six years later and the third, more or less, holds up
absurdity is, for all intents and purposes, the name of the game here. going into playing saints row: the third 6, almost 7 years after its release i had a decent idea of what to expect. some genuinely funny one-liners sprinkled in and around the action. explosions and lots of them. also, dildos. when everything was said and done, that's what i got. at the end of my 15 or so hours, i was highly satisfied recording sixties sci fi action movie sequences, invading cyberspace as a laser shooting toilet/sex doll and kidnapping b-grade tv stars as a sexy pope, just to name a few of the 'activities.' this isn't a game without caveats, however. being a moderately old video game, there are some aspects to it that don't totally hold up. there are parts of the writing/humor that straight up miss the mark (which is to be expected with how sophomoric the game is on the whole) and the open world movement/combat was too floaty for my likes, although it doesn't detract from the experience as a whole. to wrap it up, if you're looking to return to a video game buried deep in your pile of shame, you could do MUCH MUCH worse than saints row: the third. ultimately, despite showing some minor signs of age, the third is the same experience had by most in 2011.
