Saints Row didn’t have a whole lot to recommend it when compared to the various Grand Theft Autos.
The two things it had going for it were that you could visit everywhere within minutes of starting the game (compared to GTA making you stay on this particular corner until you finished certain missions) and that you could customize your particular player (for my part, I made my guy look like a 6’4″, worked out whenever he wasn’t at the buffet, version of me).
That said, you get to be a crime boss, you get to be your own boss, you get to be an agent of chaos. When isn’t it fun to drive cars through red lights knowing that there are no real-world repurcussions?
With that said, Saints Row The Third is coming out soon and IGN has a trailer for it. And I can’t wait. Except for the fact that I’m still in homicide in LA Noire…
