Digital Foundry gets to grips with Saints Row on all last-gen consoles - better than you may think, but still hard to recommend:
I've spent the last week playing Saints Row on last-gen PS4 and Xbox One systems - and honestly? It's really not that bad. The fundamental technological issues remain: the glaring shadow pop-in is back - and actually a bit worse here. The buggy NPC animations and physics return too. And lastly of course, the 60fps target of the PS5 and Series X versions gives way to something lower on last-gen machines - a sub-40fps frame-rate or even sub-30 in stress-test scenarios.
Can last-gen consoles handle Saints Row? Well, so far we've seen that the enhanced machines lose a little detail and a big chunk of performance compared to their more modern counterparts, but rough frame-rates aside, it looks similar with only minor tweaks to settings. On the base machines, however, developer Volition has to cut deeper.
All told, Saints Row isn't a disaster on any of these four older systems, despite the inconsistent nature of the game running on the newer, far more capable machines. PS4 Pro offers the smoothest frame-rate of the bunch, while Xbox One X has the best image quality - but even the base Xbox One S turns in a frame-rate often above 30fps.
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