Saints Row: The Third

Maxim have always been a fan of Saints Row. It is pure, unadulterated FUN, and that's exactly what we had when we tried it out.

Jumping straight into the fire, we did a rather spectacular bank job with Johnny Gat (yep, he's still not dead!) and a few others from the 3rd Street Saints (all wearing Johnny Gat masks), where it turns out all the bank tellers have shotguns and don't take too kindly to bank robbers. Cue a massive firefight which culminates with you literally ripping the bank vault out of the building and flying away with it in a helicopter.

OTT enough for ya? No? Well fear not, because there's a brand new face in the world of Saints Row: The Third known as Professor Genki. We're not entirely sure what his purpose is in the game, you may have seen him in some of the trailers and pictures to have come out since SRTT was announced, but he seems mental enough, so we're down with that. Anyway, what we saw of the Professor was his mini game known as the Professor Genki Super Ethical Reality Climax, where you run around in a deathtrap filled maze killing everyone in the name of fun.

Not satisfied with doing that, we ran around in the street for a bit doing some Insurance Fraud. If you've never played Saints Row before, Insurance Fraud is exactly that; you fling yourself in front of cars and pretend they ran you over in order to make money. It's an amazingly simple concept that's so fun to do. Bonus points for getting hit by firetrucks, ambulances and police cars.

Once we were through ruining innocent peoples' lives, we did what can only be done in Saints Row: The Third; beat people to death with giant purple dildos after kicking them in the balls.

Are you ready for the return of the 3rd Street Saints? No. You're not.