The grey, orange, brown, and darker brown washes of Hell wear on the eye when you’re just wandering around but become problematic when you can’t see the similarly colored demons attacking you at random. Steelport wasn’t a bastion of visual diversity, but the varied and deeply weird story missions in Saints Row IV made trips to and from its open world a treat. Gat is already defined, thinly at that, so it’s hard to feel connected to him at all.įurther exacerbating matters is Gat Out of Hell’s presentation, from the landscape of hell to the way it tells its story. It doesn’t help matters that part of Saints Row’s appeal is making your own character and then inhabiting them in an inherently ridiculous place. His quips become tiresome and the invulnerability routine gets a hole punched through it the first time some flying magic hellspawn kills you in the middle of the mission. Taken on his own, Gat just feels like an empty caricature. His constant one-liners and quips about murder and messing people up make him come off like an insane cross between Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, a background character from Big Trouble in Little China, and the Fonz, which is perfect in the doses you get of him in the other games. He’s perfectly suited as a supporting heavy in the numbered Saints games. Johnny Gat himself is the biggest problem. Sadly, Gat Out of Hell starts to come apart after that promising opening salvo. Flying, pumping Lucifer’s wings, gliding around, and collecting lost souls in the open world to expand your fallen angelic-skills feels different but just as awesome as moving through the previous game’s Steelport. Rather than being able to jump, glide, and run at super fast speeds, Kinzie and Gat are gifted with Lucifer’s wings, which they use to fly about the burnt out tenements, lava flows, and decaying, zombie-filled residential areas of Hell. How else are you going to follow up destroying the Earth and stopping an alien invasion, other than heading into the afterlife? There’s even a ficton-appropriate twist on the existing super powers from Saints IV. Johnny and Kinzie, real go-getters for sociopathic thugs, head into the netherworld and make a deal with a former rival, raising demonic coalition to take on Satan himself and save their leader. The festivities are interrupted when the POTUS gets sucked into Hell by a Ouija Board, clearly on loan from some ’60s junior high bash. Having brutalized a horde of aliens and rescued what remains of humanity, the gangland President of the United States, best friend Johnny Gat, and the rest of the Saints are relaxing in their spaceship and toasting hacker extraordinaire Kinzie Kensington’s birthday.
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