Saints Row 2022 Will Be A 'Complete Reboot' With A 'Brand-New Tone'

Not what I was hoping for when I heard about a reboot… it’s possible this game will be fun on its own rights but… meh. This just fell off my radar.

I just don't understand the obsession with Johnny Gat. He wasn't even in Saints Row 3, he appeared in the opening level and then he was missing for the entire game. It was still one of the best SR games even without him.

I for one am excited for this reboot because we haven't had a new Saints Row game in seven years. Sure all the characters are new, but as long as they're likeable then that won't be an issue for me. Not to mention that if they keep making sequels then there will be a new set of characters to like across these games instead of having the same ones appear over and over. Maybe this new game will have its own version of Johnny Gat, who knows. There's still so much we don't know about the game. So put down your pitchforks and have some patience before passing judgment.

Once again, I'm just happy to have another open world GTA-style game.

I'm looking forward to SR calming down to around 3's levels of zane. 4 was fine for a DLC, Gat Out of Hell was proof that the game needed regrounding (though the weird Disney song was great). I'm really hoping there is a replacement cockney voice, it was so contextually weird, I loved it.

I don't have a problem with a new cast (as long as they work) because SR habitually cycles out cast members for new ones.

@LtSarge I suppose Gat is one of the few characters who appears in them all outside the Boss, The digitalised voice in the helmet sounded a little Gat-ish.

@abe_hikura I understand that, but is he genuinely that important to the overall franchise? I've played SR3 and SR4 and while I think he's a cool character, I don't find him that important that I wouldn't play the next SR game just because he isn't in it.

I just don't like how people are responding to this game simply based on a 2 minute cinematic trailer. It could be the best game ever but people have already made up their mind that they aren't going to play it. It just feels incredibly impulsive, almost like they are just trying to find ways to hate on this game when they know very little about it.

There will be those of us who recall Saints Row as a GTA impersonator turned mega fun whacko town and will more than likely look at this reboot with contempt. However, there will be others who haven't played a saints row game who will look at this with intrigue. As old gamers get older some franchise will seek out the younger gamers as opposed to pandering to its original fans =) it's fine. It happens. I hope they find the fans who will.support their next venture

I only ever played the original Saint's Row when it came out in Xbox 360. I have Saints Row 3 and 4 in my list to play at some point but people are right it doesn't really look like Saints Row. The characters do not look like gangsters, instead it gave away a Redfall/Fortnite/Watch Dogs vibe. Considering however that its a reboot with a new direction then it sort of makes sense. However I think those that loved the original Saints Row series will forever be angry. Maybe shouldn't have called it Saints Row and instead made a 'Spritual Successor' like Back 4 Blood has done. Should have just given it a different title and avoided the backlash.

@LtSarge indeed, they is a a lot of anger over seemingly nothing.

Like the complaints it's too diverse now, I just went back and each games squad is pretty diverse, the only white guy lieutenant in SR1 ended up being a dirty cop.

@Chaudy It feels like that's how it is for most people, i.e. they've only played the first two games and think that's how the series has been until this game. But it hasn't, ever since SR3 the characters have always been tongue-in-cheek and never like gangsters. I mean, in SR3 you literally have a former FBI agent with hacking expertise join the Saints. How is that gangster? Then there's this Russian brute, Mexican wrestler and even a pimp. None feel like gangsters at all.

The idea that it all started with the reboot couldn't be further from the truth. It has been like this for a very long time and the characters in the reboot look just as tongue-in-cheek as the ones in SR3. The only difference is that they're younger, maybe that's why people don't like them.

I'm not too worried, people probably complained lots as well at the sr4 announcement which I loved. Though no Gats is a shame. It also doesn't sound like that big of a game, 9 districts and 2 saharas lol? Either way just looking forward to some gameplay.

I cant get hyped or disappointed by a trailer. That's true for every game. Until I've seen gameplay, I'm not swayed either way.

I was hoping for 4 player co-op, but happy it still has 2 player. It's good they aren't dropping that (or delaying it, as far as we know).

As a Saints Row fan I am almost just glad that the series lives on.
Four took it too far and became a crap version of Crackdown, three was an all time classic.
The only way they could make another game was a reboot, I'm sure we all saw that coming, they had no where left to go.

I am hoping for a good game that sells well and then watch it ramp up to the third games levels of craziness again. Hopefully they can take the franchise back to it's heyday.

"brand new tone" sets alarms bells ringing at me. I liked the stupidity of the first 3. Is it planning on missing all adult and risque content?

It's for the younger generation, so more politically correct I'm guessing, devoid of any sexualisation because sexuality is evil and violence is wholesome so better make all the female models masculine. Chuck some cuss words in so it can attempt to remain "edgy", hmm feels like a standard affair now days... oh well that's what you get for corpororate nature of the industry.

Made me think of this YouTube video my buddy sent me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtqGh_qZgEc

This looks in every way like it should have just been a new IP instead of tacking it to the Saint's Row name. It's about as Saint's Row as Quake II is Quake (which was supposed to be a new IP and then they tacked the brand onto it for attention, as well.)

Changing the setting and the characters is cool, those characters had their arc. The bad thing is changing the tone. The tone is what Saint's Row is. If you change the tone, it's not Saint's Row, it's a bland open world GTA-like game that's not Saint's Row.

Saint's Row began as a bland GTA-like game and then changed courses into what it's remembered for when that failed. Instead of Saint's Row, this just looks like a generic GTA-like updated for the Fortnite generation.

Gaming really has become the new Hollywood. Safe, sanctioned, China-approved content safe for all audiences and international export. This trailer needed an ad for the Dual Sense after it.

The original Saints Row crew would give this new Saints Row crew a couple of Swirlies before trash-canning them and rolling them down a hill.

Also, I think I've seen enough of "shaved head girl" to last me a lifetime.

@Deadcow

Well said Deadcow and completely spot on. This new game looks both stunning and brave and i for one cannot believe how stunning and brave it looks.

Has more of a vigilante feel to me and a brighter color palette which is always a plus in my book. I like the character designs as well. The old SR characters always looked simultaneously too old and too young for the plots to me. Like an actor taking a role for a character that is a decade younger. Or like somebody was watching old 80s and 90s gang movies/mafia movies and made a game. These characters actually look like the age group to be in a gang. Color me curious.