PC Gamer - March 2012

Unusual suspects 3

SKInS SaIn TS Row: THE
THIRd with ugly mugs

FREEwaRE
Shadowy Sneak
FumblING IN THe dARk wITH
STEALTH BASTARD

Saints Row: The Third is turning out to be a bit of a sleeper hit. Amidst the sound and fury of the pre-Christmas season, it remained the only game to feature an angry tiger that can be calmed with po werslides.

The madness doesn’t end there. Thanks to the game’s exhaustive character creation tool, you can cruise Steelport as anyone from Homer Simpson to a blow-up doll. we’ve been through the community site and picked our favorites.

For each of the following models, just click “Add To Queue” in the top right of its page. Then, through the in-game character creation interface, select the option to connect to saintsrow3.com. Once it’s synched to your account, the new duds will show up in your queue. EL

a toilet

Game designers love to put toilets in games, but they’re oddly coy about toilet protagonists. Remedy this colossal oversight by playing Saints Row as a sassy, floating, gun-wielding ceramic ass-kicker. It’s normally a re ward for finishing the game, but this link allows you to see the cutscenes as a talking crapper.

web-based bit.ly/lolpotty

A stage-based 2d platformer in the vein of Super Meat Boy and N+, Stealth Bastard has also inherited the pace, difficulty and violence of games like Deus Ex, Hitman and Super Mario Brothers.

You steer a goggled field agent from entrance to exit, hitting s witches and shoving boxes to solve stealthy puzzles as you go. Success is a case of knowing when to move and when to hide: enemy robots will laser you into bloody chunks if they catch a glimpse of you, but smart checkpoints keep the frustration to a minimum.

The stages are timed, and the comprehensive leaderboards encourage speed runs. There’s a level builder and the ability to share creations with no hassle. For a free game, it’s an incredibly generous, highly polished package—there’s nothing illegitimate about it. GT

size 19.5mb

Link bit.ly/stealthbastard

The Joker

If you want to play Batman: Arkham City as the Clown Prince of Crime, you’re out of luck. If you’re willing to s wap Gotham for Steelport, on the other hand, you can lead the Saints as the Joker himself. And with that purple coat, he fits right in.

niko Bellic

If you’d like to wander around Steelport quietly resenting the life you’re forced to lead, here’s the outfit you need. Perhaps surfing atop a VTOl laser-jet as it flies under a suspension bridge will be enough to bring a smile to gaming’s crabbiest eastern european.

It’s a very encouraging game— right before it lasers you in half.

web-based bit.ly/saintsrowjoker
web-based bit.ly/saintsrowniko

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