From the preview: "With the final game still a little over a month away, Deep Silver was kind enough to provide us with a pair of playable builds of the PC and Xbox 360 versions of Saints Row IV. John and I ran the various versions of the game through the ringer this past weekend and are walking away a ton of excitement for the final version of the game."
Remember this year's Saints Row(opens in new tab)? Volition would probably prefer that you didn't, which might go some way to explaining why the studio recently decided to upgrade everyone's copy of Saints Row 4(opens in new tab) to its full-fat Re-elected Edition, containing all the game's story and cosmetic DLC and even introducing cross-play between Steam, Epic, and GOG versions of the game.
Unfortunately, that upgrade seems to have backfired, and players now report a myriad of bugs with their new version of SR4. Both the Saints Row Steam forums(opens in new tab) and subreddit(opens in new tab) are filled with players complaining of broken saves, crashes, and mods failing to function. It's also received a few hundred negative Steam reviews(opens in new tab) since the update. If it's succeeded in washing the taste of Saints Row (2022) out of players' mouths, it's only because it tastes even worse.
I wonder if Volition's getting reorged under Gearbox impacted the quality of their release.
When it comes ranking the Saints Row games, there are a couple of weird ones you have to consider, though this is Saints Row after all.
Juan at SwitchWatchTV got his hands on Saints Row 4 Re-elected for Nintendo Switch. Check out his review here and see what he thinks.
SR2 was the end of the series for me, developers went over board with crazy and had no structure what so ever for their single player game
I liked the gang structure of SR1 and 2 but 3rd and now with this it doesn't look it its going back to its original roots, the only saving grace for this for me is the fact we get super powers so its more like crackdown than SR
i hope the next SR is on next gen only consoles and really look at improving the game, i am not picking this up at launch with GTA 5 just around the corner