SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 2 — Comic crime caper “Saints Row IV” is to arrive on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in January 2015 via “Saints Row IV: Re-elected” and renews its relationship with provocation in an underworld-themed expansion, “Gat Out of Hell.”
“Saints Row IV: Re-elected” provides a new version of the August 2013 original for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 owners, complete with all previously released add-on content.
Brand new is “Saints Row IV: Gat Out of Hell,” which sees series mainstays Johnny Gat and Kinzie Kensington promoted from their usual stations as supporting characters, now breaching the infernal realm in search of their Saints Row boss.
A bit of light-hearted occult dabbling fun sees the gang chief (a customisable player character from “Saints Row: The Third” and “Saints Row IV”) sucked into the infernal dimension's city, with Gat and Kinzie following, as Satan tries to set up a state marriage of diabolical proportions.
Accordingly, the franchise interprets Judeo-Christian visions of the less-preferable afterlife to include weapons that propel a number of plagues or represent various deadly sins.
And as a narrative conceit, it allows “Gat Out of Hell” to maintain the darker colour palette of “Saints Row IV,” in contrast to the vibrancy of previous titles.
With its world measuring in at at around half that of the “Saints Row IV” city, “Saints Row IV: Gat Out of Hell” will go for $19, less than half the normal price on 360, PS3, Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
It's to arrive day and date with “Saints Row IV: Re-elected,” which is being tagged at US$29 (RM92) by itself (original game not required), or at US$49 together with the newer spin-off. — AFP-Relaxnews
