It was seen yesterday the long-awaited revelation of the new Saints Row game of Volition. While many were expecting a remake or remaster of another game in the series, it turned out to be a reboot of the entire franchise, a brand new Saints Row with a new configuration, new characters and a new sensitivity. We’ve gathered all the juicy information out there so far.
The new game is inspired by action movies
According to Volition’s chief creative officer, Jim Boone, the reboot Saints Row has been inspired in part by three films: Baby Driver, John Wick, i Hobbs and Shaw. Talking to Radar Games, Boone explained Baby driver influenced the “game’s commitment to driving,” John Wick reports the expected “brutality” and Hobbs and Shaw is “a bit of that Saints Row a kind of taste, the kind of exaggerated nature by which we are known. “
It is distributed in nine different districts
This time set in the fictional Santo Ileso, from 2022 Saints Row focuses on cities in the American Southwest. Each, says Volition, will be different, including his version of Las Vegas, here called The Golden. There will also be the degraded area of Rancho Providencio, while at the other end of the capitalist spectrum, Monte Vista will offer white picket fences to beautiful suburbs.
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In all nine, you’ll fight for territory against three other factions, The Idols, The Panthers, and The Marshalls, as you try to establish your own start-up crime business. They are accompanied by three new characters, Neenah, Eli and Kevin, who came out of one of the other three gangs. That yes, it means there is no trace of Cat, Kinzie or Shaundi. Neither Keith David nor Jane Austin. This is a completely separate story from the previous four games.
It will be quite vertical
Like the Saints Row the series became more silly, it also got louder. In the fourth game, players spent most of their time flying on futuristic ships or simply flying like a superhero. While all of this is marked here, the team ensures that there are still plenty of action in the air Polygon reports the game will include airplanes, hoverboards and, above all, winged suits. Apparently, the latter will have their own set of side missions.
They have reorganized car combat
Apart from this rather peculiar statement about Baby driver and his “commitment to driving,” the new Saints Row he is said to be taking a new approach to being behind the wheel.
Polygon Boone quotes saying, “We spent a lot of time with a driving model trying to make it as driveable as possible,” which means … I guess … I could be saying … no, I did I have nothing. But it continues that while the game will still allow you to shoot weapons and drive at the same time, it will be different from before, eliminating automatic controls from the car when you’re in combat.
“We have followed a different path in terms of how car combat works. Use the car more as a weapon Saints Row that you use your firearms. As a result, we didn’t feel the need to try this cruise control mechanic of the past. “
It is cross-gene for cooperatives
The game will be released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, as well as for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S, and Volition promises that the game’s co-op will be cross-generation. All the missions of the game can be played cooperatively, say the developers while sharing the good news that you can team up with your lucky friend who got a new generation console. There’s no clear word on whether things will be cross-platform as well, but it’s always much less likely.
It will be less silly
While offering everything with the promises that the new game will continue to feature the franchise’s “branded” humor, there is definitely a lot of emphasis on how this is not a continuation of Saints Row IV.
The gang is made up of Gen Z characters, super young and, from the images that have been seen so far, much more optimistic and enthusiastic than the previous collection of cynics, fed up with Gen Xers from the series.
Radar Games Boone reports that Volition wants to change the tone, describing previous games as “one-time”, clearly aware that this deliberately offensive wording and content would be a much harder sale in 2022. But he also notes that considering SRIV ended the player as the ruler of the galaxy, after defeating an alien superstar within a computer construction of planet Earth, in a story told by Jane Austin, not much space had been left.
Saints Row it is scheduled to come out on February 25 next year, but we assume it will inevitably fall in April.