Saints Row is launching Februon the Epic Games Store, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, and PS5. We'll check on those claims once we can actually play it, which is sooner than you might expect. Volition promises that the shooting is still arcady, driving is better than ever, and the weapon choice is vast. Hopefully that means the Saints can still pull off impossible stunts without making me wince or cringe every five minutes.Ī new main cast and city certainly freshen things up a bit, but as a whole, Saints Row seems very similar to the games before it.

I get the sense that Volition wants to keep telling over-the-top, funny stories while leaving its mean streak behind.

What I've seen so far more-or-less tracks with this. We had a different kind of story that we wanted to tell.' the Oleg look-alike giant is on the gang operations truck when you fire any gang operations. But that tone is not something that we feel like we want to do today. Saints Row The Third: So much fun it should be criminal. 'They made sense within that era, and we were able to do things that felt good back then. 'We love, but we also recognize those are games of a time,' he said. Without getting specific about the series' past, studio development director Jim Boone said the Saints Row reboot will bring the series into the 2020's. Between memorable setpieces and lovable characters were moments of casual sexism and homophobia within its main cast and beyond-the sort of stuff that I breezed by in all media when I was a dumb 15-year-old. I remember laughing often at Saints Row The Third when I played it 10 years(!) ago, but it took some googling to remember just how embarrassingly edgy its writing was. What's probably not returning is the exact tone of humor that players might remember from Saints Row 3 and 4. It sounds like players will be busy with all those minigames, but Volition confirmed that some popular side activities from past games will make a return through opening businesses, like the ragdoll punishment minigame Insurance Fraud. I got the sense that these optional businesses will rake in extra money automatically, but you can also help out by operating businesses yourself (like delivering drugs in a food truck). Volition showed off a few examples, including a food truck dispatch that also peddles drugs, arms dealers, car repo shops, nightclubs, and laundromats. Grenade spamming, vtol, heli, tank, run in and beat them to death. Aircraft are fun, but if you go an inch out of range the damned operation bugs out and needs to be reset. As you grow the new Saints crew (company?), vacant lots across Santo Ileso can be purchased and turned into crooked businesses. Try out different weapons and techniques.

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