OXM UK: "Saints Row: The Third worked because it took one look at its dour, po-faced competition in the open-world genre (sorry, Rockstar), and blew a great big messy raspberry at it, happily settling for madcap wackiness and fun in place of polish, original mission design or story. This time around, however, Volition has been facing up to a much tougher challenge: out crazying itself."
Remember this year's Saints Row(opens in new tab)? Volition would probably prefer that you didn't, which might go some way to explaining why the studio recently decided to upgrade everyone's copy of Saints Row 4(opens in new tab) to its full-fat Re-elected Edition, containing all the game's story and cosmetic DLC and even introducing cross-play between Steam, Epic, and GOG versions of the game.
Unfortunately, that upgrade seems to have backfired, and players now report a myriad of bugs with their new version of SR4. Both the Saints Row Steam forums(opens in new tab) and subreddit(opens in new tab) are filled with players complaining of broken saves, crashes, and mods failing to function. It's also received a few hundred negative Steam reviews(opens in new tab) since the update. If it's succeeded in washing the taste of Saints Row (2022) out of players' mouths, it's only because it tastes even worse.
I wonder if Volition's getting reorged under Gearbox impacted the quality of their release.
When it comes ranking the Saints Row games, there are a couple of weird ones you have to consider, though this is Saints Row after all.
Juan at SwitchWatchTV got his hands on Saints Row 4 Re-elected for Nintendo Switch. Check out his review here and see what he thinks.
looking forward to this madness
Dont like the superpower idea,its gonna ruin the game....
They made absolutely zero improvements or additions to their city.
Seems like the 1st Crackdown game had more of a setting than SR3 did, and now SR4.
There are handful of things I'm interested in trying out in SR4, but I still have to force myself to play SR3 and shudder at the idea of SR4 being like that.