If you love the gameplay & the sandbox of the first game & Miles Morales then you love Spider-Man 2. Traversing around this gorgeous city is fun to roam around especially now with the inclusion of the web-glide ability. Combat is pretty great too with some new abilities for both characters though I wish the game had a proper lock-on function as they were times I wanted to target a specific enemy & the game decided instead to attack the one nearest to me. Bosses are fun & can be challenging especially on a first playthrough despite the number of combat options you have equipped.

They is a lot to experience in this game with loads of side quests & activities & the amount of detail is insane that I could see why this game cost a lot. I enjoy the number of suits you can get to even from the movies.

The story is good too though not as great as the first time around as I felt one or two conflicts interactions feeling a bit forced. While I thought the main villain in 1 is still my favourite the rogue's gallery here is still amazing especially the main antagonist Kraven who is such a delight being a ruthless killer that causes a lot of struggles for the majority of the casts both the good guys & the criminals.

Its a marvellous time that is worth picking up if you have a PS5.

Flawed and obviously rushed as it is, I have endless affection for Saints Row 4. I played the Third and thought it was decent, a fun little game with some unique aspects. Then I saw that SR4 was jumping the shark entirely, realism be damned. This, for me, got me way more invested in the series. I hated when the games pretended to be cool and hip, when it's entire appeal was if GTA didn't have a stick up its ass.

Saints Row 4 is completely off the rails both story and gameplay wise. It knew it had to go bigger than Three, and I imagine the fact that they knew the company was burning down around them meant they were just going to go balls to the wall. How much more powerful could you be than running Steelport? Fuck it, make him president and now the Saints are in the cabinet. Some think it's stupid, I think it's hilarious. Aliens invade and put you in a parody of the Matrix where you have superpowers? I'm down. People complain that the superpowers make the rest of the open world aspects useless? I thought those aspects were always competent but not great anyways, so blowing it to smithereens to be able to jump 500 feet in the air, shoot fire out your hands, run up buildings and use telekinesis was a marked improvement in my eyes. There's a fuckin mech at some point in this game, and I can't even remember if it ever gets used again. Think about insurance fraud where when you get hit by the car you spin away like Team Rocket!! This game has so many memorable moments because it felt absolutely zero commitment to being grounded, and I love it.

The story is absolutely absurd, as you go from the 1950's suburbia, to fighting SR2 Shaundi, a giant can of soda, piledriving aliens at 100km, the works. I was thoroughly entertained at all times, and there were some decent moments of emotion here that made it not a complete madhouse. I thought this was a more than pleasant way to end this arc for Saint's Row.

I think this game gets hated on because people miss the serious and fun balance Saint's Row 2 had, which I agree with. That game does things I didn't think you could with tone. But god damn, if you look at what happens and what you can do in this game and tell me that there is nothing fun here, I worry for you.

I'm one of the few people that saw how bad this game looked, watched how bad it played, heard how bad it sounded, read how badly it was written, and still wanted it to turn out to be good.
It's not.

I am by no means a Saints Row fan, and I have a lot of issues with the games, but at their core they were still fun to play even if a lot of it could be cringe and some stuff doesn't hold up at all. So a reboot could be cool, especially since a lot of people long for the days of SR2 and even 3.

Unfortunately, this is more like a bunch of people looked at the franchise and said "Saints Row sucks. I can do better", then took a sledgehammer to everything outside of the color purple. There's nothing left but the writer's ego.

Gunplay is bad, driving is bad, writing is worse, everything just feels so bland and soulless I'd believe you if you told me it was AI generated.
I couldn't care less about the bugs if anything in this game was fun, but it just isn't. Even without comparing to previous SR titles or any other GTA-like, the game just isn't fun.

$100 million down the drain, countless crunch hours wasted, and this is the final result.
"Sad" is the only thing to say about it.

"We're going back to our roots!"
Had no involvement in the development of the first game IE: The roots.
"We wanted a more mature sounding Frank."
Doesn't ask or rather didn't want to ask original VA.
Takes out timers
Takes out psychopaths
*Doesn't add escorting survivors back in
Terrible story, worse gameplay than DR3, Frank is basically a different character, world is pretty badly designed and more I don't feel like typing about.
Yeah, this feels exactly like you went back to "your" roots.