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Saints Row creative director on moving forward without forgetting the past

An interview with Saints Row creative director Brian Traficante on the series' past and where it's going in the future.

July 21, 2022 10:00 AM

With a brand new Saints Row game on the horizon, fans of the series have been understandably eager for any and all nuggets of information on what to expect. For example, how will the game stack up to previous titles? What will be new about it? These questions were high on the list during a recent interview with Volition creative director for Saints Row, Brian Traficante featuring our own Blake Morse and Kevin Dunsmore from Hardcore Gamer.

Brian Traficante from Volition talks about the new Saints Row including what's been carried over from past games, and what's new. — The new Saints Row will still feel like a Saints Row game, but is also taking a fresh approach with its characters and story.

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In the interview, Traficante talks about how the team has been inspired by past games and how it’s been a delicate balance in rebooting the franchise with the upcoming Saints Row title. Specifically, how the team still wants it to feel like a recognizable Saints Row game.

Elaborating further on what the new Saints Row game is all about, Traficante explains:

We’ve got something brand new. We’ve branched exclusively away from anything in the past; there’s no multiverse. We did explore for a while in our R&D phase what would resonate with us and where we wanted to be and ultimately decided that [on a] fresh, clean start.

As you enter the game you’ll get connected with this new group of friends; they’re a bunch of young criminals, they’ve got challenges, they each work for a different faction, but when they’re home they’re family.

It’s watching that family grow through supporting each other, then ultimately becoming the Saints after they decide to leave their factions and then become victims of their success, ‘cause once they start spreading and expanding their empire in the city, the existing factions that had this delicate balance of ownership starts to get disrupted.

If this concept and premise has you intrigued and you want to learn more, we highly recommend watching the full interview with Brian Traficante on GamerHub TV. It’s packed with over 17 minutes of information, and can help give you a better idea as to what else you can expect from the new Saints Row game. While you’re checking out the interview, if you aren’t already, be sure to subscribe to GamerHub TV and the Shacknews YouTube for even more awesome interviews like this one.

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