When Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas came out in 2004, it changed the Grand Theft Auto formula, with the protagonist belonging to a gang and gang wars playing a part in the story. In 2006, we got the first Grand Theft Auto type game that revolved around gangs called Saints Row. Over the next five years, two more sequels would be in the Saints Row series: Saints Row 2 & Saints Row: The Third. But Saints Row: The Third was very different from the two games that came before it.
One major difference from the first two Saints Row games was the absence of activities. In the first two games, you would have to stop doing story missions, and you could not continue until you earned enough respect. If you didn’t get enough respect from the story mission, you would have to do activities like Mayhem, bringing cars to a chop shop, and committing insurance fraud. In Saints Row: The Third, these activities may play a part as the objective of some missions, but you didn’t have to look out for activities and keep switching between story missions and activities.
Another way Saints Row: The Third was different from the first two games was melee attacks. You could use melee combat in the first two Saints Row games but it became a whole lot more fun in Saints Row: The Third. You could even pull off DDT’s in Sainrs Row: The Third So the melee combat was alot more fun in Saints Row: The Third.
There is no noticeable difference between this game and the previous Saints Row games. One complaint about the difficulty is that Saints Row: The Third might be too easy. The game starts easy enough, but doesn’t increase in difficulty that much. The hardest part about Saints Row: The Third would be the big enemies called The Brutes.
The controls are very responsive and easy. The controls never failed me, and they are not hard to learn, especially if you played Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, or the previous Saints Row games.
The story of the game starts with the Saints gang robbing a bank. The bank belonged to The Syndicate, which bailed the Saints out of trouble but wants two-thirds of any revenue the Saints acquire. When the Saints respond to that offer, the Syndicate wants to destroy everything the Saints have, The story revolves around the Saints and the Syndicate trying to take out each other completely.
The graphics are not impressive. If you played previous Saints Row games, then the scenery looks the same despite Saints Row: The Third taking place in Steelport, which is like a combination of Pittsburgh and New York City. The first two games took place in Stillwater, which is a fictional city in Michigan, but the environment looks like any metropolitan city in all three of the first Saints Row games.
When you drive a vehicle in Saints Row: The Third, there are plenty of different music genres that you can listen to. The voices of the characters sound believeable So there is nothing I would change about the sound.
Unless you like playing around with the customization options or attacking pedestrians, there is no reason to play Saints Row: The Third once you complete it. When you get to the game, which has two different endings, it lets you experience the other ending after you play the one you originally picked.
Saints Row: The Third is a lot of fun to play, and it’s a very easy game to complete as long as you put the time in. The controls are the same as previous Saints Row games. The story continues the journey of the Saints, and it makes sense except for the virtual reality missions. The graphics are average, and I have no problems with the sound. So I give Saints Row: The Third on Xbox 360 8 out of 10. If you have not played Saints Row: The Third and you enjoyed Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, then you should give Saints Row: The Third a chance.
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