Those same melee animations often have terrible collision detection where you and your target are separately going through the attack while 10 feet apart. Some examples include the camera getting stuck behind objects during melee attacks about half the time. That’s a part of the genre.īut Gat Out of Hell is cheap even compared to what many expect of an open world. They have glaring seams where the developers duct-taped the world together. Releases like The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Grand Theft Auto V, and Assassin’s Creed: Unity are all massive and filled with broken crap. Open-world games always have some jankiness to them. You can still improve your skills and unlock new abilities, so you have a progression - but it you start off powerful enough to get around the vast city without ever having to get into a car (except for once at the beginning). Since you’re in hell and not a Matrix ripoff, you even get sweet demon wings. It starts you out, almost immediately, with the ability to sprint and fly. Thankfully, Gat Out of Hell doesn’t force you to go through that same progression all over again. By the end, you were a superhero who could jump over buildings. It doesn’t hurt that Volition picked some fun citizens of hell tow work with like William Shakespeare and Vlad the Impaler.Īt the start of Saints Row IV, you were just a guy running around and stealing cars. A lot of this comes through in cutscenes, but you also get a taste of it from audio diaries and in-game chatter. Gat Out of Hell also has the same high-quality and hilarious writing that made the previous two Saints Row games so much fun. And I’m not surprised it was Volition and Saints Row that did it. I’m not sure gaming has room for more Broadway-style musicals, but I’m glad I got to experience it in this. He sounds like he could probably sing a lot better than he does in this game, but he does it in Gat’s growling gangster voice without scoffing at the fact that he is singing.
That’s a tough line to walk, but it is a necessary one to keep you genuinely enthusiastic about the music without cringing.ĭaniel Dae Kim ( Hawaii Five-O, Lost), who does the voice for Gat, is especially good at this. The voice actors do a good job of not trying too hard while simultaneously treating the singing with respect. About an hour into the game, it took about five minutes to deliver its first original song, and it was the first time I felt zero impatience with a cutscene. Johnny Gat, Satan, and the rest of the cast belt out tunes that are both catchy and funny. Oh, I forgot to mention something! Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell is a musical.