Saints Row Ultimate Franchise Pack

This is a franchise bundle, not a single game, so let's be direct about what you're actually buying. The Saints Row Ultimate Franchise Pack drops Saints Row 2, Saints Row: The Third, Saints Row IV, and Gat out of Hell onto your drive along with all the DLC for each title. Dozens of items: skins, vehicles, story expansions, weapon packs, the works. If you've owned one or two of these already, do the math on what's missing before you pull the trigger, but for a first-timer to the series this is a dense package. Saints Row 2 is the roughest and probably the most beloved. Its Stillwater open world has a gritty crime drama energy that the later games shed completely, and the mission variety, side activities, and co-op hold up better than its PC port performance does. Fair warning: SR2 on PC is notoriously janky, and even with community patches the frame pacing can feel like the game is fighting you. Still, it earns its reputation as arguably the strongest story in the series. Saints Row: The Third is the series finding its lane as pure comedic action sandbox. Steelport, the Syndicate, Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax - it commits to being absurd and the gunplay feels snappier for it. Third-person shooter mechanics are loose but punchy enough, and the activity variety keeps things moving. This one also has the cleanest co-op of the bunch. Saints Row IV cranks the chaos up to a superhero sim set inside a Matrix-style simulation, letting you sprint faster than cars, leap over buildings, and fling enemies with telekinesis. The actual shooting becomes almost secondary once your superpowers unlock, which is either the game's best idea or its biggest problem depending on what you came for. The alien weapon selection is creative, and the open-world traversal is genuinely fast and satisfying, but the sandbox loop loses tension because nothing can really threaten you once you're rolling. Gat out of Hell is the shortest entry: a standalone expansion set across five districts of New Hades, starring Johnny Gat and Kinzie Kensington. It adds flight mechanics via fallen angel wings, demon-summoning powers, and the Seven Deadly Weapons, a set of joke firearms including a charm-effect shotgun (Lust), a locust swarm gun, and the Sloth chair, a missile-launching recliner. Creative stuff. The problem is the mission structure is thin, the runtime is short, and it leans so hard on SR4's template that it feels like paid DLC rather than a proper expansion. The aggregate Steam reception across the bundle sits well above 80% positive, which tracks: the highs are real, but the PC port issues in SR2 and the repetition fatigue in SR4 and Gat are not nothing. From a shooter standpoint, none of these are going to test your reflexes in any meaningful way. TTK is forgiving, netcode in co-op is functional but not tight, and there is no ranked component. What the series does well is make you feel like a spectacle. If you're after tight gunplay and competitive modes, look elsewhere. If you want a co-op sandbox where you and a friend do increasingly unhinged things across four connected games, this pack delivers that for a lot of hours.

Fred · Scout Team

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