New Saints Row in development

A series derided by the insecure, despondent to the truth that establishment had been both uprooted and outclassed.

It was a game that remembered, capitalised and expanded upon why people liked open-city games in the first place.

With better writing, representation and far more fun and fluent combat than Biowares pretentious Mass Effect attempts, it presented itself lowly, yet aimed high. What it lacked for in originality is made up for in quality.

Now, after a long slumber the true king is returning to make open-world great again.

Next instalment of Saints Row "deep in development"

Bat there's no firm date yet.

HQ Nordic is laying out all the news this morning after its recent earnings call - not only is it snapping up various game developers and talking about TimeSplitters, but it has announced Volition is developing a brand new Saints Row game.

The last full entry to the series was back in 2013 when Saints Row 4 was released, and with the expansion Gat out of Hell releasing in 2015, fans have been waiting for four years for a new adventure in the franchise.

It's been suspected for a while now that Saints Row 5 might be in production after the success of the fourth instalment. But there's little else to go on, as the only information today is that the game is "deep in development".

THQ Nordic stated in its press release it is expecting "at least two major AAA-releases" before March 2021, so it's possible we'll see the new Saints Row game within that time frame.

Now the game's been officially acknowledged, there's no doubt we'll hear more info in the coming months. We'll keep you updated as soon as anything crops up.

Glad to hear it.

I enjoyed 4 a good deal. I hope they keep the super powers in some fashion.

Yeah, no thanks.

just another lazy open world game. we have billions of them.

Looking forward to it. Always enjoyed this series much more than GTA or GTA-like games. The crazyness sells it for me.

The last Saints Row game Volition put out, Agents of Mayhem, kinda screwed them over hard. If they are making a new Saints Row at the moment, it's either Saints Row or being a secondary developer like Ravensoft. It should be noted Saints Row 3 is on Switch, I guess that was testing the waters out if Saints Row still relevant and if were getting a new one, go back to what made Saints Row 1/2 so damn good.

I'm looking really forward to it as long as it's a big step forward with hopefully a new graphics engine and open world. I really hope we see a sneak peak next week at Gamescom.

Bit hard, since GTA 4 being boring made Saints row popular.

That's why they went full retard in 3 and 4.

Saints Row was both popular prior to release and high selling prior to Grand Theft Auto 4's release, with both 3/4 being critically acclaimed and selling well.

Literally nothing posted here is accurate.

Yeah 3 was a little disappointing too. I loved the first 2 way more than any GTA game. Gat out of hell was OK. Some of the jokes were good and Gat was always my fav character.

@uninspiredcup: Did i say they were flops? No.

But you can't deny people wanted Saints row 2, not 3 and 4.

According to what metric?

I mean, if I just hop on Steam and check the overall user-reviews over the past 8 years, it they seem pretty fucking happy with it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/55230/Saints_Row_The_Third/

4? Yes, I can see that being more divisive, since it's essentially a different genre entirely.

On the other hand, they, like so many other companies, could have easily just shat the same thing out with diminishing returns, I'd rather they change it up.

@uninspiredcup: Change it to what? It's already a mess. President 2pac in space in the matrix in hell is a bit hard to roll back.

Saint's Row 1&2 were like an even more ludicrous version of San Andreas.

Loved throwing people into upcoming traffic.

Plus you could make some incredibly silly characters with its customization system:

And people would follow you around like you were some kind of messiah or something, lmao

That's exciting, always a huge fan of the series, look forward to seeing where they take it next. I kinda hope they lean back into the GTA style open world instead of the Crackdown/Prototype style they shifted to with 4 though.

@R4gn4r0k said:

Saint's Row 1&2 were like an even more ludicrous version of San Andreas.

Loved throwing people into upcoming traffic.

Plus you could make some incredibly silly characters with its customization system:

And people would follow you around like you were some kind of messiah or something, lmao

One thing I like about Saints Row over Grand Theft Auto was for it's character creation and mainly, playing as a female was more fun and it's as close to having a badass female in a GTA style as we'll ever gonna get.

The first 3 SR games were great. Then they turned it into some weird superhero crap. I hope they go back to the old formula.

3 was the last I played 4 got way too crazy.

Superpowers removed the need and value of cars, making it stale.

To me it always seemed the game was trying to do too many things and was mediocre at everything.

I fell off the series a bit with 4, hope they can get me back. 2 and 3 were great

Saints row is trash.

Cool. Would prefer if they made it like saints row 2 but I hope to be pleasantly surprised.

Is it good and what system is it for?

Saint's Row was so silly you could run into a plastic surgeon as a skinny black female and walk out an overweight white guy :P

If they make a more modern Saints Row 3, I'm in.

I'm interested to see where the series goes but after watching gameplay of 4 it seems to be completely away from 2-3.

Is Saints Row any good? I always avoided it because I thought it was a generic GTA. Saints Row 4 looked cool at the store but it did lool really weird too.

If you dislike old GTA you'll dislike 1/2/3. They are basically the older (pre-GTA4) games on crack with improved... well everything.

4 is basically a superhero game akin to stuff like Prototype and Crackdown.

COOP is good as well.

Sweet.

I hope they make it like Saints Row 2.

Cool. I've loved the series ever since GTA forgot what the concept of fun was. Hope they are jut as retarded as ever.

Saints Row 1&2 are complete trash and some of the worst games ever made.

Saints Row 3&4/Gat Out of hell were freaking amazing and some the best pure fun I ever had in gaming. PLEASE make it even more crazy and zany!

Some of you guys are insane for wanting another trash game like 1&2. Those have awful controls and no fun. They were trash versions of GTA.

At least with 3&4 the series had its own identity and gameplay wise was a massive improvement.

I tried saints row 3 a while back; it had its moments but overall it felt kinda trashy.

Great news, I looooovee 3 and 4 and are definitely up for another entry into this crazy ass world!

Pretty great news. I loved the previous game, so fun.

oooh i still miss the saint row which we fight the alien, so much story throwback

Will be nice if they go back to the gang bangin stuff. Everything after three was shit.

Never played SR1. So, can't say anything much about it.

SR2 was fine (had an interesting story at times) for the most part... unless you were playing it on PC. It Ran like absolute-ass most of the time, despite the good specs of my system at the time.

SR3 was a blast to play, mainly because it was so stupid. But in a stupid-fun kind of way. Kind of wished I knew about it sooner.

SR4... eh? I kind of got bored of it a third of the way through and never bothered to pick it back up. The Super-power mambo-jumbo stuff wore off pretty quickly.

As for an upcoming SR5... Bring it on. It's been a while.

I know GTA is objectively the better series but if I had to pick I'd rather have a new SR than a new GTA.

SR is just more fun and crazy.

I hope it's like a bigger Saints Row 2. That would be a great return to form.

These games are terrible.

Saints Row 3 was the last good one for me. We'll see where they choose to go with this.