Saints Row: The Third’s Best New Musical Feature

Yesterday, I showed you a video of how I begin my day in Saints Row: The Third. I called said it was emblematic of the game–one sequence that sums up the total experience. Saints Row: The Third is full of such moments. Many of them involve skydiving, or tigers.

Today’s video is more low-key, but it showcases one of my favourite features in Saints Row: The Third. The team at Volition has never quite had Rockstar’s ability to assemble radio station playlists–the music in the game is hit-and-miss for me. Some of the tracks are great, but others are boring or even just plain bad.

But in the spirit of Saints Row‘s love of customisation, players can put together their own “mixtape” playlist of any of the songs from any of the radio channels. While the original Saints Row allowed players to make a radio channel of ripped MP3s, the ability to remix the in-game radio stations is almost cooler, to me. It lets me stay in the game’s “world” while also getting to listen to my favourite tracks.

Better, the ability to browse and listen to all of the tracks in-game is huge for me. I can’t tell you how many tunes from Grand Theft Auto IV I can sing for memory without being able to tell you the name of the artist or album. I can only hope that this feature will be emulated in future open-world games.

I’ll have more Saints Row moments to share as the week goes on.