‘Saints Row IV’ Gets A Teaser Trailer, Release Date

Deep Silver and Volition today released the first trailer for their upcoming sandbox title, Saints Row IV.

According to the game’s press release, Saints Row IV takes players “From the Crack House to the White House” amidst an ongoing alien invasion. Superpowers have also made the cut this time around, allowing you to “delve into an arsenal of alien weaponry and technology that will turn each Saint into an ultimate entity of destruction.”

Now, I’ve never actually played a Saints Row game. I always thought that they simply looked like a slightly too over-the-top Grand Theft Auto. This teaser trailer however, is pretty damn cool, so maybe I’ll have to give Saints a shot!

Watch the trailer below, and let us know what you think! Saints Row IV hits North America on August 20th!

  From the Crack House to the White House –

 

March 15, 2013 — Larkspur, Calif., Today Deep Silver announced that Saints Row IV, the ball-busting next chapter in the Saints Row franchise, is starting a party in your pants this Fall.

 

In the next open-world installment of Saints Row, Deep Silver Volition continues the story of the Third Street Saints by elevating their status to the highest level – the leaders of the free world. In Saints Row IV, the head honcho of the Saints has been elected to the Presidency of the United States. But the Saints are just getting started. Now the larger-than-life insanity of the Saints series gets a new twist with a catastrophic alien invasion, and the aliens have transported the Saints to a bizarro-Steelport simulation. Wield gargantuan superpowers and fight to free humanity from alien granddaddy Zinyak’s mental grasp. Escape the simulation that’s trapped the Saints crew, or die trying.

 

Saints Row IV lets players delve into an arsenal of alien weaponry and technology that will turn each Saint into an ultimate entity of destruction. Utilize out-of-this-world superpowers to fight all the way to the top. With intensified action and enhanced customization, players can use their newfound superpowers and leap over buildings, outrun the fastest sports cars, or send enemies flying with telekinesis in the greatest, most insane installment of Saints Row yet.

 

Save the world, Saints Style.

 

Developed by Volition, Saints Row IV will launch on current-gen consoles and PC on August 20, 2013, in North America and August 23, 2013, in the rest of the world.