![]() Saints Row veterans will recognize activities like Insurance Fraud and Mayhem, where the player throws themself in traffic to rack up cash or blow up as many vehicles and people as possible, respectively. There’s a decent variety in the activities and plenty to do that can keep the Boss busy, which serves as a double-edged sword. ![]() This is done through purchasing criminal ventures at their HQ, which also generates passive income for the player. Outside of completing story missions the Saints need to establish a name for themselves by building a criminal empire. It’s also useful for managing money, keeping track of collectibles, customizing a radio playlist and calling homies to help with jobs and activating missions. There’s a Wanted app that sounds like a dating tool, but it’s really for tracking down bounties on contract kills. It’s a useful hub for managing Skills and Perks that get unlocked as the game progresses. ![]() Not every activity can be managed through the cell, but the bulk of the Boss’s needs are in the palm of their hand. Just like real life, the Boss’s cellphone is an essential piece of equipment to navigate life in Santo Ileso. I enjoyed their company, but can’t see any of them getting their own spinoff like Johnny Gat. They make a decent enough supporting cast and have potential to be interesting, but none of them live up to it. And last but not least, the best character of all, Snickerdoodle, the resident orange cat who always has the Saints’ back. Armed with his whiteboard his knowledge is essential to getting The Saints up and running, plus he introduces the Boss to the LARP known as the Dustmoot. Eli is the nerd of the group and probably the most likable of Saints. Neenah is a gearhead mechanic with a desire to become involved in the art world, and she also has ties the meathead motorist gang, Los Panteros. Kevin is the perpetually shirtless DJ with ties to the anarchist rave gang, the Idols. Where they come up short is they aren’t the most nuanced or even memorable characters. They succeed in making the characters likeable enough, which is important considering they’re all mass murdering felons. Saints Row has mixed results with the development of the new supporting cast. Like the previous games in the series, the player is free to customize the appearance of the Boss including gender, race, hair and eye color, tattoos, prosthetics and personality. This eventually leads them to coming up with the idea that they should just start their own gang, and thus The Purple Shirt Mafia The Saints are born. The four of them struggle to make rent payments, and while there are attempts at making ends meet through legal income streams, they typically end up to resorting to criminal activities to pay the bills. The player character, who will henceforth be referred to as the Boss, lives in an apartment with his three roommates. ![]() The rebooted Saints Row takes place in Santo Ileso, a fictional city that isn’t too dissimilar from Las Vegas. Thus, the developers did the only sensible thing, and they gave the series a reboot for the Saints’ sweet sixteen, bringing Saints Row back to a world that’s slightly more grounded in reality, though the phrase “grounded in reality” is still being used rather loosely. To say the franchise has gone off the rails would be an understatement, and when the main characters don’t even have a planet to live on while their fallen allies are building a criminal empire in Hell, there isn’t really anywhere the series can go. Saints Row began as a simple Grand Theft Auto knockoff, but after a few sequels the protagonists had super powers they used to battle alien invaders in a computer simulation after Earth’s destruction. ![]()
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