History VideoGame / SaintsRow2022

* BetterLivingThroughEvil: While the Boss and two of their roomates were involved in morally questionable gang (the Boss is in a paramilitary group, Kev is part of the Idols cult and Neena is with the Panteros gang) it's when they decide to work for themselves as criminal gang with many horrible business ventures that they don't have to worry about rent. They also go through great length to give their crew better pay and a better work environment than a regular job in Santo Ileso.

* AKA47: This time around, most of the guns are more realistically modeled (save for some minor discrepancies, like every two-handed gun having a vertical foregrip due to reused design with the intend to save space), but otherwise still go by fictional names. For example, the [=MP7=] still goes by the TEK-[=Z10=] while the AK derivative of the game is called the K-8 Krukov.

* AKA47: This time around, most of the guns are more realistically modeled (save for some minor discrepancies, like every two-handed gun having a vertical foregrip due to technical limitations), but otherwise still go by fictional names. For example, the [=MP7=] still goes by the TEK-[=Z10=] while the AK derivative of the game is called the K-8 Krukov.

** Commonly encountered bugs include frequent crashes (both hard and soft), various issues that can force one to restart a mission, assorted animation and physics issues, problems with enemy AI, and a bevy of Co-op bugs that can make it almost unplayable. One particularly annoying bug would make even starting up the game a chore, as the launcher would often display an error message during loading, requiring an unintuitive workaround to even get it to start.
** And despite the game's graphics not being particularly impressive for its time thanks to still using the same engine as it was for the previous games since ''The Third'', it is not particularly well-optimized (even on the [=PlayStation=] 5 and Xbox Series), with an extremely short render distance leading to distracting pop-in. The PC version even perform better, especially in lower configurations, if ran with Directx 11 executable instead of the Directx 12 and Vulkan executables!

* ObviousBeta: The game launched in an extremely buggy state. Commonly encountered bugs include frequent crashes (both hard and soft), various issues that can force one to restart a mission, assorted animation and physics issues, problems with enemy AI, and a bevy of Co-op bugs that can make it almost unplayable. One particularly annoying bug would make even starting up the game a chore, as the launcher would often display an error message during loading, requiring an unintuitive workaround to even get it to start. And despite the game's graphics not being particularly impressive for its time thanks to still using the same engine as it was for the previous games since ''The Third'', it is not particularly well-optimized (even on the [=PlayStation=] 5 and Xbox Series), with an extremely short render distance leading to distracting pop-in. The PC version even perform better, especially in lower configurations, if ran with Directx 11 executable instead of the Directx 12 and Vulkan executables!

* ObviousBeta: The game launched in an extremely buggy state. Commonly encountered bugs include frequent crashes (both hard and soft), various issues that can force one to restart a mission, assorted animation and physics issues, problems with enemy AI, and a bevy of Co-op bugs that can make it almost unplayable. One particularly annoying bug would make even starting up the game a chore, as the launcher would often display an error message during loading, requiring an unintuitive workaround to even get it to start.
** And despite the game's graphics not being particularly impressive for its time thanks to still using the same engine as it was for the previous games since ''The Third'', it is not particularly well-optimized (even on the [=PlayStation=] 5 and Xbox Series), with an extremely short render distance leading to distracting pop-in. The PC version even perform better, especially in lower configurations, if ran with Directx 11 executable instead of the Directx 12 and Vulkan executables!

* ObviousBeta: The game launched in an extremely buggy state. Commonly encountered bugs include frequent crashes (both hard and soft), various issues that can force one to restart a mission, assorted animation and physics issues, problems with enemy AI, and a bevy of Co-op bugs that can make it almost unplayable. One particularly annoying bug would make even starting up the game a chore, as the launcher would often display an error message during loading, requiring an unintuitive workaround to even get it to start. And despite the game's graphics not being particularly impressive for its time, it is not particularly well-optimized (even on the [=PlayStation=] 5 and Xbox Series), with an extremely short render distance leading to distracting pop-in.

* BrickJoke: During "Cooperate Retreat", on the topic of karaoke, [[spoiler: the Nahualli]] will say they'll sing anything but Love Shack. [[spoiler: During the Epilogue mission, the crew has Karaoke night, and sure enough, they're singing to Love Shack.]]

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** Like in previous installments, you can just press the Action button (Triangle/Y) to [[OffscreenTeleportation Warp to Shore]] if you're stuck in a body of water.

** Tired of going back and forth in a tow truck to grab cars for the repo missions? Every vehicle, including ''flying ones'', can have a towing cable installed, so you can just hop into a VTOL and fly every vehicle to the repo site.

** The game's key visual that serves as the page image is an homage to the [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/saintsrow/images/3/36/Saints_Row_box.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130506043746 original game's cover]], with it portraying the main characters of the game like ''[=SR1's=]'' cover.

* HoverBoard: The Eurekabator's first invention is a hoverboard. It was first developed by Marshall in 1986 and meant to be used by children, but plans were scrapped after their toy division was shut down due to [[MyLittlePanzer their products' unsafeness]]. The hoverboard lets you fly over water, and it can also perform a slam attack that crushes cars beneath it.

** Regular passerbys can randomly become aggressive and starts attacking you if you steal their car, rear end them or just taunt.
** A park ranger gives you an assassination contract on Idols for littering the natural park, the Boss is shocked a bit until they learn a member of the Collective is the main target.

** One of the riding shotgun mission is about helping a housewife shoot her husband at a diner for infidelity, with the police charging in since the husband is a big shot in the city hall. Later in the Curch there is dialogue line from Eli where he mentions he finally got a meetign with a city representative only for his wife to shoot him in the balls mid conversation.

** The telecom market is all about blowing concurrent's towers with satchel charges, because nothing else is powerful enough to even dent their satellite dish.

** Unlike Steelport Santo Ileso do have Freckle Bitch's joint but they are only going by its acronym and the logo has been sanitized.

* MacGuffin: The Hummingbird Codex, all we know is that it's a precious artifact all the gangs would fight for. [[spoiler: The Boss gets fired for getting it stolen by the Idols and they decide to take it back as the Saints to show they are the new top dog in the city.]]