History Awesome / SaintsRowTheThird

* The PowerWalk you Pierce and Shaundi take as you go to take on Philippe at his skyscraper.

* A meta example: Tim Thomerson not only had to voice Cyrus Temple, but the Boss mimicking Cyrus Temple. It would have been easy just to have one single set of voice lines, but nope. Volition and Thomerson went six more steps, and recorded different lines for every single one of the Boss's voice variations.

-->I'm tired of him trying to kill us, I'm tired of him being mean, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and I'm tired of his stupid fucking scarf]]!
* Meta-example: the game getting ported to the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch (making it the series' first appearance on a Nintendo system). Everyone was expecting the Switch to get a port of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' as its first major open-world game besides ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]''. Nope, turns out ''Saints Row'' beat its competitor to the punch in that regard.

* The last mission in the game: A three-way war between the remnants of the Syndicate, the Saints, and STAG is raging on the streets of Steelport. You, Pierce, and Oleg hit the roads doing what you can where you can to save as many Saints as possible, racing between several locations with combat all around. Then you come to the SadisticChoice. Regardless of which you choose, you have to drive across town, through a war zone, at high speed, dodging tanks, squads of gang members or soldiers, and airstrikes, with BonnieTyler's [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic "Holding Out For A Hero"]] blaring. In any other situation, that song would be high octane Narm, but after the insanity of the past several hours, it's the only song on the soundtrack you want to hear.

* Falling out of a cargo plane, surrounded by huge numbers of crates and falling vehicles ({{Lampshaded}} by the Boss, "Did other planes dump their cargo too?") and gun-firing mooks, two people and one parachute. You manage to catch Shaundi...and notice the plane about to hit you. "Don't hate me for this later." [[spoiler:You ''drop'' Shaundi, release your parachute, shoot out the front windshield of the plane, and essentially free fall through the entire plane, shooting mooks as you go, snatching another parachute off one as you fly out the still open cargo door and then proceed to re-catch Shaundi.]] Holy crap.

** The mission later gets a sequel of sort in Air Steelport. Similar setting, except you're doing it [[spoiler:''in a falling tank'' shooting S.T.A.G. commandos, other falling tanks, and a few [=VTOLs=] as well!]]

** Not to mention[[spoiler: how you manage to kill Loren without even trying by dropping a giant ball from the ceiling to cut off his escape route]]

-->'''Male Voice 1:''' I'm comin' for ya, Frenchie!
-->'''Male Voice 2:''' No more runnin', Loren!
-->'''Male Voice 3:''' Familiar with [[UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar Agincourt]], ''you prick?!''
-->'''Female Voice 1:''' Come on, Frenchie! Let's ''dance!!''
-->'''Female Voice 2:''' ''You will not escape me now!''
-->'''Female Voice 3:''' Going down!!

* One of Zimos missions can be seen as call back to the Sons of Samedi mission "Bad Trip" in which you have to fight hordes of enemies while stoned. Only this time you have to fight them stoned and naked in one of their strongholds.

* A meta example: Tim Thomerson not only had to voice Cyrus Temple, but the Boss mimicking Cyrus Temple. It would have been easy just to have one single set of voices lines, but nope. Volition and Thomerson went six more steps, and recorded different lines for every single one of the Boss's voice variations.

* The last mission in the game: A three way war between the remnants of the Syndicate, the Saints, and STAG is raging on the streets of Steelport. You, Pierce and Oleg hit the roads doing what you can where you can to save as many Saints as possible, racing between several locations with combat all around. Then you come to the SadisticChoice. Regardless of which you choose, you have to drive across town, through a war zone, at high speed, dodging tanks, squads of gang members or soldiers, and airstrikes, with BonnieTyler's [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic "Holding Out For A Hero"]] blaring. In any other situation, that song would be high octane Narm, but after the insanity of the past several hours, it's the only song on the soundtrack you want to hear.

* If you choose to [[spoiler:kill Killbane]] instead of [[spoiler: saving Shaundi]], the ending has your character stage a press conference. In your speech, you make Steelport a freaking [[spoiler: city-state]].
--> '''Boss:''' I got a message for Monica Hughes and her stooges. Dear Bitch: Steelport is [[spoiler: under new management]], and we don't answer to you. This is [[spoiler: foreign soil]] now. Come at my city again, and you'll go home in a [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] box.

* The "Trouble With Clones..." DLC actually gives the Boss SUPERPOWERS! Super speed, strangth, and the ability to shoot fireballs! Even better is that the mission that gives you the powers sends a whole squad of brutes for you to OneHitKill with your bare hands! The cherry on top is that the game lets players make their own superhero costume or BadAssLongCoat at the clothing stores to wear for their supercharged rampage!

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Of course, the multiple radio stations allow for many serendipitous moment, but the [[spoiler: "rescue the crew" ending]] really takes the cake with "Holding Out for a Hero" playing in the background.

** "You're The Best Around" plays when you ''[[spoiler:chainsaw the fuck out of a bunch of luchadors]]'' during Murderbrawl XIII.
** "He's our [[spoiler:Johnny]]". Played in the final mission of ''The Trouble with Clones'' DLC.

* Going after Loren he takes an express elevator to escape and Oleg believes there's no way to catch him. Boss ''growls,'' [[http://youtu.be/jGuAYbKshPc?t=11m30s "Fuck. That,"]] jumps on a large ornament and starts blowing away Morningstar like a, well...like a boss and orders Oleg to knock it loose. He does so and in mid fall Boss blows away a thug, before flattening Loren with the steel ball s/he was clinging to all the way down the tower.

** The Boss : "GO ! GO ! GO !!" *re-equips assault rifle*

* Meta-example: the game getting ported to the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch (making it the series' first appearance on a Nintendo system). Everyone was expecting the Switch to get a port of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' as its first major open world game besides ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]''. Nope, turns out ''Saints Row'' beat its competitor to the punch in that regard.

** Klassic FM has an almost ''uncanny'' habit of launching into ''Ride of the Valkyries'' whenever switched to when flying helicopters and VTOLs.

** And when this button is combined with the Awesome Button, [[WrestlerInAllOfUs some truly epic takedowns ensue.]]

* There's a button dedicated to nothing but ''{{Groin Attack}}s''. You heard me.

** The Mission "The Ho Boat" can also be seen call back to the Brotherhood mission The Enemy of my Enemy, in which you have to sneak on board of a ship and steal a shipment after fighting of waves of enemies. Only this time you can do it with an oversized minigun.

* The last mission in the game: A three way war between the remnant of the Syndicate, the Saints, and STAG is raging on the streets of Steelport. You, Pierce and Oleg hit the roads doing what you can where you can to save as many Saints as possible, racing between several locations with combat all around. Then you come to the SadisticChoice. Regardless of which you choose, you have to drive across town, through a war zone, at high speed, dodging tanks, squads of gang members or soldiers, and airstrikes, with BonnieTyler's [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic "Holding Out For A Hero"]] blaring. In any other situation, that song would be high octane Narm, but after the insanity of the past several hours, it's the only song on the soundtrack you want to hear.

* The last mission in the game: A three way war between the remnant of the Syndicate, the Saints, and STAG is raging on the streets of Steelport. You, Pierce and Oleg hit the roads doing what you can where you can to save as many Saints as possible, racing between several locations with combat all around. Then you come to the SadisticChoice. Regardless of which you choose, you have to drive across town, through a war zone, at high speed, dodging tanks, squads of gang members or soldiers, and airstrikes, with BonnieTyler's [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome "Holding Out For A Hero"]] blaring. In any other situation, that song would be high octane Narm, but after the insanity of the past several hours, it's the only song on the soundtrack you want to hear.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Of course, the multiple radio stations allow for many serendipitous moment, but the [[spoiler: "rescue the crew" ending]] really takes the cake with "Holding Out for a Hero" playing in the background.

-->I'm tired of him trying to kill us, I'm tired of him being mean, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and I'm tired of his stupid fucking scarf]]!

*** [[BribingYourWayToVictory You'll need to upgrade the RC controller to max.]] But it's well beyond worth the money.

* After all the crap the PrimaDonnaDirector gives Jenny during the Gangstas In Space DLC, she finally takes the Boss' advice to stand up for herself against that kind of assholes. How does she do that? By impaling him... and she does this by ramming him full-speed with the front of a ''fucking spaceship''.

** The Boss : "GO ! GO ! GO !!" *re-equips assault rifle*

* Going after Loren he takes an express elevator to escape and Oleg believes there's no way to catch him. [[http://youtu.be/jGuAYbKshPc?t=11m30s Boss ''growls,'' "Fuck. That," jumps on a large ornament and starts blowing away Morningstar like a, well...like a boss and orders Oleg to knock it loose. He does so and in mid fall Boss blows away a thug, before flattening Loren with the steel ball s/he was clinging to all the way down the tower.]]

* It was revealed that Saints Row The Third has a sprint button, but the company calls it the Awesome button. Why? Well, if you hold the button to hijack someone, you dropkick them out of the car. Yes, sprinting to the side of the car will have the player ''fucking dropkick the driver, sending said driver out the car through the other side.'' Doing it in front has you ''hijacking from the front''. Awesome indeed.

-->'''Male Voice 3:''' Familiar with Agincourt, ''you prick?!''

-->'''Female Voice 2:''' Going down!!

** The Penthouse Mission has [[KanyeWest Kanye West's]] ''Power'' is pumping in the background, giving the carnage an almost mythic quality to it.

* Hell, the opening mission 'When Good Heists Go Bad' qualifies as this. All down to the amazing way the Saints steal the vault, survive an ambush against endless waves of SWAT's and the penultimate scene where the Boss has to keep the police and the Syndicate at bay with nothing but his/her fully upgraded Krukov. The music helps add a touch of that awesomeness too, and sets the tone of the game as a whole.

* One of the first missions has you protecting Pierce. Using a rocket launcher from a helicopter had been done, but then The Boss needs to snipe from a building. Simply shooting from the roof isn't good enough, so s\he bungee jumps off the side and uses a sniper rifle while hanging from a building.