Designing your character and tricking out your automobiles are beloved options of the Saints Row collection of madcap open-world video games, and this 12 months’s Saints Row reboot goes to proceed in that vein. The truth is, developer Volition has revealed that the brand new Saints Row sport has extra choices for customisation than ever earlier than, providing you with a robust character editor, an enormous vary of car elements, and a redecorating suite on your crew’s headquarters.
In a brand new video, Volition reveals off slices of every customisation system in Saints Row. First up is the character creator. Whereas previous video games have supplied loads of choices for shaping your boss, the variety of alternatives, sliders, and accoutrements on supply within the new Saints is a formidable leap ahead.
Physique dimension and form, facial options, tattoos and piercings are simply the beginning – Saints Row additionally permits gamers to customize their character’s pores and skin tone, choosing from a variety of pure tones or, if you need a extra sci-fi look, a choice of intense shaders. You may run round Santo Ileso lined in chrome or sporting a wooden grain look, if you need. You may even select your character’s socks and underwear (or lack thereof).
You may independently customise either side of your character’s face, too, in case you need some uneven particulars, make-up, or options. The customiser additionally presents choices for arm and leg prosthetics, which all are available in a wide range of colors and designs.
Layered clothes returns on this 12 months’s Saints Row, too. You’ll have the ability to go to a wide range of brick-and-mortar shops scattered throughout the map to search out new duds, together with a pair of cowboy boots with toetips that curl up virtually to your character’s kneecaps.
In fact, there’s additionally a totally featured customs store referred to as Jim-Rob’s for once you wish to package out your autos with some eye-catching new aptitude or lethal weaponry. Paint jobs, exhaust kits, and a large steel wrecking ball to tug out of your rear bumper are all obtainable in Saints Row’s garages.
Plus, characters can unlock particular driving perks to enhance their method to the street: an ejection seat is nice if you need to have the ability to go wingsuiting on the drop of a hat, and there’s an infinite enhance perk that makes it so that you by no means run out of nitrous.
In fact, you may also customise your full arsenal of weapons, and redecorate your headquarters – there’s a social house on the primary ground, plus a secret ‘conflict room’ for racket planning upstairs.
If all that sounds overwhelming, there’s additionally presets for every customisation class which are able to roll, or that may function a place to begin on your personal inventive selections.
The Saints Row launch date is ready for August 23.
