No one ever said a sniper rifle can’t be a fashion accessory. You can find and earn weapon skins throughout the game, but you can also just paint your gun purple if you’re going for a specific visual style. Speaking of weapons, those are customizable too, at least visually. There’s barely a blip of interruption in the gameplay for doing so. You can start a mission as a schoolgirl with an uzi and end it as Crocodile Dundee with a rocket launcher. You can even save multiple Boss designs, including clothes, in your phone to simply switch to as you see fit. In previous titles, if you wanted to change any of this, you would have to go to a plastic surgeon or some other kind of service, but in Saints Row, all changes to the Boss are just made on the phone’s menu. You can even customize your Boss down to eyebrow color.

You’ll find customization of every body part - EVERY body part - is available to you, not unlike CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 but with even more degrees of customizability. After watching a hands-off preview for the game, the main thing I can say about the title is that they really understand how important character creation and personalization is to some players and have gone whole hog with it.Īnd oh how I wish that were a figure of speech. With the new Saints Row, the series’ first official reboot but second spiritual one, those rules are being thrown out the window. At the time, we all understood the rules of game development that you could never go too crazy and that the needs of consistency kept the desires of customization at bay sometimes. Your character can be pretty much anything you want, dress however you want, talk like Nolan North, speak like a zombie, whatever. One of the key features of the Saints Row series, inconsistent though it may be, is a heavy emphasis on customization.

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