Unfortunately, it was really disappointing and there was no fun to be had here. At best it was an incredibly bland attempt at making Saints Row horribly contemporary and at worst it was a technically broken nightmare. You remember the intro to Saints Row 3 where you dive from a helicopter into a party while a Kanye West song plays? It's over the top, ridiculous and fun as hell. In Saints Row 2022 you're a faceless soldier with a bad boss going through boring third person combat training and you have to do a turret section.

The only pro I can say is that the character creator was, as ever, pretty good and had a lot of decent options but less so than the other games. You had to put a bit more effort in to make a neon green mineral man in underwear and personally I struggled to create WWE superstar Byron Saxton with any degree of accuracy, but this may have been a skill issue. Outside of the first two games which I finished solo, I've played the series exclusively in co-op and it simply didn't work on a technical level in this game. Don't get me wrong, it was hilarious, but I was laughing at how broken the game was and this was after they'd patched it. Any interior shop was a portal to the void under the map, where I could paraglide for a really long time. The base combat was strangely unsatisfying compared to the other games, especially the melee combat.

The characters weren't terribly appealing either. Every character I saw would've been overshadowed by the previous cast. Stillwater wasn't all that iconic or anything, but I still remember parts of the map. This random desert town felt pretty unremarkable. All in all, it's just not really worth the time - I'm glad I got it for free on Epic.