Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell review: A great expansion that deserves even more - deckertoomeng

Hither's a suppositious: What if you were floating through space with the last remnants of humanity when a Ouija plug-in came to life, opened a portal vein into Hell, sucked the President of the America through, and abreast you that (s)he's to marry the devil's daughter? What would you do?

If your answer is "Fly into Hell with a .45 strapped to your shank and plan to punch Satan in the face," congratulations, your name is secretly Johnny Gat and we've all been ready for you. Our hero.

Saints Row does Event Horizon

So yeah, in Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell you play as lovable off addict Greyback Gat—or (surprise) you rear switch over and play as genius murder nut Kinzie Kensington. You've got to rescue the President of the United States a.k.a. the boss of the Saints from marrying Satan's daughter Jezebel.

To do that, you have to indulge in what the Saints do first: Rampant [insert swear word] Chaos. Satan's only in control of Hell because soul bigger and badder hasn't come along to take IT from him yet. You can be that bigger, badder person. Sprout guns! Gas things up! Murder demons! Remov civilian-souls! You don't even have to feel distressing because everyone Here must've done some horrible things to land in Hell, thusly just murder away!

Gat Out of Hell is in many ways Former Armed Forces more ambitious even as a "standalone expansion" than Saints Quarrel Quartet proper. Where Saints Row IV essentially copy-affixed the Steelport map out from Saints Rowing the Third and added in superpowers, Gat Out of Hell's city of New Hades is a creative and ludicrous version of Hell that's crafted specifically to take advantage of the same powers.

Flight particularly has been overhauled. Saints Row IV restrained a half-baked gliding shop mechanic that felt kind-of-almost-merely-not-really-like flying. Rod Out of Hell, you literally control Johnny Rod like an airplane or like an enormous bird. And New Hades takes full vantage. This is a semi-erect metropolis—skyscrapers giving elbow room to apartment buildings giving path to strip malls and act suburbs big way to street level giving way to tunnels, all surrounded by massive cliffs above an perpetual lava sea.

It's a fantastic sandpile, which makes information technology complete the more strange that something so ambitious is unexhausted so empty.

Here's the deal: I understand Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell is billed as a standalone expansion and oversubscribed for a standalone expansion Leontyne Price ($20). For what it's worth, I think there's muckle of placid here to justify that price. I finished everything omit for some of the weapon/power challenges (i.e. kill [blank] number of enemies with [blank]) in about sevener hours.

If you're a Saints Row devotee and just inquisitive "Is this worth my sentence?" and then yes, IT is.

Just what's so strange about Rod Out of Hell is that in that location's so much potential that goes new because of the slim scope of a standalone expansion. The biggest problem with Gat Stunned of Hell isn't what's present, information technology's what's not.

Namely, missions. Each Saints Row spirited has a gaggle of side missions for you, and it even does that bothersome thing where it forces you to period of play finished those side missions for various rewards. Simply if I asked you to key your favorite Saints Run-in minute, you'd well-nig undoubtedly throw back a unusual setpiece or else—destructive off on a missile piece Aerosmith plays in the background, OR recreating the movie They Live, or your character singing Biz Markie on the way to an objective, operating room the entirety of the "Deckers Die" missionary post in Saints Row the Third.

The writing in Saints Quarrel is its strength. It's sharp. Information technology's impertinent. IT's silly. It's lewd. It breaks the fourth wall. It's unique. It's weird. It's absurd. Whatever adjective you'd use to key it, it's the situational comedy in Saints Row that stands out.

Rod Out of Hell has No real missions, and so a muckle of its potential is wasted. For instance, you meet Thatch, notable pirate and scourge of the seven seas. He lives on a recreation of the Queen Anne's Retaliation. In Hell on earth.

In a real Saints Row game (read: non an expansion) this would be the start of a extraordinary line of quests, perhaps culminating in your sailing the Queen Anne's Revenge into a statue of Satan or fighting Blackbeard in a beard-growing repugn operating theatre hell I don't know. Anything. Maybe you'd sing a rousing sea-shanty variant of Game Markie together.

In Rod Come out of Hell, past contrast, you stimulate one sort-of delegation with Blackbeard. Imps (the easiest enemies in the game) are invading and you have to kill a reliable number. That's it. IT takes v minutes, and doing thus unlocks one of your superpowers (Summon Imps) and gives you a new Blackbeard Loyalty delegation. The loyalty missions are the same as they were in Saints Row IV—complete incline quests. And then you finish up those side quests and Blackbeard goes "Great, thanks for doing that," and then you fundamentally ne'er hear from Teach again.

Gat Out of Hell is a lot of setup without the payoff its jokes really deserve. IT's a game built close to the middling-to-decent side activities from premature Saints Row titles, without the opportunity to whirl off and execute a "real" mission with "real" writing. For instance, the "Policy Fraud" activeness is second, but now you're controlling a soul condemned to hell, and the more points you rack up, the more years are taken disconnected that soulfulness's condemnation.

Reviewing a Saints Row title is supernatural though,because the developers always DO this thing: The game knows that you know that something doesn't rather operate, and it acknowledges its own failings. You could consider information technology as an apology of sorts, operating theatre simply equally an attempt at lampshading, but either way it's at that place.

Gat Out of Hell does it. After you trigger the endorse of three major "events" in the game (by causing enough Chaos to draw Satan's attention) there's a cutscene where Johnny Gat is literally posing in the Volition offices scraping his head while the narrator says that "He accepted the fact that without traditional missions [exit cancelled to do discretional side message for an arbitrary amount of time] was the best direction to further the floor."

So what am I doing committal to writing this review? Vocation out something that Volition already knew was potentially a problem while working on Gat Out of The pits?

The other big letdown for me: No licenced soundtrack. Medicine is expensive, and that's clearly combined of the areas where Willing blessed on budget this time. If you were hoping to hear Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Underworl spell playing Rod Out of Hell, I Hope you experience Spotify loaded up in the background. (I certainly did.)

Bottom line

I adhere what I same in my prevue: Rod Stunned of Hell is a hell of a great deal of amusive. The flight mechanism are fantastic, the new arsenal of weapons is as creative As any other Saints Row title's, and the game au fon fixes all the problems I had with Saints Row IV American Samoa an open-world game. IT's a bite-sized portion to grip you all over until the necessary (and larger) Saints Row V.

The exclusive thing that sucks is looking at what's here—the setting, the characters, the varied storylines, the weapons, the powers—and thinking of what could've been through with them had they been given a full-sized, numbered-continuation budget. In past words, if Saints Row V had been set in Hell and followed the same plot, but expanded on its characters and reality. In strange other words, if Volition had through with Rod Retired of Inferno what it did with Saints Course IV (which was originally scoped to be a Saints Row the Thirdly expansion).

Just if Volition considers this wealth of jokes "B-side of meat" pleased, hopefully that means we're in for something really special with the true Saints Rowing V? I can dream.

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