The saints have finally returned, and it feels like the new Saints Row is returned to its roots while receiving some updates and modernisations to bring it kicking and screaming into 2022.
The Saints Row games are an open-world, third-person crime-themed series of games beginning back in 2006, the games were originally seen as a Grand Theft Auto clone.
Saints within its series developed an identity of its own that was less of a violent satire and instead took its absurd comedy to the silliest and furthest point.
The protagonist of those past games eventually becomes President of the United States, then begins fighting Aliens and gaining superpowers and becoming trapped in a simulation, it goes really off the rails.
Each game further pushed the wacky bombastic insanity and it felt like they wrote themselves into a corner. Every Saint's game tried to up the ante, and a reboot feels like a much-needed opportunity to reign it in.
