The Alien RPG has the advantage of requiring no ammunition as it uses charge capacity, the Backblast upgrade provides an extra attack at the rear which helps prevents enemies from attacking from behind. The RPG is very similar to the Alien RPG, both firing extremely powerful projectiles that can eliminate hardened targets. “We only showed a few of them, but we’ve got a lot of different aliens with amazing abilities of their own, so it feels like you can really dig into fighting them.The Alien RPG is a powerful rocket launcher than is an excellent anti-armour and anti-air weapon, as well as an excellent crowd control weapon. “If it was just another street gang, how are they going to compete with this guy who’s practically like a god running around the streets?” asks senior producer Jim Boon, quite reasonably. Naturally, these new additions make the player absurdly over-powered, so the SWAT teams and rival gangs of previous games have been replaced with equally powerful aliens, the Zin. It’s classic Saints Row irreverence, then – although you do wonder whether the team’s lewd imaginations are getting uncomfortably stretched by now. The aliens have also given Earth the gift of mechs, enabling a stompy arcade sub-game where you cause as much carnage as possible with your jump-jet-enabled explosion machine, after which it cheerfully does the robot in celebration. The dubstep gun shoots pulsing purple rays of deadly wub-wub, causing surrounding passers-by to immediately stop in their tracks and start losing their sh** to the music in juddering stop-motion whilst cars randomly blow up.

But alien technology opens up new possibility for weapons, too – like an Inflate-O-Ray that comically distends enemy heads before they pop, and the weapon that’s almost certain to become the three-foot purple dildo-bat signature weapon of Saints Row 4, the Dubstep Gun. “In the miniscule sliver of gameplay I was shown (Saints Row 4 is evidently nearly complete, but Volition didn’t show more than a few minutes of it), I saw that Bioshock-esque freeze-and-smash, Superman-esque flying, telekinesis and ultra-speed sprinting.

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