Saints Row

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2.9

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1025 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 74 out of 1025
  3. Negative: 723 out of 1025
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  1. Tesseract
    Aug 28, 2022
    10
    Metacritic is the home of illiterate incels spam review bombing anything and everything that even has a whiff of diversity. I have never seen a more sensitive, whiny, spineless group of heathens as these “anti-woke” failed abortions that spill their tears all over every product on this site. 99% of the negative reviews have never played/seen/watched/listened to whatever they’re 0-bombing.Metacritic is the home of illiterate incels spam review bombing anything and everything that even has a whiff of diversity. I have never seen a more sensitive, whiny, spineless group of heathens as these “anti-woke” failed abortions that spill their tears all over every product on this site. 99% of the negative reviews have never played/seen/watched/listened to whatever they’re 0-bombing. There is no moderation and this site is a joke.

    Oh, the game itself is about a 7-7.5. It’s fairly entertaining but sometimes tries too hard to be funny and can be repetitive at times.    … Expand
  2. Jon_P
    Aug 25, 2022
    10
    As advertised. Lots of fun. 8/10 but just counterbalancing whiners.

    Exactly as advertised, lots of fun. Not reinventing the wheel, nor did it promise to. Just a fun arcade open world playground.
  3. Yoser
    Aug 25, 2022
    10
    No entiendo porque tanto odio al juego, tiene el mejor sistema de creación y edición, el mapa es mucho mejor que el del 3 y 4
  4. sternone
    Sep 4, 2022
    10
    I absolutely love this game. I had to giggle more than once with the crazy stuff going on and it's a great game. I love it more than GTAV, I honestly don't understand the negative reviews, they must be playing another game? I love this game.
  5. loki9696
    Sep 23, 2022
    10
    What is wrong with all of you, people? The game is amazing and it is an ultimate fun! It is so like the first part in the series where you had almost nothing to do on the map but gameplay was so addictive. And that's why it's the great reboot. It is not like SR The third or SR4 because they were OVERLOADED with absurd. IDK why all deciided to bury it with negative. i have no bugs or else.What is wrong with all of you, people? The game is amazing and it is an ultimate fun! It is so like the first part in the series where you had almost nothing to do on the map but gameplay was so addictive. And that's why it's the great reboot. It is not like SR The third or SR4 because they were OVERLOADED with absurd. IDK why all deciided to bury it with negative. i have no bugs or else. And the game is not boring. GTA 4,5 ARE boring. Watch dogs 2 like? Yes, only because of it's a bit hipsteresque or contemporary.
    Dear developers, I am so sorry for all these negative reviews. Please, don't give up on the series. We need more SR!    … Expand
  6. Pussidestroyer
    Aug 24, 2022
    10
    Незаслуженный ревью бомбинг, поливать грязью относительно нормальную игру... не 10 из 10 конечно, но 5-6 хотя бы
  7. assass1nMD
    Sep 8, 2022
    10
    I like madness in Saints Row series. Interesting additional missions. Best than number 4, but worse than number 3.
  8. Rhengavh
    Aug 24, 2022
    10
    I like this game. He is very fun to play. No problems with bugs until now. The game could be better but is a very cool gamefor me.
  9. knightly
    Aug 31, 2022
    10
    yeah it has bugs but look up what causes a game to bug aka it's not the developers fault therefore a game can not be judged on bugs and all bugs in this game are very easy to remove aka trying different routes going into the style app simply switching the game on and off etc there realistically nothing to give this game bad marks the game is fun and that's how games should be
  10. MajorZero7
    Sep 17, 2022
    10
    I've just got Platinum so I know what the game has to offer ! Truly the best game this year by far in terms of fun, really don't understand the hate it's getting. Deffo recommended
  11. CunningstUNT_7
    Aug 28, 2022
    10
    The modern age of people reviewing games so poorly just to bring the overall rating down as low as possible is very sad to see.

    I've played this for around 10 hours so far and it is everything I wanted it to be in the most part. Yes, there are a few bugs and glitches that need to be patched, but then that's the same with a lot of games in the early days! I play this co-op and we've had a    The modern age of people reviewing games so poorly just to bring the overall rating down as low as possible is very sad to see.

    I've played this for around 10 hours so far and it is everything I wanted it to be in the most part. Yes, there are a few bugs and glitches that need to be patched, but then that's the same with a lot of games in the early days! I play this co-op and we've had a lot of laughs from the characters in the story and the game itself is very fun. What I like most about it. Is that it has dinar vibes to Saints Row II and The Third before it got really silly. I still played IV and Gat Out of He'll but they weren't that good overall, so I for one am glad to see they've reverted back to driving being more necessary than just jumping really high and essentially flying.

    I'd give this an 8.5/10 but marking as 10 because people giving it between 0-3 on purpose is a disgrace. Even games I strongly dislike I would always rate fairly.    … Expand
  12. N9nelives999
    Aug 25, 2022
    10
    It’s a fun ass game, it might not b a perfect game but it’s a lot more fun than 90% of the games out there.
  13. nightalon
    Aug 24, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Estão julgando o jogo Sem saber Ou testar,todos indo na vibe de jornalistas,ninguém mais tem opinião própria… Expand
  14. aderfly
    Aug 24, 2022
    10
    I like this new style, yes here is a little bugs, but this best open world game, for last year.
  15. AmigoGrenouille
    Sep 3, 2022
    10
    To preface, I've beaten this game. I've 100%ed the map. I've experienced every mission and activity there is to do in this game, so keep that in mind.

    This game is worth a 7/10, but I'm giving it a 10 to counterbalance all the 0-1 reviews this game doesn't deserve. This game isn't bad. It's a competently designed but clumsily put-together Gen-Z Power Fantasy. The main thing this    To preface, I've beaten this game. I've 100%ed the map. I've experienced every mission and activity there is to do in this game, so keep that in mind.

    This game is worth a 7/10, but I'm giving it a 10 to counterbalance all the 0-1 reviews this game doesn't deserve.

    This game isn't bad. It's a competently designed but clumsily put-together Gen-Z Power Fantasy. The main thing this reboot does for the franchise is that it takes the story beats from the first 2 games and re-contextualizes them in a Millenial lens. When people complain that this game "wokified" the series, that's what they're talking about. When they're talking about "censorship," 4 things happened. The **** bats are gone, RimJobs and **** were renamed to JimRob's and FB's, and there are no prostitutes. If funny sex and hookers were what Saints Row was to you, then this game isn't for you.

    But that starts to be one of this game's problems, in a marketing sense. The Volition devs spent so much time away from the scene, just to more or less alienate their Hard-R Gamer audience by leaning left for its target audience. This is a necessary calculated risk for any modern AA studio, but in keeping everything else exactly the same they haven't really brought much to compensate for this loss. And that's why this game gets such a bad rep: the only unique thing they have to bring is the most controversial one.

    If you want to hear an actual review about this game, go watch Yahtzee's take on Zero Punctuation; he talks about how this game technically does so many things right but fails to deliver an engaging experience because it's so outdated and derivative to itself. If you're done with that, here are more things to say:

    The game is competently designed. When I say that, I mean the people who laid this game out on the drawing board knew how to design video games. The cutscene cinematography is good. The game systems are laid out well. The graphics are outdated, but the artstyle is fine, and next-gen graphics are severely overrated. The main characters are basically likeable. The writing works. The humor is fine. (I've played Borderlands 3, I know what bad humor and writing in a game looks like, and this isn't it. One key difference being that this game doesn't force you to sit there and listen to people talk before the game lets you play. All the cutscenes are skippable and the dialogue happens during active gameplay, so none of it is intrusive.)

    The issue comes with how all these designs are put together. The programming is embarrassing; I've run into so many obnoxious bugs in my playthrough every day. Clothes and weapons will randomly equip and unequip themselves. Sometimes cars will get stuck on nothing and explode. Sometimes no cars will load in at all. Combat just doesn't work as well as it should at all times. The in-game animations are boring and simplistic. Many side objectives are blatant padding. All of it is sure signs of a game that needed more time and better management, which is likely a luxury the studio just didn't have.

    In conclusion, this game isn't great. But it's playable, and it kills time well. I'd much rather have dealt with this game's **** than any live-service, online-only, subscription-model, you-don't-own-anything ass **** that every other company is pushing into the industry. This game has a kind of simple purity that comes from being from an older and, in my opinion, better time.

    tl;dr I give it a C, a C+ if the bugs are fixed. It'll kill 10 hours and won't make you puke. Buy it for 30 bucks.    … Expand
  16. Yasin0666
    Aug 27, 2022
    10
    I think it‘s the best game i‘ve ever played. I know it has some bugs, but i never had as much fun with a game as i have with Saints Row :) so Thank you! It doesn’t deserve those bad reviews at all. They are all wrong because they haven’t even played it. But seriously, it‘s so good!

    The Characters are amazingly written. The soundtrack is absolutely fantastic. The world is beautiful and    I think it‘s the best game i‘ve ever played. I know it has some bugs, but i never had as much fun with a game as i have with Saints Row :) so Thank you! It doesn’t deserve those bad reviews at all. They are all wrong because they haven’t even played it. But seriously, it‘s so good!

    The Characters are amazingly written.
    The soundtrack is absolutely fantastic.
    The world is beautiful and full of stuff to find.


    Please Metacritic, delete everything under number 5, because it‘s just not true    … Expand
  17. ssjkale1987
    Aug 24, 2022
    10
    Deja fatigué par les critiques de mauvaise fois du jeu basé uniquement sur des bugs facilement corrigibles par la suite, basé sur des comparaisons avec Gta et surtout ceux qui pensent que c'est un triple A... Le jeu est fidèle à la license, histoire cool et mini jeux cultes propres à la série.. Cette façon honteuse de noter le jeu avec des 0 qui ressemblent à des notes hatives et sansDeja fatigué par les critiques de mauvaise fois du jeu basé uniquement sur des bugs facilement corrigibles par la suite, basé sur des comparaisons avec Gta et surtout ceux qui pensent que c'est un triple A... Le jeu est fidèle à la license, histoire cool et mini jeux cultes propres à la série.. Cette façon honteuse de noter le jeu avec des 0 qui ressemblent à des notes hatives et sans arguments valables me pousse à defendre le jeu..Il n'est pas parfait mais très agéable… Expand
  18. Saikuru
    Aug 28, 2022
    10
    I spent almost 40+ hours in this game, the story is good, the missions are insanely cool, I love them.
    The environment in this game is beautiful, it's like walking through an art museum. The graphics here are great, the stunning sunsets and sunrises are just breathtaking. The music is good, I like how they mixed old and new styles, even if I don't really like the new style. The characters    I spent almost 40+ hours in this game, the story is good, the missions are insanely cool, I love them.
    The environment in this game is beautiful, it's like walking through an art museum. The graphics here are great, the stunning sunsets and sunrises are just breathtaking. The music is good, I like how they mixed old and new styles, even if I don't really like the new style. The characters are nice, they have something of the past SR characters in them. The humor in the game is the same as in the previous games. There are bugs in the game, but what game doesn't have them. My point is that Volition did an amazing job. Don't hate the game, just play it for 5 hours of your time and you will realize it is a masterpiece.    … Expand
  19. JohnnyRetro
    Aug 25, 2022
    10
    Everyone forgets how saints row was received every time one came out, it was never really liked among reviewers. This game has always lived in GTA's shadow, and people review it basically trying to compare this to the likes of GTA quality. Its not like GTA its supposed to be quirky, dumb and ridiculous that is part of its charm and identity. I've always loved SR except parts of 4 and GatEveryone forgets how saints row was received every time one came out, it was never really liked among reviewers. This game has always lived in GTA's shadow, and people review it basically trying to compare this to the likes of GTA quality. Its not like GTA its supposed to be quirky, dumb and ridiculous that is part of its charm and identity. I've always loved SR except parts of 4 and Gat out of hell, I feel this is a new start for the franchise it feels a lot like 3's gameplay which i really loved. If you like SR games of past you will like this simple as that.… Expand
  20. psbrann
    Aug 24, 2022
    10
    I truly don’t understand the hate. Charming story with relatable characters, cool combat, and easily the best graphics of any saints row game to date. People love to complain but don’t let that stop you from enjoying a masterpiece.
  21. boomnik
    Aug 25, 2022
    10
    saints is and never was a game that took itself too serious and never focus on story or call of duty light combat mechanics its all about chaos and destruction
  22. OnlyOneMissing
    Sep 2, 2022
    10
    This game is a brilliant masterpiece. The gunplay is even better than Saints Row 3 and 4. The missions are fun and replayable. The story is amazing with interesting and real dialogue. The characters are also well thought out. The physics are incredible. It's incredible that the devs are willing to only charge a mere $60 for this masterpiece

    There is so much to do in the open world. The    This game is a brilliant masterpiece. The gunplay is even better than Saints Row 3 and 4. The missions are fun and replayable. The story is amazing with interesting and real dialogue. The characters are also well thought out. The physics are incredible. It's incredible that the devs are willing to only charge a mere $60 for this masterpiece

    There is so much to do in the open world. The customization in this game is biblical. The driving mechanics in this game are smooth as butter. Every car feels as powerful as a tank. The vehicle selection is the best in the series. The developers added a big lake in the middle of the city, just to make the city even grander. This game is incredibly funny, I could barely even control my laughter while playing! The controls are also biblical

    The co-op multiplayer is amazing and well made, me and my friends had so much fun playing it . The cowboy statue with the Pringles head has a awesome face on the cover of this game. I am going to keep this game in pristine condition. I would recommend this game to all!    … Expand
  23. LORISZ84
    Aug 26, 2022
    10
    i like this saint row and finally show the playable character nipples which gta is afraid to show her boobs. for gta fans who break balls in saint row come back to play gta v instead of writing here the next gta will come out on ps5 hopefully 2025
  24. purgengame
    Aug 24, 2022
    10
    Неплохое продолжение для этой серии. Беспокоили новые персонажи, (думал будут тиктокеры как в watch dogs2) но общаются нормально без кринжатины. Авто так же аркадно как и в 3 часте, но лучше. Сюжет болле менее. Больше смахивает на 2 часть. Хоть игра и имеет минусы, но попробовать стоит.Неплохое продолжение для этой серии. Беспокоили новые персонажи, (думал будут тиктокеры как в watch dogs2) но общаются нормально без кринжатины. Авто так же аркадно как и в 3 часте, но лучше. Сюжет болле менее. Больше смахивает на 2 часть. Хоть игра и имеет минусы, но попробовать стоит.
  25. NeonRevolt
    Aug 25, 2022
    10
    Все, как во второй части, очень спокойная и веселая игра
    Есть некоторые визуальные баги, но играть не мешают
    Спорных моментов в механиках достаточно, но эта игра - глоток свежего воздуха для фанатов Не понимаю такой хейт к игре сейчас, уверен большая часть не знакома ни с прошлыми играми, ни с этой игрой    Все, как во второй части, очень спокойная и веселая игра
    Есть некоторые визуальные баги, но играть не мешают
    Спорных моментов в механиках достаточно, но эта игра - глоток свежего воздуха для фанатов
    Не понимаю такой хейт к игре сейчас, уверен большая часть не знакома ни с прошлыми играми, ни с этой игрой
  26. SaintsFan92
    Aug 25, 2022
    10
    In my mind, does NOT deserve the hate its getting. The game is awesome, fun and indeed 100% a Saints Row game. Granted, it may not be the Saints Row we were used too (SR 1,2,3,4, GOH) but its deffinently a fresh title in the series. I have encounter little to no bugs/glitches, and for me, the game feels EXACTLY how a Saints Row game in 2022 should feel.
  27. Graboiddad
    Aug 24, 2022
    10
    Okay...Giving it a 10 to counteract the reviews that haven't played it because if you call it woke trash you probably didn't even buy it. If you complain about the graphics you are watching YouTube videos off your phone.

    It's fun. Not perfect. Plays a lot like 3 but with some newer mechanics. Love the gliding. Gunplay feels so much better than 1-4. The characters are all different and    Okay...Giving it a 10 to counteract the reviews that haven't played it because if you call it woke trash you probably didn't even buy it. If you complain about the graphics you are watching YouTube videos off your phone.

    It's fun. Not perfect. Plays a lot like 3 but with some newer mechanics. Love the gliding. Gunplay feels so much better than 1-4. The characters are all different and play into their tropes well. Mechanic, Nerd, Crazy One, and then your character who can literally be whatever you make them. Vehicle customization is better than ever. Guns are alright but are also fully customizable which makes up for the variety. The city/map is absolutely gorgeous, the attention to detail and cultural influences are spot on. In no way does the city feel lifeless. A lot of returning radio stations, great soundtrack when causing chaos.

    All in all, it's a good game and a great saints row. Don't get up with what is considered woke or generational and just enjoy the mayhem and comedy.    … Expand
  28. Shedicus
    Aug 25, 2022
    10
    As a great lover of SR 1 and 2 who really couldn't get into 3 and 4, I'm very much enjoying playing this new take on the series and just struggle to understand the childish review bombing. Sure the main gang npcs are watered down student versions of the previous beloved characters, but the game is still very enjoyable and fun to play. Bugs in my 20 something hours have been almostAs a great lover of SR 1 and 2 who really couldn't get into 3 and 4, I'm very much enjoying playing this new take on the series and just struggle to understand the childish review bombing. Sure the main gang npcs are watered down student versions of the previous beloved characters, but the game is still very enjoyable and fun to play. Bugs in my 20 something hours have been almost non-existent. I've had the game drop out twice and that's it.… Expand
  29. suspskov
    Aug 24, 2022
    10
    Оптимизация ужасная. Город более живой чем в гта 5. Тут например коп может остановить машину и проверить документы, или врачи могут вылечить бомжа на дороге. Говорят, что можно встретить как пожарные тушат огонь, но я не видел. Стрельба более менее, но в мафии 3 лучше. Годная игра лучше стоит проходить с другомОптимизация ужасная. Город более живой чем в гта 5. Тут например коп может остановить машину и проверить документы, или врачи могут вылечить бомжа на дороге. Говорят, что можно встретить как пожарные тушат огонь, но я не видел. Стрельба более менее, но в мафии 3 лучше. Годная игра лучше стоит проходить с другом
  30. ankancr
    Aug 24, 2022
    10
    Played it a couple of hours and i thinks it is a really nice game! Thanks for this!
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61

Mixed or average reviews - based on 63 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 63
  2. Mixed: 36 out of 63
  3. Negative: 8 out of 63
  1. GameMAG
    Oct 24, 2022
    60
    Saints Row had chance to be something much more, if only the team behind the game tried to take a more bold and careful approach.
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  2. PLAY
    Oct 15, 2022
    40
    he character creator still shines, but frustrating mission design and a disappointing plot make this reboot difficult to recommend. Far more sinner than saint. [Issue#19, p.92]
  3. The So Videogames Podcast
    Sep 14, 2022
    85
    A really, really fun experience that is getting sh*t on for no reason other than groupthink, herd mentality and people on the bandwagon.
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