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The goal for Saints Row: The Third, according to Volition, is to create 'the most ridiculous, over-the-top guilty pleasure ever found in video games.' The demo we were shown would seem to indicate that goal is well within the realm of possibility. The basic backstory is this: the titular Saints, the gang you've helped build up in the first two games, is now so popular and well-known that Hollywood is making a movie about them and, crazier still, their image is all over town thanks to a robust product licensing deal. Not bad for a gang of petty criminals. It's an absurd setup that dares to explain why, in an early story mission, your crew sets off on a high-stakes bank robbery along with a Hollywood method actor training for his role in the upcoming movie about the Saints; why this idiot botches the whole job; and why this subsequently leads to you falling out with the Saints when you're inevitably busted by a swarm of cops.

Build up the takeaway from all this that you are forced to relocate to a new city, Steel Harbor, and go back to look for themselves "what ever you call the various types of criminal-meets-circus-act that Saints Row games tend to breed. steel port, such as city Stillwater is from the first two games a city full of civilians waiting to be antagonized. Well, civilians and rival gangs. Such a group, we learned in this demo to see was called Lucha Gang, a gang of violent rackets by a common interest in living wrestling clothes pulled. They belong to a group called gangs Syndicate, a criminal conglomerate that owns substantially and operates all of Steeltown. So in a way that you do not need feel bad about terrorizing the city. Not that you start with.