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With 8 main race/gender combinations, a spectrum of body types, and 7 different voices/personalities, there’s something for everyone, whether that means recreating who you are in-game or choosing something more out there. Like every good Saints Row game, Saints Row: The Third Remastered offers a generous character customization that still feels fairly limitless even in 2020. Where the fourth installment was purely deranged, Saints Row: The Third Remastered has both feet planted in reality with its head in a carefully crafted chaotic cloud. Missions run the gamut from taking over turf from the three different gangs that comprise the Syndicate to gimp-racing down the streets of Steelport (you read that right). With their main muscle Johnny Gat presumed dead, the remaining Saints vow to take Steelport from the Syndicate, starting from the bottom and rising to the top, kicking ass all along the way. Our story begins in true Saints Row fashion, with an absolutely ridiculous opening sequence starting out with the Saints robbing a bank in Stilwater at the height of their power to being kidnapped by the Steelport Syndicate, escaping from a plane 30,000 feet in the air not once, but twice, and landing smack dab in the middle of Steelport without a penny to their name (literally). Do the jokes and themes hold up nearly a decade later? Is a graphics overhaul enough to pull players, both old and new, into the fold? That’s what Saints Row: The Third Remastered sets out to do, and, in my opinion, these Third Street Saints absolutely came marching in, beating the doors down and proving they’ve got a timeless classic on their hands.

However, 2011 was a different time, and a lot of the gameplay was raunchy, shocking, and unique for the PS3 era. And while I honestly prefer the delightfully deranged gameplay that is Saints Row IV, I’d have to agree with the masses - Saints Row: The Third is when the series blossomed into its own. Getting back in the Saints Flow of thingsĪlthough the fourth installment of the Saints Row franchise has my heart, the general consensus amongst fans is that Saints Row: The Third is objectively the best of the bunch.