I've had a couple of hours, and it's really really good.
One thing I expect in a modern game is a clear and responsive user interface, not just the menus but extending to the way cut scenes work. SR3 does not need the cut scenes skipped to get in the action, as the mission details are explained while you play. When you fail/complete a mission, the screens look great and are quick and get the point across in a satisfying manner. They really worked on this 'keep the player having fun' factor and IT DOES IT BETTER THAN ANY OTHER GAME I'VE PLAYED.
Sandbox is an overused word, as rarely do you feel you can go anywhere and do anything. Grand Theft Auto started it then lost the plot somewhat, Saints Row plagiarised so much, but here they've improved on the format in almost every respect. I kid you not. For example:
- Talk about straight into the action. No spoiler, but a top first mission in seconds of starting!
- Guns are fun, accurate, vary well, zoom works well, ammo is no tighter than necessary but not free etc.
- Stealing cars has a wide variety of animations and outcomes, right up to immediate steals by jumping through windscreens etc.
- After 2-3 missions and a couple of sides I was genuinely spoilt for choice - a round of Genki (OMG that is amazing - a murdering game show against the clock though fire traps etc - very 'Running Man'), assassinations, drug running, gang killing events - all without needing to drive for 5 minutes to get there. Great map, great smartphone system for finding/selecting everything - wonderful.
- Cars handle even better than before, fast, easy yet mental too. Hazah!
- Good story line so far, no sign of letting up.
Any downsides?
- I don't like the hair customisations, a few more would have been good. I wanted to recreate my SR2 character and I can't get very close at all.
- I can't play a game with a 4 foot long dildo weapon with my 11 year old daughter.
Enjoy...
Cheat mode
ReplyDeletePress Back to use the phone, and select the "Extras" option, then choose the "Cheats" selection. Enter one of the following codes to activate the corresponding cheat function. Note: Achievements and auto save are disabled when cheats are activated. However, you are still allowed to manually save while cheats are enabled.
Result Code
Player Ability
$100,000 cheese
Weapons letsrock
Golden Gun (one-hit kills) goldengun
Infinite sprint runfast
No vehicle damage vroom
Repair car repaircar
Add respect whatitmeanstome
Add police notoriety pissoffpigs
No police notoriety goodygoody
Add gang notoriety lolz
No gang notoriety oops
Vehicles
Spawn Ambulance giveembulance
Spawn Anchor giveanchor
Spawn Attrazione giveattrazione
Spawn Bootlegger givebootlegger
Spawn Challenger givechallenger
Spawn Commander givecommander
Spawn Condor givecondor
Spawn Eagle giveeagle
Spawn Estrada giveestrada
Spawn F69 Vtol givevtol
Spawn Gatmobile givegatmobile
Spawn Kanada givekanada
Spawn Kenshin givekenshin
Spawn Knoxville giveknoxville
Spawn Krukov givekrukov
Spawn Miami givemiami
Spawn Municipal givemunicipal
Spawn Nforcer givenforcer
Spawn Peacemaker givepeacemaker
Spawn Pheonix givepheonix
Spawn Reaper givereaper
Spawn Sandstorm givesandstorm
Spawn Shark giveshark
Spawn Spectre givespectre
Spawn Squasar givesquasar
Spawn Status Quo givestatusquo
Spawn Taxi givetaxi
Spawn Titan givetitan
Spawn Toad givetoad
Spawn Tornado givetornado
Spawn Vortex givevortex
Spawn VTOL givevtol
Spawn Vulture givevulture
Spawn Widowmaker givewidowmaker
Spawn Woodpecker givewoodpecker
Weapons
Spawn 45 Sheperd givesheperd
Spawn Apocafists giveapoca
Spawn AR 55 givear55
Spawn AS3 Ultimax giveultimax
Spawn Baseball Bat givebaseball
Spawn Chainsaw givechainsaw
Spawn Cyber Blaster givecybersmg
Spawn Cyber Buster givecyber
Spawn D4TH Blossom giveblossom
Spawn Electric Grenade giveelectric
Spawn Flamethrower giveflamethrower
Spawn Flash Bang giveflashbang
Spawn Grave Digger givedigger
Spawn Grenade givegrenade
Spawn K-8 Krukov givekrukov
Spawn KA-1 Kobra givekobra
Spawn M2 Grenade Launcher givelauncher
Spawn McManus 2015 givesniper
Spawn Mini Gun giveminigun
Spawn Molotov givemolotov
Spawn Nocturne givesword
Spawn RC Possesor givecgun
Spawn Reaper Drone givedrone
Spawn Riot Shield giveshield
Spawn RPG Launcher giverpg
Spawn S3X Hammer givehammer
Spawn SA-3 Airstrike giveairstrike
Spawn Satchel Charge givesatchel
Spawn Shock Hammer giverocket
Spawn Sonic Boom givesonic
Spawn Stun Gun givestungun
Spawn TEK Z-10 givetek
Spawn The Penetrator givedildo
Spawn Viper Laser Rifle giveslm8
Weather
Sunny weather clearskies
Cloudy weather overcast
Rainy weather lightrain
Very rainy weather heavyrain
World
Bloody Mess notrated
Heaven Bound fryhole
Vehicle Smash isquishyou
Drunk (pedestrians are drunk) dui
Mascots (pedestrians are mascots) mascot
Pimps and Hos (pedestrians are pimps and prostitues) hohoho
Zombies (pedestrians are zombies) brains
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that first mission blew me away. EPIC
ReplyDeleteNice review- sounds like the game is as good as you guys were hoping. Might have to check it out
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