Saints Row the Third (the "GTA" game everyone wants)

[OCK]

San Andreas is widely considered the best GTA, fact. Everyone has been crying for another GTA game with the over-the-top style of SA, fact. This November THQ will release a game that is like GTA: SA on a lot of steroids, fact. You want jets? Check. You want to be able to call in air strikes on rival gangs? Check. You want to beat people senseless with something big, long and purple usually used for something else? Check. This and so much more! Watch the vids (WARNING: over-the-top violence and strong language)

[CyberSora]

San Andreas is widely considered the best GTA, fact.

So is GTAIII (I being one of them).

Everyone has been crying for another GTA game with the over-the-top style of SA, fact. This November THQ will release a game that is like GTA: SA on a lot of steroids, fact.

Steroids. Check.

You want jets? Check.

MURMAIDER MURMAIDER MURMAIDER MURDAIDER

You want to be able to call in air strikes on rival gangs? Check.

Airstrikes... wait, this is sounding a lot like Call of Duty now.

You want to beat people senseless with something big, long and purple usually used for something else? Check.

....

Um... a *****?

This and so much more! Watch the vids (WARNING: over-the-top violence and strong language)

[Super over dramatic video number 1.]

[Super over dramatic video number 2.]

[Trailer that looks like something TF2 would have released.]

I'm not interested. I think they're try-harding to make it look like a GTA game. I still enjoy GTAIII, so I'm not going to bother with this. Also, anybody else noticed the car falling randomly near the plane at 15? I call hax!

[OCK]

So is GTAIII (I being one of them).

Yeah I love GTA III but I loved SA more. By definition they can't both be widely considered the best GTA and having observed various message boards over the years SA definitely seems to be the most popular of the bunch.

I'm not interested. I think they're try-harding to make it look like a GTA game. I still enjoy GTAIII, so I'm not going to bother with this.

Almost every game (movie, book, tv show etc) is a derivative of things that came before it. I agree that this has a very similar look to GTA but the overall style has done enough to set itself apart imo. If your still enjoying GTA III does that mean you did not buy any other GTA game since then? lol, don't really understand the logic there but OK.

EDIT: New feature on GTTV

http://www.gametrailers.com/episode/...0x360_1200_m30

[CyberSora]

If your still enjoying GTA III does that mean you did not buy any other GTA game since then? lol, don't really understand the logic there but OK.

I also own GTA: Vice City, GTA: SA, and GTA IV. None of them, however, are as fun as GTA III. I once in a while get bored, so when I feel like playing GTA, I choose III majority of the time. It's just better IMO.

[OCK]

I also own GTA: Vice City, GTA: SA, and GTA IV. None of them, however, are as fun as GTA III. I once in a while get bored, so when I feel like playing GTA, I choose III majority of the time. It's just better IMO.

I figured you played the other GTA's, was actually a bit of a rhetorical question since you used the GTA III example as one of the reasons you would not pick up this game. In regards to "fun" it would seem people have wildly different definitions of the word. When it comes to open-world sand-box style games specifically, I think the more tools you have to cause chaos, destruction, improvisation and general insanity the more "fun" they are, but that's just me

Having said that this will NOT be a day 1 purchase simply because I will be busy playing BF3, UC3 and the all-consuming titan known as Skyrim.

[Lordwarblade]

My favorite was vice city. S.A came a close second i do have all other GTA's even China Town. GTA 4 was rubbish you couldn't do anything so i bought Saints Row 2 to see if it could offer me a better experience. Overall GTA 4 did have a good story but Saints 2 had the fun crazy gameplay, customisation, and everything else GTA 4 failed to give me.

With all the different GTA's that have come out over the years we have had many great experiences and most people played them to just go crazy on the city. I don't know anyone who ever actually finished a GTA other than GTA 3 and Vice city as they were too busy having fun trashing the cities and killing people in extreme and fun ways. Saints row the third looks like it will give me that extreme gameplay i'm waiting for with new and exciting features that i have always wished i could do in any of the GTA's.

I remember in S.A i stole the jump and flew it into the third island before i had even unlocked the 2nd island that to me was amazing as i ran from the military and had a massive shootout at the old abandoned airport. Thats where GTA 4 failed to deliver. There was no fun at all other than the standard missions.

"Having said that this will NOT be a day 1 purchase simply because I will be busy playing BF3, UC3 and the all-consuming titan known as Skyrim. "
So true. With games like BF3, Saints Row 3 and Skyrim how will we ever find the time to go to work.

[Alex™]

SA2 > GTA IV.

That is allllll.

[zzmorg82]

Is this thread even appropiate here? I know it's under general gaming but it has soo much violence.....

Anyway, I'm getting it

[OmegaSlayer]

Oh OCK, what would I do without your gaming threads
I just checked videogaming sites all time, but you have a fun and pro way to make stuff sound interesting.I wasn't intrested in the game, but the more video come out the more interesting it gets.

[OCK]

New IGN preview, sounds...insane.

After playing an hour of Saints Row: The Third, we're about ready to call it the most insane game of the year. And we haven't even played any story missions, yet. We just spent 60 minutes tearing around the fictional city of Steelport, causing as much mayhem and mischief as we could. And we had a blast.

Saints Row: The Third has incentivized f^@$ing around. Everyone loves messing with NPCs, causing destruction, and seeing how high they can get their wanted levels in sandbox games. But here, not only is that stuff good fun, but pretty much everything you do earns you respect points that can be used to upgrade your character.

Here are five of the craziest things we've done so far.

Get an interracial sex change.

Saints Row: The Third lets you customize your character to your own specifically perverted liking. We started out playing as a white dude. Boring, right? So we stopped by the plastic surgeon and before we knew it we were a hot Asian girl. Next, we cranked up our sex appeal until our boobs would give us serious back problems. In order to get the full benefit of our assets, we made our character topless (although the boobs will appear highly pixilated while running around the game). We added a cheerleader miniskirt and, the piece de resistance, a giant wolf head mask.

So our character was a hot Asian girl with huge boobs running around in just a short miniskirt and a wolf mask. Many boyhood fantasies were fulfilled.

The character customization goes much deeper than this example. You can set an age, give yourself blemishes and scars, and even select a voice. Want to be a she-hulk or a 90-year old crack whore zombie? The only limit is your effed up imagination.

Call in an airstrike on...anyone.

Like most open-world games, cause too much trouble and the police will be on your back. A group of squad cars will likely create a road block and the officers will be firing at you from behind their vehicles. But not to worry if you have the airstrike in your arsenal. Simply aim, select your target, and wait a moment while hellfire is rained down upon your enemies. Then you're free to make a clean getaway.

The airstrike is also effective against gang members, old people getting in your way, hippies...pretty much anyone.

Another delightful tool in your inventory is the Reaper Drone, which lets you pilot missiles while you hide from a safe distance.

Play in traffic.

Saints Row: The Third has Insurance Fraud missions, which give you a limited amount of time to cause a certain amount of damage to your own body. We would find a busy intersection and just lay down in the middle, letting tons and tons of metal do their worst to our fleshy frame. Not only is it quite enjoyable to watch yourself be grounded into the cement by a semi truck, but you also earn valuable respect points. Because you're obviously a psychopath, and no one wants to f^@$ with you.

Suck and spit with your Manapult.

The Manapult is a fantastic invention. Part vehicle, part man cannon, anyone you drive over will be sucked into its chamber. They can then be shot out at your leisure and sent splattering all over the walls of Steelport.

Shoot people with mind-controlling, exploding octopi.

The Genki Cannon fires an octopus that will attach to its victim and turn them into mindless, wandering drones. When you feel like it, you can detonate the octopus and take out anything within a small radius.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/118/1187830p1.html

[Lordwarblade]

Haha this game sounds better every time i read something new about it. I really can't wait for it.

[poorjack]

Inadequate game is trying too hard :P

[Alex™]

People who love GTA > 'SR sucks, it's just trying to copy my beloved GTA!'

People who love SR > ' SR is everything GTA used to be, before it got all serious and boring. SR is far better!'

Everyone else > 'I'll just play Skyrim...'

[poorjack]

I love GTA III-San Andreas... But Saints Row is a mediocre product that will never live up to the fun GTA name. Let GTA get better, stop trying to imitate. Also, Skyrim is gon be the bomb

[Alex™]

That is exactly what GTA fans say. I enjoy both games, because I don't compare them all the time. SR is just hilarious fun, it's not meant to be taken seriously. Unfortunatley, GTA is trying to be serious now, which is a pity.