Is Volition’s Upcoming ‘Agents of Mayhem’ A Follow-Up To ‘Saints Row’?
Volition, the development team best known for their work on the Red Faction and Saints Row series of games, has revealed their next project in the form of Agents of Mayhem, courtesy of its IGN exclusive reveal trailer. But in between all of the shooting, robot summoning and witty comments, could it be that this game has a deeper connection to the developer’s previous open world gang series as we might have expected?
From the trailer, it’s clear that our elite team of three soldiers will be fighting off an evil force that’s after some Earth shattering technology. What’s even more interesting than the unique abilities and personalities of Fortune, Hardtack and Hollywood, (especially that stunt double that got killed standing in for our superstar douche bag,) is the organization backing them. As the Ultor company chastises their leader for the collateral damage they left behind, a clear logo resembling the 3rd Street Saints’ iconic symbol closes out the final moments of the footage. Could this group be picking up the pieces of Earth after the planet got destroyed in the fourth Saints Row game? Or did the Saints pick up and rebuild on another planet? Or maybe a new organization discovered their legacy and decided to co-opt it?
What might be even more of a clue however, is Ultor itself. Serving as one of the main antagonists throughout the Saints Row series, they were the same organization that the citizens of Mars went to war against in Red Faction. While Volition has said that it was just meant to be an easter egg and that the two series weren’t connected, the company’s eventual prominence in both series’ and the Saints finding themselves in space throughout the fourth game definitely leads to a possibility where humans eventually colonize Mars. Could Agents of Mayhem serve as a bridge connecting the two?
Even if this is all just wild speculation, it’s fun to think about. Do you want to see these three games become a shared universe? Check out the trailer for Agents of Mayhem and let us know if you’re excited for Volition’s next game.
