In our full review of Saints Row 2022, we made it clear that although the game suffers from a huge number of problems, whether from a technical point of view, or the general design of the game, it offers a fun gameplay and exciting and interesting action missions. Today we bring you a set of comprehensive tips that will not only make your Saints Row experience more enjoyable, but will also make you want to play the game for longer!
Top ten Saints Row tips you should know:
1. Focus on the missions at the beginning of Saints Row
After you’ve finished the Saints Row intro, you’ll be put into the open world to explore. The game offers you the freedom to explore and take on various missions, both main and side. We advise you to focus all of your attention initially on the main story missions, especially since these missions offer you the best experience and money, and of course you need these things at the beginning of the game in order to work on upgrading your character and your new criminal organization, The Saints.
2. You can customize everything about you in the game
If you focus mainly on gameplay and don’t care about customization, then you’re missing out in the world of Saints Row as this game offers you one of the best customizations systems, we’ve seen in the gaming industry as you can modify the look of your main character at any time throughout the course of the game. You can also modify and add special touches to your vehicles in your garage or even your weapons too!
3. Increase the difficulty
As mentioned in our review of Saints Row, trying the game on normal (medium) difficulty makes the AI ​​dumb. Indeed, the artificial intelligence in the game at this difficulty does not pose any threat or impact on you if you are experienced in shooter and action games, so our advice to you is to increase the difficulty level until you get a stronger challenge that makes the game experience more enjoyable.
4. Use Takedowns regularly
One of Saints Row’s great features is the Takedowns system, where you can kill enemies with a custom animation after you lower their life level. Despite the fact that these animations and movements have a distinctive character that makes you feel like John Wick and kill enemies, this system has a goal in the game, which is to increase the level of your life if it has decreased significantly while facing enemies.
5. Set the appropriate Skills for your play style
Saints Row includes a good list of skills that you can assign to your character, but the Skills in general are radically different, and here it will depend on the playing style of each player in order to assign the appropriate Skills to his style that will improve the game experience for him. The skill system in Saints Row isn’t very deep, which is good news for people who don’t want to waste their time reading tons of things about each skill and what it has to offer.
6. Modify the user interface in a way that suits you
One of the things we didn’t like about Saints Row’s UI design was the enemies’ life bar. We like to lock things like this into games to immerse myself more in this world, and Saints Row allows you to do just that. The game allows you to modify the user interface in various ways, and you can even hide the entire user interface if you want to get a more cinematic experience or take various pictures from the game world.
7. Take an interest in the Criminal Ventures side missions
Saints Row offers you the usual side missions that you can get from any open world action game, but at the same time it offers another type of side mission called Criminal Ventures. Each of these missions has a distinctive and creative gameplay that takes you completely out of realism and brings you to a comical experience that we are used to from parts of the old series. It is in these types of tasks that we are witnessing the return of the most famous activity of Insurance Fraud.
8. Leave the game open to get more money
After completing the Criminal Ventures side activities, you will have the opportunity to create your own different criminal enterprises all over the Saints Row map, from restaurants to robbery and drug dealerships. Each of these institutions feeds you money over the course of your game experience even if you do nothing. If you want to get paid, leave the game open while you do anything else on your device or even away from your device. This way you will be guaranteed to get the most money to unlock the different customization systems faster!
9. Always check what’s new on your personal phone
Your personal phone in the Saints Row game has a fundamental role, through which you can choose the various tasks that you will perform, and you can also customize your character instantly and modify its appearance. But the phone has many other uses such as transferring the money you earn from your side business to The Saints’ private account. You can also take various pictures of the distinctive things in the game environment and go to the headquarters of The Saints organization to customize and decorate it with all the items you love. Also, do not forget to always look at the map to know what is around you and what investment opportunities you can do in the game world in various regions.
10. Two tips to improve the performance of the game on the PC platform
If you are playing on a new generation console, whether it is PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X, Saints Row allows you to choose between more than 5 performance systems in order to play the game with the graphics and performance that you see fit. On the PC platform, the game is technically poor as it does not support Nvidia DLSS or AMD FSR. But at least it includes a Resolution Scaling system that will improve game performance on weak graphics cards.
The game also supports ray tracing technology (Ambient Occlusion), but if you have a medium graphics card such as an RTX 2060 or RTX 3050, we do not advise you to activate the technology as it consumes a lot of performance and does not provide you with a huge improvement in the level of graphics.
This was a set of quick tips that will improve your experience of Saints Row 2022. Share your opinions about the game in the comments if you have tried it, and if you intend to purchase the game, it is now available on PC (via Epic Games), in addition to previous generation consoles (PS4 and Xbox One), and next generation (PS5 and Xbox Series X|S).
