Saints Row IV: Re-Elected

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User Score
7.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 56 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 56
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 56
  3. Negative: 10 out of 56
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  1. jj350
    Mar 27, 2020
    6
    Good port of the worst Saints Row game. If you like this one you should be very pleased, it runs very well. Problem is that it's SR4 which is essentially a completely different game from the first 3. Gone is the gangster theme, replaced by some sci-fi theme. As a fan of the first three I just couldn't recommend this.
  2. nusco
    Jan 29, 2022
    5
    Saints Row IV is like GTA on meth. Like GTA, it's set in an urban open worlds where you can steal vehicles and drive to missions. However, you'll soon get superpowers that are so over the top that they make driving entirely unnecessary, and they turn the game into a lunatic power fantasy.

    PROS: - CRAZY AND OVER THE TOP: From running over the side of a tower to jumping over buildings,    Saints Row IV is like GTA on meth. Like GTA, it's set in an urban open worlds where you can steal vehicles and drive to missions. However, you'll soon get superpowers that are so over the top that they make driving entirely unnecessary, and they turn the game into a lunatic power fantasy.

    PROS:

    - CRAZY AND OVER THE TOP: From running over the side of a tower to jumping over buildings, stomping away trucks, and blast-freezing entire squads of enemies, Saints Row IV pushes the power fantasy to places that even videogames usually can't reach.

    - UNAPOLOGETICALLY TRASHY: This game is self-conscious about being in general bad taste, and it wallows in it. Everything is lurid and tacky. I loved it.

    - PLENTY TO DO: There is plenty of content in this game. The main missions won't keep you busy for long, but even after playing plenty of side missions, me and my co-op buddy were well below 60% completion.

    CONS:

    - TOO BUGGY FOR RELEASE: This is yet another untolerably buggy high profile release. In particular, the Switch version has a crippling bug when played in co-op: sometimes the game freezes at the end of a mission, forcing you to replay the entire mission from scratch. The game has been out for a long time already, but the publisher didn't bother to fix even this major bug. For your perfectly good money, you're getting a defective product.

    - OUTDATED VISUALS: This game is dated, and it shows. Some graphics age well. These don't.

    - ULTIMATELY BLAND: The "superpowers" feel good for sure, the story is wacky, and there is plenty of variety–but all those positive elements can't hide the fact that the moment-to-moment gameplay is often bland and uninspiring.    … Expand
  3. ro0llo
    Dec 24, 2021
    6
    Nice game for 2 euro’s but ANNOYING CRASHES AND HANGING LOADING SCREENS makes you have to play certains parts again as your progress did not save:@
  4. Non_Royal
    Sep 14, 2021
    5
    Gets boring after 2 hours, so I had to play it in small bursts. Plus the frame rate can't hold up in some sections.

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#67 Most Discussed Switch Game of 2020

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Metascore
71

Mixed or average reviews - based on 39 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 39
  3. Negative: 1 out of 39
  1. Cubed3
    Aug 28, 2020
    50
    Saints Row IV: Re-Elected might be the developer's attempt trying to do something new while doing it under the guise of a popular brand name. The emphasis on super-powers that renders the tacked-on driving and shooting redundant is likely an intentional message from the team, that this just is not Saints Row anymore. The result is a weird and confusing action title with tons of features, which has a huge well of jokes that fly by really fast. The only aspect that makes Saints Row IV truly worthwhile, is the comedic, over the top spectacle and characters. It's not the mind-numbing gameplay.
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  2. Gaming Age
    Jun 22, 2020
    42
    The problem here is that not only does Saints Row IV look kind of bad, it runs abysmally. It takes a lot to get me to feel negatively towards one of my all-time favourite games, but this kind of achieves that dubious goal.
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  3. Gamer Escape
    Jun 10, 2020
    70
    Overall, I’d say if you haven’t played Saints Row IV before to give it a shot. I honestly had a blast going through this. If you have, well, the novelty of having it portable might not justify the price tag. I have heard from Volition that the bugs ARE being worked on but, at the moment, there’s no definite time frame for when the DLC will actually be available for Switch players, and I can’t help but be a little disappointed at that.
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