Saints Row

It's an origin story, that's great.

It's an open world, that's great.

It's repetitive, bland, humorless, quirk-less, powerless and a chore to work through the same tired side missions which end up being stripped down versions of previous versions of the same style activities.

I was so excited for a new Saints Row, by looking at the box art and watching the trailers it's a fast paced quirky game with the charm and humor of Saints Row 2, 3 and GooH, it's not that.

Combat is slow but twitchy getting stun locked or completely overrunning enemies after upgrading any weapons, the activities are just scavenger hunts with look through the area and click on the buttons or try to figure out what's a target and what's scenery.

Bad, in all things gameplay, story and character development.

This game is terrible. It has the worst characters. I didn't like them. The game has many problems. I was bored throughout the experience. This may be the end of the franchise. I don't want to see these Saints again. The old saints from the other games would destroy these weak new saints. The people who made this game didn't care. They made something awful. There were moments during my playthrough when I was thinking "what is this garbage?" We want things to be entertaining and fun. We don't want this trash. It's time to wake up and learn. It's frustrating that there are games full of bugs these days. Finish the games when making them. We don't want something half finished.

I got really bored playing this after just a few sessions. I had no interest in playing the main missions they just didn't appeal to me. Wasn't likeing the story arc, if you can call it that, it's not really feeling like a story anyways that's really going anywhere and the only character that's got much of a personality just plane sucks as a character and don't have any desire to see anymore dialog from her. At first I would say I enjoyed about the first couple hours of gameplay, but mostly playing with the character creation which isn't all that enjoyable to navagate, it's really confusing at times switching between menus and the menus go 3 maybe for levels deep sometimes. They could have got rid of the color swatches and just had the color wheel instead, a lot faster as I'm constantly adding colors just to get a better tone of the colors in the swatch. It's still a good character customization but I'm not going to play a game just for that, and they put a lot of effort into it so much so they have a separate app just for this part of the game. Overall what it comes down to and this is what made me think it deserves such a low score is that so many of the missions after just one go, I didn't want to do them again and you look at the map it's the same stuff on every single section of the entire map, some new ones pop up but once I've played them in one region, there is no reason to do the same thing somewhere else. Another thing that absolutely sucks is the vehicle control, it feels so awkward from the camera controls to just handling, you hardly feel like you're in control and when you steer you oversteer very easily and it's just a pain to drive around the map and take corners accurately, it's not fun to navigate and go places in this game. I've got maybe 10% completion and I'm feeling like I'm done, I don't want to play anymore.

One of the fastest modes of transport I found that was easy to drive was a jetski, but there is so little in the environment I felt very alone in this game, very little to do in such a large space. I was looking around and thinking, where are all the boats docked. I couldn't even find one yet there were sailboats on the water and a random encounter with another jetski. And when you hit the map boarder there is this annoying 10 second timer telling you to turn around, talk about an immersion breaking game feature. This just made me feel that this game obviously was incomplete when released and it will never be finished or realized to a degree that this could have been. I just had the feeling that whoever made this game, didn't play it. So why should I.

Putting so much work into non-critical gameplay is such a waste, and clearly it was meant to sell skins and cosmetics as this is advertised on the splash screen. Well you got to have a good playable game for people to care about stuff like that and this isn't all that playable at least not for any length of time.

I could go on and on about what I don't like but it's just not worth the time.

Don't shoot the messenger but this is another bad review, I am a long time fan of the series and have played each title from Saints Row 2006 to the current Saints Row 2022. To other fans reading this. Do not bother with this title instead poor one out tonight because another beloved IP is dead. This game is sanitized charmless souless boring and buggy piece of malarkey. Every previous title is better. The prologue starts off after you customize the new boss. Quickly after the action takes off you start to see it, and feel it. Shooting is odd and just as quirky as your life is stange' + watch dog' style roommates. I swear each character was born strait out of twiter and reddit. The repetitive bullet sponge enemies have the worst AI in the series. The city is boring. At least the characters are relatable, well not so fast I would never talk like that and I myself am a genZer. No gangster ever would talk like that. Oh right this isn't a gangster game really. If the developers were really so fed up with the blatant honesty and crude humor and every other core Saints Row aspect and didn't want to be limited by the past of the previous franchise they should have opened a new IP. Not drop this piece of garbage and paint a beloved name on it. Even if they managed that amount of respect they clearly fail at every thing else. I wish I never bought this garbage and this lie. I bought 1 and two just days later. If you want to relive the glory days don't bother with 2022. There just isn't an aspect with praising in the game besides vehicle customization. The venture system was an empty and washed out way to revive more beloved activities that will just leave any one unimpressed. This game is begging you to drink the koolade and except mediocrity. This is a AAA game that a developer owned by 3 publishing company and ran by marketing teams. F this game. Its not worth 60 dollars and definetly not 70 or 100 dollars. Don't buy it borrow it maybe play it on game pass if you want to see what I mean.

You can tell that the game came out unfinished. Everything is flooded with bugs. Story is okay but the bugs ruin it. I actually love the Saints Row series but this has ruined the whole good reputation. You can also see that Volition is closed. I also think that it only becomes fun after a certain part. But the $7 is worth it. Now that I've finished playing, I don't feel like continuing to play the game. Hope there's a new one coming soon Saints Row out which has fewer bugs and is also fun. One thing that has to be said though is that the character creation is very good. You can edit a lot. Like I said, they don't need to make a music app and use their time and money in better things.