Me liek blow stuf up in dis game! It fun!

........For about the first 5 hours of the game. Then, following that, is a very linear story, with little interesting side games that the story REQUIRES you to play, clever writing being replaced with gratuitous sex jokes that 90% of the time fell flat, and even then, barely got a chuckle out of me, I swear, I had to force myself to play this before I got so bored with whacking people with a purple dildo bat. And don't get me started on Whored mod, it's so tedious, and pointless in itself, it's not worth trying. If Saints Row IV didn't come out the way it did, I swear this franchise would be dying. So to recap:

Pros:
+ First third of the game is entertaining
+ Purple dildo bat can be fun to play around with
+ There's a considerable variety of vehicles to use
+ Combat isn't terrible

Cons:
- The rest of the story is tedious
- Sex jokes replace previous installments' clever writing
- Side activities are mostly tedious
- Most of the entertaining factors of the game become boring after a while
- SPOILER WARNING: Johnny Gat dies at the beginning, WTF?!?!?!? (fortunately fixed in Saints Row IV)

Final decision: Not a great way to get introduced to Saints Row Franchise, you can skip if you want.

Me liek blow stuf up in dis game! It fun! ........For about the first 5 hours of the game. Then, following that, is a very linear story, with little interesting side games that the story REQUIRES you to play, clever writing being replaced with gratuitous sex jokes that 90% of the time fell flat, and even then, barely got a chuckle out of me, I swear, I had to force myself to play this before I got so bored with whacking people with a purple dildo bat. And don't get me started on Whored mod, it's so tedious, and pointless in itself, it's not worth trying. If Saints Row IV didn't come out the way it did, I swear this franchise would be dying. So to recap: Pros: + First third of the game is entertaining + Purple dildo bat can be fun to play around with + There's a considerable variety of vehicles to use + Combat isn't terrible Cons: - The rest of the story is tedious - Sex jokes replace previous installments' clever writing - Side activities are mostly tedious - Most of the entertaining factors of the game become boring after a while - SPOILER WARNING: [spoiler] Johnny Gat dies at the beginning, WTF?!?!?!? (fortunately fixed in Saints Row IV) [/spoiler] Final decision: Not a great way to get introduced to Saints Row Franchise, you can skip if you want.