Hague continued on to say that there will be weapons that are “crazy” and “pretty far out there.” Your new crew “And then going back to some of those sensibilities that we had with the criminality.”īoone also confirmed that none of the original Saints Row characters would return in this “full reboot” while his colleague, Design Director James Hague, told Stevivor that there are no in-game phallic weapons like Saints Row 4’s dildo bat. “ hard to figure out where to go from there and that was probably the bigger reason why we ended up scaling back towards this reboot,” he admitted.
It was a very conscious decision to kind of bring it back a little bit more.”īoone also pointed to the endings of Saints Row 4 and Saints Row Gat Outta Hell as being very difficult to follow up. “Part of it was just even thinking of where we left off on Saints Row 4,” he continued, “and knowing - not that that’s your question in terms of it being a direct sequel - but we wanted to kind of ease back from some of the highs that we did on Saints Row 4 in terms of how extreme we went with it. “We definitely did less of the of the wacky partly because it was a conscious decision on our part to go back to more of the criminality that we feel is so important in Saints Row,” Boone told Stevivor directly. “But having fun and doing it your way in the game.” “It’s a power fantasy for players to be able to have that same sort of experience where they are building a criminal empire and doing things that you would never do in real life,” Boone continued. Lead by The Boss, the character that the player will fully customise and experience the story through, these new Saints will duke it out against three rival factions in the fictional city of Santo Ileso to become top dogs. In this newly envisaged world, four friends are doing just that. You could be your own boss and do things your way.” “What that means is, it could be everything from imagining the kind of debt that people deal with these days - student loans or the kinds of things that you want to be able to do for the American dream - imagine that if you were in that world and you could form your own criminal empire. “It was a great opportunity for us to just tell the story that we wanted to tell, and most importantly tell a story that is contemporary - that we think the people are going to relate to. This was a chance for us to go back to our origins and get back to that more contemporary crime sort of angle that we love and that Saints Row is known for,” said Chief Creative Officer Jim Boone. Ahead of the reveal, Stevivor was able to sit down with senior Volition staff to discuss this new take on the Saints. Saints Row was today announced by Volition and Deep Silver, a reboot of the popular franchise. We get down and dirty on what to expect from the franchise.