GamingLives chats with Volition's Audio Director on Saints Row IV, Brandon Bray, and Art Director, Stephen Quirk on how the Dubstep gun transforms the environment, among other things.
"It was a completely new system that we’d never done before, it’s brand new for the Saints Row franchise, and one of our other audio designers Kyle Vande Slunt, he worked with our programmer Shawn Lindberg with the code, and so it’s designing the stems so that there’s different layers of music that will come in and out depending on what’s going on, it’s a pretty intricate system, and it took a few months to develop, but I think we’re really happy with the way it turned out, I think fans will like it."
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.
In saints row 4 do u really keep the white house wen we completed the mission
In saints row 4 do u really keep the white house wen we completed the game