

The gang’s notoriety gives the player access to powerful weapons right from the start. Citizens clamor to get a Saints autograph, even when the gang is robbing a bank!

They are a branded image that people love and adore. The Saints are at the top of their game and are celebrities in the city of Steelport. You are the leader of the Saints gang and you can fully customize your character to be whatever you want him or her to be. Saints Row: The Third (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC) In fact, one of the first things I witnessed in Saints Row: The Third was the main character hitting pedestrians with a giant, floppy, purple baseball bat dildo. Volition seems to share my feelings - from day one of the development of Saints Row: The Third, their goal was to “create the most ridiculous, over-the-top, guilty-pleasure experience ever found in a videogame.” I got a small, hands-off taste of what the next Saints Row game is all about, and it’s easy to see that Volition is making good on that.

Even games that appear like they will be goofy keep adhering to a degree of realism. Videogames are a portal to do stuff you’d never be able to do in real life, yet most games out there try to capture realistic experiences. I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to get pretty tired of how serious games are these days.
