While we nonetheless don’t know something in regards to the new Saints Row game that Volition are at the moment making, due to a wee leak we do know that the third Street Saints will revisit an previous journey in Saints Row: The Third Remastered. That identify comes through an inventory within the Entertainment Software Ratings Board database, an organisation who are inclined to y’know not simply make up games for funsies. Seeing as publishers THQ Nordic haven’t but introduced SR3 Remastered, precisely what it modifications is unknown – however we will in all probability guess.
While Saints Row: The Third first launched in 2011, it has a reasonably stylised look which helps with ageing. I wouldn’t count on way more than possibly just a few higher-resolution textures, maybe a pair additional polygons, some behind-the-scenes technical fixes and tweaks, and all of the DLC bundled in. The ESRB listing says it’s coming to Xbone and PS4 in addition to PC, and so they’re in all probability the primary purpose to do that as a result of SR3 isn’t but on both console. It coming to PC too might be only a completely happy little bonus. That stated, hey, I’d be delighted to be confirmed flawed and for this to be an enormous remaster.
THQ Nordic are usually good with providing remaster-y issues both free (like Titan Quest’s Anniversary Update) or discounted to present house owners. I’d be stunned if that didn’t proceed right here.
SR3 straddles the hole between the comic-yet-cruel crimeworld of SR2 and the full-on megadaftness of SR4 with its alien invasion and superpowers inside The Matrix. It merely tells a humble story of a gang of criminals who’re additionally world-famous celebrities and got down to take over a complete new metropolis whereas beating down a navy job pressure geared up with hoverbikes and laserplanes. Looking again, I feel I’d choose 2 or four relying on whether or not I needed a cartoony GTA or a superdaft superhero game. But three continues to be good!
“It’s so fundamentally dedicated to being fun that its prehensile penile puerility ends up feeling redundant in the midst of the blaze of silliness and action, and barely noticeable,” our former John (RPS in peace) stated in his 2011 Saints Row: The Third review.
That subsequent large Saints Row past this can be a thriller. THQ Nordic stated in August 2019 that Volition had been “deep in development of a brand-new Saints Row game” however had nothing to say about it, nor any trace of once we would possibly study extra. Well, I suppose it won’t be E3 2020, will it?
We do now that Volition have additionally been engaged on fixing up Saints Row 2 for modern PCs. Plans for that embody “efficiency enhancements, crash fixes, getting multiplayer again up and working, and including the DLC beforehand unique to consoles. They stated that is solely a side-project for 2 people, thoughts – and that was earlier than we knew SR3 Remastered was additionally within the pipeline.
