Agents of Mayhem Review - Agents Of Maybe Later

[@Ryanmiller70]

Loot boxes that aren't powered by microtransactions? I never thought I'd see the day in the modern game industry.

[@CrashfHackergames]

Fuck, are we like this already ? I didn't even notice, but it's true, holy shit. But imagine if loot-centered games like Destiny and Borderlands decided to do this.

[@morque9796]

oh they'll patch that in the next update or dlc

[@crane8819]

Give it a month or two.

[@ns6438]

Rainbow Six Siege recently implemented them. It's done very well there.

[@HUGzJayGon]

Ryanmiller70 I thought I heard ACG mention that loot boxes are purchasable in his review of the game.

[@redkingrauri3769]

I can't wait for 2620 when Uranus will get its name changed and we can end those stupid jokes once and for all. Nobody can make fun of Urectum.

[@ricojes]

Uringpiece.

[@bingbong6928]

VauschthePuca that will be good news for everyone

[@sandorenckell5259]

Nice Futurama reference

[@skeletonwizard708]

It's strange. The game almost feels like a MOBA grew weird crab legs and tried to walk into an Open World game. The problem is that it has to be compared to Saint's Row, and poor goddamn Volition is going to spend the rest of their lives trying to live up to Saint's Row.

[@zybch]

Well they are great games. Well, not 4 I guess. What a lazy mess that was, talk about recycling assets... And 1 & 2 were just GTA rip offs. 3 was simply amazing though lol We don't talk about GooH I wasn't gonna buy AoM till I found out it wasn't multiplayer. Everything about it prior to launch screamed 'multiplayer' and I wonder at what point it was pivoted to single player only. Having co-op would have elevated things a lot, but I'm very happy its not just another loot crate filled MMOBA.

[@skeletonwizard708]

I have a fondness for 4 that comes mostly from it being so damn fast. It's the first Super Hero game I've ever actually really loved. What killed AoM for me personally was not having any customizable main character. I could have sworn "you" were going to play the Director, not Persephone. But without any buy in like that, there's just not enough investment to overcome the milquetoast everything else (Ala SR4) .

[@starkiller007]

3 was simply amazing? Are you having a laugh. You're gonna shit all over 1 and 2, but 3 is half the game saints row 2 was.

[@mokinokaro]

And 4 is definitely better than 3 despite the recycling. 3 was a butchered mess thanks to THQ.

[@averyterribleperson5292]

starkiller007 He's taking the piss isn't he? SR2 was the height of the IP, SRTT was just red factions leftovers. kek

[@VulpesHilarianus]

The story of a Saints Row game that was barely changed to not be a Saints Row game. It feels like Gat Out Of Hell all over again, where Volition got sidetracked by purple halfway through development of a different IP. It's been six years now and they've yet to make something that doesn't feel like it should've been an optional game mode or DLC for Saints Row: The Third. It's making me want to just go back to modding Saints Row: The Third, actually. EDIT: Oleg and Pierce are in this game. That puts the final nail in the coffin. Volition's afraid people won't try their new IPs.

[@greyXstar]

VulpesHilarianus Gat's in it too, apparently as DLC. Because you all love Johnny Gat so effing much you're willing to pay extra for him, right??

[@zybch]

People won't though. More and more, studios are sticking with 1 or 2 IPs and dropping old and new ones because many gamers, especially damn millennials are stupid facile twits with the attention span of gnats and don't like change, and publishers don't want their devs to try anything different. Just look at Naughty Dog, Uncharted and TLoU and thats been it for over 10 years. Uncharted especially has been milked 2 games to many now. Spot on with the purple thing though, but AoM ain't no fucking Gat Out Of Hell.

[@dennett316]

I'm with you on this. I cared more about the random people in hot dog costumes in the first few games than I ever did about Johnny Gat.

[@Wol1427]

Mikey C I think they do like change, they just don't want that change to be in a lesser quality of what was already established. Which Volition is guilty of doing just that.

[@Captain__Harlock]

Theres a Saint's Row 3 Modding community? I beat the game on the 360, probably put a couple hundred hours into it. I have 4 on PC debating on whether to go back and get 3 again.

[@L0LWTF1337]

I find the color scheme obnoxious. "Did you know that we made saints row? Really, did the purple in every corner give it away? Let's throw in some more purple just to be sure."

[@RAFMnBgaming]

It could be that volition's workflow simply has a habit of disconnecting textures from materials.

[@dennett316]

I think the game looks kind of crappy...the whole aesthetic just doesn't sit well with me. There's colour, but it's not particularly vibrant or nice colour, and the world looks a bit sterile and flat outside of that. It's busy looking, with lots of coloured lights and particles and hud elementts and shit highlighted by glowing etc. It just all comes together as a kind of ugly whole.

[@ns6438]

But they didn't. They just bought a already established IP and ruined it and are parading it's dead corpse around. Don't give these fucks the credit of the actual Saints Row games.

[@Shadow60f]

I believe this is actually a spin off from one of the gat out of hell ending's so having saint's row stuff isn't so surprising dood.

[@Verasoul]

Nicole, Volition did make Saints Row. It was their publisher, THQ, that shut down and their studio was picked up by Deep Silver.

[@ask5118]

Great review Jim! I wonder if this game would have been better with co-op. In my opinion, that is where Saints Row was very strong.

[@NafenX]

A S K not really

[@thomassommer2]

Oh wait... I always assumed this had co-op.... Well scratching this one off my list then...

[@jasperwest3799]

Co-op wouldn't have made any of the negative elements better. Any game is fun with a friend, I've beaten Alien:Colonial Marines several times with friends, had a great time, and that game is as you know, awful.

[@vrapbrap]

Eh, I dunno. I never enjoyed the co-op in saints row games. The biggest flaw in each and every saints row was....draw distance! Shit popping into existence before your very eyes. That was more than enough to turn me off. Like I never finished Saints Row 4 because of that. No matter how maxed out every setting was, shit just popped out of nowhere. Seems like a minor thing, but it completely kills any immersion and fun I'm having. Its so fucking distracting.

[@ask5118]

ProjectiluvOP ah fair enough. It was mentioned multiple times in reviews for this game as well, especially the PC version, so be aware

[@AspLode]

0:56 "Taking place in a futuristic Sea-Ole..."

[@LonelyIslandKid09]

The writing is horrible. I know that Saints Row didn't have the best dialog but at least it was funny. I never laugh once while playing this. It felt so force. Some of the characters backstory were interesting but It doesn't go anywhere since there are like two personal missions. The gameplay is fine, similar to any other third person shooter but mix with something like Overwatch were characters have one Special ability with a cooldown,one passive ability, and a ultimate that fills up by killing enemies. The open world, while it looks amazing (I seriously love the art style of the environments) is wasted on repetitive activities that are lot more boring than any Saints Row game. The worst thing about this game is the missions. Every mission is badly design and lazy. "Go to this place and kill everything", "Go to this place and blow up everything", "Destroy this enemy vehicle by ramming it with your weaponless vehicle" (Fuck this type of mission in particular). This is fine for OPTIONAL activities but for Main Missions!? Fuck off. The enemies were fun to fight I guess,when you compare them to Saints Row 4 and Gat Out Of Hell. The game features a semi-cartoony art style that looks good. The sound effects (Not the sound track, that shit is horrible) is pretty good, the voice acting for the most part is good too. And that's it. I give it a 6/10. I just want to fight and take out gang members with my gang like Saints Row 2 and even 3, not this.

[@jmlkhan5153]

"Fuck this type of mission in particular" deserves five star.

[@starkiller007]

Funny enough, around saints row 3, Volition started making the activities part of the mission in such a lazy way that it was so jarring.

[@mokinokaro]

the one thing I will give the game is they do a decent job with the boss fights. The rest of the missions basically feel procedurally generated with dialogue slapped on top.

[@LonelyIslandKid09]

Yep. I forgot about the bosses but they are decent.

[@LonelyIslandKid09]

I agree. I may be wrong, but wasn't Saint Row IV originally a DLC for Saints Row 3 that got cancelled after THQ when bankrupt? Then Deep Silver decided to make quick cash and turned it into a full blown sequel. I think the cancelled DLC was called Enter the Dominatrix

[@Hathur]

Really nice to see Jim doing video reviews now. I enjoyed his written reviews as well, but being able to lean back and relax while watching Jim review something is quite welcome.

[@BlueKunai]

The lacking humour can be attributed to the fact that Steve Jaros left Volition after Gat Out Of Hell. Say what you want about the direction the story took in the Saints Row series, but his writing is what gave the humour and characters in the series most of its charm. Jason Blair's writing from the start just kind of reeked of trying too hard.

[@brainflash1]

3:44 They call THAT an "ultimate"?

[@JPPWB]

No, they don't.

[@amox]

no, a mayhem something....

[@RubberyCat]

Just Mayhem.

[@ak2wa2or]

pretty shady to have the purple/fleurdelis stuff there to fool people into thinking it's saint's row content

[@ricojes]

Did Ultor in SR2 fool people into thinking there's Red Faction content?

[@ns6438]

ricojes Not really. That was more of a Easter egg/ nod to the fans of the devs and a lot less of shoving it in your face like it is here.

[@capthowitzer]

The fleur actually is there for a reason. The leader of M.A.Y.H.E.M. is a former member of the opposing organization, L.E.G.I.O.N. The organization has a strong Western European bent, and each of the various Ministries that make up the organization is shown to use a different take on various European symbols - hence why the leader of L.E.G.I.O.N. is called "Morningstar." Additionally, the leader of M.A.Y.H.E.M. is literally French. Given that the plot is literally meant to be an alternate universe take on Saints Row, this all makes plenty of sense.

[@capthowitzer]

Except that this is quite literally a sequel to Gat Outta Hell. It's not shoehorned in the slightest. There is a direct plot connection, like it or not. Just because you don't like the game doesn't mean you can start just ignoring things to justify your dislike. We get it. You don't like the game, and that's ok. No need to throw tantrums about things and make up issues with it.

[@capthowitzer]

Righto. I can see that you're not in this for rational discussion. Have fun.

[@Mr_Saxon]

As much as I always enjoyed your written reviews, I'm really glad you've moved to video reviews.

[@Beelzil]

So it's good for a buy when the price drops?

[@VersatileKing13]

BoxedFalcon the game doesnt get better just because the price goes down. Unless the devs make drastic changes thru patches or dlc it will still be a mediocre game. I guess it really depends on how much you value your time. Would you rather play a mediocre game because it's cheap or an excellent game at full price? I will always choose the latter.

[@dnothstylez]

@JarvisTheBest "The game doesn't get better just because the price goes down" The comment was " *good for a buy* when the price drops", not " *good* when the price drops". Entirely different meanings.

[@lwaves]

+JarvisTheBest Of course the game doesn't get better but it's value can increase as it gets cheaper. That's what the OP is referring to. You've completely missed the point. An excellent game at full price may well be worth it's cost but that same game at half price has a greater value. Same goes for a mediocre game at full price may not be worth it's cost, but at half price it is because the person isn't outlaying as much to get that experience. Bearing in mind that a mediocre game will have some attractive features to some gamers that may be worth playing at a lower cost.

[@lynackhilou4865]

BoxedFalcon yeah mybe for 25 $

[@VersatileKing13]

I understand what you're saying. To me, a mediocre or bad game just isn't worth playing at ANY price. A game could cost a penny but I wouldn't even bother with it if it didn't meet my standards. I would rather play something else that's better or not play anything at all. I might be more picky in what I play than the average person, though.

[@EpochMatt]

Uranus jokes? So maybe this half-baked game is suited for people that are half baked themselves.

[@lootjunior]

not even while fully baked

[@facefister69]

Even a group of 15 year old stoners aren't that juvenile.

[@Knightswords]

They were in one mission that involves you going to a planetarium.

[@hivetyrant7]

That criticism is kind of a stretch, notice how the second part Jim showed didn't make a joke of Uranus? (Why even show it?) That's because the only Uranus joke really is the first one he showed. The rest of his points are spot on though, it's fun, but not overly so. And it's certainly no Saints Row, though I'm told this was originally going to be a SR expansion.

[@facefister69]

That's because the joke in the second part WAS Uranus, and i'm pretty sure he only used the Uranus example to give us an idea of the kind of lowbrow humour the game has.

[@lifedecoded9842]

Also, can we talk about how Volition went from making games like Red Faction: Guerrilla to games like Saints Row 4 & Agents of Mayhem?

[@lordxtheth2634]

Now... I don't want to delve too deep in to things. I picked up Agents of mayhem based on it's description of being a super hero based open world shooter. I thought to myself "Awesome, Saints Row 4 with more characters!" So I played it and it was enjoyable. The tutorial with Hollywood was neat, and I had fun. Then the rest of the tutorial happened, and I pretty much did the same three things two more times. Then the main story opened up, and it was the same three missions. I then noticed something. I'm slowly leveling up, getting a skill point, and putting it in to single minor uses, and once in a while I get a slightly bigger boost thingamagig. I then thought to myself "Am I playing a MOBA?" so I cycled through the few characters I had, picked up a couple new ones, and realized then Yes indeed I was playing MOBA characters. I was playing an open world league of legends. It's as if the devs were in their conference room a couple years ago like "What can we to compete with LoL or Dota? Someone pitched these heroes in a Moba, and they got to work on it. Then Steam greenlight blew up with 90 Mobas all of which are riding the same idea. (90 not being a real number of mobas, but I'm just putting a big number there, because let's face it there were probably more.) The dev team saw this and were like "Well shit guys, we can't really compete with all of this, especially when we want to charge $60 for our game, and all these other mobas are free. What can we do?" one of the people in that meeting must have been like "Ok, guys, I have a bunch of assets here that were rejected from Saints row 5, but they're still good to use, complete with paint jobs and all" Thus was born the building of this game. A failed idea for a moba where everything is there. Characters with minimal powers. Power ups that effect them tiny little bits over the course of a small amount of levels, bosses that work almost in the same way, like they were more moba characters just with a few extra bars of hit points slapped on to give them the semblance of difficulty, set in a world full of Saints Row assets because they didn't have time to make new ones with only 3 or 4 mission types because those were the side (Jungle) stuff you do to unlock extra fiddly bits. They even kept loot boxes (which I bet in the moba you would have had to pay for, but they're asking for money now, and don't want an ear-full from 'Jim Fucking Sterling, son' on his review so they kept those free). Despite this criticism, I am enjoying the game. You know... up until the point that a mission marker doesn't trigger and I need to restart the game, and the mission to get it to load properly. Or when the game doesn't have a critical failure and crash on me. It's a fun little shooter. Its even more fun when I think of it exactly like a Moba, and all I need to do is grind out a few more gold before I can teleport back to my hub, and upgrade my gear, just to go outside, grind some more mobs, fight an opposing team's hero, and unlock my next character for free. I wish I had Saints row 5, but this will have to do for now. I also agree with Jim on his 6/10

[@hnnnnnnnnnnnnnngh9617]

u dont know what you are talking about. but i give you 5/10 for effort.

[@lordxtheth2634]

I'm... pretty sure I do. But thank you for your un backed criticism. Much appreciated.

[@Nel_Annette]

I still want to check it out. I didn't like Saints Row 3 and 4 as much as 2, but the powers were still fun to use. I wouldn't mind dicking around in a new map.

[@AD-Dom]

I had the same problem with 3 and 4. But this is a different game. If you do get it, play on mid to high difficulty it's chaotic and fun.

[@Nel_Annette]

I think I would have liked 4 more had it not been set in Steelport. Such a boring city. Bringing it back just to save on development time was... bleh. I'll probably wait until Agents is $20 though.

[@PHeMoX]

I actually liked Saints Row 3 a whole lot better than 2 and 4. It felt like it had a better balance between 'over-the-top' and copying the GTA open world formula in a somewhat good way. Saints Row 'superhero edition', aka Saints Row 4 felt boring in how overpowered it made the player. It also did not feel like Saints Row anymore.

[@takki3942]

Nel_Annette I still can't play Saints Row 2 because the PC port is such utter shit, it is basically unplayable in vanilla.

[@PlanBeamin]

man i legit will never understand you folk who say SR2 is better than 3 and 4 smh. i mean the story was more intense but everything else... to each his own i guess

[@Malidictus]

I really hate this kind of fourth-wall-breaking self-referrential "humour" in video games. Failing to be funny and then pointing to that and saying "See? We know this sucks, which is why it's funny. Right? Right?" doesn't work. Saints Row 3 and to some extent Saints Row 4 managed to maintain at least the veneer of normalcy, which is why the crazy stuff stood out so much and the wacky stuff was so amusing. When your entire game is a caricature, jokes no longer work. What a waste.

[@starkiller007]

You mean Saints Row 1 and 2 had normalcy...

[@ns6438]

starkiller007 It didn't break the fourth wall and had a believable world, so yes.

[@Malidictus]

Saints Row 3 was wacky and zany, but it was still ultimately grounded in a world where people acted "in-character" and weren't constantly breaking the fourth wall. For every absurdly stupid thing which happened, there was at least one character with dialogue to the extent of "Are you fucking serious?!?" Who that character was changed around, but there was usually one. This is the same approach as the Naked Gun movies. It's a world full of complete idiots and impossible physics, but the people who live in it are constantly surprised whenever weird stuff happens. Saints Row 3 had that, as far as I'm concerned.

[@Sovietskikh]

Malidictus I think they got Gearbox to write the game for them.

[@helloofthebeach]

Saints Row's baseline was GTA-style crime stories, which are already extremely over the top and ridiculous but pretend to be normal. The reason they got away with as much as they did was because they had something that's objectively really silly to be their straight man. My sense is that Volition might have thought they could repeat the trick with 90s Saturday morning cartoons as a base and they were totally wrong. (When you're not blinded by nostalgia, they're all really bad and boring, sorry.) Or they just forgot about those rules entirely and assumed people would care about something. "What a waste" is right on.

[@Janokins]

Nice review. The footage you showed when mentioning missing textures, it showed an incomplete reflection. You will notice this is the case in a lot of games, it is really, truly difficult to create real-time reflections and still be efficient when you're making a scene that has so many things to reflect. The common practise is to bake the reflections as pre-rendered textures as this can be quite realistic and works well for most cases, not so much when you have moving objects in your complex scene.

[@jurmeeuwsfilm]

Did Jim pronounce Seoul as "See-ol" at 0:55?

[@joedatius]

This game would of been a lot more tantalising if it was co-op especially couch co-op. They really dropped the ball on that one.

[@PenWinter]

What's Bombshell Wonder Woman and Suicide Squad Harley doing in this game?

[@googamp32]

I decided to skip this game and wait for Saints Row 5. Thanks for reaffirming that I made the right decision, Jim.

[@slainemccool2875]

I wouldn't mind a saints row 2 remaster that game is so fun

[@calhanlon5568]

The loot boxes in this game gives me a good idea for loot boxes in overwatch. What if instead of paying through the nose to get a legendary skin, loot boxes very rarely appear on maps and the lucky boy/girl who opens it gets a rare skin.

[@MaseraSteve]

Wow This is Amazing!! How is This never went on my newsfeed/YT when i was at the highest peak of gaming?!? Big fan of everything the engine from S.R is incredibly optimized! Honestly, the given characters already interesting enough outside lack of customization. Hidden Gem! Sad no big "Let's play" ever highlight this game

[@benpowell8530]

can you put the platform you played the game on in the video? I find that information useful

[@Zalocx]

This being "an inferior but playable crackdown clone with some half assed gimmicks" actually makes me look forward to the sequel (assuming it sells well enough) considering the history of this franchise: In 2006 Volition released an "inferior but playable GTA clone" with the gimmick of having the gangsta rap dial turned up to 10, not 11 just 10, and everyone thought "meh". Two years later they released that game's sequel with EVERYTHING done better and had made one of the greatest open world crime em' ups in the history of this medium. So what I'm saying is maybe this is a sign that Agents of Mayhem 2 will be to this game what Saints Row 2 was to Saints Row 1?

[@paaaaaaaaq]

This game was born from Uranus.

[@venomart4768]

å a deep uranus

[@777rick777]

They lost me ages ago when I learned that instead of making your own character you pick from a roster of premade ones. Part of Saints Row's appeal was making your own avatar

[@WELSHGAMER99]

But this game is not really a Saints Row game. Far from it.

[@matthewmelange]

I'm happy to see a review a few days after initial release. I hope you're happy with this review too Jim.

[@NafenX]

The Uranus bit was just a reference leading up to a main mission bit that takes place at the planetarium where the 'Mysteries of Uranus' or whatever exposition is going on. It's not like it's really 'forced' as much as going to a bathroom supplies store for a mission and being met with toilet humour or something like that

[@TheAusHulk]

Is there split-screen co-op?

[@MR3DDev]

Awesome that you now do video reviews

[@The_Mess85]

I know why this happened - The Deep Silver Curse has struck again. i.e. Deep Silver underfunded it, even knowing what would happen, and so Volition didn't have the sort of resources to pull this off as they had with Saint's Row. Which is par the fluffing course for DS.

[@FATEoftheStoryverse]

My personal recommendation for Agents of Mayhem is this: If you haven't played Volition's previous works: Saints Row 2, 3, 4, Gat out of Hell, etc, I recommend getting those instead of this game. Especially since those older games are now around $10 each, also if you're like me and ultimately enjoyed SR2, you'll spend plenty of hours just derping around in that game for fun that you'll probaby do in AoM.

[@DalleBoik]

Love the format of these Reviews! cheers!

[@Nadodan]

Ah that makes me sad, When I saw the Saints Aesthetic all over this in trailers, including the appearence of Johnny Gat as a playable character. I was hoping for just more Saints Row. Now that I see it's not that I'll probably hold back on picking it up.

[@TheJackal917]

I feel sorry for this game. It feels outsourced and fragmented to an insane degree. Real potential fucked up by publisher who was too greedy.

[@venomart4768]

TheJackal917 its not about greedy. The dev dunno whether to make a new game but still have saints row in it

[@DukeWooze]

Hey the Uranus jokes WERE funny.

[@BrunoEllern]

I think this game will be fantastic for 5 or 7 bucks. It's on my list.

[@Unbuliebubble]

Jim, would you say the level progression in this game took inspiration from Borderlands ?

[@stevebob240]

Enjoying these higher quality reviews. Good work, Jim.

[@DonutSwordsman]

I'm happy you've been doin some reviews, they must be fun for you like the good ol days

[@witchfynder_finder]

I'll admit it: "The ancient Greeks worshiped Uranus" got a smirk out of me.

[@Garbagehead5]

I got a tour of Volition in 2014 when they were developing this. Knowing how much engineering and Q&A went into this, it's kinda unfortunate that it's getting middling reviews. Such is life in the games industry I guess.

[@enox6842]

The problem I mostly have is late dialogue. Which is really annoying when I want to know what else they have to say and I get to the next dialogue after the one im on

[@jeremyodwyer9232]

Bit bummed out to hear that the game isn't as exciting as it looked because I was excited by the trailer. On a small note, it's cool to see one of the characters shoots left handed.

[@askewman37]

It doesn't help the game that my favorite Uranus joke has already been done in Freakazoid *Shots of a spaceship flying through the solar system. The camera pauses on a planet. Out of nowhere comes Freakazoid on screen. He points to the planet and says* "That's Uranus!"

[@Dirtydoggo]

Just stumbled across your channel and your review was really well composed and not very focused heavily on what you feel about it but points backed up by logic and personal experience I hate when reviewers just go in and make a rant and you mentioned some topics that were a nuisance but didn't heavily go into detail about Thank you for this review!

[@NurseJackal]

Funny, everything I'd seen about this game before now made me think it was a class based 3rd person multiplayer thing, so I wasn't interested. I had no idea it was single player with like a story campaign or whatever.

[@HUYI1]

that was what i thought when it was first announced a mp focused online only dude bro shooter, but it's surprisingly not and has singleplayer, i really don't see the charm of playing a game which is designed like a MP game and shallow for a singleplayer experience, it feels forced or tacked on, not a lot of effort went into this game whatsoever.

[@CCriddy50]

Honestly I have no idea how so many people got that impression. If you look at any video on the game they very clearly state what it is. Not trying to be rude, I swear, but with all the research tools available to you how could you not simply find out if they game was multiplayer or not?

[@Shade2800]

At Full Sail University, where I'm currently studying, some of my professors actually used to work on this game. They Volition before it was finished though.

[@timpize8733]

Those video reviews are pretty cool. Hope Jim keeps doing them. ...The only weird thing is that, unlike with his written reviews, here I get all the words he's using. And while I should feel happy about it, they somehow feel less smart. x)

[@Mick_Chicken]

Damn Jim, I'm genuinely excited to see such a return to form.

[@gamingfordaysraw]

5:55 - 6:29 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Made me actually spit my food out!!!

[@hfric]

Not to mention the PC version has awful stuttering issues due to the DRM Denuvo ... The Denuvo Effect is still strong ...

[@rogerbabin8175]

This review makes the game seem FANTASTIC! 15 difficulties? I LOVE it when a game respects the player enough to let them hone difficulty to their liking and enjoy the game as they please. Jim says the cutscenes looked bad but the video of animation shown looked fine by me. The combat looked like a lot of fun to boot. It could just be that I lack the experience of other games Jim compared this to but where Crackdown or Saints Row had zero appeal to me...this game looks genuinely awesome. I'll pass on it though, Jim says maybe later and I trust his opinion when I'm on the fence on a game purchase.

[@freedantheeternal]

Well, that settles it for me. The Volition that made such great games as Red Faction: Guerilla and Saint's Row 2 are officially dead and buried. Bye, Volition. You gave me great memories, but you're not giving me any more, obviously.

[@HamStrokers-Ejacula]

But do the gunshots sound good?

[@andreaisonline]

A great reviewer, artist and youtuber. Very serious on the content he provides. I wish he can get the subscribers that he deserves (way more than now).

[@levipollock7968]

I really dig the Saturday morning cartoon style cut scenes. It's a shame there are not more of them replacing those static images through out the game.

[@punkrockbassist44]

I picked up the Total Mayhem bundle for $7.99 on PSN. I do not regret it at that price at all.

[@XOLiD55]

Wait, what does this have to do with Saint's Row?

[@Mephzice]

Gat was a pre-order bonus, not sure if you can get him atm if you did not preorder

[@mokinokaro]

You can't, but Volition confirmed he's only a timed pre-order exclusive.

[@ns6438]

I dunno, what did "Saints Row" 3 or 4 have to do with Saints Row. Volition has been disrespectful pieces of shit to the series since Deep Silver acquired them.

[@bingbong6928]

mokinokaro so they made a fan favorite character pre-order exclusive? Dumbasses.

[@TimRandall810]

I love these reviews! KEEP THE VIDEO REVIEWS COMING!!!!

[@CleverCover05]

I thought this was a SR4 sequel or dlc thing from the screenshot. It sounds like they were working on it to be that and then just decided to turn it into a full game.

[@endless013]

not one mention of the pre-order bonus, I'm both shocked and not shocked at the same time and it is a VERY strange feeling to have

[@TheCpirate9]

You missed an opportunity to call it Agents of Meh-hem.

[@KyuubiNaruto41]

For me I was tempted to get the game considering it was set in the same universe as the Saints Row series and was even created because of them. But the fact I can't create my own character made me hesitate and after this eh I wait for a price drop to see for myself.

[@bruiserbrony771]

The cutscenes look like the cartoons you'd see on TV in GTA V.

[@invinciblereason1618]

Bruiser Brony correct

[@chrisgill261]

Watching this footage makes me want to go back and play Hulk Ultimate Destruction

[@mattdamutt5681]

1992? Please, Uranus jokes were dated back in 1982! I know this because that was the year "E.T." came out, and they made a Uranus joke in THAT movie! That makes it at least... 35 years.

[@cursed9930]

If I had to choose between a weekend off work playing agents of mayhem and working that weekend I'd work the weekend.

[@glass-africa]

2:01 Dat vehicle entry animation tho

[@nielsmichiels1939]

Yeah you could *realy* see the lazyness in that. They probably didn't animate the doors.

[@duncanmcocinner5939]

Overwatch: Singleplayer

[@TwwIX]

I knew that Volition would go down the shitter once they were acquired by Deep Silver. And here we are.

[@Echa37-H37]

The fact that the gun doesn't align with the crosshair makes my eyes twitch

[@CurtisMassey]

Oh wow, a number! This is an actual Jim Sterling Review! Good on ya sir. TGFYS

[@lifedecoded9842]

Holy crap, that intro music is gorgeous.

[@Pancoar]

I need to accept the fact that Volition will never make FreeSpace 3 or at least a spiritual successor to FreeSpace because that Volition died a long time ago. "From our odyssey into Hell, we have returned with a gift. The Ancient technology to build a portal between Delta Serpentis and Sol. To restore our link to planet Earth. To return home after all these years. This is Admiral Petrarch, signing off." 😭😭😭😭😭

[@GameHopping]

I would rather a Saints Row game that wasn't rushed out like 4 was.

[@PixelPusher1]

Are you trying to say Seoul? Is he trying to say Seoul?

[@duncannily]

PixelPusha yes, he was.

[@Hazy992]

I don't think I'd pay more than about £15 for this, maybe I'll pick it up in a few months when it's heavily discounted and perhaps some DLC and patches have made it a more worthwhile experience.

[@Henchman.24]

Love the cut of your jib as always, but I don't think comparing the term "playable" for interactive media to the term "watchable" is very fair. The only thing a movie can do is either be watched and enjoyed or watched and not enjoyed, whereas there are so many different aspects to interacting with a video game (which are all basically just interactive simulations to some extent). Every second of your favourite movie was painstakingly handcrafted to be experienced in a single way, as you can only literally watch something in so many ways (I'm thinking one eye open, on one leg, upside down etc) I guess my point is that I feel it's both unfair to movies to compare them to an interactive medium so potentially deep and complex, and it's unfair to video games to compare them to a fixed, relatively short piece of non-interactive entertainment that you can only observe and so aren't able to impact negatively with mistakes or errors in pacing (which can happen to us all, nothing stings quite like stumbling across the impossibly difficult mid-level areas and quests in an RPG when you just left Hometown with your rusty old sword).

[@hydrovenom1]

Even Jim's witty banter couldn't get me to watch eleven minutes of this game.

[@hypertion]

i saw that picture of Uranus at the end..... yes, i said that intentionally...

[@G00N3R7883]

This video was significantly more informative than the usual Jimpressions format. Hope we see more videos like this. I usually just come here to laugh at the shit games (which is entertaining), but hopefully now I'll start to buy some games based on Jim's recommendations (which is hard to do based on videos which only look at the first 30 minutes of a game).

[@RavenDrakearud]

I had a felling that this game was going to be bad (or at least not be as good as Saints-Row 3 and 4) due to not seeing any company logo in the trailer to the point that I thought it was some cheap Chinese clone of Saint-Row games due the fact that a lot of the agents looked like characters from Saints'. I mean come on, Yeti is quite literally Oleg from Saints-Row 3 (and kinda 4) but a plain white and I also thought that his recolouring was a method to subvert copyright.

[@GrimFatedGamer]

You hit the nail on the head with this one, man. Agents of Mayhem is super fun and all that, but there are quite a few areas in which it lacks. I somewhat regret pre-ordering it and not waiting a while before I bought it, but oh well. I mostly bought it to keep me busy before Absolver. :V

[@joedatius]

Whats the point in havinh any form of rng when it comes to skins in a single player game?

[@QosmicVoid]

"Maybe they come from Uranus" "Ha! That's funny! If you need to tell us it's funny... It's not funny, games, movies, books, media, etc. Stop telling us your shit jokes are supposed to be funny.

[@goos4711]

Over row? Saint's Watch? I'll pick it up when it's on sale.

[@nyysjan]

My opinion of the game was somewhat better than what Jim seems to have walked out of, and i haven't really encountered any bugs (well, 1, one time, that had no effect to gameplay), but maybe i've just been lucky. That said, can't really argue with his criticism, i think the game is decent, and i don't regret the money i spent on it, but damn there are so many minor issues that stop it from being great. But then i'm only about 2/3rds into the main mission (i've spent hours running around doing random content on the city map), so my opinion may change.

[@vermiculusnova1647]

Agents of Mayhem A game no one ever asked for From a franchise no one ever wanted to change. RIP Saints Row (1-2)

[@xTGE]

I'm actually finding the game to be quite enjoyable, it's got a certain charm to its design. Although, I will admit, I can't fucking stand going through 'underground bases' all the bloody time...

[@SpineShank7]

It's not too often I see a 3rd person shooter where the FOV looks narrow enough to give me a headache... Hopefully this one has a slider. I wasn't able to find out with a quick Google search.

[@mjc0961]

We were talking about Uranus

[@DukeNukem2417]

Well, my brother wasted his damn money on this game, then.....if only Jim Sterling was the Doctor, in addition to all of his other accolades, accomplishments and talents, we could've traveled back in time to the start of this week and stopped him from buying it. Such is life. (I'd send him this review, but he'd just get pissed off at me.)

[@crunchychips8123]

Jim, Uranus is always funny. Always. Don't sell Uranus short.

[@MutatedGuy]

Crunchy Chips Right! Just like "yo mama" jokes, they ain't going anywhere and I'm glad.

[@RubberyCat]

I do think I very much prefer Uranus over yo mama, take that as you like. ^_^

[@MutatedGuy]

RubberyCat 😂 😂 😂

[@RubberyCat]

^_^

[@mb2001]

Crunchy Chips …Thank you for resting Jim's case for him.

[@kodiak4594]

The wikicrawl I just did to see if Uranus is actually Greek showed me that the planets are named after both Roman and Greek deities. I figured it was all Roman