Review: Saints Row: The Third Remastered (PlayStation 4)

by Jim Smale · May 22, 2020

Saints Row: The Third – Remastered gives you control of the Saints at the height of their power, and you live the life to show for it. This is your City. These are your rules. Remastered with enhanced graphics, Steelport the original city of sin has never looked so good as it drowns in sex, drugs, and guns. Take a tank skydiving, call in a satellite-targeted airstrike on a Mexican wrestling gang, and fight against a highly-trained military force by your lonesome in the most outlandish gameplay scenarios ever seen.

Pros:

Decent graphics.
59.15gb download size.
Platinum trophy.
HDR with setting sliders.
Display settings-film grain/sharpening slider/motion blur/FPS lock.
Invert axis and sensitivity slider.
Campaign-solo and co-op.
3 difficulties-Casual/normal/hardcore.
In-depth character creator.
Opening Heist with tutorial pop-ups.
It contains all previous DLC and cosmetics.
Open world action gameplay.
Play how you want.
Humour and innuendo throughout.
Save when you want.
Earn rep (exp) and level up to unlock new abilities and upgrades.
Crib-your home base where you can change outfits/weapons/vehicles.
Many hidden collectibles from drug packages to sex dolls and more.
Four huge boroughs make up the game map, you can freely go between them from the off.
Radio stations covering many genres from classic to rap to pop.
Mixtape-make your own collection of songs.
Day/night cycle with rain weather effects.
Find and use cheat codes.
Notoriety levels fro each of the factions and a wanted level for police.
Gang wars are everywhere and you can align or attack them as you play.
Phone-home of the map, upgrades, missions, calling in help, or vehicle drop-offs.
Crew-can call reinforcements to help you in gunfights or driving.
Discover activities/missions/shortcuts as you drive around.
Buy businesses around the game world and generate hourly incomes.
Each map part has its own tracker for discoveries/completed activities etc and an overall percentage.
Missions-main story mission, DLC missions, and side missions.
Bonus actives like drive the wrong way, near misses, drive on two wheels, etc. Fill the bar to earn a bonus rep.
Fun activity mini-games to find like timed tank shooting or insurance fraud.
Always something to do.
Fast weapon change wheel.
Fun little interactions like taking selfies, signing autographs.
Minimap.
Uses touchpad.
A lot of Bruckheimer levels of destruction and explosions.

Cons:

Only one control layout.
The slowdown happens a lot.
Slow sluggish gunplay.
Old clunky controls.
Enemies got stuck in walls a lot!
A lot of sexual content.
The main story missions are kind of boring and predictable.
Not a likable group of characters.