Violence and Absurdity

The open sandbox crime game is always a subject of controversial debate among the media. In 2006 Volition Inc created the first saints row video game, telling the fictitious story of the start of a gang "The Saints", to help fight back against the other gangs of the city. Throughout the first game it was modeled similar to the Grand Theft Auto series, and did not get much notice. Despite its initial tone, several spots of the game featured over the top missions and side things to do. Fans fell in love with these zany missions, such as streaking across the city evading cops, and in 2008 they created Saints row 2 with the promise to not attempt to compete with GTA (Grand theft auto), but to create a brand new experience. Saints row 2 begins, and quickly pokes fun at a plot hole it intentionally creates, the player dies in the first one. At the end of saints row 1, the player is blown up on a ship in the middle of the ocean, as a joke they bring him back placing him in Jail with nth degree burns and the need for a complete facial (and or gender) reconstruction. After hastily breaking out of jail, all of the characters you meet quickly ask if there is something different about you. By the second game, the saints began to create a name for themselves with the cash they made from their initial city and decide to go to a new city to fight the gangs there. Instead of taking over shops and fighting off gang activity, the game prompts you to use Absurd tactics such as "Septic Avenger" (Using a septic truck with a turret, to cause as much damage as possible.) to gain control of districts. The current installment of the game is no different in Absurdity, with the introduction of both "Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax" and the "Nut shot" button. Professor Genki is a Mascot cat scientist who asks you to compete in a Japanese gameshow, in which you have to fight through a maze of mascots as fast as possible. The other feature is the nut shot, which is a combat feature that changes according to distance, weapon, speed and direction, in which you charge at the opponent and hit them in the nuts in some form or another. As always, there is a movement to stop the game from being accessible by the public, but with jet bikes, tanks, jets, and squid launchers this game is far from normal and therefore is impossible "to try this at home".