Saint’s Row the Third’s ‘Deckers Gang’ will have you “fighting a giant 20ft tall dragon”
When we got the chance to get a word with Saint's Row the Third's Lead Designer Scott Phillips we asked him if there was anything they thought up that was too over the top to make it into the game.
XG247( Sam Clay):Saint’s Row the Third is the most over the top game you’ve created, are there any examples you can give us of things that perhaps you think were too over the top for the game that got cut?
Scott Phillips: In general the only things we wouldn’t put in the game were things that were racist or offensive, sort of “we’re not getting into that” territory, but for the most part almost everything that got pitched in almost every meeting was something that we could reasonably do within the game, I think a great example of that is with the gang “the Deckers”. We wanted to defeat them in kind of a cool manner and so we just brainstormed around what they are, there a cyber gang that are all about the electronic hacking and that sort of stuff, so we thought “why don’t we fight them in cyberspace, why don’t we do something like Tron?” and so we just kind of built around that corwe idea and came up wth all sorts of crazy stuff, eventually you fight a giant 20ft tall dragon and that sort of craziness is exactly what we want to put in the game, I think we knocked a lot of these things out with great brainstorming.
It's good to see that there wasn't much the team weren't scared to take on, Saint's Row relies on it's daft attitude to anything and everything, if they got too serious on us the series would lose its sparkle.
