While the wings do rely on a stamina bar to limit your airtime, it’s easy enough to upgrade this ability to make it much more useful.
You get to FLY.Īlmost immediately after landing in the game world, you’re granted a pair of fallen angel’s wings that allow you to zip around the hellscape with great ease. This time around, you don’t just glide around with your simulation-induced superpowers. Cops have been replaced with demons in monster trucks… and that’s not even the best part. Rather than chatting amongst themselves, crowd NPCs moan and howl as you pass them, and drive their ruined and battered vehicles down streets paved with sinners (we assume). Floating platforms in the sky hover over buildings, pits of hellfire and the eternally trudging souls of the damned. What follows is an all-new city area that makes no small use of its demonic setting.
Gat’s accompanied by Kinzie, who decides she gets to go ‘because it’s her birthday’. Without a second thought, Johnny Gat decides to follow them down to save the Commander in Chief. Unfortunately, the Saints make a real connection with their party game the Devil himself pulls the President - represented by your actual player character if you have a Saints Row IV save on the system - down to Hell to marry his daughter. Set after the events of Saints Row IV, the story concept is simple: The Saints are celebrating Kinzie’s birthday aboard their new spaceship home and decide to do that thing we all do as part of a traditional birthday party – pull out the Ouija board.
The latest instalment in the series, “Gat out of Hell”, throws caution even further into the wind and drops you down into the abyss. The more exciting part of this bundle of course, is what’s new in the Re-Elected edition. It’s still a lot of fun of course, and having all additional content included from the start gives you a lot more to play with in this great sandbox from the get-go.
Animations can be a bit wooden, which is only made more obvious in comparison to other games on the PS4 and Xbox One. It does seem like some minor issues have been tweaked here and there, but some core problems remain. Realistically, not much has changed in the original game – it’s the same thing we played two years ago, but shinier and with a smoother framerate. This sees the 2013 game gain a new coat of paint for the home console market, and combines all the original release’s DLC into a singular package – including all the costumes, guns and vehicles added to the game, as well as the Enter the Dominatrix and How the Saints Saved Christmas expansions. This year saw the re-release of Saints Row IV on current-gen consoles as part of the Re-Elected edition. Two years later, with Saints Row IV, the anachronistically numbered sequel threw out all pretence and dropped us into the Matrix – er, the Simulation – in an underdog battle against alien invaders. It has moved from the serious story of a street gang in the first two titles to a looser, fun-oriented game with Saints Row: The Third.
Fully Re-Elected – Saints Row IV Re-Elected contains an impressive 25 DLC Packs, including the Dubstep Gun (Remix) Pack, the Presidential Pack, the Commander-In-Chief Pack, and two celebrated episodic story expansions: Enter The Dominatrix and How The Saints Save Christmas.Saints Row is a series that has, ever more over time, revelled in ridiculousness.The only thing better than one malicious superpowered President is two! Dynamic Duo – Seamless drop-in, drop-out co-op, a Saints Row standard, improved.Now you also have a powerful weapon customization system. Custom Weapons, Custom Mayhem – You’ve customized your character.The Inflato-Ray, the Polarizer, the Disintegrator, and many more are all are yours to utilize. Alien Toys of Destruction – Wield an impressive array of alien vehicles and weapons.Those are just some of the powers on offer that you can wield in your quest. Super Hero-in-Chief – Leap over buildings.
It’s up to you to free the world, now for the first time on Nintendo Switch™.