The story picks up after the events of Saints Row IV, with the Saints on a spaceship (I won’t ruin how they got there). Despite all that we’re curious to see what Violation will do for their first next gen-only sequel, but for now this second expansion is probably best left to burn.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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But everything is built on such shonky foundations, with the bland gameplay and visuals meaning the game is constantly trying to distract you from how fundamentally uninteresting it is.Īnd while its fun to see how absurd those distractions get that only makes it harder and harder to pretend you’re playing a real game, with consequences and genuine danger. The comedy suffers from the same problem, in that although there are a few good gags they’re really just a few seconds respite from an otherwise rather dull open world actioner.Ī substantial musical number is a rare highlight that is both funny and makes good use of the setting, and it’s also proof that Violation have lost any and all inhibition in what that’ll include in the game. More importantly, a cool weapon is pointless without interesting enemies to use it on and sadly the game’s combat remains as bland and by-the-numbers as the visuals. We’re always calling for games to have more interesting weapons, but although these seem like just the thing they’re really just ordinary weapons with weird visuals and whether a grenade launcher fires grenades or frogs it still works in the same way. The new weapons are fun too, including a gun that shoots locusts, another that fires explosive frogs, and a minigun-equipped armchair. There is a reasonable amount of variation, including driving and flying challenges, but everything is clearly just a mini-game style side quest, with nothing more substantial on offer for the game’s five hour running time. Insurance Fraud, where you have to push someone into traffic, is repackaged as Torment Fraud while survival mode and mayhem events are essentially exactly the same, except in terms of who you’re shooting/what kind of buildings you’re destroying. There are no story missions as such, just ‘diversions’, most of which are culled from previous entries in the series. These are used to slowly build up the ‘Satan’s wrath meter’ that allows you to challenge Old Nick and complete the game.
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In fact the setting seems wasted all round, as once you get used to the fact that you now have angel wings (albeit tied to a short stamina bar) the whole game quickly devolves into a series of repetitive side quests. Whether this is supposed to be satire, as well as just a cheap way of quickly creating a new environment, we’re not sure as no specific joke is aimed in that direction.
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When they get there though Hell is represented as, you might already have guessed, a modern city – just with more lava pits and less public services. His abduction then convinces series regulars Johnny Gat and Kinzie to journey to Hell to save him. The story for Gat Out Of Hell begins with a Ouija board session gone bad, which ends up with Satan deciding he wants the President of the United States (your character from the last expansion) to marry his daughter.