Saints Row Reboot PS4/PS5/Xbox One/Series/Epic
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26-08-2021 4:57pm#1
The game comes out for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on February 25, 2022.
Game Details
- We have our targets locked on a brand new city – Santo Ileso – a melting pot of big city business and darkened alley street crime, the perfect place to start a new criminal empire and the biggest and best playground we have ever created. Also, on a side note, the best Tacos in the American South West, (Chalupracarbra has a certain “kick” to it, if you know what I mean). The law in this city? Never heard of her. You don’t become self-made by following laws, right? Well, if you do – it sounds SUPER boring, so we’ll do it our way, thanks. The city offers a range of criminal ventures to further your interests (and make some sweet cash to boot – rent doesn’t pay itself).
- You play as whoever you want in your journey from Newbie to Boss, kicking ass and fighting… well not crime obviously. We’ll talk more about our most extensive character creator ever in time, but it wouldn’t be a Saints Row game if you couldn’t roleplay in a range of roles from bank manager to green-skinned zombie alien monster, would it? Wherever you are in that spectrum, you do you, or.. not, we’re here for it. Plus, as is the custom, we have seamless untethered co-op so you and a friend can create those Saints Row moments together – friendship really is magic.
Check out the full feature list:
Story
Welcome to Santo Ileso, a vibrant fictional city in the heart of the American SouthWest. In a world rife with crime, where lawless factions fight for power, a group of young friends embark on their own criminal venture, as they rise to the top in their bid to become Self Made.
Customization
- Create the Boss of your dreams, with the most extensive character customization suite ever seen in the series, then complete the look with incredible options for weapons and vehicles.
- This includes eight voice options
Weapons
- Shoot revolvers from the hip, fire and forget with a rocket launcher, or obliterate up close using melee heavyweights, complete with brutal takedowns. A vast variety of familiar and exotic weapons, all customizable.
- Volition promises that it's still planning to introduce some ridiculous over-the-top weaponry as is the series' trademark by this point.
The World
- Discover the Weird, Wild, West – Dive in to Santo Ileso, the biggest and best Saints Row playground ever, spread across nine unique districts surrounded by the vast, majestic beauty of the Southwest Desert.
- Santo Ileso will have nine unique districts, each one having its own theme and culture.
- El Dorado district looks like a low-rent Vegas with rundown buildings peppered with neon lights, while Montevista is a more affluent area with gated communities guarding large houses with swimming pools.
Properties
- As the Saints begin to battle with the three other factions and slowly take over each of the regions, players can take over vacant lots in each region and use them to set up new bases.
- Players will be able to buy real estate properties and use them for various criminal enterprises. One such example includes starting a drug-running business using fast-food meat trucks as cover, like Gus Fring's chicken operation from the TV show "Breaking Bad."
- "These buildings come with player choice, where and which structures you opt for will impact the world," said James Hague, design director. "Will you build your own fast-food drug-running ring? How about a protection racket? Auto theft? Arms dealership?"
- These bases can be used to launch new criminal ventures, usually in the form of legit fronts that are secretly disguising dodgy jobs. Players can choose what should be built on each lot, and which criminal business is actually being run – protection rackets, , auto theft and arms dealing were some of the examples Volition gave us.
- "You're building criminal ventures, and each criminal venture is unlocking its own custom gameplay with it. And that's in addition to all the other stuff that you can do out in the world."
- There's apparently a lot of freedom when it comes to that - you can build a toxic waste dump in a financial district, if you want.
- Quirk further expanded that, "As you place buildings in your criminal empire you're building a crew, you're acquiring employees. Based on your choices of what buildings you place, you're also placing additional Saints there."
- Insurance Fraud supports a "sort of questionable medical clinic" you can build, and isn't the only returning activity, though the lads are tight-lipped on any others for now.
The Lieutenants
Eli
A bowtie-wearing MBA and one of the four founding friends that start the Saints. The planner and financial guru in the group. "He didn't realize the business he was going to build was a criminal empire," Bernstein said. "So that means the next step is to make connections with people that can shoot guns."
Neenah
Is the driver/mechanic with a background in art history and anthropology , and was jettisoned from Los Panteros, one of Santo Ileso's enemy factions
Kevin
The Idols are another faction, and they tossed out Kevin, a DJ party animal character.
The Gangs
Los Panteros
Los Panteros, are the tough guys who have been natives to Santo Ileso for a long time and are proud of its history, to the extent that they've taken over a rundown, formerly thriving car manufacturing factory and turned it into their base. They specialise in melee attacks and blunt, heavy weapons.
Marshalls
Aprivate military conglomerate that owns Santo Ileso's commercial district, Marshall specialises in futuristic technology so players can expect a high-tech showdown if they approach them. Little landmine drones that fire laser beam lassos, that sort of thing.
Idols
The Idols, are loud and brash, they're driven by fame and run around in bright pink and blue suits and robot masks. Basically, if Deadmaus and Daft Punk had ever decided to form a gang, this is what it would have looked like.
Vehicles/Driving
- Blast through urban and desert environments in any one of the cars, bikes, planes, helicopters, VTOLs, hoverbikes, hoverboards, go-karts or equip your wingsuit to swoop around.
- The demo I saw showcased plenty of cars, motorcycles, helicopters, bulldozers, wingsuits, huge stunt jumps, off-road driving, and a ton more
- We did spend a lot of time with a driving model to try to make it as drivable as possible," he said. "You will still be able to fire out the window like you could in previous games, but we've gone a different route in terms of the way the car combat works. You're using the car more as a weapon in Saints Row than you are using your firearms. As a result of that, we didn't feel like we needed to try to come up with that cruise control mechanic from the past." Cars aren't the only mode of transportation — aircraft, hoverboards, wingsuits, and bikes are also in the fleet. Wingsuits are even the premise for one of Saints Row's side hustles.
- For one, you can upgrade any vehicle to go off-road, so if you want to take a garbage truck out to the desert and spin donuts, knock yourself out.
Mini Games
Insurance Fraud
One thing definitely returning, however, is the minigame activity. Volition chief creative officer Jim Boone said it wouldn't be a Saints Row game without it, and said a few other fan-favorite activities would also come back, though he didn't name-check any others.
CO-OP
- Experience everything on offer with a friend at any time, via fully untethered drop-in / dropout co-op, skipping the need to take either of you out of the outlandish action. Play nice together, or play all new pranks on your team mate. After all, who's the Boss now.
- "Every mission in the game is a co-op mission," promised Rob Loftus, Volition's executive producer. That includes co-operative play across console generations, too, Loftus said.
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