![]() Saints Row 4 is part open-world crime caper, part superhero game and part third-person shooter, with nods to everything from Halo to Prototype to Mass Effect. ![]() ![]() Reality has now been thrown clean out of the window and the GTA influence has now been replaced by, well, the influence of just about everything else. Provided you were happy to play a game that confirmed every mainstream media cliché about the interests, ethics and IQ of the average gamer, Saints Row: The Third was brilliant fun. It was so ridiculous and so offensive that it was equally ridiculous to be offended by it, though missions involving killer prostitutes and sex trafficking might have tempted you to try. With Saints Row: The Third the series finally found its own identity: one that majored on parody and adolescent humour to the exclusion of almost everything else. The second was the same, but less inspired, less interesting, less polished. The first was a mediocre GTA clone saved by a brilliant strain of frat-boy humour. ![]() The further Saints Row gets away from both reality and Grand Theft Auto, the better it gets. Available on Xbox 360, PS3 (reviewed), PC ![]()
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