there were no hard and fast rules, but that the studio knew it when it saw it.
Despite the Saints Row series' rather tongue-in-cheek, cartoonish violence, Donovan said that some of the ideas that people came up with went further than Volition was willing to go. As an example, he described one weapon that won't be appearing in the game: the fart in a jar grenade. The idea was that the jar contained flatulence so terrible that anyone caught in the blast would be too busy vomiting to engage in combat. Apparently, some of the team liked the concept, but others weren't so keen, so Volition decided to scrap it.
Donovan said that other suggestions that people had come up with were so bad that he didn't even want to repeat them, which is quite remarkable when you consider how violent and/or over the top some of Saints Row 2 was. While it won't be as bad as it could have been, THQ is boasting that Saints Row: The Third will feature some of the most "outlandish gameplay scenarios" around. Some of the things that the game does include are skydiving with tanks, airstrikes on Mexican gangs, and fighting off military personnel with a sex toy.
Saints Row: The Third is penciled in for release on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in the fourth quarter of this year.
