DO NOT BUY Saints Row 2022

Hello and welcome back to a new video game

review. So recently, I've been playing the

brand new Saints Row video game that's

been released in 2022 as a reboot in the

series, not a remaster. And as an avid fan

of the Saints Row franchise and open-world

games in general, I knew I just had to

play this game. Unfortunately, it's been

pretty lacking in lustre and rather

uninspired so far. So if you've never

played a Saints Row game, basically just

think GTA, but kind of like a poor man's

version of GTA. GTA. It's basically worse

than GTA in almost every single possible

way, which is a pretty impressive

achievement in and of its own. You'd think

that if you're going to copy one of the

most successful games in all of gaming

history, then you would have an easy time

because you don't really have to come up

with anything on your own. But no, even

when they're copying one of the most

popular games ever, they managed to screw

that up. And it's kind of tricky to put

your finger on what exactly is wrong with

Saints Row games, but when you play one,

there's just this kind of really cheap,

horrible feeling, like you're playing

something that's inferior or not really

top quality of a video game. There's just

something about the way it looks and

feels, the lighting, the sounds, the way

the gameplay just presents itself doesn't

really feel very modern. And this newest

iteration of Saints Row isn't really any

different to what you'd expect from a

Saints Row game. The gameplay is extremely

boring, basic, flat, and bland, and it

kind of just feels like you're playing a

really old game from the early 2000s or

even maybe the 1990s Just with slightly

better graphics. It doesn't really feel or

play like a modern game plays at all. So

one of the things Saints Row seems to be

very proud of itself is its humor, its

sense of humor, its kind of

tongue-in-cheek, over-the-top humor.

Whereas GTA was more realistic but did

have a wacky side to it and it did have a

sense of humor, it was still fairly

believable as a gritty real-world

simulation. But Saints Row just takes it

to another level with the wackiness and

the silliness, to the point where you

can't really take anything in the game

seriously. All of the characters are

basically just comedic jokes. None of them

are serious or interesting. They're just

like cartoon characters. The character

dialogue in this game is just so

incredibly bad. None of the jokes are

funny. The only way you'd find any of this

funny is if you're a 6-year-old kid.

Listening to the characters' lines in the

game and watching the cutscenes, you'll

just be cringing the whole way. The whole

thing is just so utterly unbearable. As

for the gameplay of the game, you'll

either just be running around shooting at

generic enemies with really boring weapons

like machine guns, shotguns, missile

launcher, or maybe some wacky quirky

futuristic kind of weapons that aren't

really that interesting either, or you'll

be driving around in a vehicle in one of

the most bland, dull, lifeless open world

cities I've ever seen in a video game.

I've played quite a lot of games that have

open world cities and landscapes and

they're usually not this bad. Some of them

are full of life and there's loads of

things going on on the streets and loads

of pedestrians doing funny and interesting

things, but unfortunately Saints Row is

none of this. The city is so empty, I

don't know how they could screw up making

an open-world city so badly when they've

got one of the greatest games in history

to use as kind of like a guideline that

they could have copied from. But no, it's

like they just thought, we'll just make a

really boring city, put some buildings,

put some traffic and a few pedestrians

here and there, and just expect people to

think that that's good. Not only is the

city really bland, boring, and lifeless to

be inside of, it's also really ugly

looking. None of the visuals are

impressive or good, even though it's a

modern game in 2022. The graphics and

the visual design looks flat and boring.

I don't know what they did with this game,

but the city is so bland and ugly looking.

There's nothing impressive about the

lighting or the effects or the quality of

the particles or the details. I just felt

so bored driving around this city, which

is so weird because you'd think this game

should be so much fun. You'd have all this

freedom, you can pick any of the vehicles

to drive about, you've got all these

weapons, you can do anything you want to.

But then you just feel like, well, what's

the point? Because it just feels really

pointless. After driving around the city

for about half an hour, I just felt like I

had enough because there was nothing on

offer as entertainment. The game is also

really glitchy and full of weird bugs,

weird animation bugs where things just

kind of disappear, and then weird missions

where they just completely glitch and

break because the enemies spawned in some

location where you can't really get to,

and the only way to get to them is by

leaving the mission area, but then you

fail the mission. For example, there's a

weird bug when you're on this mission

where you're flying around in some kind of

aerial helicopter hover thing, and to use

the weapon You have to zoom in, but

sometimes it gets stuck and then you can't

really unstuck it unless you restart the

mission or go back to the last checkpoint,

and that can be really frustrating,

especially if you're 20 minutes into the

mission and then you don't want to lose

all the progress you just made. These bugs

aren't really a major problem because they

could be easily fixed in the future.

They're just kind of frustrating and

annoying. But the main problem Saints Row

has is much deeper and probably much

harder to fix. They won't be able to fix

the main problems with this game just with

a few patches or a few updates. It's just

the game is bad at its core. They're gonna

have to just redo the entire concept of

the game for it to be any good. So

unfortunately, I won't be recommending

this game. It's way too expensive as well.

It's like £60. I know it's a brand new

game and that's how much brand new games

cost these days, but it's definitely not

worth £60 or more. I'd say wait until it's

on sale, 80% discount maybe. Even at 50%

discount, I still wouldn't buy this

because you'd play it for like half an

hour, realise it's just a load of rubbish,

and then go back to GTA, which brings me

to another Another point, I don't know why

you would choose to play Saints Row over

GTA. GTA 5 just destroys any of the Saints

Row games in every single way. GTA is just

the superior open-world kind of game,

and I would choose GTA over this anytime.