Saints Row: The Third
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
The player leads a criminal gang and is rewarded for shootings, carjackings, robberies, and citywide mayhem as the core progression loop.
Pervasive sexual humor, a pimping storyline, a BDSM/fetish 'Safeword' mission, and sex-shop and strip-club settings.
Strong profanity including frequent use of 'f**k' throughout dialogue.
Constant third-person gunfights and melee against human gang members and paramilitary troops with blood spray; over-the-top rather than gory, with absurd weapons like a dildo bat and rocket launchers.
Partial nudity including a streaking option with blurred genitals, and skimpily dressed strip-club and escort NPCs.
The rival Morningstar gang traffics people into forced prostitution, a recurring backdrop to missions.
A rival gang runs a prostitution and fetish empire; escorts, a pimp character, and related activities appear throughout the city.
Drug references and drug-trade themes tied to the gang narrative, with drugs handled as illicit contraband in the criminal world.
The opening and some story beats depict characters being beaten and interrogated by captors.
Forced prostitution and sexual enslavement of trafficked women is referenced as part of the Morningstar gang's operations.
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What it is
Saints Row: The Third is an open-world action game where you lead a customizable gang leader and the Third Street Saints as they seize control of the fictional city of Steelport from a rival crime syndicate and a heavy-handed paramilitary force. Gameplay centers on driving, exploring, and gunfights across the city, with an intentionally outlandish, comedic tone. Content includes frequent gun and melee violence against human enemies with blood, strong and constant profanity, pervasive sexual humor (a pimp character, a brothel, and joke weapons like a dildo bat), partial nudity including an optional streaking mission, drug references, and a plot built around organized crime and a rival gang's prostitution and trafficking operation. The player commits and is rewarded for crimes throughout. The campaign can be played solo or in online co-op, but the game has no in-game voice or text chat and no microtransactions.
How it's framed
The game frames all of its crime, violence, and sexual content through exaggerated parody and slapstick comedy rather than realism, treating gang warfare as absurd spectacle; the player is positioned as a celebrity gang boss whose criminal empire is celebrated, and darker elements like the rival syndicate's trafficking ring exist mainly as villain backstory and comedic backdrop.
Details
- Developer
- Volition
- Publisher
- Deep Silver
- Released
- Nov 14, 2011
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