Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell Review | NGNW

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Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell Review | NGNW

Added: 08.02.2015 23:10 | 7 views | 0 comments

NGNW: There's a bit in the Terry Pratchett novel 'Making Money' where a bemused main character, struggling to come to terms with a deceased banker's vast collection of specialised fetish equipment, produces an analogy that's been stuck in my head the last few days. I think it's like horseradish, she says, regarding the cupboard contents, which are left more or less to the imagination. Like... well, horseradish is good in a beef sandwich, so you have some. But one day a spoonful doesn't cut the mustard, and so you have two, and soon it's three, and eventually there's more horseradish than beef, and then one day you realize the beef fell out and you didn't notice. That's Saints Row in a nutshell right there, isn't it? Somewhere along the way the whole 'crime' part fell right out of the wacky crime sandbox, and while the continuous ramping-up of absurdity has done its best to patch the hole in the last few instalments, there's a point where that has to plateau. At some point, as i...