henke on 26/2/2012 at 17:43
I got a VTOL! :D The flying in this game isn't bad. With the flight controls set to Advanced it's pretty much exactly like in GTA:SA. A shame that the motorbikes don't manage to live up to the standard of that 7-year old game though. :|
Also I think I've bough just about every piece of property in the game. Hourly income is around 33000.
PigLick on 27/2/2012 at 13:08
nothing can live up that standard, we might as well stop hoping.
henke on 27/2/2012 at 14:17
Well GTA4 did, but yeah. Proper motorbike-handling seem to be incredibly tricky to program.
Saints Row 3 is bringing out levels of OCD in me that I didn't know I had. I've bought all the properties, and now I'm systematically wiping out all the enemy Gang Operations with my VTOL. It's so unfair it's ridiculous. I'll hover my jet into a comfortable position while the gang down on the street does a futile attempt at bringing me down with their peashooters. Their bullets bounce of my plane's armor as I lazily flip a switch and a fuckton of missiles shoot out of my craft and obliterate anything on streetlevel. If one of the gangmembers somehow is still standing after the barrage I sweep my Deathray back and forth a bit. Then I hit the Switch Between Hover/Flight Mode button and my plane does some Transformers shit and we zoom off to the next Gang Operation marker on my map. Takin' care of business. :cool:
Dresden on 4/3/2012 at 18:45
I just got this on the Steam sale. It's surprisingly fun. I hope they continue with the over the top stuff and distance themselves further from the increasingly serious-story-time GTA.
Ulukai on 5/3/2012 at 18:51
Got it in the Steam sale too.
First impressions are that a) it is awesome and b) the voice actors can actually act and c) it makes GTA4 look like something my grandmother would play (if she liked motorbike physics)
On the downside, it's really making my Core 2 Duo show its age, even with a 560ti.
henke on 5/3/2012 at 19:38
Just beat it. The best thing this game has going for it is the mission design. Unlike for instance Just Cause 2 which gave you some great gameplay mechanics but then just offered lots of "drive here, kill these guys" missions, the missions in SR3 just keep getting crazier and crazier as you go on. One minute you're entering a Tron-like world to hack a computer, the next you're getting plastic surgery and a sex change so you can pretend to be a military general and infiltrate a base. Then after that you crash a military plane storing hazardous chemicals into a suburb and OF COURSE we all know what happens when you crash a military plane storing hazardous chemicals into a suburb, right? Yup, zombies. It all culminates with the end mission where you hunt down and destroy Killbane... ON MARS!
Another thing I really liked was the sense of camraderie between yourself and your fellow gangmembers. From the way you sing along to songs on the radio together to how you and Pierce keep messing with Kinzie during some of the missions. I love the main character as well. I played her as a rather attractive 30-something Africa-Asian-American chick in a smart mocha business suit with a purple shirt underneath to show my gang affiliations, natch. Whenever I did something awesome I would take a minute out to play some wicked airguitar.
What I didn't like was pretty much all the minigames besides Heli Attack and SERC. The story doesn't hang together especially well. The driving is fun but that's more thanks to the street and city design than the actual physics of the vehicles. There are quite a few bugs.
But those are minor niggles. The combat is great. The property-ownership element is addictive as hell. Oh, and the hoverbike is badass.
Overall I'll give it a 8.5/10. Defenitely the best of the series.
End stats:
26 hours played
84% completed
reached level 49
Anyone try the co-op?
Ulukai on 5/3/2012 at 22:00
Currently addicted to running up to random people in the street and manhandling them just to see how my character takes them down.
faetal on 6/3/2012 at 10:29
Quote Posted by henke
Just Cause 2 which gave you some great gameplay mechanics but then just offered lots of "drive here, kill these guys" missions..
I still play JC2 from time to time because of the sheer fun of taking an hour out of a day to cause some more havoc, destroy some more shit and get closer to that ever elusive 100%, but I agree that the missions are a tad rudimentary, with some rare exceptions. one such exception being
when you fly to an island which is destroying planes with huge tesla towers, which you have to take out, which was amazing in terms of atmosphere. I do hope they make Just Cause 3 and improve on the mission design.
WingedKagouti on 6/3/2012 at 10:36
Quote Posted by henke
It all culminates with the end mission where you
hunt down and destroy Killbane... ON MARS!You also get to replay the last mission and take the other path.
Also, the Genkibowl & Gangsters In Space DLC is fun as well.
henke on 6/3/2012 at 14:09
Yeah I guessed the other path led to a different ending. I prefer not to "cheat" like that though. I'll save the other ending for an eventual replay.
And faetal, yes I know about the LOST island. I did finished JC2 and I thought it was a good game overall, just commenting on how SR3's missiondesign stands out.
