Until its third instalment, Saints Row could be described as an over-the-top GTA franchise. Saints Row IV is the epitome of what the franchise has offered.Īt first, this looks like another third-person GTA clone. Not because it did anything much different to the usual format, but due to how well it delivered the genre. Yet, between all these samey GTA-like titles, the Saints Row franchise stood out.
Before The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild kind of revolutionized what we can expect from open-world games, sandbox titles had a pretty standard formula.īasically, there were dozens of franchises within the same old structure: an extensive map (often a big city), filled with quests, side-activities, and collectables galore.