The story is built to follow the earlier games – the more familiar you are with these characters and their history, the more in-jokes you will appreciate – but prior experience is in no way required. The max level is 50, but by the time you reach level 20, you are a vengeful god. That feeling of growing more powerful is there in Saints Row IV, but instead of starting low and ending high, you start high and end up off the damn charts. – in order to keep your interest and not turn the open world into just a huge map that features a lot of backtracking. You need to work towards something – a higher level, more weapons, cooler toys, etc.
Easy like a Sunday bloody Sunday morningĮverything about Saints Row IV screams “ease of use.” If you’ve played a lot of open world games, then you are probably used to starting out with very little and slowly working your way up to a point where you can actually roam around and cut loose. The game is just about having fun, and nothing else really matters. There’s a confidence in the game’s design, maybe even some swagger. You get the sense very early on in Saints Row IV that Volition just doesn’t give a damn. It doesn’t care about convention, it doesn’t care about the how you approach it, and it doesn’t care if a few people are offended. The series stopped caring about that a long time ago. It’s also not afraid to take risks, and I don’t just mean the risk of offending people. The series has grown famous – or perhaps, more accurately, infamous – for its crude humor and over-the-top … well… everything, from gameplay to presentation. Saints Row IV is in one sense a very natural evolution of Volition Inc.’s Saints Row franchise that Deep Silver purchased the rights to from THQ.
It never gets old, and that’s remarkable for a game that should last over 25 hours.
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