Saints Row The Third [jtag/rgh] Review

The neon-purple glow of the TV screen was the only thing lighting up Elias’s room at 2:00 AM. On his desk sat a modified Xbox 360, its casing slightly scarred from where he’d installed the chip.

As the sun began to peek through his blinds, Elias saved his modified coordinates, right on top of the Magarac Bridge, and watched a fleet of purple VTOLs circle a city that now looked more like a fever dream than a video game. Saints Row The Third [Jtag/RGH]

There were no achievements popping up, and he couldn't take this madness onto Xbox Live without an instant ban, but that was the point. In this modified pocket of code, Elias wasn't just the leader of the Third Street Saints; he was the architect of their reality. The neon-purple glow of the TV screen was

He spent the next hour "painting" the city. Using a on his laptop linked to the JTAG, he swapped the textures of the asphalt for the shimmering chrome of the Deckers' virtual reality world. The streets of Steelport became a liquid mirror, reflecting the neon chaos he unleashed with an infinite-ammo rocket launcher that fired literal penguins. There were no achievements popping up, and he

"Let's see what Steelport looks like with the physics turned off," he muttered.