3 star from a shipping and customer service perspective. There are far better games out there, this is not even good enough to kill time. Controls are sluggish and clunky, graphics reminds me of the original star fox, especially the "vehicles", low poly count with low details at best.

Like the Kevin Smith version of A New Hope I imagine almost daily, Sonic Mania is a game made by fans, for fans. And that's not a bad thing. Newcomers may be turned off by the intermittent difficulty spikes, but others may finally understand why many childhoods were spent looking for a kid who had a...

Eggscellent Level Design; Eggsceptional Art Style; Feels like Sonic

Frustratingly Old-School; Tags

It appears that Saints Row is no more, at least for now. In its place we have Agents of Mayhem , which is set in the same universe as Volition's crazy open world series, and even shares some of the elements from it.

While technically not a part of the main Saints Row franchise, Agents of Mayhem shares quite a few themes and design choices, with more importantly the fleur-de-lis symbol iconic to the series once again taking the centre stage here as the logo to the superhero (Think S.H.I.E.L.D.

Brilliant Voice Acting; Unique Characters With Personality; Particle Effects; Well Animated Intros; Actually Humorous

Game Breaking Bugs; Repetitive Mission Structure; Lacking Optimisation on PC; Paywalled Skins And GAT Behind DLC

Volition Entertainment put a time-bending end to the Saints Row Franchise the last time we saw a game from them, so expectations were high for the storied studio's first post- Saints adventure. Enter Agents of Mayhem , a homage to campy action hero cartoons of the 80s and 90s.

Agents are the right mix of goofy and fun; Switching between Agents at will; GI Joe aesthetic works big time; Animated cutscenes are beautiful

Repetitive missions drag the game down; Missed potential with Agents themselves; Open world; but no reason to see it; Glitches galore; mostly in the background

In all honesty, the Saints Row games became gaming junk food. They weren't master classes in design or anything like that, but they did offer a jolly good time. Saints Row offered players wacky and wild world to explore, managing to create some enjoyable oddball experiences.

Frantic combat; Interesting Agents; Deep customisation

Repetitive missions; Lives in Saints Row's shadow; Forgettable story

[spoilers] compared to the previous saints rows games, this is way less crazy than those. The graphics are fantastic (best played on PC or PS4 Pro for high frames) but a few things that are rather stingy make it less fun. The game is so easy to grind and finish the story.

People talk about the difficulty of integrating comedy into video games ad nauseum, but few mention the fact that comedy ages in video games in ways that it doesn't in other mediums.

Moment to moment action is fun; Team concept is surprisingly enjoyable; Mindless fun at times

Concept deserves more than just "mindless fun; Does nothing with interesting environment; Mission design is painfully repetitive

Agents of Mayhem seems desperate to prove it's a standalone franchise, unfettered by the Saints Row series it was (very loosely) spun off from. Where the Saints offered irreverent, stylish lunacy that celebrated chaos with surprising doses of humanity, Agents of Mayhem offers something far more...

Volition's Agents of Mayhem ostensibly takes place in the Saints Row universe, but aside from this game's logo, appearances by Oleg and Pierce Washington, and an abundance of the color purple, one would be forgiven for not even noticing or caring about the connection.