Saints Row: the third, game historians will one day recognize as the first time that GTA-The style version was really fun, it’s true currently free at Epic Game Store.
Originally released in 2011, last year appeared the GTA-like in the murder of the open-fest world, you get a remastered version, updating the graphics to the way you mistakenly remembered them from the first time. At a cost of $ 40, some considered it a steep request for a ten-year-old game; these people are likely to be more susceptible to their current price of nothing.
Saints Row: the third I was, I will argue contentiously, the first good Saints Row game. The first game was a nasty, disgusting misogynistic mess of absolutely embarrassing nonsense. The second game had a strong hangover from that, but it also included a minigame that allowed thousands of gallons of human shit to be sprayed through picketed neighborhoods, so it was significantly better. The third, or indeed Third, finally realized the purpose of the series: not to try to be uncomfortable best friends with disinterested people GTA, but to become a pure cheerful idiocy.
It was, in the most peculiar way, an incredibly mature exploration of incredible immaturity. Totally childish, full of low-fronted gags and undeniably offensive jokes about strip clubs and huge purple dildos, it was also a game that allowed so much nonsense to be part of its core that at some point it became a text adventure. .
He is sexist. Let’s not pretend it’s not. It is uncomfortable in some places. But at the same time, it was one of the first times I remember playing a game as a female character, and making me notice the game and refer to it as such, included in all the recorded dialogues. In fact, I played as a Latin woman and again I would find it hard to think of another game before 2011 that included this fact as one of several options. Meanwhile, the Saints gang has as many women as men, and they are interestingly varied and represented. This was something other games just weren’t doing. This makes it a shame that all the other women in the game were inevitably in bras and were called “bitches”.
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Now I will infuriate all those dedicated more Saints Row II fans, who inevitably already left comments before they read this far, saying that the best real game in the series was Saints Row IV, because he took the absolute madness of Third, and I included it, including the funniest script of all the games I’ve ever played. It was a game that hired the original actors to recreate the file They live fight scene. This cannot be overcome.
I’m a little disappointed to learn that the developers of Volition consider the series to have gone too crazy, with the intention of rewinding it per restart the franchise next year. Boo, dic. Cowards, I tell them. There is always a more stupid place to go, however, there are almost never games.
But you weren’t here for John’s History Lessons on Why You’re Wrong About Saints Row, you’re here because you read the word “free” in the headline. So go to Epic Games Store, and you can add it to your account without spending your money. Joins OK-ish FPS rogue-lite Empty bastards and nostalgic third-person platform game, similar to Rare Yooka-Laylee being free this week.