“Expressing yourself can mean anything from trying to make a character a boss that looks exactly like you to making a character that is who you want to be ,” explains Allen. Allen explains that even in “early talks”, the team saw the importance of Saints Row‘s character creator letting players express themselves. Volition’s new story started with the character creator, which allows players to adjust their created character on several sliders, meaning instead of gender there’s the option for players to make their character more masculine or feminine, but also the option to choose any cosmetics for any body type, even replacing limbs with a suite of prosthetics if they want. “There’s such a range, so that when we talked about it when we looked at what we wanted to do with this entry, we said ‘well let’s tell a new story, let’s tell something that is new characters, new boss, new location, let’s establish our own story basically’.” “They started off very small but, you know, by the end of it you’re fighting Zinyak and fighting this alien overlord and then going into hell. “The Saints have been a lot of places,” says Allen.
