Welcome to our review of Saints Row The Third Remastered, the third game of the Saints Row franchise, and a beloved fan favorite.
Saints Row The Third Remastered gives you control of the Saints at the height of their power, and you live the life to show for it. This is your City. These are your rules. Remastered with enhanced graphics, Steelport the original city of sin, has never looked so good as it drowns in sex, drugs and guns. Take a tank skydiving, call in a satellite-targeted airstrike on a Mexican wrestling gang, and fight against a highly-trained military force by your lonesome in the most outlandish gameplay scenarios ever seen.
As I am not a fan of this genre, I cherished the fact that this third installment was at least going to be the very best according to my gaming friends and I had hopes that I would like the game and well, to be very blunt, I did not fully enjoy myself due to its mechanics hurting my gameplay. I felt this game played slowly and while it did look prettier than the original, I wonder if that really is enough.
Making a nine-year-old game look pretty in 2020 seems to be anything but the hardest thing to do by the many talented developers across the world. What I would have liked though is some more fluidity in its gameplay. The game plays surprisingly slow in many scenes and well, even tweaking the controls did not fix my issue with this aspect of the game. It always took like a double second to aim for the next target but grabbing someone was incredibly smooth…
And this inconsistency became the norm in this game.
Driving the car, for example, was so nice, I almost felt like I was in a racing game. The sound effects while driving cracked me up more than once. The one time I heard someone say to not hit them, it was like an open invitation to do just so. I do sometimes wish there was some more information on what to do. When escorting the bomb by chopper for example.
I had no indication which chopper was friendly or not and I did check out some youtube videos where the players did have indicators. When restarting the chapter though, they did appear and I had no screenshot of the glitch sadly. It also just happened once, must have been my luck right?
Storywise, remasters never reinvent the wheel or the hot water so I will not go into details here, graphics however do come to mind. Overall, this game just feels like it is very modern, but with a twist. The twist being that all the rhythm changes I encountered took away from my enjoyment. The game looks great, but sadly plays awkwardly at times.
In conclusion, if you loved playing the game the first time around and want to go at it again, this is the best way to do so. In itself, the game had its downsides and that is represented in my score…
