That said, this will be a co-op LP that Im opening the floodgates to for viewer participation. Your co-op partner is seamlessly added into the story by being completely ignored so no one questions why this second person came out of nowhere but is on equal terms to the boss. One of the best features that the franchise has is its co-op.

As such, it feels more like an expansion to the Third than an entirely new game, but it's still good fun. This game was meant to be DLC for Saints Row the Third but for whatever reason, the DLC plan was scrapped and rolled into a whole new game. This game is all kinds of and Im here to hopefully show that off. Your main competition for power? A fucking alien empire. That gang leader you play as? They're the president of the USA. Saints Row IV decided that Saints Row the Third wasnt crazy enough and took a sledgehammer to what was left of the rationality of this franchise. That said, what was Volition to do after the insanity that was SR3? They made this. People took pretty fondly to the craziness, which is presumably why the series got crazier and crazier. Saints Row the Third decided that any of the seriousness left in Saints Row 2 had to go to make room for crazy awesome and/or stupid stunts, like skydiving a tank or taking a chainsaw to hordes of luchadors for the spectacle.

It started as a serious GTA clone, but then it got a little goofier with Saints Row 2 (dont quote me on either, I havent played the first two).

You play as the leader of a gang/massive media mogul named The Third Street Saints and the main conflicts of the games involve bids for power in whatever city is the main setting of the game. Saints Row is a goofy as hell franchise developed by Volition, Inc, formerly published by THQ before they went under and currently published by Deep Silver that is dedicated to saying to whats acceptable and realistic in video games. I recognize like one person in this picture.

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