It dishes the first few of these out very early in the game, so within minutes, you'll be scaling walls and sprinting like The Flash. I remember speaking with Volition before Saints Row 4 originally came out and they spoke about the game's design directive, asking: "is it fun?" That's never more clearly front and center than in the game's decision to bestow upon you many superpowers. It makes sight-seeing through its big city addictive. In Saints Row 4, everything is rigged to explode and dish out rewards of all sorts. Though Saints Row 4's suite of side missions is sometimes lacking compared to its predecessor's, what is here is still a lot of fun and defies the sandbox genre's pitfall of excessive, boring map-blip time-wasters. Stuff like UFO Mayhem, Mech Suit Mayhem, and different racing missions are repeatable side quests that help you chip away at your overlord's vice-grip on humanity. Story missions have you working for your various allies taking down the Zin's simulated reality in a variety of one-off missions, and you'll even get to do loyalty missions for each of them to strengthen your alliance, but like in Saints Row: The Third, it's the side missions that are often the most fun. The very first mission has you disabling a nuke by hand as it's zipping through the air to the tune of Aerosmith's I Don't Want to Miss a Thing, and neither in action nor in absurdity do they ever really relent from there. Should its writing survive scrutiny, the rest of the game is still tons of fun. Boyish and crude, it's like a modern-day Porky's now served to a modern-day audience that has likely already canceled Porky's. It's a game where there are double-digit numbers of underwear options to choose from and your created character's "sex appeal" stat determines their breast size. Saints Row 4 loves being absurd like this, and though it's not my type of humor, it gives the game a certain style, even if it will seem so outdated for many players today. These decisions have no impact on anything they're merely there to (re)introduce you to the world of Saints Row, a place where violent aliens, intrusive mascots, and Republicans deserve equally high-impact nutshots. That's before your next binary decision asks you to punch a rival politician in the face or the groin. To its credit, Saints Row uses your role as president in good fun, like the very first scene where you're signing bills into law and must choose to cure cancer or solve world hunger. I've seen more ridiculous things happen in the political arena in recent years, but it's all still a bit silly. Oh yeah, and you're the president of the United States.
In Saints Row 4, you are once again a member of the Third Street Saints gang, only now you're not fighting for turf with rival gangs, you're fending off humanity's enslavement from hostile aliens.
Seven years since I last touched a Saints Row game, it feels properly nostalgic now, removed from the shadow of its better predecessor - all of that despite the premise seeming so ridiculous.
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In Saints Row 4, those elements were all taken even further, though in 2013, it felt like the series had actually gotten too absurd. The identity it took on by then was one of irreverent humor, wacky weapons, and side missions that tended to be the best and funniest parts of the game. By the time the pitch-perfect Saints Row: The Third came around, Volition had stopped trying to emulate its big brother and grew comfortable in its own skin. Saints Row 4: Re-Elected Nintendo Switch Review - Signing Thrills into Lawĭuring its inception, Saints Row existed as the latest in a long line of Grand Theft Auto clones trying to cut into Rockstar's market share on crime-laden open-world games. Even in 2013, the series displayed the sense of humor of freshman boys, so it's fair to say those punchlines fall flatter today.īut in most other ways, Saints Row 4 holds up as an absurd sandbox loaded with toys.
That gap is sometimes evident when playing Saints Row 4: Re-Elected on Nintendo Switch, where it recently landed on the eShop.
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