Saints Row: The Third
by This is my first time on triond and this will be my first article.
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is John. That is all.
The topic today is about a the game, Saints Row: The Third.
Since the event of Saints Row 2, the Saints have turned their street gang into a famous empire after merging with Ultor, becoming icons and common names across the world, with their own energy drink, commercials, toys, a large fanbase, and a movie in the works. But when they attempt to rob a bank with actor Josh Birk, their everyday routine takes an unlikely turn when the bank tellers unexpectedly fight back with military weapons. The Saints attempt to escape out of the building, but when Birk foolishly sets off the alarm, it alerts Stilwater P.D. and, after a large-scale firefight with police and S.W.A.T., the Saints are incarcerated.
In prison now, the Saints second-in-command leader Johnny Gat talks what the Saints have become, expressing disappointment at having strayed from their roots. At that point, a world-wide crime organization called the Syndicate bribes the police to release the main character (You), Gat, and Shaundi. The three are taken to the Syndicate’s leader Phillipe Loren to try and negotiate a business plan with them aboard Loren’s private jet. While in-flight, Loren tells them they will be allowed to live if they turn over 2/3 of their ownership made in Stilwater. The main character and Gat immediately reject this offer, and are able to fight their way out. The main character and Shaundi parachute their way out, while Gat is killed when the jet was crashed.
Upon landing, the two find themselves in the Syndicate controlled city of Steelport. The Saints invade Steelport in an attempt to gain profit off the city and also taking control of organized crime away from the Syndicate as revenge for killing Gat. The game’s main plot revolves around taking down the three gangs that the Syndicate is composed of. These gangs consist of the Morningstar, personally led by Loren and twin sisters Viola and Kiki Dewynter, a group of businessmen that control Steelport’s sex and weapons trades, the Deckers, a group of elite hackers that get money for the Syndicate, and the Luchadores, a group of heavily-armed Mexican wrestlers who control gambling and steroid tradings.
After calling Pierce Washington, the main character’s new second-in-command leader, into Steelport, the Saints seize a Morning Star penthouse for their new headquarters, stealing a bomb from a military base, and begin attacking Morning Star’s businesses, culminating with an attack on Loren’s headquarters, in which the Saints rescue Oleg Kirlov, an apparent superhuman and a “copy machine” for the Syndicate’s Brute clones, and then Loren is killed. When the Saints try to move Gat’s body for his funeral, Killbane, leader of the Luchadores and the new leader of the Syndicate, leads an attack on them. The fight destroys Stilwater’s Hughes Memorial Bridge in the process.
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