Saints Row 4 - PC Game Review

Saints Row 4 is a pretty old game. I bought it in a Steam sale years ago, and just decided to play it last week.

I don't usually like 3rd-person view games, but this one works well, specially after the beginning.

The game is a cross between the GTA series and the Matrix, with a lot of Prototype and Tron in.

You are in a simulation, that soon your people hacks and you get superpowers. This works very well with the upgrades available for everything, including your weapons, stats such as health or ammo, and powers, such as fireballs, freezeballs and telekinetic attacks.

There are a ton of activities, including races, killing waves of enemies, destroying stuff, and there are also some platformer style activities, which I find annoying.

I really like the really fast start up time, with skippable movies,  which is tiny, but inside there are frequent stops, probably not helped by the game running on an HDD and not a SSD.

Graphics are good, but feel a little dated (because they, of course, are).

Overall, I really like it, specially at sale prices. DLC is still very expensive, though.

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