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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Patrick Harkin

Saints Row IV: Re-Elected / Gat Out of Hell review – demon-slaying and dirty jokes

Saints Row IV: Re-Elected / Gat Out of Hell.
‘Immature fun’: Saints Row IV: Re-Elected / Gat Out of Hell.

Saints Row IV, first released in 2013, pushed the tongue-in-cheek sandbox series to new, absurdist heights. Re-Elected is that game, basically unchanged. Be the president. Get abducted by aliens. Get superpowers. Save Santa. Only now it’s on next-gen at 1080p and all the DLCs included.

But Gat Out of Hell, the expansion that comes with it, really stands out. The president gets kidnapped by the devil – yes, really – putting the spotlight on hacker Kinzie and genocidal gangster Johnny Gat. The plan is simple: buddy up with villains from history and previous games, shoot Satan in the face, save the president.

It’s mindless, deliberately immature fun blasting through hordes of the damned or flying around the hellish cityscape on Lucifer’s wings, cracking dirty jokes. Come for the demon-slaying, stay for the musical numbers, infernal frat brothers and killer armchairs.

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