Games Inbox: Saints Row and the worst game of 2022, Dead Island 2 surprise, and GTA 6 unofficial chat

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The Monday letters page wonders why open world games haven’t gone out of fashion, as another reader casts doubt on Sonic Frontiers.

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Buyer’s remorse It’s my fault for not cancelling the pre-order but as a big fan of Saints Row in the past I was looking forward to the reboot and I guess I just didn’t want to believe the bad press. Having played it over the course of the weekend (and already having beaten the story campaign) I have to admit that it deserves the low scores. This game stinks.

For starters, it’s clearly not finished and is far more buggy than any of the other games. I expect YouTube is going to be filled with funny glitches videos over the next few days, but I can tell you I never laughed at it. The driving is just terrible, there’s no weight to anything and your cars are always basically invincible, so who cares if you crash?

The missions get really boring too. There’s none of the funny scenarios that the old games used to have, just everything boils down to fighting a big group of dumb enemies. The worse thing though is the characters, which is one thing I was worried about anyway, but they really are completely unlikeable douchebags. You can customise your main character, but you’ve got no choice but to hang around with these awful hipsters for the whole game.

At least I’m glad I bought a physical copy, but I get the feeling it’s not going to go for much on the second-hand market. For me, this is easily the worst game of 2022.Telos

Gag Removing DayRockstar not letting people taking about GTA 6 is wild, I had no idea that was a thing they did. Is there going to be a big ‘You can talk about it now’ unveiling in a year or something?

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