This remaster pushes its superpower lunacy to the absurd, turning the city into an unhinged playground. Sprinting on foot faster than any car never stops being funny. Technically rough and brash, but it's a gleeful blowout in co-op.
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Category
Open-World2 players18+
Co-op
Description
The President of the United States becomes a superhero and defends an alien simulation of his city. Published by Deep Silver, released worldwide in 2020. Superpowers of running, leaping and energy blasts, zany weapons, an open city, wild challenges, full-on parody tone and two-player co-op.
Saints Row IV: Re-Elected review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
4/5
Story
★★★★★
"Captivating"
Gameplay
"Excellent"
Fun
"From the very first minutes"
Addictiveness
"Obsessive"
Now a superpowered president, you tear across a virtual city sprinting over rooftops, gliding and pulverizing aliens: just moving is already a thrill. Each cluster of data collected unlocks new absurd powers, and the itch to test one more constantly restarts the wandering. The gleeful excess and parody tone keep the experience joyful long after release. Downside: once every power is maxed, the side activities repeat and lose their bite.
Difficulty
"Easy"
Lifespan
"Massive"
Cast as US President turned superhero inside an alien simulation, you inherit gleefully absurd powers: super-jumps, a turbo sprint and abilities to unlock by the dozen. Between the deranged campaign, city challenges, side activities and a playground built for co-op, this Saints Row overflows with things to demolish. Its proud humour pushes you to ransack every corner.
Turned president and hurled into an alien simulation, the hero moves through a world that knows full well it's a video game and openly mocks it. Open-world conventions, achievements, genre tropes: all are ridiculed in a parodic deluge that addresses the player over the character's shoulder. The gleeful excess turns this constant self-mockery into an unforgettable, anarchic party.
A questionable morality
Leading an all-powerful gang through an orgy of unabashed action is the whole program: wild car chases, bombastic shootouts, the destruction of entire neighborhoods and challenges as outrageous as they are dubious, all served up as one big party. We spread urban chaos with a grin, convinced we're playing colorful heroes. The gap between the cool posturing and the reality of a band of gleeful criminals fully owns its excess — which is exactly the point.
