Why do I need gun upgrades when I can shoot fireballs from my hands? Why should I bother summoning homies to help me in combat when I can throw tanks with my mind? What good are customizable cars with afterburners when they only slow me down? What’s worse is that going back to reality to do story missions causes whiplash. Yet with great power have come great drawbacks, as so many good features carried over from SR3 now feel completely vestigial. I also love how most conventional weapons come with multiple cosmetic model options, such as pistol homages to Blade Runner and Firefly. even if the promising Dubstep gun ends up being an ineffective disappointment. Beyond the pew-pew-pew of the alien pistol, the Disintegrator (borrowed from Red Faction) and the Abductor (which sucks everything into the sky) steal the show. It's only during minibosses fights where health is scarce that I was given cause to play carefully.Įven though I rarely needed weapons, SR4's gun selection has some winners.
Even enemies with superpowers of their own quickly become pushovers, and all you ever have to do to get out of trouble is leap. Unlike the regenerating health system of SR3, in SR4’s virtual world enemies drop health pickups like candy from pinatas, so as long as you buy a few health upgrades and keep up a respectable pace of killing (hard not to do given the arsenal of infinite-ammo alien weapons) dying is something you usually have to work for. That’s combined with a sense of near-invulnerability.
And those are just the first couple of powers you get. Super-leaping and gliding over the city (an alien-renovated version of the one used in SR3) is hugely liberating – there’s nowhere you can’t go on a whim, and dashing through the streets at amazing speeds feels like a glimpse of the Flash game I’ve always wanted. After that you’re trapped in a Matrix-like recreation of the open-world city of Steelport, and Saints Row IV effectively becomes an entirely different game through the introduction of those genuinely cool superpowers.
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