I particularly enjoyed the new red towers that you can climb/jump up. I must admit I’ve never been much into them, but there is something about this game’s embracing of the absurd that kept me entertained far beyond any of the previous Saints titles. Clusters are peppered everywhere and will offer hours of diversionary fun if you want to collect them all.Įlsewhere, you have your usual run of Saints Row side activities. You can then collect orbs, sorry data clusters, to buy upgrades for these powers, such as a mid-air dash, higher super jump and sprinting up the side of buildings. Normal character building is thrown to the wind as you are handed the best powers from the get-go, super speed and super jump (which includes jumping up the sides of buildings).

This open acknowledgment of the dissonance most games inhabit is perhaps the series’ most original and effective statement. No longer do you need to worry about storing vehicles in garages and getting back to it to access them – just have them instantly spawn at your location.

It, therefore, feels fitting that this fourth outing ditches all pretensions of reality, offering a campaign that takes place almost entirely within an alien simulation. The Saints Row series has grown from a GTA parody to something of its own creation, a free-for-all sandbox without consequences. I never knew I wanted Crackdown in my Saints Row, but the moment I received superpowers allowing me to run super fast and leap super high, while collecting hundreds of glowing upgrade tokens, everything felt oh so right.

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