What clearly could have been better in this remaster is how the game handles. Saints Row The Third trademark insanity remains an enduringly strong selling point.
It’s a minro grumble, granted, but you could argue a tweak here and there wouldn’t have gone amiss. The UI hasn’t received the same level of attention sadly, still pretty much as it was, and not even spruced up a little. The result of that is a better flow and transition between the journey and the mission. The changes to textures, lighting, and ambient city noise make it a far more interesting place to travel around than before though, which in turn eases the previously dreary downtime between the insanity. Saints Row The Third Remastered goes some way to addressing that problem, even if Steelport still isn’t up there with gaming’s most memorable cities due to an uninspired layout. One of the biggest criticisms I could make of the Saints Row titles is that while the actions in the world these colorful characters inhabit are loud and over the top, the cities themselves are terribly forgettable bland things. Fans of wanton destruction will find their appetite satiated to say the least. Weather changes felt arbitrary in the original version of Saints Row The Third, but here, thanks to the improved lighting and textures, there’s a real shift in how the city feels depending on the time of day. The lighting is easily the most noticeable change, with the city of Steelport draped in bewitching hazy sunsets and the scuzzy glow of neon at night. Character models get a hearty tune-up (well, the important ones anyway), and textures, in general, have been kicked up a generation. I kept going back to a copy of the original game for comparison and the visual upgrade is significant. On the surface, the remaster is an impressive one. Surely then, a remaster should only require a simple sprucing up of a winning formula? Well, the game certainly needed some tweaks to fit in nicely with more modern open-world efforts, so a simple touch up isn’t really going to be enough. Even on just its open world fundamentals, Saint Row The Third Remastered is commendably great. It revels in mayhem and absurdity, and naturally that makes it a hoot to play most of the time. As you probably know, it doesn’t end up being quite as simple and serious as that sounds.ĭuring the story, your gang boss will have a low-speed chase featuring gimps, take on a luchador, participate in an extreme game show, literally ride through cyberspace, and face a race against time whilst belting out Bonnie Tyler, and that’s just a smattering of the strange, smutty, and silly things Saints Row The Third throws at you. So you, Shaundi, Pierce, and a growing collection of eccentric supporting characters set out to take the city of Steelport from your rivals, and restore the natural order.
Of course, it all comes crashing down as rival criminal organizations team up to drive the Saints out of business for good.
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