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It is impossible to fairly review this game without mentioning the Grand Theft Auto series. So, here's how I'll describe it. Take Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and crank it up to 11. Streamline the gameplay, improve the experience in general, and make everything about 400 times crazier.
Still comparing it to GTA:SA, here are a few differences to illustrate what makes this game stand out from its genre.
-Remember how the gangs of GTA were all pretty much regular street thugs wearing different colors? Well now replace them with Mexican Lucha wrestlers with monster trucks, or neon cyberpunk emo hackers who are really fun to kill.
-Remember how you started off GTA with several midair gunfights? No? Oh, my bad. That's new. You're gonna love that part.
-Remember the way you could just take any vehicle and drive it around and rampage as you please? Well now your vehicles will include a tigercycle with a flamethrower in its mouth, and a cat-faced truck that sucks people up to shoot them out of a cannon, to mention a few.
-Speaking of vehicles, remember how you could customize your favorite car and then cry when it gets blown up? Well in this game if that happens in you can go back home and it's mysteriously back in your garage again. Or you can go to any of your other homes and your vehicles will be there too. Or you can use your phone to call "vehicle delivery" and get it brought to your location immediately. Why? Because SR3 knows it's a game and it wants to be fun. It doesn't have to be "realistic".
-Remember in GTA (and every other game ever) how you had to occasionally swim really far and it was boring as hell? Now you can press E and simply warp to the shore. Why? Because everyone hates "the water level".
-Remember the crazy characters? Oh, you've seen nothing yet. Wait'll you meet the blinged-out pimpest of pimps, who uses his golden cane as an auto-tune voicebox to sing through his tracheotomy hole.
-You know how lots of games let you customize a character? Well forget about them because this game takes that to a whole new level too. Stop in at a surgery shop and you can change anything about your character. You can do damn near anything you want. Wanna play a naked 300 lb woman with a neon pink afro like they did in HAWP? Go for it. Wanna be Captain Planet? They've got shiny blue skin and green mullets, so that's a start. Feel like making yourself a zombie? How original. Go for it!
-Remember the activities? Oh what fun you had, parking cars as a valet or putting out fires as a fireman. They've got activities in this game too, though. But now they're more like "Kill gangsters from a helicopter with a rocket launcher", or "take this tank and blow s*** up", and my personal favorie, the Japanese-style game show where you murder your way through a disturbingly happy and colorful maze of death traps and fuzzy mascots! (Imagine "MXC" meets "The running man")
For real though, this game is incredible. It is ultraviolent, vulgar, irreverent, and absurd in so many ways. It parodies other games, society, pop culture, and even itself. You can't help but love it. The missions are never boring, the challenge level is always well balanced, and there is a huge variety of things to do.
My only complaint about the PC version is that it may be hard to show off to your friends because not everybody feels comfortable using a mouse and keyboard and/or sitting at your computer desk (especially considering all the disgusting things you probably do there, you sick person you).
If you get it for a console it may be easier to get a pal to pick up the game and try out the co-op campaign or just screw around blowing s**t up.
Also, I should add that I actually bought it on steam which is much better than Amazon's download service. I'm only reviewing it here because I felt like writing about how awesome this game is, and most game sites are blocked at work so I'm doing it here instead. Speaking of which I'm about to get yelled at so I better get back to work.
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Everyone talks about the game itself so I won't bother going there, I will say though in regards to the steam key you get 1 key for the whole package. This is unlike the Darksiders franchise pack deal which is also currently running and gives you like 10000 steam keys, one for each little thing.1 steam key for this Saints Row package might be fine if you dont have the game already (even saves you having to put in multiple keys) but for those who already own parts of this game, this might be something to be aware of because you can't give away those parts you already own.
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