To be very fair that approach also contributed to some of Saints Row‘s best moments. You may or may not find things like dildo bats, dubstep guns, or a car repair shop called “Rim Jobs” funny, but the franchise’s willingness to really lean into that direction certainly helped it find an audience. Generally speaking, Saints Row‘s ridiculousness has been its greatest asset. The Saints Row series has historically looked for ways to make a name for itself and stand out from the competition (most notably the GTA franchise), and that style of humor and general absurdity have long been its biggest weapons in that fight. Maybe die-hard Saints Row fans will find enough to chew on, but most players will likely give up in frustration long before they become the new crime boss of Santo Ileso.See, the original Saints Row games ( Saints Row 1-4 and their various add-ons) famously utilzied an over-the-top, take no prisoners style of humor that has often been compared to South Park. I could deal with just mediocre action, boring characters or subpar audio and visuals - but not all three. Saints Row simply doesn't do enough to set itself apart in an era when the genre is already tired.
GTA 5, a game that's almost a decade old, had a much bigger world, with more interesting destinations and better fidelity. The starting area is particularly desolate, but the parts of the city where the casinos are located don't offer much eye candy either. Saint Ileso didn't strike me as some visual spectacle, even though it's based on Las Vegas. Character models had no particularly unique or realistic details and reminded me of Fortnite characters. Volition does have a Day 1 patch ready to go to fix many problems, but it's hard to say if it'll address everything.Īs for how Saints Row looks? Also mediocre. The game crashed multiple times during play, for various reasons. There was also a wealth of glitches in the review build provided by Volition: Character animations regularly went out of sync, cars would literally bounce like a beach ball, my character would take random damage from exiting a vehicle, apps on the phone that acts as an in-game menu froze or refused to pull up.
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