Saints Row The Third: walkthrough guide

Saints Row: The Third

Saints Row: The Third, the latest installment in the Saints Row series, allows you to step into some crazy and insane action in this open-world game. Entering the game as the leader of the Third Street Saints, you can explore the city of Steelport, participating in missions to progress the story or taking a hand at side activities to earn respect and the all-important money. 

Delve in to the bloodshed and absolute mad perversion, and uncover a messed up but hugely entertaining world beyond anything you could imagine. Saints Row: The Third doesn’t have a dull moment, and you can play alone or with a friend in co-operative mode.

This guide is here to help you to complete the story mode from start to finish, and after the walkthrough, you’ll see advice on how to unlock content and achievements/trophies.

So lets start the madness.

Act 1 Missions

When Good Heists Go Bad

Getting to the Vault

You begin the game in the middle of a firefight. You don’t yet know who you actually are, but you are with Johnny Gat and have unlimited ammunition, so this is a chance to have a practice and get used to the controls in this game.

If you find your health getting low, just stay out of the way and allow it to build up again, then continue.

Head to the vault and when you get there, you’ll find that you need to get it open somehow.

Making a Boom

You will be shot at again at this point, but you’ll be covered so don’t worry about it at all.

Keep going and head up the stairs. Go to the girl that you see and follow the on screen prompt.

Then you need to keep heading to the waypoint. When you can, press a button to interact and set the explosives. Boom.

SWAT-Killing 101

When Josh leaves, you’ll find loads of police appear. You need to shoot everyone. When the police throw flashbangs, if you have your camera pointed at them, it will affect you, but it’s not too big a deal and you get over the effects pretty quickly.

When you run in to the SWAT lot, you might find it easier to go for headshots, just to take them out quicker. Keep moving, your team have your back.

Your character originally said there would be two waves of police, but it seems you were wrong. You will be confronted with a third set, a chopper. Equip your machine gun, take cover and aim for the cockpit. Take it out!

Vault Riding

Johnny and Shaundi will cover you now and you need to take out the SWAT team. Again, it’s best to go for headshots. Once you have cleared the first set, a chopper will arrive again, so take that out and then clear anyone left.

When you’ve done this, you’ll be confronted with more choppers. It’s all fun and games. So, you will begin to see that your health bar and such disappear. This isn’t a bad thing. It just means you need to keep attacking and then you won’t die. Take out the choppers first, but don’t hesitate to shoot a policeman here and there. Clear it completely.

When it looks like your health is almost completely dwindled, don’t worry too much. Keep going and the mission will be completed.

Eventually, you'll get an alert beep along with the top and bottom of the screen pulsing red. This indicates that your health is critical, but in this case, it's part of the set piece. Keep firing, and eventually you'll resolve the mission.

I’m Free- Free Falling

Character Creation

Time to personalise your character! Note that once in the game, you