No Plans To Remaster Saints Row 1 & 2, Says Volition
Volition has ruled out the possibility of making remasters of the original Saints Row and Saints Row 2.
As reported by MP1st, Volition replied to a fan making these specific inquiries on the official Saints Row account, simply, “We have no plans to remake them.”
Volition have not been having the best of times recently. Their 2022 reboot of the Saints Row franchise was received poorly critically, and only met the most basic of financial expectations. The game ended up with Metacritic scores of 65 on PC and Xbox Series X|S and 61 on PlayStation 5. Scores did range from 4/10 to 8/10, but mainly fell into that 6/10 range.
Criticisms were levelled against the poor writing, an unfortunate failure for the studio to meet expectations of going back to the franchise’s carefree, funny writing. The game did meet expectations in terms of open world design, but it also suffered from many bugs at launch.
Parent company Embracer Group noted that Saints Row did turn out a profit, but it did not end up becoming a huge hit for the company. Volition, for their part, was resolved to keep updating the game for the next few months. We will note that Volition has been incorporated into Gearbox, but that may reflect bigger scale decisions at Embracer, who themselves have been having their own separate issues.
In regards to the classic games, it’s understandable that there is still demand from fans to see them get remastered. The original Saints Row game was an Xbox 360 exclusive when it released in 2006, and it remains that way to this day.
Subsequently, Saints Row 2 was released on Xbox 360 and Windows via Steam in 2008. However, that Steam version has been neglected by Volition. On a basic level, it has become buggy on modern operating systems
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