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Deep Silver has announced a new Saints Row for early next year and it’s not going to have any recurring characters from the old games.
Publisher Deep Silver hasn’t exactly been subtle about hints of a reboot for Saints Row, but then subtlety is not something the series is known for. Things got so wacky with 2015’s Saints Row: Gat Out Of Hell that it was hard to imagine where to go next for the series, other than a reboot..
The new game is exactly that and while the developer has hinted at a few Easter eggs and cameos there’ll be no returning characters in major roles and instead you’ll take control of a group of up and coming gangsters in the fictional city of Santo Ileso, in the American Southwest.
Neenah, Kevin, and Eli all look rather young for the role, but your player character is fully customisable in the traditional Saints Row style.
The first Saints Row was a pretty straightlaced clone of Grand Theft Auto and it was only with the second game that things started to get crazy. The new game seems to be pitched somewhere between the two in terms of plausibility, in that it doesn’t take itself too seriously but there aren’t any robots or dragons in it.
According to developer Violation there are things like the famous insurance scam missions though, as well as wingsuits, car customisation, environmental destruction, untethered co-op play, and plenty of humour.
Your overall goal is still to take over the whole city, muscling in on nine distinct districts and the gangs that control them, but as with the existing games the primary goal is to just enjoy the open world environment and mess around.
The graphics seem a touch unremarkable at this stage, and we’re really not sure about the character designs of your crew, but the old style Saints Row did seem like it had gone as far as it could.
The reboot, titled simply Saints Row, will be out on February 25, 2022 on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, and PlayStation 5.
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