Remember the days when Saints Row was a fairly standard Grand Theft Auto clone? No, I don’t either, and I’m fairly certain that your protagonist has forgotten a lot of those roots too. He’s the President of the United States, after all!
Saints Row IV heads to pretty much the only places that the franchise could have gone after the ending of The Third, but it’s nice to have a little continuity, so as you wander down the halls of the White House to a press conference, you bump into all your old friends. Oleg is a bodyguard, Shaundi some kind of advisor, whilst poor Kinzie is trying to find a way out of the latest scandal you’ve caused.
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.
