Heck, they even added a fire extinguisher melee that could counter it. Flamethrowers are one of the classic video game weapons, and Saints Row 2 duly included one as an available unlockable weapon for your inventory. But come on, how hard would it be to not delete:ġ.

This time around, I’m going to be a little more nitpicky. Saints Row the Third does a decent job of carrying this over, I’d give it an 80% in all, and most of the big things it missed were detailed in my last article on this topic. The city is vibrant, the tone balances gritty gang violence with tongue-in-cheek game-y action, the characters and story are solid and the gameplay is bursting with variety and unbridled freedom. Saints Row 2 is such a good game! I’ve said it before, most Saints Row fans have said it before, but I honestly have never played a better open-world sandbox game, and I recently got Grand Theft Auto V.