Saints Row 3 Full Package Vs Remastered

[Candi Ruman]

Youcan really tell this is a game from 2011, though. The gunplay can sometimes be a little unsatisfying as hitboxes are intermittent at best and some guns are so woefully underpowered that until you upgrade them they almost feel useless. There are still way too many escort missions with difficulty spikes that can occasionally take the fun out of the experience. Oh, and those brutes are just as ridiculously fast, despite being built like tanks. You can tell no changes have been made to Saints Row: The Third's mechanics, just technical changes to make it fit on Switch.

Dom kicked off his games writing career first as a production assistant at Future, then as Production Editor for Official PlayStation Magazine UK. He became Editor at Nintendo Life in December 2017 before pivoting into a career in marketing.

Glad to hear it runs well. Will definitely pick it up now. Still my favorite one in the series, besides the first. 2 was great, and more grounded, but it has aged horribly. This holds up nice, and doesnt peter out halfway through, like 4 does. Love those powers tho.

NL confuses me sometimes. Only a 7? Oh well. I`ll wait for the day-one patch, and subsequent reviews, but as long as the frame rate is steady, I`ll get it for sure. Rockstar doesn`t want my money, so Saints Row it is.

Docked is another story... It consistently dips to the low 20s (maybe lower) when craps popping off and stuff is exploding (which is what this game's all about). There's painfully obvious pop-in whenever you're flying. The textures are bad.

"We might not ever get a Grand Theft Auto on Switch, but this is probably the next best thing."

Honestly, looking at GTA now I could care less if one makes it to Switch or not. Unless if real changes were made to make the next GTA anything but a rehash, I can't care for GTA as much as I used to back in the day anymore.

@Dm9982 Agreed. I think the last GTA I enjoyed was San Andreas. After that, I haven't played much of the series, though when I played through V a fair amount I realized that those days of me doing all sorts of weird stuff around a digital city were over. I just lost interest and motivation to keep going.

@Agramonte Yeah, anything below 30 fps should DEFINITELY be mentioned even if the dips into the 20s are relatively brief. Hopefully they can add a performance mode/high frame rate mode for docked play.

I've already preloaded it and plan to play it docked. I now wish I had never read the comments below the review. I spent about an hour last night trying to decide whether to buy Final Fantasy X/X2 or Saints Row 3 and Observer, I decided for the latter combo as I'm knee deep in Dragons Dogma and wanted a fun GTA style game on Switch. Hopefully it'll be patched soon.

I loved this game and having it on a portable is amazing. This 7 honestly makes me makes it hard for me to take this reviewers scores seriously. Just two months ago he gave RICO an 8/10 and that game has always been a buggy mess that never got the patch it desperately needs. It also turned out to be a very repetitive one trick game that got old after an hour. Saints Row 3 is a game where you are just barely starting to dive into it's depth an hour in.

@Indominus_B that's the way its always been though, humans basing their choices based on other humans. Reviews have been around for over 50 years in the current style, so its nothing new. What is relatively new is the amount of money a publisher has to pay a reviewer to get a certain rating, which is probably why all the reviews for this game come out at 7 - because that's how much the publisher wants to pay for the review.

Anyway, where can we play this game for free before buying so we can review ourselves? I'm not sure there is an option for that!

I really liked the game when I played it on the 360 back in 2011 and I'll probably buy it for Switch eventually. Hopefully if this game finds some moderate success SquareEnix takes note and ports over Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition. I like SR 3 but Sleeping Dogs is one awesome open world game, very underrated.

I get the feeling you are talking a load of bull. You are one of those types who will side with a review if it agrees with your pre conceived notion of a game and deny any review that contradicts that view.

Snagged myself an early copy and put about 5 hours into it last night. Loving playing in handheld mode so haven't even tried it docked, but very happy with the game so far...as outlandish as I remember, still funny and despite a little bit of a deadzone on the left stick (especially when driving) i'm having a blast. Managed to get it for 30 with delivery so well chuffed.

I look to reviews for information on features etc and any negatives that stand out. In this case we have one site saying the game runs terribly compared to a 13 year old console and another site saying the game runs fine. How the game actually runs should be a factual thing rather than an opinion and that is why it stuck out for me.

99% of the time I already know I am getting a game before any reviews etc come out and rarely do they influence my buying decision. What I do pay more attention to is word of mouth from the general gaming community. Most recent example is God of War, I had no interest but the vast majority of normal gamers who played it kept saying how amazing it was. I bought God of War at the start of the year and I am on my third playthrough. Astounding game.

Well, I'm a big fan of GTA series, but Saints Row always caught my attention. Still have to finish SR1, but I had little doubts when I saw the price of this release I passed on when it was released on Xbox 360.

What I don't understand, thought, is the line about technical changes made to make it fit into the Switch. I mean, people has been saying a lot that the Switch should be technically superior to PS360, so... why technical changes had to be made here? As in "cuts"? I don't get it.

Definitely other reviews and people are pointing out the performance problems. I'm a on-the-go player (I don't have the time at home, and when I have it I give love to my Xboxes), but if I ever wanted to play on TV I would hate to see it perform badly. I'm considering re-selling the game and buying it on Xbox 360 instead, knowing that the DLC is on disc and can buy it second-hand.

@Ricochet72 Good point. The thing is this kind of game is something I like to play sitting on my couch, possibly with a beer near my hand. But I liked the idea of playing it on the go for once... until I started seeing all these bad reviews in the graphics and performance department. That's certainly disappointing.

For all those that complain about the different opinions between IGN and Nintendo Life's reviews, buy the game, play it and then complain either here or there. But mind you, complain AFTER you play it.

@Stocksy 7 is a good score based on number alone, don't forget that taste differs from person to person and that 7 could easily be an 8 to you as well. This is why i take reviews for games & films/anime with a pinch of salt.. Not everyone has the same taste.

Definite discount buy for me. Picked it up for PC at a price near to nothing, so can't get myself to pay this price for it. Still really want it as this is as close to a new GTA experience as it's gonna get for now.

I'm not going to criticize the way Dom reviews games, it's his right to do however he sees fit. But I also was reading great things in this review until I bumped into the relatively low score. Doesn't quite match. But hey, I know a guy that every time he says he loves a game he gives it a 6 or a 7, so it must be that.

I'm waiting for the results of day 1 patch before I unseal my copy. I understand one has to judge after trying things first-hand, but if I don't like it, its price will tank if I've unsealed it already, so... And it's not like I can't have the exact same game on another system, and a little cheaper, so I think it'll be wise to wait a little. And if I don't like what I read I'll sell it.

About people relying too much on others' opinions... well, it's true, but what do we have to do? Buy mindlessly? Like we were casual Wii owners of the kind that only bought movie licensed crappy games? I don't think so. We all have limited budgets, space and spare time, so we have to make informed purchase decisions. I'd love to buy things without the influence of other people, but I'm not rich, so I have to base my decisions on something.

How can they say it runs well and looks good? It doesn't! The game looks worst than on 360 docked and the framerate consistently drop below 30. On top of that there is no antialiasing! This review is not so honest.

@Indominus_B

Can't speak for anyone else but I'm more concerned about how the switch runs the game. There seems to be quite a bit of difference depending on which review you read! I'm all for making my own opinion about a game but for the price of this port it doesn't hurt to do a bit of research to make sure it runs well before dropping your money on it.

I am hoping that between the various users and reviewers having different experiences with the framerate that this isn't a problem solved by the old turning off the switch completely after dl trick. It would really be ridiculous if the reviewers didn't try that.

@LOZ_Master95 I haven't been liking Dom's reviews around this site because they seem to lack honesty and consistency. Like he will review a buggy indie game and give it a very high score while never really mentioning it's issues and then he will give a lower score to a better game that has it's own issues he won't really get into either.

It's like I got nothing personal against the guy but my issues with his reviews goes well beyond disagreeing with an opinion. He just never seems to address things that he should and the way he scores games is inconsistent and doesn't seem to reflect the actual quality.

@Agramonte Outside of 1st party Nintendo titles, which generally hold their value, then absolutely most new ports on new hardware are generally 2-3X as much as the previous gen at launch. Give it 12 months, and SR3 will $20 or less used.

You have to factor in the relative nature of time, before declaring something as overpriced or not.

Also if SR3 was a rare or high demand game all these years later, those old copies would not be as cheap as they are.

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