
The American southwestern city of Santo Ileso is shown off as being a mixture of wide-open desert plains, neon cities, and graffiti-laden neighborhoods. The announcement trailer begins by showing off the new location where the Saints Row reboot will take place in. The full list includes the PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. While it is getting a little late in the generation, this reboot will hit both current and last-generation consoles.

PlatformsĬoming so soon, we also saw all the platforms the Saints Row reboot will launch on.

The Saints will be back in action, assuming there are no delays, on February 25. In a rare yet always appreciated change of pace, the Saints Row reboot was given a specific release date at the same time it was officially announced.

By the time the fourth game came around, your gangster character had become president, the world was invaded by aliens, and you were placed in a simulated world where you had superpowers. Saints Row 3 and Saints Row IV pivoted the series from being a straight imitation of GTA and embraced the more ludicrous and comedic aspects of gaming. It was good enough to spawn a sequel, and after that things got a little weird. The original was viewed as mostly fine but didn’t really do anything to set it apart as more than a slightly worse version of GTA in most people’s eyes.

Saints Row was just that, an attempt to take on GTA in the realistic, crime-focused open-world space. The most successful of them, like Grand Theft Auto, would almost immediately attract other developers to try and compete with them in the hot new space. Fitbit Versa 3Ĭertain games were so influential that they almost single-handedly created entire genres.
