By Lewie Procter on September 12th, 2011 at 10:37 am.
It looks like Volition are not yet finished with their campaign to subvert everyone’s expectations regarding Saints Row: The Third. I thought the craziest it could get is maybe a bigger poo truck than in the second game, but here we see an entire digital world squeezed inside the digital world of Steelport. As Saints Row: The Third’s urban warfare spills over onto the digital cyber-world, it seems like it’s going to take more than just guns, cars and explosives to put the Saints back on top.
Custom soundtrack support please.
Saints Row 3 is due out on November the 15th in North America, and November the 18th in Europe. Here’s what our Alec made of an hour spent playing it last month.
12/09/2011 at 10:41 Longrat says:
Well that wasn’t a very informative article.. Any more screenshots or videos or information at least?
12/09/2011 at 10:45 Shadram says:
This game just went from “awesome” to “AWESOME”. Who needs GTA, anyway?
12/09/2011 at 11:11 LionsPhil says:
I grinned so freaking hard when I saw the little Armour Battle tank game inamongst all the modern third-person glowy shooting.
See, there’s good gameplay hiding in SR3 after all.
12/09/2011 at 10:51 Dawngreeter says:
This can’t possibly be true.
12/09/2011 at 14:17 chrisjr says:
Knowing the saints row series yea, it is
12/09/2011 at 10:55 Dana says:
GTA4 looks like Sims in comparison.
12/09/2011 at 17:15 rayne117 says:
With all these GTA-h8r Saint Row fans out and about, you have me hoping the game will be a huge bust just so I can drink your tears as I drive over 10 pedestrians and watch their bodies realistically flop over my car.
You’re those pedestrians.
12/09/2011 at 18:09 mjig says:
I think for most of us it’s less that we’re “h8rs” and more that the Saints Row series has carried on the true GTA style while GTA4 went off in a different direction. That direction being backwards.
12/09/2011 at 11:03 Eamo says:
Making six seconds of music and looping it for 2 minutes does not a track make.
12/09/2011 at 15:26 Hodge says:
True, it should last at least six.
13/09/2011 at 13:35 Starky says:
It literally is 2 bars of music, looped with no variation except for a brief bit in the middle where he mutes the bass out.
And that is it.
It is a good 2 bars of music, but you’re right, it isn’t a track – it’s a loop.
12/09/2011 at 11:11 thepaleking says:
So when is Saint Rows 3 going to realize how boring our real world is, and morph reality to fit the world of the game?
12/09/2011 at 11:19 GoliathBro says:
Levels of want reaching critical mass.
Take your skyrims and your amalurs and your serious sams and shove it.
GIVE ME THIS NOW
12/09/2011 at 18:13 Felixader says:
I take them if you don’t like them, thank you very much.
12/09/2011 at 11:20 suibriel says:
An ENTIRE digital WORLD?
Whoa! That’s amazing!
Wait.. wait… it says here that… guys, it says here that it’s just a single level. Not sure where you pulled this ‘entire world’ phrase out of. I’ll fire off an email and have them use it on the back of the box though.
12/09/2011 at 11:22 2late2die says:
Wow, this game for me just went from “it’s crazy enough that I might try it” to “holy crap this game is so mad I must try it” :)
12/09/2011 at 11:28 Teddy Leach says:
I’ve pre-ordered it. I can’t take it any more. I want this yesterday.
12/09/2011 at 11:29 bill says:
Deckers is from shadowrun, right?
12/09/2011 at 11:33 Kollega says:
Wow. Just… wow. I did read about this whiny Matt Miller and his gang of “cybergoths”, but i certainly didn’t expect that one of the levels is going to take place in the virtual reality they have built.
When i started saying this game was cyberpunk a month or two back, i certainly wasn’t wrong – it’s the future in the guise of today. And i usually don’t like cyberpunk… but if it has airstrikes, Luchadores, fursuits, and mancannons, i’m certainly gonna make an exception!
12/09/2011 at 16:54 PodX140 says:
Ehh… I wouldn’t call it cyberpunk, even the digital world. it doesn’t give out a futuristic vibe really, just… digital I guess. It looks like crazy club effects or something, but nothing really… punkish about it. Also: That’s just a single level (From what I hear), the inclusion of modern buildings/weapons in the actual game really doesn’t help your case.
12/09/2011 at 11:38 Koozer says:
Thay was a bloody awful collection of looped notes. Doubly bad when Firefox randomly locks up and forces me to hear half of it.
12/09/2011 at 16:33 Dances to Podcasts says:
The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.
18/10/2011 at 14:19 Benga says:
@Dances to Podcasts – bravo sir, well played!
12/09/2011 at 11:41 psyk says:
The markerting for this game is like those film previews that show all the good bits.
12/09/2011 at 11:52 metalangel says:
I am very very wary of this game, after THQ said there were ’40 days of DLC’ and the fact that MX vs ATV: Alive had half the game missing for you to buy separately.
I SHOULDN’T BE MADE TO WORRY LIKE THIS, considering how much I loved SR2.
12/09/2011 at 11:57 MadTinkerer says:
SR3 has a scenario based on (at least) Lawnmower Man crossed with TRON crossed with Hackers crossed with… Tank for the Atari 2600? And the faction’s name is a Shadowrun reference? All right, ALL RIGHT. FINE. I’ll pre-order it! You happy now, THQ?
Sheesh.
12/09/2011 at 22:05 Wulf says:
Hahahaha. That was my reaction, too.
12/09/2011 at 12:57 Alexander Norris says:
This is the first thing that has me mildly interested in SR3, even though it will probably be a one-mission gimmick.
Mostly because “deckers” + TRON.
12/09/2011 at 17:38 DigitalSignalX says:
Same, because this is the first video that actually hints at the plot of the game rather then just “LOOK YOU CAN SHOOT POO. DID YOU SEE THE HUMAN CANON AND GIANT DILDO BAT” in flashing disco.
12/09/2011 at 17:40 Dominic White says:
There’s been three or four ‘serious’ plot-related trailers released already. Not sure what you’re complaining about.
12/09/2011 at 13:40 mjig says:
Love the neon tron cars, I hope they have bikes.
With Saints Row fitting so well into the sort of extreme over the top 80s action movie, it’s weird that the previous games didn’t put more of a focus on 80s soundtracks. Hope we’ll see more in 3, or at least custom soundtrack options.
12/09/2011 at 13:43 Brumisator says:
OMG you can play combat! (atari VCS)
12/09/2011 at 13:44 Urthman says:
Mostly pointless alternate skins unless physics differs in the digital realm.
Fantastic if it does.
12/09/2011 at 15:12 tungstenHead says:
It makes me wonder what else is up the Saint’s sleeve if THQ’s marketing department was willing to spoil *this*.
12/09/2011 at 15:53 shoptroll says:
I don’t know what I just watched but this game is getting awfully tempting.
Shame on Lewie for not linking something from the Tron: Legacy soundtrack. Right city, wrong neighborhood :p
12/09/2011 at 21:57 Wulf says:
Yep. The Tron: Legacy soundtrack was truly magnificent. That’s one track that… oh my gosh, it does weird things to the mind when listening to it if you have even an ounce of romance and/or imagination in you.
(Also… Tron: Legacy was a beautiful film. It was everything that a sequel should be. It not only continued in the spirit of the first film, but it then far surpassed it and took it to heights that a cheesy nerd film from the ’80s could only have dreamed of. There. I’ve said it. I feel better.)
12/09/2011 at 18:12 Zogtee says:
Well, fuck yes.
12/09/2011 at 18:40 kud13 says:
i’m… starting to want this.
and the shadowrun reference was a great touch.
12/09/2011 at 20:53 BathroomCitizen says:
I don’t say this often, but… I’m so going to buy this one.
12/09/2011 at 21:54 Wulf says:
I am highly amused by this silliness. More silly and not-taking-ourselves-so-damned-seriously is required in the gaming industry. This looks so silly as to the point where it could almost have been developed by Cryptic. I appreciate that. Tired of all the po-faced seriousness. Where did the humour of games like Ultima VII go?
Well, this is funny, silly, and… well, I’m going to get this. It’s just too silly.
13/09/2011 at 04:42 PastyAndUnhealthy says:
I can’t possibly be the only one who just said, “Hey, it’s Oracle!”, can I?