{"id":84963,"date":"2019-02-25T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/saints_row_the_third_-_the_full_package_secures_may_release_date_on_switch"},"modified":"2019-02-25T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T15:45:00","slug":"saints-row-the-third-the-full-package-secures-may-release-date-on-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/25\/saints-row-the-third-the-full-package-secures-may-release-date-on-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints Row: The Third &#8211; The Full Package Secures May Release Date On Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/14272774ba096\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/14272774ba096\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Saintsrow\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/14272774ba096\/saintsrow.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/14272774ba096\/saintsrow.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Saintsrow\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Publisher Deep Silver has finally lifted the lid on the Nintendo Switch release date for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/saints_row_the_third_-_the_full_package\"><strong>Saints Row: The Third &#8211; The Full Package<\/strong><\/a>. We&#8217;re pleased to let you know that you&#8217;ll be able to get your hands on it from 10th May.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes from a tweet shared by the studio today; no other details were given, but we&#8217;re happy to have a date now confirmed.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Are you ready to head back to the City of Steelport? Saints Row: The Third &#8211; The Full Package will launch on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NintendoSwitch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NintendoSwitch<\/a> 10 May 2019.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaintsRow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SaintsRow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MI0zgEpVoM\">pic.twitter.com\/MI0zgEpVoM<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Deep Silver UK (@DeepSilverUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeepSilverUK\/status\/1100028023787671553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The third instalment of the <strong>Saints Row<\/strong> franchise, this game has players leading the Third Street Saints gang in a bid to overtake its rivals in the city. The series is often compared to <strong>Grand Theft Auto<\/strong> thanks to its open world setting and the weapons and vehicles used throughout.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, it was confirmed that the game would include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/saints_row_the_third_will_include_all_dlc_on_switch\">all previously released DLC<\/a>, explaining the reasoning behind the game&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/saints_row_the_third_brings_the_full_package_to_nintendo_switch_next_year\">cheeky<\/a> &#8216;Full Package&#8217; title. If you haven&#8217;t played this one before, check out this trailer from the original 2011 release.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kxQsCNontmI?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Will you be getting this one as soon as it launches this May? Are you excited to play it on Switch? Let us know in the comments below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publisher Deep Silver has finally lifted the lid on the Nintendo Switch release date for Saints Row: The Third &#8211; The Full Package. We&#8217;re pleased to let you know that you&#8217;ll be able to get your hands on it from 10th May. The news comes from a tweet shared by the studio today; no other [&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-84963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84963","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=84963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}