Posted on: May 24, 2019

foxtyke

Games: 551 Reviews: 3

What is wrong with me?

I used to dodge Saints Row games because I was too heavily playing GTA but... my word I totally ripped myself off! I bought them on a whim recently from GOG and I have had the most fun in months playing! I wish I could go back and kick younger me in the butt for discounting such a great title and series. Yes, it's outlandish but oh, I love every moment of it. Saints Row is basically the experience of a modded to insanity version of GTA where you have a guy driving a piano down the street, beating someone down with dubstep and oh, just buy it already! You won't regret it! Get them all and start at the beginning.

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Posted on: May 22, 2021

Kugelstoesser

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 57

Jumbled mess

For the first few hours feels fun and the chaos you can unleash is gratifying. After the initial high though, the game falls really flat because the controls are very unprecise and the frustration starts to build up. Most of the story missions are reliant on tight timing and precise movements. The movement speed you unlock with skill points fairly early on exacerbates the spongy control feel even more. Graphics, sound and the general feel of the sandbox chaos are still great, it's just that the whole package feels bad after a few hours. The feel of it reminds me of Just Cause 2, just that this hasn't crashed once (for JC2's crash every 15 minutes).

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Posted on: December 1, 2018

wilkan

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Games: 509 Reviews: 157

A great sandbox parody game

Bottomline, Saints Row 4 is a game stacked high with parody and humourous references and remarks. Considering that it takes about 30 - 40 hours to quickly go through the task content, that is a boatload of stuff enjoy. That is, if you get the references. Matrix, Transformers The Movie (1986) and a ton of video game references including EVERY SINGLE past Saints Row title. You even have new dialogue for Julius Little. Some parts lifted straight from the past titles, including the scene with Veteran Child holding Shaundi as a hostage. This time they wisely give you a stun gun to replace the original SR2 scene of THROWING GRENADES AT THE TWO PEOPLE to 'distract' them. The game has a lot of replicating content such as multiple driving sing-a-longs to mirror that one in the beginning of SR3. Gameplay-wise, there is not much driving in the game as you can now glide faster than the max speed of a sports car. The flipside is that to get those cool abilities, you need to collect a lot of collectibles to unlock them. Thus, there are two bad parts in the game: the mandatory collectibles (you need about 1000 of them for full unlocks) and Genki Holiday Special activity. The game reuses the SR3 map and characters. It is considerably more resource intensive than SR3 when played on the street level, though runs okay when gliding high above everything. I hijacked a car only a couple of times during the whole game. The radio music is off by default and instead there is soft synth background music. I noticed more scenario-specific tunes here than in SR3. Most side missions revolve around activities, so here activities are practically the side missions. The main story is quite short and the bulk of the tasks is activities. There is no repeat activities from SR3 besides Fraud, so they are pretty fresh. The two DLC missions are extensive, 3+6 missions. The longer Enter the Dominatrix is particularly good. E.g. one of the objectives involve caging furries at a club.

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Posted on: June 27, 2025

Tower0fBabeI

Games: 43 Reviews: 1

Absolute beauty

This game is exactly my type of autism flavor

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Posted on: June 30, 2025

netizen112

Games: 66 Reviews: 1

Hours of fun

Great game, very detailed, lots of fun

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