Saints Row: The Thirdwill be remastered for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC next month — nine years after the cult classic was originally released.
Saints Row: The Third Remasteredwill feature enhanced graphics and improved visual effects, as players return to Steelport with the Third Street Saints for another round against The Syndicate.
“Every weapon has been remodeled, every car has been redesigned and a vast proportion of the city has been retextured;Saints Row: The Thirdhas received a full makeover,” said publisher Deep Silver in itsannouncementof the remaster.
Saints Row: The Third Remasteredwill also come with the original game’s three expansion mission packs and more than 30 pieces of DLC.
Volition, the game’s developer, and Sperasoft, the studio behind the port, revealed to IGN that the decision toremasterthe third game in the series was becauseSaints Row: The Thirdhas maintained its popularity through the years.
“We think ofSaints Row: The Thirdas a masterpiece, and from our point of view, it’s where the series really found itself,” Deep Silver’s lead art director Nikolay Stoyanov told IGN.
Volition art director Frank Marquart, meanwhile, said that the remastered version enhances a lot of what made the original game so memorable.
“On the art side, we call that art style in the game ‘exagereal,’ and it was designed to evoke that exaggerated, over-the-top expression with just enough of reality to keep it grounded,” said Marquart. “So that real part of ‘exagereal’ is certainly much, much stronger in theRemasterededition.”
Unfortunately, not everything about the original game will return inSaints Row: The Third Remastered.
While it will keep online co-op, split-screen co-op has be removed. The remaster will also be capped at 30 frames per second on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, but it will run at 60 frames per second on the PC.
Digital Trendsreviewed2011’sSaints Row: The Thirdas “a white-knuckle affair that will keep you smiling throughout its mayhem-filled campaign.” Players should expect more of the same, with a host of upgrades, whenSaints Row: The Third Remasteredlaunches on May 22.
