Image credit: Deep Silver – in-game screenshot of Saints Row on PS5 Volition’s reboot delivers a rags-to-riches narrative, but it’s never funny and it has the worst gangs in the series’ history Progressing through the narrative eventually unlocks the ability to start creating your criminal empire, and this allows you to construct buildings that contain side activities such as the fan-favorite insurance fraud. There are bounties to complete, there’s turfs to free from rival gang members, and there’s challenges to achieve for rewards such as skills and perks. You can have lots of fun just driving and shooting everything in sight, but there’s dozens of side content available. All of this and more results in a crazy city where carnage awaits around every corner. It’s delightfully easy to send cars, people, and debris into the astrosphere, as well as cause a chain of explosions that would make even Michael Bay blush. It’s a lot more grounded than a world engulfed in the flames of Hell, but the ragdoll physics are almost otherworldly with lampposts flying into the heavens at even the gentlest love tap from a motorcycle. You may notice some distant buildings and textures popping in while driving, but it’s usually not overly noticeable.Īs you’d expect from Saints Row, the open-world isn’t designed to be uber-realistic. It’s way more colorful than any of the prior playgrounds in the series’ history, and it visually bursts to life with its bright blue sky and sandy canyons. Marshall is the main military threat, but even they are usurped in the end by this ruthless dude who, out-of-nowhere, becomes a whiny, jealous coward suffering from an identity crisis.Īway from the bad story and irritable Saints, some good news is that the game’s open-world is a lot of fun.
The Idols are these bright, neon thugs carrying out false justice, whereas the Mexicans are muscular afterthoughts. While the Saints are horrible, the rival gangs are mostly forgettable. Plus, people struggling with student loan debts and rent probably don’t want to be reminded of these real-life issues after hanging on top of an aircraft and murdering hundreds of goons. This may have worked as an hilarious self-aware parody which was meant as a laugh at the Boss and fellow Saints, but it’s presented as a ‘power fantasy’ instead of ironic and wildly stupid, thus the juxtaposition between badass and victim complex isn’t funny, and it just portrays the Boss as a brat instead of a cool gang leader. They start off as a killing machine and end as a killing machine, but, at the same time, they always whine about hardship and how life’s not fair. Image credit: Deep Silver – screenshot of Saints Row YouTube channel video Story Reveal TrailerĪs if Kevin wasn’t bad enough, the Boss is also insufferable whether you make them male or female, human or monster, hot or not.
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