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"Saints Row The Third does not have multiplayer because it felt &amp;quot;shoe-horned&amp;quot; in the last game, developer Volition has said. Associate producer James Torbit said that it wanted to focus on co-operative play and the campaign, and that competitive multiplayer was a &amp;quot;distraction&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;We wanted to focus from a multiplayer perspective on the co-op, this other co-op mode we can&amp;#039;t talk about, and then the sandbox open-world experience, that&amp;#039;s the heart of the game,&amp;quot; he told Digital Spy. &amp;quot;In some ways that competitive multiplayer mode was a distraction from that, and we wanted to say we&amp;#039;re not going to do that and we&amp;#039;re going to make this part of it the best we possibly can. It was a practical decision.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;Maybe we felt like we shoe-horned it in a little bit on Saint&amp;#039;s Row 2, because we have these two very different things going on, they&amp;#039;re both very complicated, and we just want to do this, which is very popular, the best.&amp;quot; Saints Row The Third will be available from November 15 in North America and November 18 in Europe on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.  &amp;gt; Saints Row The Third: Preview Watch Saints Row: The Third&amp;#039;s Power trailer below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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