{"id":64424,"date":"2018-11-24T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/saints_row_the_third_brings_the_full_package_to_nintendo_switch_next_year"},"modified":"2018-11-24T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T00:05:00","slug":"saints-row-the-third-brings-the-full-package-to-nintendo-switch-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/24\/saints-row-the-third-brings-the-full-package-to-nintendo-switch-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints Row: The Third Brings The Full Package To Nintendo Switch Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b8b1f829e7c9b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b8b1f829e7c9b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Saintsrow.original\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b8b1f829e7c9b\/saintsrow-original.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b8b1f829e7c9b\/saintsrow-original.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Saintsrow.original\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Saints Row series has come under fire on a number of occasions in the past for its edgy gameplay containing violence, drugs and sexual references. While Rockstar&#8217;s open world series <strong>Grand Theft Auto<\/strong> might be the more well-known of the two, make no mistake &#8211; this THQ published title is just as rebellious, with some entries in this series even being refused classification in certain parts of the world until they were altered and resubmit.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, during a <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/surprise_saints_row_the_third_is_coming_to_nintendo_switch\">surprise reveal<\/a><\/strong> at Gamescom 2018, Deep Silver confirmed <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/saints_row_the_third\"><strong>Saints Row: The Third<\/strong><\/a> would be arriving on the Switch in 2019. While no exact date was dropped, we&#8217;ve got a minor update to share. Channelling its naughty history, the Switch version of the game will be known as <strong>Saints Row: The Third &#8211; The Full Package<\/strong>. Considering this is a game that loves to make lewd references, this is most definitely a play on words. Judging by the name, it will also include all of the game&#8217;s download content, which was also labelled &#8216;The Full Package&#8217; back in the day. The full title for the game was spotted on the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yXSTvvhvSe\">Brazillian Advisory Rating website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Switch version of Saints Row: The Third announced back at Gamescom 2018 is called Saints Row: The Third &#8211; The Full Package <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yXSTvvhvSe\">https:\/\/t.co\/yXSTvvhvSe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jyh1fUOg1e\">pic.twitter.com\/jyh1fUOg1e<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Gematsu (@gematsucom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gematsucom\/status\/1066039113068003328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>For the uninformed, Saints Row: The Third was originally released on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC in 2011. This will be the first time the popular open-world series has appeared on a Nintendo system. In the game, you must lead the Third Street Saints gang in a turf war battle. The open world city design encourages chaos, much like the GTA series &#8211; with plenty of weapons and vehicles at your disposal.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you looking forward to the release of Saints Row: The Third when it arrives on the Switch sometime next year or were you hoping for one of the more recent entries in the series? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saints Row series has come under fire on a number of occasions in the past for its edgy gameplay containing violence, drugs and sexual references. While Rockstar&#8217;s open world series Grand Theft Auto might be the more well-known of the two, make no mistake &#8211; this THQ published title is just as rebellious, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}