Designing your character and tricking out your automobiles are beloved options of the Saints Row sequence of madcap open-world video games, and this yr’s Saints Row reboot goes to proceed in that vein. In truth, developer Volition has revealed that the brand new Saints Row sport has extra choices for customisation than ever earlier than, providing you with a strong character editor, an enormous vary of auto components, and a redecorating suite to 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 choices, 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, deciding on from a variety of pure tones or, if you would like 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 would like. You may even pick your character’s socks and underwear (or lack thereof).
You may independently customise each side of your character’s face, too, in case you need some uneven particulars, make-up, or options. The customiser additionally provides choices for arm and leg prosthetics, which all are available in a wide range of colors and designs.
Layered clothes returns on this yr’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.
After all, there’s additionally a completely featured customs store referred to as Jim-Rob’s for if you need to equipment out your autos with some eye-catching new aptitude or lethal weaponry. Paint jobs, exhaust kits, and an enormous metallic wrecking ball to tug out of your rear bumper are all out there in Saints Row’s garages.
Plus, characters can unlock particular driving perks to enrich their method to the highway: an ejection seat is nice if you would like 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.
After all, you can even customise your full arsenal of weapons, and redecorate your headquarters – there’s a social area 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 to your personal artistic choices.
The Saints Row launch date is about for August 23.