Saints Row

 Xbox Series X
User Score
2.9

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 210 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 43 out of 210
  2. Mixed: 22 out of 210
  3. Negative: 145 out of 210
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  1. Switchbutton
    Aug 24, 2022
    0
    Boring, lazy, and extremely poorly written.

    The characters are woke trash that belong in a cancelled CW show.
  2. Bubatanka
    Aug 31, 2022
    0
    Not a Saints row game.
    Graphics are bad (fps drops, pop ins and pop out ie cars just disappears on a high end game pc) AI is horrible. Story is cringe. Open world feels like it's a game from ~2010ish , It's dead and there is basically nothing to do (ie no interiors)
    Just get SR2 on steam for about 2 euro. It's much more fun as this pile of manure.
  3. o22ie
    Aug 29, 2022
    0
    Saints Row is a buggy silly game I am very disappointed I expected much better but like everything released now it feels rushed.
  4. headbiscuits
    Aug 29, 2022
    3
    The good: Character customization.
    Lighting can look really nice in some areas.
    Graphics are a step up from previous titles.

    The bad:
    Horrible writing.
    Outdated gameplay mechanics and mission structure.
    Empty world.
    Bugs / missing features.

    I don't know who this game is for but it should've been scrapped a long time ago.
  5. Curacaocabra
    Aug 29, 2022
    7
    Is it Saints Row? Yes. Is it great? no... BUT it is fun. I gotta say the first mission was terrible. After I sped through that, I've had fun with game. If you are looking for an open world sandbox, it's fun. If you don't like or don't want to hear silly dialogues SKIP THEM. It's that simple. Saints has never taken its self too seriously, its a clown clone of GTA. It's hilarious to me whenIs it Saints Row? Yes. Is it great? no... BUT it is fun. I gotta say the first mission was terrible. After I sped through that, I've had fun with game. If you are looking for an open world sandbox, it's fun. If you don't like or don't want to hear silly dialogues SKIP THEM. It's that simple. Saints has never taken its self too seriously, its a clown clone of GTA. It's hilarious to me when people are insulted by satire.… Expand
  6. SpaceTitz
    Sep 3, 2022
    2
    One of the most uninspired games of our time. I felt like i was playing a ps2 game
  7. Captiosus
    Sep 4, 2022
    3
    The best part of the new Saints Row is the character creator. Second best is the synthwave radio station. Everything else was bland, soulless, open-world-by-numbers corporate game design. If I hadn’t known anything about the game beforehand and someone told me it was a remaster of a game from 14 years ago, I would believe them based on design and gameplay.

    Sanitized, bland, characters    The best part of the new Saints Row is the character creator. Second best is the synthwave radio station. Everything else was bland, soulless, open-world-by-numbers corporate game design. If I hadn’t known anything about the game beforehand and someone told me it was a remaster of a game from 14 years ago, I would believe them based on design and gameplay.

    Sanitized, bland, characters with very little humor and the whole thing just felt like a bunch of boomers and older Gen X’ers trying to write what they thought would appeal to millennials and zoomers. Student loans, yadda yadda yadda, late stage capitalism, yadda yadda yadda, evil imperialist corporation… If the Steve Buscemi “how do you do fellow kids” scene/meme were a video game, this would be it.

    Driving and shooting is janky af, the vast majority of missions are just “go here, pick up thing, bring it back”, even the main story missions. The “gang building” is but a pale imitation of the first two SR games. Visually the game looks like something from mid-last gen only with volumetric fog and heat distortion effects for the hell of it -- but there's nothing here that can excuse the game's absolutely awful performance. Unstable frame rates, copious frame drops, stutters, extreme texture pop in, missing textures, the list goes on. And the list of bugs I encountered, many minor, some gamebreaking, would be too long to list.

    26 hours played to reach 100% completion and I only bothered because I didn't have anything better to play at the moment. I cannot recommend this game, especially not to Saints Row fans. This is a dumbed down, forgettable, "politically correct" version of the Saints and it feels like a game the original Saints Row would have absolutely pilloried. Saints Row 4 accurately predicted this with their parody signs reading: "REBOOT IS DEATH". This is, indeed, the death of a once fun franchise. Rest in Peace, Third Street Saints.    … Expand
  8. Sly1223
    Aug 28, 2022
    5
    I am a huge fan of Saints Row series since SR2 and it's very sad to see what happened to reboot. At it's core this is the same saints row as before, but there is nothing more. And if it is wasn't so bad the story is boring with characters that i don't care about. The game tries to be more realistic, not flashy and silly. Graphics in the game is pretty average, background is always blurryI am a huge fan of Saints Row series since SR2 and it's very sad to see what happened to reboot. At it's core this is the same saints row as before, but there is nothing more. And if it is wasn't so bad the story is boring with characters that i don't care about. The game tries to be more realistic, not flashy and silly. Graphics in the game is pretty average, background is always blurry and draw distance is bad (playing on 1440p 60 frames option) in 70% time I've opened the character customization game just freeze's at the menu, not giving me any option just to close it and launch again. Also have some crashes.
    Game has some fun parts, but they are opening only after you spent 10-15 hour's in it. More busineses and activities will give you more fun customization options, abilities, mechanics. Some mission's after half of story are really good and full of SR action, but the first part of the story, before robbing the train, is painfully boring.    … Expand
  9. sgtleehead
    Aug 29, 2022
    2
    First off, to be fair, the customisation is OK and the chaos factor is present at times. However - their are some anomalous reviews here praising this game to artificially bump the score to ludicrous 10. Its a pretty poor game though; the characters are bland, the story trite and the gameplay is dull. How to kill a franchise.
  10. Ron3131
    Sep 6, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Saints Row 2022 is what happens when Twitter users start a gang, not to mention a buggy and glitchy the biggest let down they got rid of activities like escort and snatch DO NOT BUY this garbage.… Expand
  11. Nylo316
    Aug 29, 2022
    1
    Soooo Since saints row 2 they gave us 4 **** games,then we get this ...It's just A WALKING DISASTER, forget the bugs, the game play is lacking in soo many ways.the characters are a disappointment, the story is HORRIBLE, how the hell am I a boss of a criminal organization & I can't rob anyone !This is the most disappointing game I've ever played & there is nothing they cane do to fix thisSoooo Since saints row 2 they gave us 4 **** games,then we get this ...It's just A WALKING DISASTER, forget the bugs, the game play is lacking in soo many ways.the characters are a disappointment, the story is HORRIBLE, how the hell am I a boss of a criminal organization & I can't rob anyone !This is the most disappointing game I've ever played & there is nothing they cane do to fix this game... at this point the might as well sell the rights to a company who actually cares and listen to thir fans… Expand
  12. siracademic
    Aug 29, 2022
    7
    i really wanted to love this game, and for the most part i did. the driving is fun, the side missions add some spice and the wing suit is a hard to master addition to the franchise. where this game lacks is story. if you do not care about the story and just want to have a blast, buy this game. but if you are looking to immerse yourself in santo illeso with the lore and story, don’t.i really wanted to love this game, and for the most part i did. the driving is fun, the side missions add some spice and the wing suit is a hard to master addition to the franchise. where this game lacks is story. if you do not care about the story and just want to have a blast, buy this game. but if you are looking to immerse yourself in santo illeso with the lore and story, don’t. although santo illeso is the best map of the franchise, the story is the worst by far. you never really hate the other gangs or villains and the end was honestly stupid and clearly trying to be a mix of the end of saints row 1 and 3. i recommend you buy this game when it goes on sale and you play it to 100% completion and never touch it again.… Expand
  13. Alexivanov
    Sep 3, 2022
    0
    Это игра просто скучная .Не интересная бесконечная стрельба по глупым болванчикам .Персонажи отвратительны от слова совсем к ним не испытываете симпатии ,а скорее отвращение .
  14. Zer093
    Aug 25, 2022
    1
    honestly i played this game to give it a fair shot and......

    1. LAZY, the devs laziness with this game shows HEAVILY, be it in the glitches, the terrible writing or the fact that every other NPC has cloth physics but the main character (they were just getting good with that in saints row 4 too such a shame) 2. terrible characters, the characters all push a narative that feels forced,    honestly i played this game to give it a fair shot and......

    1. LAZY, the devs laziness with this game shows HEAVILY, be it in the glitches, the terrible writing or the fact that every other NPC has cloth physics but the main character (they were just getting good with that in saints row 4 too such a shame)

    2. terrible characters, the characters all push a narative that feels forced, as if someone held a gun to their heads and said "BE INCLUSIVE MAKE HIM A THEY/THEM AND MAKE HIM BI" and stuff like that, it's present but not in a good way, and am i the only one who thinks a nerdy guy who gets scared too easy is NOT A GOOD FIT FOR A GANG???

    3. story, in the story there are other WAY better characters however none ever really become members of your gang, it's depressing that these more interesting characters who have better reasons for making a gang aren't the main characters. the story is also EXTREMLY short i finished it and most side missions in around 4-5 hours.

    I REALLY wanted to enjoy this game for some of the pretty good gameplay and the awesome additions (SAINTS KEYBLADE ANYONE???) but it was just way too cringe and was so horribly bad i sincerely hope the Devs see this and do something to fix it for the next game,

    honestly there is so much more on why this game sucked but if i keep writing i'll probably be here all day for something most people won't read through fully.    … Expand
  15. NotWoke
    Aug 28, 2022
    0
    Terrible writing, terrible characters. Graphics so bad it's worse than games ten years ago that it just blatantly copied most of it's features from and did worse. The shooting mechanics are just absolutely some of the worst in video game history. The driving feels so cheap. There is no doubt that the same cringe wokester mindset people they hired to write this terrible story and cringeTerrible writing, terrible characters. Graphics so bad it's worse than games ten years ago that it just blatantly copied most of it's features from and did worse. The shooting mechanics are just absolutely some of the worst in video game history. The driving feels so cheap. There is no doubt that the same cringe wokester mindset people they hired to write this terrible story and cringe characters were hired to code this mess. You can see the same lack of intelligence. On several missions In a group of 30 AI enemies 20 of them were literally the same avatar of some cringe diversity character instead of just making more people to fight against. What in the world is that about? Just the type of cringe lazy lack of creativity you would expect from a these type of people. It feels absolutely nothing like the saints row games at all to make this all so much more insulting. If you cringe wokesters wanted to go make a game like this that would have been one thing but why did they have to destroy the saints row franchise with these terrible ideas. Game must have been made by young kids fresh out of some college that brainwashed them into communists to have come out with a piece of garbage smelling this bad.… Expand
  16. WolfThorn
    Aug 24, 2022
    1
    Not a good game, should have remastered the first two games. This cringe brainless tiktok gang of pansies wouldn't be intimidating anybody, much less an actual gang.
  17. TLC
    Aug 24, 2022
    0
    Woke garbage, I knew this game would be trash before it even came out. They’re actively trying to destroy the Saints Row series like how 343 destroyed Halo
  18. Reviewman989
    Aug 24, 2022
    0
    Volition where do we begin? You ignored fan feedback for years telling you all exactly what we wanted. Then you diss the fans on twitter calling us haters for not liking whatever this was. Haters gonna hate well like MJ we took it personally. Now the game is a buggy glitchy unplayable mess that appeals to no one and you all have yourselves to blame. Haters gonna hate right...Well hatersVolition where do we begin? You ignored fan feedback for years telling you all exactly what we wanted. Then you diss the fans on twitter calling us haters for not liking whatever this was. Haters gonna hate well like MJ we took it personally. Now the game is a buggy glitchy unplayable mess that appeals to no one and you all have yourselves to blame. Haters gonna hate right...Well haters gonna rate too. Collapse… Expand
  19. Itz_Trollamity
    Aug 24, 2022
    1
    Absolutely terrible. This game is literally for the they/them crowd. It’s not the same gangsta ish from the old days. It’s some new Starbucks hipster bs with all the sjw check marks. Then on top of all that, it’s more buggy than a roach infested house in New York lmao. Read this to save 70 dollars. You’re welcome.
  20. Sliferx91
    Aug 26, 2022
    0
    Lmfao this is what happens when you ditch “outdated” humor according to the devs. Guess what you woke snowflakes? THATS WHAT WE WANT!!!! The crude humor and fun of the originals. I got a refund instantly. Trash. Stay away
  21. OLMiTRi
    Aug 26, 2022
    0
    I felt the need to create a metacritic account for this. I advise you to not buy this game. It's full of bugs, soulless and lazy. Also the gameplay and visuals are outdated. I was really excited for a new Saints Row game, but this one is even worse then Agents of Mayhem. It's a sad end for a series I once loved. Disappointing.
  22. Bootydrop
    Aug 24, 2022
    0
    piece of garbage.

    why is it so difficult to listen at least once to the community??
  23. Kruchini
    Aug 24, 2022
    2
    This game its just a piece of **** The graphics is a bit better than infamous 2 on ps 3, gameplay and shooting is from xbox 360 era as well. BTW, the last boss is against us just beacuse he wants to be with our friends, just imagine how bad this game is.
  24. Nathanimations
    Sep 4, 2022
    1
    4/10
    Good graphics, Bad everything else

    But I want to see how low the score can get
  25. lenol03
    Aug 26, 2022
    0
    saints row died at sr3 , we were getting closer and closer to this type of game each installation
  26. instinct46
    Aug 24, 2022
    4
    Start on the hardest setting as the default middle is way too easy, so would hate to see what the previous 2 are like. I remember they said the amount of customization was insane, which it wasn't. You no longer buy shops. For some reason they lock out a bunch of features when your in a mission (e.g. the camera), so you can't take pictures of locations marked on the map, even if you haven'tStart on the hardest setting as the default middle is way too easy, so would hate to see what the previous 2 are like. I remember they said the amount of customization was insane, which it wasn't. You no longer buy shops. For some reason they lock out a bunch of features when your in a mission (e.g. the camera), so you can't take pictures of locations marked on the map, even if you haven't really started the mission (just on your way to it).

    Side quests are lacking. The dialogue is... well its just plain bad.

    The key and very main issue... it isn't funny. They have removed the fun wackiness and kept some weird form of slapstick wackiness from the mid 90s American family friendly tv shows (ones were laughter can be heard as something unfunny happens).

    As for bugs, I haven't really noticed any on the Xbox Series X.

    The core game seems to be pretty solid (as foundation goes), but it feels massively under utilised and the game just feels flat and uninspired.

    For an AAA release this is just a poor release, this is sort of what I'd expect from a small studio.
    Last week I finished playing Saints Row 3 remastered (fantastic and probably the peak of saints row) and this has massively gone in the wrong direction vs that game.    … Expand
  27. Tyler992
    Aug 27, 2022
    0
    the only logical explanation on how bad this game is, is that volition is playing 4d chess with us. they made the game one huge ironic joke about gen-z gentrification. they made gentrification: the game!

    jokes aside, this is the absolute worst game i have ever played. i wasnt really a fan of sr3 (subjective not objective) i love sr1-2, but this is worse than sr3, reason being the    the only logical explanation on how bad this game is, is that volition is playing 4d chess with us. they made the game one huge ironic joke about gen-z gentrification. they made gentrification: the game!

    jokes aside, this is the absolute worst game i have ever played. i wasnt really a fan of sr3 (subjective not objective) i love sr1-2, but this is worse than sr3, reason being the physics are a massive downgrade.

    the physics are terrible, the graphics are that of early last gen at best, the story is terrible, the cringe gen z characters are awful, the car physics are god awful and your car blows up upside down like gta san andreas.

    The positives are the car damage models are really good, the city has potential, the desert has potential, and the soundtrack is pretty good. but that doesnt fix everything wrong with it.

    volition had a huge chance to bring back a classic franchise, compete with gtao/gtav honestly and put R* in competition mode, but they squandered everything so now R* will continue to milk gtav and probably make gta6 average at best.

    review embargoes should be illegal because of crap like this, this game should be criminal at best.
    volition mocks og fans, mocks everyone criticizing this game in the most unprofessional way possible.    … Expand
  28. Spartan_S769
    Aug 26, 2022
    0
    Its not saints row...dont buy it
    its like a...well...a mobile game. boring characters, boring story and the same gameplay of the SR3...its TRASH!
  29. Arty15088
    Aug 27, 2022
    0
    Trash story, trash characters, trash gameplay and more diversity, Inclusivity. Thanks Anita Sarkeesian for helping in game development
  30. dudefukkmeta
    Aug 27, 2022
    0
    Horribly unfinished, bewilderingly outdated and lacks any appeal. Outside of being a bug ridden and horrendously underbaked game, it is still the worst game in a franchise that spans 16 years
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 39 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 26 out of 39
  3. Negative: 4 out of 39
  1. Movies Games and Tech
    Oct 6, 2022
    55
    Saints Row is a franchise that has its best days behind it. Consequently, the latest iteration is dull, dated, and lacking oomph. The open world is great, as are the side hustles. However, this doesn't make up for its many shortcomings. Fans of the franchise may overlook the tedium, but I could not.
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  2. ZTGD
    Sep 8, 2022
    50
    I am extremely sad at this reboot of Saints Row, while I wasn’t a huge fan of the absolute bonkers nature of the 4th entry, even if I did love the 3rd. With this reboot I feel like Volition missed a huge opportunity evolve this series for a new generation, not just of consoles but for gamers. As it stands, this game comes off just feeling like its clinging to the tone and design choices from the 360; even the graphics in this reboot from 2022 feel dated and frankly Johnny Gat deserves better.
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  3. MondoXbox
    Sep 4, 2022
    60
    Saints Row is not the reboot the series needed, significantly limiting the levels of insanity and comedy that are the hallmark of the series, while maintaining a gameplay that is now dated and in need of a serious makeover. This made it a decent but soulless title, definitely forgettable in today's landscape. If you're looking for a not-too-demanding open world it can still wring a few laughs out of you, but at the moment Saints Row smacks too much of a wasted opportunity. The series has great potential, but it needs a real leap forward if it is to have a future.
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