Quiet Folk

I still remember playing the first Saints game and being floored, SR2 followed up as a huge promise of being a GTA competitor. SR3 was SR3 and we don’t talk about SR4. I preordered this game with so much excitement! I was looking forward to the fun, over-the-top humor Saints Row was known for. Robust vehicle customizations, crazy weapons, engaging gameplay and missions etc - and barely any of those criteria’s were delivered (there are some “fun” weapons). This game honestly struggles, it’s closer in comparison in terms of gameplay to GTA4. The physics are non-existent. The world itself is so bland and dull. NPC’s take one hit then fall into the exact same animation patterns based on male/female and run away. One hit. The most interesting part I found just playing was when hitting a NPC car, sometimes they chase you and go aggro, but again, one hit and they run away. In GTA4 you could fight some random NPC randomly for a while and it was organic. Honestly this game overall is a big case of high expectations & under delivering in my books. Again, I think this game competes with GTA4 and in some cases doesn’t even match that level.