Rounding out the quartet (of which you are the fourth member) is Kevin (pictured, left), a topless thrill-seeking DJ who, like his fellow Idols, loves wearing a Kawaii Cyberpunk helmet and wreaking havoc. Then there’s Neenah (pictured, right), the team’s driver, who had aspirations of becoming an anthropologist but got sucked into working as a mechanic for Los Panteros. There’s Eli (pictured, 2nd from right), an MBA student who works as the team’s planner, speaking in the language of startups, investment and business. In their place is a trio of characters that work to support your player’s unnamed and customizable protagonist. Or, at least, will be relegated to the odd, deeply buried easter egg for die-hard fans to root out while they’re immersed in this new world.
#WEIRD WEST ENGINE SERIES#
Meet the new bossĪs far as we know, references to Steelport, the 3rd Street Saints, Johnny Gat, Kenzie and anything else from the prior series are gone. Then there are the Idols, a group of Kawaii Cyberpunk Anarchists wearing light-up cat ear helmets who overwhelm you with numbers in a fight. Marshall Defense Industries, meanwhile, is a local weapons developer with its own mercenary army equipped with a range of sci-fi weapons and superior marksmanship. The Panteros, for instance, are a bunch of muscle-car enthusiasts who try to use their superior strength to defeat you in combat. The storyline sees your ragtag quartet encounter three distinct gangs, each of which owns a chunk of Santo Ileso. And, as you take over more of the city, the bigger your power base will grow. The choices you make here will, for instance, engender resistance if you start putting toxic waste next to wherever the one percenters live and work. You can choose where to put those businesses, too, like putting a garbage collection site in the middle of the financial district. Chief creative officer Jim Boone says that it’s, broadly, a “contemporary” millennial “power fantasy.” It’s only later that the game’s focus switches to the sort of empire-building that, in the previous series, eventually saw your character becoming president.Īs the game progresses, players can buy property and businesses which opens up new game modes and levels. These disaffected millennials turn to crime to, for instance, put food on their table, feel part of a community and pay off their student loans. The developers say that Saints Row’s focus is, at least early in the game, going to focus on the material concerns of its young crew. The game was built in a brand new, as-yet unannounced engine and these new environments are designed to take advantage of the power that next-gen consoles - if we can still call them that - can offer. Or you can steal a VTOL-equipped craft and just make merry havoc all over the city as you go. Running and driving will work best in some regions, while players are encouraged to fly a wingsuit off the top of the financial district’s skyscrapers to cover long distances. Santo Ileso is made up of nine individual districts with each one designed to use a different traversal method. You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu.
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