With no Grand Theft Auto installment to compete against, gamers ate up the open world adventure, eagerly completing missions to satiate Keith David, purple-clad gang leader of The Saints street gang.
When the first Saints Row came out for the Xbox 360 in 2006, it had the whole place to itself. It’s insanely fun, so incredibly thrilling that you’ll wonder how the rest of the game could possibly keep going like this- and then the pace crashes to a halt. In the first hour of Saints Row: The Third you will rob a bank dressed as a big-headed sports mascot, blow up the building to expose the vault, fend off dozens of attackers while precariously balancing on said vault as it’s airlifted via helicopter, get arrested, break your way out of the cargo plane where you’re being held, grab a parachute and skydive all the way to the ground, killing enemies and dodging debris as you plummet to what counts as safety in this world.
