The mechanics are bland and workmanlike, the mission design far more ordinary than the surface wackiness suggests, and the graphics and art design look more like a fan-made mod than a modern video game. These are the highlights but the issue remains that as much as we admire Saints Row’s willingness to ignore any question of realism or common decency it’s still not really a very good video game. Poor mission design and bland mechanics has always been a problem of the series but this doesn’t even have the variety of the parent game, despite sections in a spaceship and a chariot race with gimps instead of horses. In any case everything boils down to a series of boss battle run-ins with the AI and five main missions, each of which amounts to little more than shooting everyone in the room with faintly unsatisfying guns and superpowers (even the new minigun and flamethrower don’t quite feel as fun as they should). It’s all very self-referential and, in the normal Saints Row manner, never quite as funny as it thinks it is, but at least you can’t complain it’s just a boring map pack.Įnter The Dominatrix (360) – at least it’s better than The Path Of Neo Everything is presented as if it’s a series of TV interviews, with the missions playing the role of previously unseen footage. Not only the regular crew but new characters as well, that were supposedly cut from previous games. Rather than try to act as an epilogue to Saints Row IV this is instead presented as an alternative storyline, a very literal what if commented on by the protagonists themselves. Now the name is being reused for an actual expansion, which is not only hugely confusing but the basis for the download’s narrative. Enter The Dominatrix, or at least an expansion with that same name, was originally intended to be downloadable content for Saints Row: The Third, before being repurposed to become the basis for Saints Row IV. This new downloadable content is especially uncaring when it comes to either plausibility or good taste, not only that but it’s incredibly meta.
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