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Within two hours super sprint and jump are unlocked and you’ll never need to look at a vehicle again. This, the messed up sense of humour and the rife rips on other game franchises are the saving graces of Saints Row IV and completely reshapes gameplay. You can enter these programs via a virtual Steelport, and so the takeover process franchise veterans should be well familiar with begins, but not exactly as you remember it.Īfter an hour or so of the usual shenanigans, blowing shit up, kicking a million pedestrians in the nuts, running from Johnny Law, the whole virtual simulation dealy kicks in, and hits hard. By freeing them you disrupt the simulation and this is the key to Zinyak’s downfall, don’t ask me why or think about it too much, just nod your head and go with it. They reveal Zinyak has trapped all of the Third Street Saints’ main playas in a virtual rendition of their own less-than-private nightmare.

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The Saints’ tech maestro Kinzie and all-around bad motherfucker Keith David hack through this simulation and free you of the “Matrix” in a stolen Zin vessel, now acting as your Mass Effect styled HUD. It’s fortunate the action and sheer ludicrousness ramps up significantly from this point onwards, and immediately turns your frown upside down.

The character models look outdated and it becomes apparent this is not Saints Row IV, but more like an expansion pack for Saints Row The Third, exhibiting none of the sharpness or smoothness of previously released demo videos, as seen from PAX East. The graphics have received little to no overhaul since Saints Row The Third and retain the same bugs and glitches with constant ripples of screen tearing, audio glitches, character clipping and the occasional frame-rate slow down. It’s here, among the less chaotic than usual circumstances, that the graphical inconsistencies and limitations become strikingly apparent. He starts abducting humans on a global scale and after a failed and pedestrian attempt to keep the hordes at bay via anti-aircraft turret, you also fall victim to abduction and wake up in a candy coated 1960s wonderland ala Leave it to Beaver. That is until shit starts to pop off.Īn intergalactic douchebag by the name of Zinyak (who redefines bland) has decided Earth will be his new plaything and launches and all-out assault on the planet. It’s all your average every day stuff, you know, curing cancer, feeding the hungry, walking down hallways to press conferences The West Wing style and all a little devoid of personality. After a quick mission to diffuse a nuclear threat, featuring one of the most memorable uses of I Don’t Wanna to Miss a Thing by Aerosmith, rocketing popularity has catapulted the crew into politics with your character taking on the mantel of the President of the United States, with Keith David as your running mate/vice prez.

The question you’ve got to ask yourself is what’s more important, a pretty, glitch free experience or a rollicking, ball-bustingly entertaining thrill-ride?Ĭonsidering the franchise’s pedigree for insanely spectacular openings Saints Row IV doesn’t really grab you by the short and curlies at the onset. The tonal shift to invading aliens and superpowers feels completely within the realm of possibility and opens the door to a completely different style of play.

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The series has made a leap beyond its original typecasting as a mere Grand Theft Auto clone in its first two iterations progressing into a piss-take of itself and the genre, throwing reality out the window and embracing its larger than life characters, settings and pop culture trimmings. was asking me as I embarked on this fourth and possibly final adventure with the Third Street Saints. What are you prepared to sacrifice for a good time? That’s the question I felt Saints Row franchise developer Volition, Inc.