After the final Saints Row: The Third has passed five years. Styleport was saved, the members of the Kaban detachment left the city, and the leader of the "Saints from the Third Street" sat down in the presidential chair. The former criminal is now dealing with issues of national importance, decides that to heal – cancer or world hunger, beats annoying politicians and listens to endless reproaches from friends.
But the world again threatens a terrible danger: evil aliens, led by Zignac, invaded Earth. The aliens abduct the smartest people of the planet, and they kill ordinary people. “Saints” were placed in their worst nightmares, recreated in virtual reality. The president, not without the help of a faithful friend of Kinzi, manages to get out of captivity; Only the punishment for the escape is more than harsh – Zignac without hesitation destroys the earth.
But not everything is still lost. The boss, like the hero of the “matrix”, goes back to the virtual style and begins the operation to release the “saints” from a computer conclusion. Naturally, he does this not with his bare hands. Kinzi managed to hack the system, and now the president has a pair of an ace in the sleeve – super -sizes that turn him into an indestructible superman.
Wake up, neo!
The essence Saints Row 4 Fits into a capacious Internet meme: “There is no time to explain, do something crazy!" Volition They grab you by the scruff of the scruff and throw you into the thick of the events: here are superpowers, here are steep guns, here are enemies – have fun!
In the first twenty minutes, you with your own hands stop a rocket aimed at Washington, shoot alien ships from the mortar and enter into a fight with the main villain. You will not have time to come to your senses how you find yourself in a typical sitcom for the 1950s. The boss, dressed in a yellow vest and ironed trousers, dances to the beat of music, at the stove a housewife is a housewife, breakfast-pancakes with syrup-is ready and is already waiting on the table. However, cardboard scenery and too friendly residents of Stillport do not deceive the president for a long time, and now the idyll turns on a fingertip on police vehicles from a grenade launcher. What else to say – Saints Row!
[[Bullet]] This frame could also be a screenshot from Mafia 2.
The most important news: Volitions no longer compete with GTA. At first glance, everything remains still-the sandbox, the opportunity to hide any car you like, open city. Than not a description of most games Rockstar? In fact, the rivals of the series are now different: infamous And Prototype. In the first, we threw ourselves into enemies with electric balls and glided over the wires, in the second we grew sharp limbs and changed the guise one or two times. But neither Cole McGrat, nor Alex Mercer with his successor to the president. Our hero knows how to freeze and set fire to opponents, owns telekinesis and runs so quickly that oncoming cars from the collision are soared high into the sky. In addition, he has incredible strength and is worn on the walls with the ease of Spider-Man.
[[Bullet]] Saints Row in one picture: The naked president of America jumps into a spaceship, depicting Superman.
Volition was intentionally distanced from Grand Theft Auto: the showdown between the bandits completely disappeared, and the thefts of the cars went into the background. Honestly, we doubt that you will use the car at least a dozen times per game – why, if there is supercuriousness? Yes, and get behind the wheel, when I already felt like Flash, it’s simply boring, I always want to go out and push the unfortunate Kolymag – well, how can you go so slowly?!
Gotta Catch ‘Em All
Nevertheless, the ability still needs to be earned. At first, only fast running and super -jumping will be available to you – with it you can climb any building, even a skyscraper.
To open a new skill, you need to defeat one of the attorney Zignac. Aliens resemble pumped orcs, personal subjects are higher, stronger and more agile than their ordinary counterparts. And if the battles with ordinary opponents do not take much time, then battles with bosses can stretch for ten to fifteen minutes-superclies are given by blood and then.
[[Bullet]] Baby Donolt Heart me, Don’t heart me, no more ..
First, from the aliens, it is necessary to knock down the shield, and only then the attack will begin to demolish health. The shield is restored in a matter of seconds, and the “strangers” themselves do not trample on the spot – jump on the roofs of the houses standing nearby, thrown with heavy objects, water with fire and knock down with a shock wave. In a word, the president has enough problems.
An unpleasant moment. Fighting the aliens-overgrows will have to every time Volition decides that you were bored and it was time to expand your superhero arsenal. Everything would be fine if each Verzila needed its own tactics, but no, the scheme is always the same: remove the shield, make a couple of shots and run away (suddenly hook in it inadvertently). Needless to say, the battles with mini-bosses get tired worse than a bitter radish.
But not all. Want to pump? Killing enemies and levelapa will not help you. In order to improve a particular ability, you need to collect a certain number of clusters, generously scattered along the roofs of style. Perhaps this is such a tricky way to distract players from the fact that Volition did not begin to create a new city, but simply detached the old.
[[Bullet]] I am Captain Shepard, and this is my favorite moment in Saints Row.
On the one hand, the decision pushes to the study of the world, on the other, it quickly becomes a routine, from which there is no. There are many abilities, even more improvements for them, each accounts for at least ten clusters. So calculate how much time you will spend, chasing the development glasses. But let up a little upgrades, but they change the gameplay. And if an increase in the force of the jump or speed of running does not particularly affect anything, then the ability to steam, spreading his hands, like a protein-lieutenus, will make your movements in style much more pleasant.
President for himself
Compared to The Third, the battles became more dynamic, which is especially noticeable closer to the end when all superpowers are open. The main character with lightning rushes past the enemies, literally sweeping them out in his path. Once – and the car picked up on the go flies in opponents. Two – and a handful of enemies is already embraced by a flame. A particularly spectacular technique – first freeze alienes, and then from a run, kick, break the resulting ice statues. Or jump up and dramatically land, scattering several aliens at once with a shock wave.
[[Bullet]] with women in the style, something is wrongly happening.
To arrange global lawlessness, however, they will not let you. Supersilles consume energy, so endlessly throwing enemies with fireballs with all the desire will not work. And it definitely goes to the game in minus. I would like to arrange a branch of hell on the ground – trample, destroy, smash – and instead you have to wait until the president is reloaded. From a crazy game you expect the opportunity to arrange chaos, but for some reason the authors limit us for some reason.
Pleasure spoils and somewhat clumsy control. It can be seen that the engine is still sharpened under the horizontal gameplay https://sister-site.org/magic-win/. The hero’s movements are far from as smooth and accurate as we would like: he clumsily pokes into the walls, lands on where, and sometimes simply refuses to obey.
[[Bullet]] suspect that this monster will pursue not only the pier in nightmares!
At the same time, the game has purely jumping levels, in connection with which the question arises: why it was necessary to focus on the shortcomings, turning the jumps on the roofs into an annoying obligation? And why not give clusters for victories in mini-games? Volition came up with many additional entertainment, starting with a new show of crazy professor Genka and ending with superhero battles without rules, but there is no tangible award for participating in them – there is enough money and so enough.
Guess the melody
A reverent attitude to the little things in the production, allusias on pop culture, excellent work with a fan service-this is what the Saints Row 4 distinguishes favorably.
Fans will find for themselves many references to the previous parts. So, Volition successfully beat the episode with the choral singing of What I Got from The Third: the president hears a familiar melody on the radio and begins to sing along, trying to persuade Kinzi to join him, but Kinzi is not a merry pier, because the girl sends him rudely, they say, with us There is an alien invasion, by the way! Moreover, even a tiger lit up in the frame, which we rolled on a convertible in the previous game.
[[Bullet]] You will go to the left – you will save humanity. You’ll go to the right – you will find your death.
The song Power Kanye West has become a kind of anthem The Third. To the recitative of one of the most popular rappers of the planet, we jumped with a parachute in the pool installed on the roof of the skyscraper, and by force captured the building, just like in militants about the next theft of the century. But this time the volition went even further. Imagine the situation – the president and his subjects escape on the spacecraft, shooting the guards from the on -board guns along the way, and at this time it sounds from the columns … What is love! Yes, yes, the same song that is familiar to us all thanks to the clip with Jim Kerry from SNL. Well, how can I not smile and not start shaking your head to the beat? It's even cooler than saving Shandi under I Neeed a Hero Bonnie Tyler!
Nothing a saint
Developers to the whole coil pulled out, ridicuating popular games. For example, in the style there are points of exit from the simulation – the doors through which you get back to your ship, which is suspiciously similar to Normandy (only instead of a joker is a rubber woman!). You can chat with the crew members and, as usual, start a romantic relationship – for this they even made a separate button. That's just not everyone thirsts to jump into one bed with our hero, especially men. “You are president, I am a vice president. We just can't work, you understand?"
[[Bullet]] Volition fulfill childhood dreams.
Everything is easier with girls:
– Hey, Kinzi! If you want to get a bit out?
– Let's!
And no courtship for you, as in games BioWare. Moreover, on board under love shura murys took a special room. Relaxing music plays in it, make-up chairs are laid out everywhere and lies a mattress with a whip. Shepard would be pleased!
But Volition is capable not only on blows below the belt. For example, in one of the episodes, the authors are wittily making fun of conventions in stealth explosives. The main character is perplexed: “Why should I spend two bullets on light bulbs if I can spend one – on a guard?"But what we learned from the monologues of the patrol:" I was ordered to walk the same way, time after time, until something interesting happens ". Well, it explains a lot!
Naturally, the authors did not do without tending over Metal Gear Solid. President and his companion Asha will hold part of the mission, hiding under cardboard boxes. If you fail the mission, you will hear Ashi's heart -rending cries: “Boss? Boss?! Bo-o-Oss!"
The new Saints Row would like to pull out in quotes: “Tell my wife that I had another wife”. Well, if you choose the voice of Nolan North as a voice acting, you can hear: “I have a voice like a heap of other characters in the video game, isn't it like that?"
Tank
The virtual reality trip was one of The Third's most memorable episodes, and, apparently, because the developers decided to beat a familiar situation again. But this time we are sent to the real Battle City (better known among Russians as "tanks"). The task is simple: to press enemies and destroy other armored vehicles. The command console is occupied by the half of the screen, into which Kinzi drives up the lines of the code.
[[Bullet]] telekinesis is convenient to raise cars and throw them into enemies.
Next are races on motorcycles (again, hello The Third), and then – whatever you think – a computer quest comes from the eighties. This time, however, is not exclusively text, but with pictures. It looks funny, but the second time the old tricks no longer surprise. At such moments, the non-mainness of the new Saints Row is especially acute-after all, it is more likely to an addition than a full-fledged fourth part.
But sad thoughts quickly disappear as soon as the volition rolls something new to the scene. For example, put on a hero a mechanical suit with jetpac, including the real Mechwarrior. Sweeping enemies with one wave of metal claw is a real pleasure, and to land on them, losing their heavy feet, even more pleasant. And when you are handed over to the weapon ..
[[Bullet]] This is not a parrot, this is a crow!
The climax of the creative madness of the developers is the nightmare of the pier, one of the "brothers" of the boss. Pierce to death is afraid that the brand of the “saints” (the gang spun in The Third and began to release different rubbish under her name) suddenly turned against him. So it happens. In his imagination, the soda “Saints” attacks the headquarters of the gang-with arms, legs and other joys of humanoid physique.
As a result, everything ends with the battle of the Titans: the main character takes a giant statue under management and is accepted that there is strength to thresh the presumptuous jar of gas. For the sake of this episode, I would like to recommend the game to everyone and everyone. In these minutes, the fourth Saints Row supplies a pure, concentrated fun that is not comparable to anything this year.
Is it cooler than the fourth part of the previous? Definitely. And all the more sad that the game does not surprise at all. The Third was a high -quality breakthrough for the series, and the continuation only works out the already familiar program, diluting the process with new chips, which, by the way, are not so many.
Those who have not seen the past Saints Row, the creation of Volition is guaranteed to blow up the brain – for them everything will be like the first time. Fans will also like the new game, but the impressions will not be so bright.
We do not think that there is a volition of this. The developers squeezed out the maximum from the concept and the budget allocated by him. If anyone needs to poke a finger, it is now the deceased ThQ , After all, they turned DLC into a license plate, trying to patch financial holes. It was also lucky that the project generally survived to the release and the series did not sink into oblivion. In the end, the industry needs games such as Saints Row. Restless and funny.
Reigracy:
Cool plot:
Originality:
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Gameplay:
8
Graphics:
6
Sound and music:
9
Interface and management:
7
Waited?
Hilarious superhero action recreated on prehistoric technologies. Still very funny and rich, but already more predictable.
Mania rating: 8.0
"Great"