Saints Row

Excellent customization Strong cast Competent open-world design

Lacks ambition Dated mission design No surprises

“Saints Row is a perfectly fine open-world game. Just don't expect any surprises, as the reboot lacks much character.”

More impressively, there are concrete ways in which Saints Row actually improves upon its inspiration. For one thing, it has actually pulled in a functional navigation system, with a map that shows all the available shops, missions and safehouses, and...

Criminal Ventures are rewarding ; Extent of online co-op is impressive

Lack of mission variety ; Cliched characters ; Tonally inconsistent and B-movie story ; Quite a few bugs

Saints Row is a failed attempt at reinventing the series, stuck in between the past and future of understanding what it should be. Anyone hoping that the action-adventure open world would fill in the void left by Grand Theft Auto should look elsewhere.

Excellent variety of mission types ; Driving and shooting mechanics are solid ; A free and liberating character creation system lets you be whoever you want to be

Santo Ileso isn’t quite as big or as memorable as you may hope ; One too many bugs and crashes ; The story and cast are a touch cringy

If you love swerving cars, sweary words, and shooting stuff until its deader than dead, you could do worse than spend a few days in Santo Ileso with your criminal buddies, sainting the town red.

The sexual dialogue isn't the only sexual content in the game. Prostitution is seen as just an everyday job, and nearly all the female characters in the game are involved in some area of prostitution. The "partial" nudity is actually a little more than...