So instead, they decided to reboot the franchise completely.Īnd what we have before us now is the result of that decision. And longtime fans of the series were also clamoring for a return to the series’ gang-warfare roots, but the developers could not deliver on that request without retconning some major plot elements. And while opinions are divided in terms of the reception these games received, no one can deny that they were a hell of a lot of fun.īut there was an endpoint to the narrative, even if it was not completely definitive, and the studio could not escalate the setting any further than it already had without completely changing what it once was. But they still didn’t hold a candle to the latest few entries, which featured settings like a global alien invasion and even a trip down into the underworld. The Saints Row games have always reveled in the absurd nature of their setting, and even the earlier titles in the series that many would consider relatively tame were still pretty goofy when compared to most of their peers.
As a massive fan of the series, I have been waiting for this game for almost a decade at this point, even before I knew that a new entry was supposedly in development.
This Saints Row Review has been a long time coming.