Volition revived the Saints Row franchise in 2022, launching a reboot that was intended to reset the series and propel it to new heights. That didn't happen, and now a new report has claimed the developers working on the game didn't want to reboot the series. They wanted to continue it with the original characters and make up for past mistakes in the process.
That's according to an in-depth video created by mrsaintsgodzilla21 (thanks, SynthPotato). The YouTuber paid a visit to Saints Row studio Volition in 2019, three years before the launch of the reboot that has likely killed the series. They claim that, back then, the devs were working on a very different game from the one that was eventually released.
In fact, it sounds as if between that visit and Saints Row's release three years later, the Volition team was effectively told to start over by executives. According to the video, the game shown in 2019 was dubbed Saints Row Cinco, and it was a sequel to the original games, not a reboot. Not only that, but it would have directly followed on from the events of Saints Row: The Third, erasing the events of Saints...
