10 Essential Third-Person Gaming Shooter Levels You Must Play
7. HTTP://Deckers.Die - Saints Row: The Third
The level where you play as a toilet.
If anyone tried it would be blindingly stupid, but this is Volition, a studio that with Saints Row, specializes in taking the seemingly idiotic and transforming it into comedic genius.
Tasked with taking down Deckers gang leader, Matt Miller, you’re beamed into a gorgeous cyber utopia. It is a tongue-in-cheek riff on everything vintage PC culture – the deluge of neon is pure Tron; the hilarious mini-games classic box arcade; and the DOS glitch screen pure nightmare-fuel nostalgia – and yet in true Saints Row style Volition renders it all cool as a Camaro IROC-Z.
The wit doesn’t stop there, melding the theme with gameplay in the form of classic PC game debuffs like slow, which in a slick touch slows both you and the music down; lag, which glitches you out; and a particularly nasty one that reverses your controls.
It’s genuinely creative stuff, the kind of bold, bat-crap insane lateral thinking that wrenched Saints Row out of Grand Theft Auto’s shadow and set it firmly on its own feet. The result is joyously irreverent fun only Saints Row could pull off.