A reliable Saints Row insider has claimed that the original version of the reboot not only featured all of the original Saints like Johnny Gat, Shaundi, and Pierce, but also let the player finally kill Dex from the original game.
One of the most depressing gaming failures over the last few years was Volition’s 2020 Saints Row reboot, which threw away both its gangster origins and its more whacky side from Saints Row the Third and Saints Row 4. Instead, it focused on broke college students who were supposed to be viewed as quirky heroes while they went around shooting everything in sight. Combine that with janky shooting and a lack of any personality from the previous games and it resulted in one big disappointment.
The Saints Row reboot not only upset fans with its new direction, but its middling sales and poor critical reception led to Volition being treated as a support studio, before being shut down altogther.
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It seems that the original vision for the Saints Row reboot was something more in-line with what fans had been asking for. An anonymous Volition developer previously confirmed that the game was supposed to be a sequel that followed on from Saints Row 4’s ending, but more details about the project have since come out, revealing a game that sounds like everything you could want from a new Saints Row.
The latest information on what the Saints Row reboot was originally supposed to be comes from reliable insider mrsaintsgodzilla21, who was one of the biggest Saints Row YouTubers back in the game’s heyday. In their latest video, which goes over Volition’s closure and the development of the reboot, they claim that most of the big problems with the game can be pinned on Deep Silver instead of Volition, including the infamous social media posts that made fun of fans when they said they didn’t like the new approach.
That isn’t all, though, as they also claim that “for a decent portion of the reboot’s development”, Johnny Gat, Dex, Shaundi, Pierce, and Aisha were all going to be the main Saints in the game. Mike Watson, a known Saints Row modder, was also reportedly in charge of making a mission for the new game that finally let players properly kill Dex, something that’s been teased since Saints Row 2 and never officially delivered on.
This scrapped version of the game was reportedly aiming to be more in line with Saints Row 2 than any other game in the series, with some inspiration from Saints Row the Third as well. Volition was clearly aiming to make a game that pleased new-school and old-school Saints Row fans, but that version of Saints Row was scrapped because Deep Silver reportedly kept pushing the team for a new direction, leading to the reboot we all know today.
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