

While fooling around with an Ouija board on Kinzie's birthday, a portal opens and The Boss is sucked into hell by the Devil, and is supposed to be wed to his daughter, Jezebel. The premise is as wacky as anything we've come to expect from the Saints. Rather, the more pressing issue is Gat Out of Hell, and what that adds to the series. So, with that said, everything I discussed in my original review of Saints Row 4 still stands, and the same pretty much goes for the old DLC. I would caution not to select the new "use touchpad for quicktime events" option at the beginning of the game on PS4, as it was incredibly unresponsive and mashing on traditional buttons makes for a much easier time during those segments. Past that, things are marginally improved, but gameplay is nearly identical. I was happy to see they fixed the irritating, constant "glitching" of cars and pedestrians in virtual Steelport, as that was grating in the original game. Saints Row isn't really a game that relies on hyper realistic textures and facial capture and such, but the game will need a big overhaul by the time the next full title rolls around. Visually, particle effects are improved, but Saints Row still looks pretty dated compared to its competition like GTA V and Infamous: Second Son, particularly from modeling perspective. In short, not much, other than adding the two clumps of DLC. Those six hours did give me an insight into what, if anything, Re-Elected changed about the vanilla game. I don't foresee this being a common problem, as I feel like I'm just an idiot, but a word of warning all the same. As much as I might appreciate Saints Row 4, I cursed myself and really wanted those six hours back. It was only then that I looked at the box and realized that the Gat DLC was literally standalone, as in, there was a card in the box with a PSN download code for the expansion. Six hours later, given that the Johnny rescue is one of the game's later missions and I'm still distracted by sidequests and glowing code fragments, and there was still no Gat Out of Hell.
