On that note, I also miss the jobs where you could earn an honest living. Maybe I’m the only person to ever care about shooting a random passerby when I was aiming for the incoming mobster, but the ability to fix my mistake was appreciated.Ģ. The ability to revive dead civilians was great for those opportunities where you didn’t actually mean to kill that person, or for whatever reason you just didn’t want a random person to die. I’m taking my time completing Saints Row 2 because it’s my new favorite open-world sandbox game and I’m loving every minute of it, and I want to take this opportunity to shamelessly gush about some of the content in this game that I’m so sad they abandoned from Saints Row 3 onward.ġ. So I purchased and installed Saints Row 2, which people online said was a lot less overtly silly and more focused on gang violence, and for the third time I fell in love with the series. Professor Genki’s Genkibowl and the bizarre DLC weapons like the Shark-o-Matic didn’t help. Not to mention the rival gangs had very cartoony designs it’s hard to imagine a real gang would pick “neon green luchadors” for their aesthetic. The plot got pretty ridiculous by the end, with giant sci-fi gunships, zombies, and superpower energy drinks.
But on my second playthrough, little things started slowly sneaking up on my conscience. I loved the storyline, the writing, voice acting, characterization, the gameplay felt polished…it was everything I loved about SR4 without the parts I didn’t like. Instantly I fell in love with the series all over again, and Saints Row 3 became my favorite open-world sandbox game. I yearned for the early portion of the game when you had only your firearms and normal human abilities, and finally installed Saints Row 3 in order to get a whole game of that. The virtual reality setting didn’t help with that nagging feeling that even in-universe nothing I did mattered. I fell in love with the zany no-hold’s-barred freedom of Saints Row 4, and quickly decided it was my favorite open-world sandbox game, but the superpowers thing got old after a while because I felt detached from my character.
I played the Saints Row games in reverse order (not counting the first, which never came out on PC so I haven’t played it), and it was a very odd experience.
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