Saints Row

“Everything about it feels outdated—the story is terrible, the gameplay is awful, and the graphics are downright bad.”

“The graphics are so horribly dated, the models are amateur.”

“The graphics, while technically adequate, do nothing to enhance the overall experience and often feel outdated.”

“The game is a buggy mess, but not the fun kind... ran into a mission called corporate retreat that shows this.. the bus is driven by AI who goes off course at random which means you must restart.”

“The amount of bugs and glitches I came across was ridiculous.”

“This game is a horrible buggy mess with almost unplayable co-op.”

“The soundtrack features a mix of energetic tunes that complement the game's tone of irreverent fun, but it lacks memorable tracks that truly stand out.”

“Half the time music didn't even play, so you're left in silence, making the missions feel that much more dull and boring.”

“The music isn't great, the cars are mostly ugly, but the characters are good & good to be with for a frivolous few hours.”

“The game is also not optimized very well and runs into a decent amount of visual bugs.”

“Highly unoptimized performance; expect frequent frame rate drops, stuttering, and long load times that make the experience unbearable.”

“The only reason why this game feels like a 2022 game is lags and poor optimization.”

“The main reward for beating the story is unlocking a new store where everything costs 1 million dollars, but in the time it took me to beat the game, I never had anywhere near that amount of money, and I wasn't interested in grinding for the amount of time it would take to get it.”

“I finished the game with approximately 70% completion and have no desire to continue grinding for the sake of grinding.”

“The gameplay itself is just bad: controls are incredibly slippery, missions are boring and repetitive, combat is tedious, and 'difficulty' comes from throwing overwhelming amounts of enemies at the player at once.”

“Unfortunately, when paired with the bugs and boring story, it's not enough for a positive review.”

“Game is fun in co-op, but what ruins the fun is the bugs and a woke, boring story.”

“But I wish their own character developments were actually integrated into the game rather than these throwaway comments you get during a mission that ultimately means nothing in the grand scope.”

“There's also no character development as the group already all know each other and are best friends, which means you don't get any introductions like you did starting as a newbie in Saints Row 1 or when you put the new gang together in Saints Row 2. The game just expects you to like them without putting any work into making them likable.”

“This is closer to Saints Row 2 in its approach in setting the series tone, and that's fine, but it's definitely subdued in character development.”

“Can be a little fun at times in co-op, but this game is an absolute slog and just outright boring. It's very familiar if you've played something like Saints Row 3, but it comes off as something that resembles a fan project rather than a full-fledged reboot in its scope and design. I assumed a lot of the complaints about this game were greatly exaggerated, but every hour of this game it continued to just get worse and worse. Zero atmosphere with trivial side activities and some of the worst writing I've seen from a game. I wouldn't recommend it unless you got it for free and have a friend that also has it, and even then it's probably better off ignoring and acting like it doesn't exist.”

“What sucks about the game is the lack of multiplayer, the lack of weapon diversity, the lack of real-world-like atmosphere, and the flat lighting. The boring textures (not that the people didn't work very hard on the game, I'm sure they did) make the DLCs feel like they should've been integrated into the base game.”

“Despite the general negative opinion about the game, I played it out of sentiment and I regret the game has been deprived of the entire atmosphere of the series.”

“In general, the DLCs are just extra things that should have been included in the game. They are not really DLCs; they are just a cash grab. I recommend not getting them, as there is just no point to it.”

“This game wasn't made for the fans; it was made as a cash grab by a dying company.”

“This is the laziest cash grab of a game I have seen in a long time, from the engine and graphics that don't look like they have even been touched since the fourth game to the terribly buggy physics and nearly impossible side games.”

“I don't know if this game has the same replay value as those ones, though.”

“It's much more playable now, yes, but some bugs are still highly noticeable.”

“The multiplayer component of Saints Row (2024) offers cooperative gameplay and competitive modes that add a layer of social interaction and replayability.”