Rumor: Saints Row Could Get Multiplayer After Launch
Since the release of its original title, Saints Row has often been compared to the Grand Theft Auto games. While that may have been true for the franchise's first few installments, Volition made concerted efforts to move away from those similarities and establish a truly unique identity based on over-the-top gameplay, parodies, and self-referential humor – a decision that began with Saints Row 3 and ultimately escalated to the scope of the player character fighting off an existential alien threat as the President of the United States.
Many were left wondering where the Saints Row games would go next – what frontier was left untouched – and the solution was simple: reboot it all, taking the lessons learned from its four installments, and use them as building blocks to catapult the franchise to a bold new direction. The reboot – simply titled Saints Row – had a controversial announcement trailer that concerned longtime fans of the game, but as new material started coming out and more information about the game became public, the community warmed up to the possibility that Volition could deliver something truly special.
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While Saints Row will feature co-op multiplayer from the get-go, people who have had a chance to play the game have expressed that not only does it feel like the developers will add a full-scale multiplayer mode some time after launch, but that the framework was already largely there. Multiplayer has been part of the franchise since the very first game, but it had never been fully realized as a concept the way Rockstar did with Grand Theft Auto 5 or Red Dead Redemption 2's multiplayer mode.
It is unknown at the time whether Volition is
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