My opinion is up and down about the recent Saints game. I love that they included more for you to do, but the direction of the game changed completely from what it originally started as. The whole "fighting gangs for territory thing." With the release of "The Third", that was beginning of the different approach with this marketing, movie star stuff and bigger business takedowns, etc. The whole alien invasion just completely threw me off. Having the fourth edition being focused on the character being swallowed into an alien simulated environment and having super powers was the over turn for the game. At this point it is far drawn from it's original concept. There are things I like and some things I dislike. The customization is a plus. Though, similar to the Third, it is in fact better than 1 & 2. With superpower abilities, who needs a car? Which takes away from the fun of enjoying the nice cars and customizing them. I personally enjoyed car customization. I mean, granted , the options is still there and available, so that isn't even that big of an issue. Just something I wanted to state.
There are too many side missions in my opinion. I feel like they crammed so much into this edition that it's overwhelming. It was cool with a few extra missions you had to do on the side, the activities provided enough time to side track you too (i.e. Prof GENKI game). Even the collectibles were time consuming. Now it's just so many collectibles and side quests I'm not sure where to begin. At one point I think I had one main mission and 7 side quests pending with the headache of collecting those dang clusters to keep up with the power upgrades and such. They just packed so much in this one game at once. I understand the company trying to give us more to enjoy and something different. But I like the concept more so with 1 and 2. Not sure if they were trying to stir off the direction of being criticized for being similar to Grand Theft Auto, etc, but that was the idea that drew me in from the beginning.
Overall, i just think it's too Hollywood. Instead of the focal being to build the 3rd St Saints and earning respect through rivalry and street crimes, we now got people of power fighting an alien invasion. What part of the gang life is that? Lol. I could care less about fighting aliens. Give me the Sons of Samedi, Ronin, Brotherhood, and the hippie Shaundi in Stillwater back. But i'm not entirely displeased with the game. Don't get me wrong. It is a good game. Just a lot to do and not the approach I really care for.
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