Saints Row: The Third Remastered Review – Dumb Fun With A Slick Coat Of Paint
If you’ve never ever played a Saints Row video game in the past, particularly this set, that may seem a little over-the-top, however let me guarantee you – that hardly scratches the surface area. Saints Row: The Third is wild from beginning to end. This is a video game that lets you provide your personalized criminal offense manager bright blue skin, freakishly out of proportion functions as well as a zombie voice which they’ll after that make use of to sing along to Sublime’s ‘What I Got’ on the cars and truck radio on their means to purchase brand-new threads. Every little thing right here is 100% outrageous, from the way your character leaps through windscreens to get in vehicles to the collection of weapons that goes from normal gun fare to ‘dildo bat’ and also ‘octopus launcher’ real fast. In its prime the collection had grown to be the antithesis to the similarity Grand Burglary Automobile’s significantly mature (to utilize the term loosely) instructions as well as by The Third, the rulebook had actually been tossed out the home window, shed, urinated on as well as grunted in a strip club bathroom.
That allegory is a proper one, because Saints Row is a collection not known for subtlety in its themes. There’s actually no navigating the truth that Saints Row: The Third’s ‘character’ hasn’t aged well. While I’m far from opposed to a healthy dosage of meaningless physical violence with a side of toilet humour the game is significantly an item of 2011, completing an unlimited parade of poor jokes about dubstep and also autotune with a tiresome assisting of casual queerphobia and also appropriative AAVE.
It includes the area of course, as well as followers will either not care or currently be prepared to cringe at points that they used to delight in. Still it’s a little alarming to load the video game up and also be welcomed by a primary menu option labelled ‘Whored Setting’ in 2023, which I battle to think any person also located funny nine years back. The video game’s characters are in fact relatively well-written and also intriguing at least, and also the overarching narrative isn’t without quality, plus when the jokes do land they can be rather amusing. One of the earliest gags includes a character asking how far away their rescue helicopter is, to which the solution is ‘about two waves of S.W.A.T. people away’. Normally, the player after that fights two waves of S.W.A.T. men while waiting on their trip.
On the visual side of points is where the Remaster label really enters into play, as well as it’s actually magnificent outstanding. There’s practically no element of the presentation that hasn’t been touched, with a laundry list of upgraded graphical functions fresh ambient occlusion as well as international lighting designs, HDR, literally based rendering, volumetric fog impacts, lit fragments and tons much more. Personality designs for primary characters have actually been completely reconstructed, and secondary NPCs, vehicles, world geometry, structures etc have all been revamped as well as a lot more. The city population itself has actually been increased too, really feeling far more to life with vehicles and also pedestrians than the original, which was a significant issue at the time. The result is fairly transformative, as well as the initiative that Accord has actually mosted likely to is far more than the straightforward up-res that I expected. The only disappointment is that (likely due to all the brand-new bells as well as whistles) the video game still goes for 30fps on console, with an option to open the framerate that doesn’t help all that much.
