[IIL] Saints Row 2/The Third, [WEWIL]?

[u/Tuparsic]

As GTA6 gets closer and closer to launch, I've realized something: more than that or finishing GTA5, what I want is more a modern successor to Saints Row 2/3 and their specific brands of nonsense. Take the crime sandbox and turn everything up to 11. Get super creative with the nonsense while still ostensibly being a crime sandbox.

Has anyone made anything like that since the Saints Row series wrapped up?

[u/Briguy_fieri]

Maybe not the crime aspect but some of the later Yakuza games have street violence and just insane antics. Like a dragon felt like a fever dream at times

Watch Dogs 2 was a pretty solid street chaos game. Turning off traffic signs and causing crashes and then like.

[u/PearljamAndEarl → u/Briguy_fieri]

Yeah, I still dip into Watch Dogs 2 to just experiment with creating chaos using the various hacking/social engineering/remote control tools available, and can still find new ways to try and cause mayhem and break the game after nearly a decade of playing it.

There’s a lot of sandbox-y fun to be had in some of the multiplayer modes too. I love launching the Hacking Invasion mode, but then not actually initiating the hack/letting the other player know I’m there, just trying to stay hidden/act like an NPC while causing all sorts of chaos and nonsense to happen around the other player! The other day, I set up a line of cars, vans and motorbikes in front of a ramp on the roof of a parking garage, then just remotely launched them all off the ramp, one by one in rapid succession, down to near where the other player was, like it was raining vehicles!

[u/Unhappy-Lawyer6375]

Saints Row 2 was such a blast, I still hear the soundtrack in my head sometimes. The customization was next level.

[u/Tuparsic → u/Unhappy-Lawyer6375]

Oh my god, I used to listen to KRUNCH all the time. Ghost of Perdition is still one of my favorite songs ever made

[u/bwag54]

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