I’ve played all Saints Row games except the first one. And sadly a trend I see is them getting worse and worse.

Saints Row 2 was a really fun game. Saints Row The Third was a nice and fresh breath of air to the franchise and really fun to play in co-op. When Saints Row IV came out, I played it together with a friend. It was buggy and much less fun with little new originality, but I ultimate still had fun.

Now on the reboot. When it came out it received a lot of bad reviews, so I’ve waited for 1.5 years. Sadly, it’s still bad. It started of with a lot of disconnects & crashes. After some searching around, we found a fix, which is both limiting the game to 60FPS. It’s ridiculous this needs to be done, but it isn’t the worst fix and still playable. The bugs didn’t stop there though. We had to restart parts of the game multiple times and physics are wonky.

On to the game itself. It’s a reboot to the series, but if this is a hint of what’s to come I’m afraid. It has no original characters at all. The story is boring, the missions are bad and the mechanics as well as the gameplay itself are boring and basic.

I finished it, as it was doable in co-op because with the right co-op partner, every game is more fun. But during the whole game I had a bit of a sad feeling. So much wasted potential. Shooting doesn’t feel good, enemies are bullet sponges and the weapons are quite basic and boring while they proved with Saints Row 3, they can in fact think of original weapons.

The only good thing I have to say about the game, is the fact that it looks pretty good at times and the city(although empty and boring) has some nice variety in it in terms of landscaping.

I’m sad to make this conclusion, but this Saints Row reboot is not worth it. It’s buggy, has no creativity, and so much wasted potential. I’m afraid of a potential future Saints Row as they’ve progressively become worse and worse.

Co-op still doesn't function and since the company ♥♥♥♥ itself I assume it'll never work, good job idiots

The story & dialogue is some of the worst writing I've ever had to sit through. Every character is flat, boring, unlikable, and straight up cringeworthy. They're constantly saying one-liners that are painful to listen too. It's not even a "so bad it's funny game" it's just straight up bad.

The gameplay is *fine* if you liked the gameplay of SR3 it's similar in many ways, but overall I can not recommend this game.

There are some good ideas here and there, but they're just implemented so poorly and with how bad the rest of the game is a few good ideas can't save it.

If you're a saints row fan - pass on this. It's even worse than 4. It's not surprising it sold so poorly and that volition no longer exists, and it really sucks knowing one of my favourite franchises ended like this.

I'm still going to 100% it because I'm a glutton for punishment, but how the hell do you mess up this bad? I hope the writers completely re-evaluate how they write and never take part in creating a pile of ♥♥♥♥ like this ever again.

*edit* also want to point out the main story took around 6 hours. It's looking like it'll take me roughly 50 hours to 100% the game - meaning a VERY minimal amount of time is the story (which is bad, especially the final boss) followed by 40+ hours of side content that's just doing the same few things over and over and over again. I've lost my sanity.