Honors and Awards

Giant Bomb's 2011 Mission/Level of the Year

Awarded To Mission: Saints Row: The Third - "http://deckers.die/"

Full Article: Giant Bomb's 2011 Awards

"How do you pick a single moment to highlight from a game packed to the brim with highlight reel-worthy moments? Such was the question pitted to us as we attempted to choose a best level from Saints Row: The Third, a game so replete with crazily memorable missions and events that this category might as well have just been called "Best Mission/Level in Saints Row: The Third." Don't worry though, we did at least consider other games. It was only sporting.

When the dust settled and Jeff had stopped screaming, the end result of our deliberations settled upon the http://deckers.die/ mission. As anyone who has played the game knows, this is the level where you play, at various times, a sentient toilet/sex doll/gun-armed TRON man trudging through a virtual reality world filled with giant murderous avatars, ancient arcade game references, and a straight-up text adventure sequence.

Did you get all of that? Good, because even typing all of that was kind of exhausting. http://deckers.die/ is easily the most ludicrously insane mission of a game predicated entirely on the concept of ludicrous insanity. We're not sure how much better we can sum it up than that."

Runners-Up:

Gears of War 3 - Cole Train Flashback, Uncharted 3 - Lost In the Sands

Game Informer Top 5 Moment of 2011

Awarded To Mission: "Virtual Reality"

Full Article: GameInformer-Top-Moment

"As the Third Street Saints take on the tech-savvy Deckers gang, they find themselves inhabiting hostile virtual space. This Tron-like environment features homages from gaming's early days to contemporary tropes. It being Saints Row, there's also a toilet." - Game Informer Issue 226

Top 10 Best THQ Games All Time

Awarded To Saints Row the Third (Highlighted by Mission): "http://Deckers.die/"

Full Article: Destructoid-Top-Best-THQ

"The http://deckers.die mission in particular is what skyrockets this game above any other. In a single mission you become a toilet, a sex doll, use the Mega Buster, participate in a text adventure, and fight a boss that simulates lag. I truly hope that when future generations talk about the best levels in video games, deckers.die is sitting alongside the classics."

- Patrick Hancock, Destructoid

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