![]() Silly, irreverant, but still grounded in the idea that the Saints are a street-level gang carving out a name and identity for themselves. Instead, this new Saints Row reboot will take the series back to something more akin to the 2006 original. For now, it seems, Saints Row‘s days of extremely on-the-nose satire are behind it. You won’t, however, find yourself defusing a nuclear rocket in flight while Aerosmith’s I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing blasts in the background, only to be made the President of the United States for your heroic actions. It seems like there’s still plenty of character and humour on display. That’s not to suggest that this is a dark and gritty Saints Row reboot, far from it. ![]() However, our expectation is that you’ll be in Santo Ileso for the vast majority of the game.Īs you may have noticed, Saints Row takes a slightly more grounded approach than certain previous entries in the series. Beyond the central business districts and suburbs, Saints Row surrounds its city with deserts and nearby mountain ranges and appears to give players a few different places to explore beyond the city limits. Santo Ileso is clearly based on Southern California cities like Los Angeles and San Diego. Their goal is to become the dominant criminal power in Santa Ileso, and the latest residents of Saints Row won’t stop until they are Self Made. As numerous gangs carve the city up and clash over borders, a group of young upstarts decides they want in. Saints Row is set in Santo Ileso, a fictional city in an approximation of Southern California. ![]() Deep Silver acquired the studio in 2013, along with the Saints Row and Red Faction IP. It will be the Volition’s first game since Agents of Chaos, another Crackdown-style open-worlder. The game will be produced by Volition’s parent company Deep Silver. The developer of Saints Row is series creator Volition. If you’ve played a Saints Row game before, that should all sound fairly par for the course to be honest. On May 6, the Australian Classification Board awarded the game an MA15+ rating, citing Strong Impact Themes, Violence, Language and Sex, with Moderate Impact Drugs and Nudity. Saints Row will launch on PlayStation 5 and Playstation 4 platforms, Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One platforms, and Windows PC via the Epic Games Store. Though the game has been delayed once already, we don’t foresee any major interruptions before its new launch date. Saints Row is currently slated for release on August 23, 2022. This piece originally ran on Kotaku Australia on May 7, 2022. Here’s everything we know about the new game. And so, a decade on, Saints Row stands poised for a 2022 reboot that gets back to the ground-level vibe of the original.
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