It performed better docked and was how I spent most of my time playing the game, it just felt more naturally to me, don’t get me wrong when playing it handheld I still enjoyed it but it just looked smoother and clearer on a bigger screen. There was the odd bug here and there with major clipping of character models and the odd glitch through things but ultimately, I just continued playing and carried on enjoying myself. Graphically the game looked dated but to be honest felt a home on the Nintendo Switch console. The game caters for new fans and old and to be honest makes me wonder when or if we’ll see another Saints Row game. The one thing that I have to praise Saints Row IV for is that its so easy to pick up and play and learn all the mechanics, you get tutorials that are fun to play as well as the ability to just mess around for times when you don’t feel like playing the story.
The upgrade cost cache and are locked behind levels so levelling up in the game is important if you want to make your life easier in the late game and the powers offer a diverse game play style that we haven’t seen in a Saints Row game before as running really fast, jumping up buildings and shooting fire blasts are all something that you’d expect to find in a super hero game, though these added addition really add to this instalment and make it even more wacky and memorable, I mean who doesn’t love picking up cars with your mind and throwing them at alien space ships. I like how the driving works in Saints Row but some people find it too unrealistic and clunky, the only problems I have with the vehicles are the ones that have two modes, the fly options and hover option in the mini games and story quests they can be hard to use when flying through the city.
You’ll find that to get the better upgrades for guns and vehicles it costs a lot of caches so doing quests and mini games helps you make cache quickly as well as hacking the different stores and completing the challenges. Personally, I find that with Saints Row IV doing the side quests are just as important as the main ones because they help you level up and unlock new power variance. As you progress through the story you unlock new quests that in turn unlock new upgrades and powers for your character. The game offers a third person perceptive like the previous ones and allows the player to customise their own characters look right at the beginning, there are plenty of customisation in Saints Row IV and allows the player to make their main character their own.
Personally I felt like I was playing a Crackdown game rather than a Saints Row game but I like both of these games so it doesn’t bother me but I can see why people might feel that they have gone overboard with the Saints Row franchise when they start throwing in super human powers and aliens.
It’s everything you’d expect from a Saint’s game but with the added madness of Super powers as your character is inside a simulator and can manipulate the system to give super human strength as well as an array of other cool things like, super speed, super jump and Telekinesis to name a few. The brilliant addition that comes with the Re-Elected version that includes 25 DLC Packs, which is made up of a few extra story expansions, the Dubstep Gun (remix Pack) and a few other bits.
In this instalment you find yourself playing as the boss of the Saints who has been elected as the President of the United States of America, if this wasn’t crazy enough a catastrophic alien invasion led by an evil overload called Zinyak destroys the earth and captures the Saints inside various simulations on his ship, it is up to your character and a few homies to fight against Zinyak and his forces to save humanity from Zinyak’s mental grasp. I must have forgotten about it back in 2013 when it first came out and again in 2015 when it got released onto the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux, thankfully I didn’t miss out this time as five years later I was able to get my paws onto a copy of it on the Nintendo Switch.
However, it dawned on me after playing about an hour of Saints IV that I never actually played this instalment in the series before and this was my first time playing through the game. I remember playing them back in 20 and just loving how wacky and outrageous some of the gameplay was.
I was a huge lover of the Saints Row franchises, well the second and third game.