Saints Row Is Less A Trainwreck And More A Messy, Fun Car Crash
From Kotaku: "Before I played the latest Saints Row game, confusingly titled just Saints Row, I expected a shitshow. On YouTube, I saw countless, popular channels calling it soulless, dead, and the worst game of 2022. Reviews from various outlets weren’t much better. Yet after putting about 14 hours into the game on Xbox Series X, I’m having a great time, even if I feel like I’ve played this game before.
Saints Row, not to be confused with the original game, is basically a reboot of the popular open-world crime-‘em-up franchise. Released last week, it stars a new crew of characters, a new leader of the Saints, and is set in a new southwestern city. But while it might share its name with the more grounded original game, this new reboot has more in common with Saints Row The Third, featuring a wacky world filled with outlandish missions and a crew of likable misfits who are both ruthless murderers and good friends. And this time, you get to actually see the origin of this new iteration of the Saints, letting you help build up the world’s most famous gang."
