While Saints Row IV isn’t afraid of going bonkers on the gameplay front, there’s still a lot of different things to do. The main different is this game’s crazy sense of humour. With this, Saints Row IV becomes a similar experience to super-hero/villain games like Infamous and Prototype. It doesn’t take much time for you to become able to run faster than any car or jump higher than most buildings – or throw fireballs, fly through the skies, and more. Quickly, though, you start to ‘break’ the simulation with an ever-increasing number of unlockable super-powers. After all, it is still largely a third-person shooter in which you can steal cars and proceed to wreak havoc all around you. At the very beginning, it does feel akin to a traditional GTA-like game.
Thanks to this Matrix-like simulation, Saints Row IV can ramp up the odds quickly. This screenshot looks unnervingly like Superman 64. Now, you’re stuck inside a virtual representation of the Steelport City, where you must become a kind of super anti-hero in order to save what was left of the world. While you presided over the nation, though, aliens invaded the earth and captured the most brilliant minds. After the events of Saints Row: The Third, you, the leader of The Saints, have become the president of the United States. From the narrative to the mechanics, it is a crazy ride from start to finish. Saints Row IV, though, goes one level beyond what the series had delivered before and turns the whole experience into an open-world playground where you have the options (and powers) to bend all the expected rules. In other words, it was a sandbox title with a crazy story, adult sense of humour, and insane action sequences. Until its third instalment, Saints Row could be described as an over-the-top GTA franchise. Saints Row IV is the epitome of what the franchise has offered.Īt first, this looks like another third-person GTA clone. Not because it did anything much different to the usual format, but due to how well it delivered the genre.
Yet, between all these samey GTA-like titles, the Saints Row franchise stood out. Before The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild kind of revolutionized what we can expect from open-world games, sandbox titles had a pretty standard formula.īasically, there were dozens of franchises within the same old structure: an extensive map (often a big city), filled with quests, side-activities, and collectables galore.
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