Ultimately, I love sipping pretend champagne next to a pretend smoke machine and boogieing my pretend arse off all night long.
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Last year's GTA Online's Cayo Perico update – which gave players an entirely new island to explore – was a welcomed change of pace and is perhaps a sign of things to come for the enduring crime sim, even if the fact you can't currently travel to and from the archipelago in free mode makes it feel a touch disconnected. GTA Online is at its best when revelling in its own action-heavy moments – when robbing Casinos, breaking convicts out of prison, and raiding a heavily-guarded drug lord's island hideaway and so on – and, for me, at its worst when taking itself too seriously and making me think far too much about the real-life logistics of running a business. "There's a sense that these business ventures will tick over in the background, while you're out fending off hordes of pink-clad, melee-armed anarchists whose aesthetic somehow fuses Daft Punk and Mad Max with class." Moreover, growing your criminal enterprise in Saints Row will see you purchasing vacant lots and turning them rogue, such as drug-slinging food trucks, laundromats, car chop shops and, yes, nightclubs.įrom what we've seen so far, there's a sense that these business ventures will tick over in the background, while you're out shooting up rival gangs, pulling donuts in the desert, and fending off hordes of pink-clad, melee-armed anarchists whose aesthetic somehow fuses Daft Punk and Mad Max with class. Like previous Saints Row games, it appears the reboot will cap its co-op at two players, with a buddy able to drop in and out throughout the game's entirety, which means no gangs or crews as per GTA. Given Saints Row has always been unashamedly inspired by Grand Theft Auto – try writing a games like GTA list without some SR representation – I'm now interested in how the latter reacts to the former. And, to be fair, the in-game footage that dropped last week showed off some pretty messy, larger-than-life shoot-outs and set-pieces all the same. I understand the push back from supporters of Saints Row-of-old's zanier side to a point, but despite often marching to the beat of its own drum, some of the jokes and banter from previous outings really hasn't aged well. No matter where you stand with Saint Row's shift in tone, the thought of ripping up its new nine-district world – from El Dorado's Vegas-esque casino sprawl, to the affluent Monte Vista and sky-scraping financial quarter to name but a few – in a fully-customised off-road truck on deck, or tearing through the air in a fighter jet above, thrills me to no end. Gone are alien invasions, White House destruction, and planet Earth's obliteration, and in is a more credible origin story which portrays the formation of a start-up criminal enterprise set in the fictional city of Santo Ileso in America's southwest.
Gone are Dildo Bats and Dubstep Guns, and in are an arsenal of more conventional, less farcical weapons.
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Gone are Johnny Gat et al, and in are the business-minded Eli, getaway driver Neenah, DJ Kevin, and quirky protagonist Boss.
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As we learned at Gamescom 2021, however, a new Volition-shaped playground is just around the corner – courtesy of the Saints Row reboot, due to launch on February 25, 2022.Įverything we know about the Saints Row reboot so far, on the other hand, points to more level-headed, less balls out the bathwater affair than we've come to expect from the series – something which appears to have split opinion among series fans, in turn prompting the devs to publicly double down on their vision.
Everything we know about GTA 6 so far suggests a concrete release date is, let's say, some ways away, which means so too is a new Rockstar-shaped criminal cityscape for us to explore.