One accusation of this game was that it tended to make the women characters into plot devices, turning these once strong independent women into mere damsels in distress for the player. The Story itself actually went to some surprising places, from Gat losing his wife and going off the rails, to the Saint leader (You) having a rival gang leaders girlfriend killed in a rather tragic way. With each being given a character arc over the next few games, we’re allowed to get to know each one in a way most games never really allow us to.While one character did get a major overhaul between games, the basics for each character had been established. With the core team now assembled the series story really begins to take shape. Set in the same city of Stillwater, the protagonist wakes up from a coma that ended the last game, reuniting with old members of the gang, including Johnny Gat, they set to take over the city once again (Hardly original) Two new characters were introduced to the series Shaundi the stoner who slept about and Pierce the loud mouth. With Saints Row 2 I can actually start talking with a bit of knowledge. As I said I don’t have much knowledge of this game, but from what I saw it was a rather decent game, which clearly aspired to be something greater than it was. From there the gang must wrestle for control of the city of Stillwater from three other rival gangs. The story has the player as a muted novice who joins the Third Street Saints after they save their life. It was an open world game with an emphasis on gang culture. Saints Row came out in 2006 (Yes the series is almost ten years old) This is the one game in the series I hadn’t played, but from my research I’ve come to the conclusion that this game was the most comparable to games such as Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. While this is a flawed way of putting it, it works pretty well for our purposes of simple categorization, so without further ado lets get going.
Having played 3 of the 4 games allow me explain how the series evolved.The course of the Saints Row games really comes in two eras which I shall call Pre and Post Johnny Gat’s death. It’s a series with a surprising amount of story depth and background with a load of returning characters, each with their own personalities and quirks. From a borderline, GTA rips off to something far more outlandish and witty. But it hasn’t always been that way, Saints Row as a series over the last 9 years (Yes 9 years) has evolved into something quite different from what it was once. Perhaps one of the best examples of big, triple-A game that does comedy well. Having recently revisited Saints Row 4 I was amazed at just how fun the game was.
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