My theory is that Volution is purposely trying to get rid of all the old characters and moving on with the new ones (Kinzie, Oleg and Zimos). She would have little chance of being with him.) The Even still, it makes no sense. Logic wise, her only logical reaction to Gat’s death being that serious would be if she was in love with him (and that seems dumb on her behalf since Gat never really got over Aisha, his wife’s, death, anyway. Plus, her gang kills people for a living. Also, she’s probably seen a good number of her many exes die just from living in Stilwater, if not many more random pedestrians. She was already semi-famous in Stilwater for having slept with at least 100 people in town (a few of them probably women) anyway, so her celebrity image has nothing to do with it. The old Shaundi would’ve slept with Josh Burk at least a dozen times by now, especially since he’s consdiered a handsome and famous actor. And Gat’s death had little to do with it she was a bitch before and complete through the entire Syndicate Bank robbery, as well. In just two in-game years though, she did a complete 180 and turned into an always cranky bitch who NEVER does any drugs, even though it’s considered “cool” and establishes street cred, and can’t seem to show even the slightest bit of respect or compassion for her friends. It was everything about her that made her Shaundi! And even though the voice change sucked, it could’ve been bareable if they just kept her acting exactly the same as the old Shaundi. It wasn’t JUST her wardrobe that changed. She was charming and endearing, and I found her to be the most relatable character, though I’m not sure what that says about me as a person. As I said, Shaundi was my favorite character in Saints 2. Whatever the case may be, I’m not happy about this shift. And this actress completely misses the point. My theory is that at some point between Saints Row 2 and Saints Row 3, Shaundi must have died a horrible death, and since the other three dudes in the team wanted to have a girl in the group to look pretty, they hired some actress to wear a low-cut top and pretend to be Shaundi. I get that characters can change overtime, but this is a pretty extreme gear shift, and we never even see a hint of the old Shaundi in this new one.
Occasionally other characters will make jokes about Shaundi being such a slutty stoner, and there’s the rare case where she’ll allude to some past exploit of hers into the field of drugs and sex, but none of that is ever shown in her actual demeanor or actions.
She’s pushy, she’s violent, she always seems to be angry at somebody, and she doesn’t hesitate for a moment to bark out threats, even threats directed at her friends. Saints 3 Shaundi is so different I refuse to accept that it’s the same person. She just didn’t seem to give a shit, and that’s what made her charming. She was chilled out and laid-back, she rarely ever got upset or tense, she knew all about drugs and where to find and produce them, and to top it all off, she was a complete and total slut. Saints 2 Shaundi was the archetypal stoner. I understand that graphical upgrades are going to cause some changes in a character’s overall appearance, but this Shaundi has a different face, a different outfit, a different voice, and a completely different personality. The strange thing is that there’s a new girl in the group and everybody refers to her as Shaundi, but she doesn’t look, talk or act anything like Shaundi from Saints 2. So here’s my question: What the hell happened to my favorite character? But Shaundi never shows up, not in the mission or in the whole game. Pierce is wearing a pretentious rich-guy costume, but he’s still Pierce. In Saints 3, Gat and Pierce are back on screen in the very first mission. The three major support characters in Saints 2 were Johnny Gat, Pierce and Shaundi. I guess I’ll start with the first observation I made. I have a lot of things to say about it, some good and some bad. On the whole Saints 3 felt very fresh and fun. I had to turn the resolution to 720×480 just to make it playable, and even then the framerate chugged whenever things got busy (spoiler: things were busy most of the time) but that’s my laptop’s fault, not the game’s fault.
I was a big fan of Saints Row 2, and based on my expectations from that game, Saints 3 did not disappoint. Sadly I didn’t get ahold of it until January 1st. Saints Row 3 probably would have been one of my favorite games of 2011, had I played it in 2011.