Polygon: "In almost every moment, Saints Row 4 feels like playing a cheesy superhero movie. Tied together by parody and pastiche, the whole world is just an excuse to throw gameplay variety at the player, and I felt like an over-powered badass throughout. It's not sophisticated or subtle, nor does it want to be. And the game's open stance on character customization and gender let me play the way I wanted to. Saints Row IV made me feel superhuman — and that's what this kind of game is all about."
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.
They give Last of Us a 7/10 but give SR4 a 9/10...Polygon can't trusted opinion or not.
some good scores rolling in, nice surprise
Why not let that creep Tom Chic review this one..oh right this isn't a Sony game so no crap review needed lol, plus this would bee too violant for him , dude would probably faint in the loading screen.
That reviewer. Man she's dumb as f*ck.
How is the treatment of women in THIS game better than in Dragon's Crown? Really?
It's really starting to feel like she lowers any PS exclusive's score for whatever stupid reason she has fun coming up with.
If she had REALLY played Dragon's Crown, she would have noticed that female characters ARE empowered. Just look at princess Vivian.
Anyway, I believe I hate polygon.