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Saints Row Free Download GAMESPACK.NET The superpowers have been scrapped and the sex toys have been safely stowed back in the sock drawer – the new Saints Row has shed its shark-jumping silliness and smutty tendencies in favour of a return to its open-world gangland roots. However, this back-to-basics approach has borne out a fairly primitive kind of crime spree, and stripping the series of its more outlandish elements has laid this reboot’s design and technical inadequacies bare – with no pixelated modesty censor big enough to hide its junk. While there’s a decent amount of fun to be had chasing collectibles and causing chaos, outdated mechanics and repetitive mission design meant that by the end of my time with the new Saints Row I was desperate for something that could genuinely surprise me like a slap to the face from a 40-inch dildo. That’s not to say I wasn’t entertained for significant stretches at a time, and while the rags-to-riches story of the new Saints gang in the sandswept city of Santo Ileso is anything but original it at least facilitates a handful of B-grade action scenes that do an admirable impersonation of Uncharted, with a car-hopping convoy chase and an explosive train robbery among the more dazzling high points along the way to the campaign’s somewhat underwhelming end.TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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But in between these peaks is a relentless rinse-and-repeat cycle of wave-based shootouts against a handful of rival gangs that are uniformly bullet spongy and largely indistinguishable from one another. The only ones that really stand out are the garish, neon-soaked Idols who appear to have grown restless waiting for Ubisoft to announce a new Watch Dogs. The combat itself is snappy and serviceable, and in the absence of a proper cover system is heavy on circle-strafing and pulling off occasional execution moves in order to replenish your health mid-fight. It doesn’t exactly create a propulsive ballet of ballistics to rival Doom Eternal, but it’s a neatly streamlined setup that allows you to recover from damage without having to scramble for dropped medkits or fumble with a consumables menu. In addition, there’s a recharging skills system that allows you to bind special abilities to four hotkeys. By the time I had fully leveled up my character I had access to everything from flaming punches to the ability to shoot through walls, but rarely did I feel the need to use them in favour of the more traditional skills like throwing grenades and activating temporary armour which made for a mostly conventional brand of firefights.

It doesn’t exactly create a propulsive ballet of ballistics to rival Doom Eternal.

It’s also fairly conventional in its approach to driving. Though there are a handful of aircraft and boats to discover, most of my time in Santo Ileso was spent behind the wheel of a healthy fleet of land vehicles, from motorbikes to monster trucks and everything in between. The floaty and largely homogenized handling meant that I never really grew to favour any one vehicle over the other (aside from the glorious hoverbike unlocked late in the story), but the ability to drift and sideswipe other cars at the tap of a button does give chase sequences a welcome burst of Burnout-style gratification. The fact that you can scramble onto the roof at speed and launch into a wingsuit glide (a move straight out of Just Cause) also makes for some spectacular getaways, although it seems like an oversight that you can’t do the same thing from a motorbike’s saddle.Joining your created boss character, who is a self-described “walking murder party”, are three other foundational members of the new Saints who accompany you as AI partners on certain missions and provide some consistently cringe-inducing banter in the cutscenes in between.Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

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They can also be summoned via your phone’s contacts to fight alongside you in the streets, which comes in handy later on when you’re trying to clear out rival gangs from your turf and you want to get the repetitive fights over with in a slightly speedier fashion. None of these partners in crime have particularly interesting personalities, but the one I warmed to the most by far was the brainy pacifist, Eli, mainly because his side story missions involved donning some cardboard armour and swapping my assault rifle for a Nerf gun in a series of live-action role-playing battles. The actual combat experience in these sections remained fundamentally the same as every other shooting gallery sequence, but it was funny to hear the characters make the gunshot sounds with their mouths and perform pretend executions, or to come upon enemies who would stubbornly refuse to acknowledge that you shot them instead of lying down and playing dead. It reminded me of the sticks-and-stones-style warfare of South Park: The Stick of Truth, and provided an enjoyable shift in tone from the more murderous mayhem found elsewhere.

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Saints Row is a knockabout driving/shooting/flying ragdoll-em-up in which you lead a misnamed gang of sociopaths. The Saints are loveable sociopaths to be fair, who alternate between organised crime and high-spirited hijinx like throwing themselves into traffic for insurance money, and also some light drug trafficking on the side. That’s probably the only description I can come up with vague enough to describe every game in the series, including this new reboot, without just saying it’s Grand Theft Auto except the jokes are funny. Until now, every Saints Row sequel was more over-the-top than the one before, eventually finding new tops and then somehow over-ing them. Saints Row 2 had a villain with voodoo powers and your sidekick could take on an entire police force solo. Saints Row: The Third made you fight wrestlers, cyberpunks, and zombies, which Saints Row 4 bettered with an alien invasion, while its spin-off Gat Out of Hell had Satan as the final boss. Don’t get me wrong – developer Volition has made obvious and commendable adjustments to the Saints Row formula to help contemporize it and ensure we don’t play a game with the same ideologies as one made during the pre-TikTok, pre-COVID, pre-Brexit, pre-Trump era.Sherlock Holmes Chapter One PS5

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The new Saints are young, diverse, and openly queer. They struggle with student loans and a lack of adequate stemware (hence their frequent “mugmosas”). This is a younger Saints Row in vibe, tone, and theme, but much of it plays like a Saints Row of yesteryear. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Saints Row’s city of Santo Ileso is gorgeous and a blast to traverse, and the car combat is zippy and fun. The variety between side-missions and some bombastic main missions make for an enjoyable experience that can easily suck up a few dozen hours of your time. There’s stuff to like in Saints Row – and also plenty to constructively criticize. Your mission, should you choose to accept it (and, as an in-game audio tape says, reject the contemporary capitalist dogma that requires you work for $15 an hour when, in fact, you’re selling your labor for $15 an hour), is to become the biggest, baddest gang in the city of Santo Ileso. A hodgepodge of Western US cities, Santo Ileso has all the excess of Las Vegas and all the income inequality of the rural Midwest. This city has everything: a giant statue of a cactus wearing a sombrero.

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An RV that’s really a mobile meth lab, a tattoo shop called Rusty Needles that will give you some absolutely horrid tribal tattoos, and, of course, crime. Santo Ileso is beautiful. I spend much of the first hour or so after the game opens up just aimlessly driving around, flipping through the very good radio stations and staring up, mouth agape, at the incredible bridge that spans Lake Sabastian, or squinting at the glittery excess of El Dorado. The slightly stylized realism of Saints Row makes Santo Ileso all the more enticing, like a light fantasy world gently wrapped around an IRL city. It’s one of the coolest-looking cities I’ve ever wandered through in an open-world game – and at times, it makes up for character models and graphics that feel incredibly dated. Initially, you and your roommates are all members of rival Santo Ileso gangs: Los Panteros, the Idols, and Marshall. But soon enough, your crew becomes even more disenfranchised by the ways of Santo Ileso, and whereas I might pick up a new hobby or consider moving apartments, your crew decides to start its own gang. From this point forward, it’s all about establishing yourselves as the gang to beat in Santo Ileso.

Loyalty missions give you a chance to increase your roommates’ firepower, criminal ventures let you establish shady businesses that are merely fronts for your illegal extracurriculars, and beating up rival gang members helps you clear out their influence across the city’s zones. I’m especially fond of the “laundromat” missions that task you with showing up at the scene of a murder, taking the deceased’s car, and outrunning the police in order to destroy evidence. The main campaign missions are quite varied and enjoyable, and they help you establish even more of a rapport with your crew – a crew unlike any we’ve seen in a Saints game yet. Your Boss is a struggling twentysomething with three roommates and a ginger cat named Snickerdoodle, and you can make them however you’d like to thanks to an extensive and impressive customization system. Your roommates are Kevin, a perpetually shirtless, openly bisexual gym bro; Neenah, a Mexican immigrant with an art degree and a love of vintage cars; and Eli, a first-generation Nigerian-American hell-bent on being a business mogul. While these three characters feel a little forced at first, the more time you spend with them, the more they grow into fully-realized people.

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I find myself enjoying the game most whenever I can spend time with my gang and listen to their interactions or watch their friendship play out in front of me. Watching the Saints playfully rib Kevin for his refusal to wear a shirt or groan at Eli’s obsession with TED-talk-style audiotapes feels like you’re hanging out amongst friends – this is what the franchise has always been good at. And there is an earnestness here that is incredibly refreshing in the open-world crime genre, one often defined by a fatigued jadedness that can quickly get grating. Don’t get me wrong, Saints Row still takes the time to jab at student loans, gentrification, and Big Oil’s disregard for the environment, but there are disarmingly genuine moments. With this, however, comes some cognitive dissonance. The Saints Row franchise is known for its brash, tongue-in-cheek humor that includes dildo bats and alien abductions. Without that, there are attempts at humor that feel a bit too much like a Boomer writing for Gen-Z – you can only hear so many brunch and karaoke comments, ya know? And Saints Row repeatedly and frustratingly approaches the precipice of making declarative social commentary just to back away from it. Super Smash Bros Ultimate

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