The city itself is my favourite thing, and it's the part of Saints Row that feels the most fresh and different as a whole. They're both vain influences with a private yacht and anarchists that believe capitalism has failed. My favourite are The Idols, who have the most colourful weapons and outfits. Los Panteros love muscles and muscle cars, and favour melee and fire special attacks. Marshall Defense aren't a gang, technically, they're a legal PMC group, and they're dicks. I did enjoy the rival gangs in Saints Row. While taking out rivals is all well and good, you have to cement your own gang's power by taking over the different districts of the city, with all the busy work and criminal sidequests that entails. The B-plot is the map clearance, and that will take up far more of your time. These gangs and your own lieutenants are all new you, Kevin and Neenah all worked for one of said gangs and became dissatisfied, while your fourth roommate, Eli, is an MBA who becomes your numbers and logistics guy. The A-plot story is where, over a surprisingly short 10-ish hours, you grow to take down the other three gangs in the city. Your story is similar to the original Saints Row, but this time you're actually founding the Saints. I mean that thematically because there are a lot of technically literally new things. It's fun, in fact, but it isn't really doing anything new, either, and I think that's a shame. If I was being reductive, I'd say it's Saints Row by way of Watch Dogs 2. Saints Row (2022 edition) is back to being a sort of Saints Row again, but also still trying to appeal to people who loved the characters and dick jokes and cartoon carnage of the Saints Row of 2013. The series has gone to outer space and to hell, so if you're rebooting the series that doesn't leave you many places to go except. It quickly diverged to become less realistic and more impossibly bombastic, and niched down into giant dildo bats, aliens, reincarnation, and so on.
The Saints Row series started off as a sort of rival to Grand Theft Auto, an action-adventure crime sim about working your way up the ranks of a street gang to become the boss. The story is rushed, and for all the slick shooting and driving this game doesn't feel fresh. You can spend many happy hours in the new Saints Row game, without it leaving a lasting impression.
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