History VideoGame / SaintsRow2022

** The genre of the radio station ''Flex'' is listed as generic "Internet Rap" even though most of the musicians featured on the station are connected to the real-life ''SoundCloud rap'' genre.

** Stores hire gangs to kill anyone giving them less than five stars on @tcha.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Los Panteros are often seen working on their cars, and they take great pride in their rides. As such, they consider their car more important than their life, and destroying a Pantero's car is a much worse punishment than simply killing them. In "Neenah's Car", Sergio steals Neenah's project car as punishment for her desertion, and you "torture" a Pantero for information by editing his car through the vehicle customization menu.
--> '''Neenah:''' You shoot someone in the face, they're dead. You fuck with their car, they're nothing.

* HollywoodLaw: [[spoiler:Atticus Marshall tries to legally take over the Saints via a non-compete clause in The Boss' contract during their time at MDI. This does, however, ignore the fact that The Boss was fired fully from their job before they did anything that resembled infringement on a non-compete agreement. Technically they could attempt to enforce it, but nobody should have taken it seriously before it actually went to court due to the firing meaning The Boss has reasonable grounds to consider the entire contract null and void as well as the "competition" listed being blatantly illegal acts that have nothing to do with the legally established Saints brand that could be absorbed by Marshall.]]

* ThePeterPrinciple: One mission is directly named after the trope. Due to getting things done during their first two jobs for Marshall, Atticus himself gives the Boss a very important job: guarding a very precious artifact in a museum. Unfortunately, you end up in the middle of a MeleeATrois with Los Panteros and the Idols, and [[spoiler:the artifact gets stolen by the Idols, leading to you getting fired]]. The Boss starts off their career at Marshall by doing impressive things, and as a result they get promoted to a job that is beyond their experience level or skill set. It’s arguably a downplayed or subverted example, however. The [[spoiler: Codex being taken]] only happens because the Boss prioritizes saving Myra Starr (a VIP and board member of Marshall), which still falls under their purview as the security chief, and they do so despite facing an army of gangsters. If the Boss prioritized an item over the life of a board member they wouldn’t have been fired, but they have no way of knowing that Atticus is a BadBoss who doesn’t care for Myra’s life versus that of his property. Averted when they become Boss of the Saints and are shown to be rather competent at coaching the recruits (even giving them video presentation on how to force an armored car) and while still preferring hands on approach they can manage the Saints fine.
** [[spoiler: On the other hand it might be a refernce for Finch himself dabbling in gang politics. If you pay attention he knows his way around White-collar business very well, it's once he starts actively getting in the middle of gang business that Los Panteros, The Idols, and later The Saints all start to get one over on MDI despite their superior tech and training. And even his treating a ''violent gang'' like another company to be devoured legally ends with his ousting and/or murder. He's also the only gang leader who can't put up a fight himself.]]

* TooDumbToLive: The Marshall Lawyer who informs the Boss that [[spoiler:Marshall owns the Saints as a result of their former contract with the company]] decides to do so by strolling into their base of operations with no armed guards and giving the news as smugly and obnoxiously as possible. [[BoomHeadshot This ends predictably]].

-> ''Keep it Strange, Tropers.''

** Each gang has 3 or 4 special enemy types with armor, enhanced health, and often a special combat style. Typically this is a "light" elite with double health[=/=]armor and a better weapon such as a grenade launcher, wolverine claws, or a fusillade rifle, a "medium" elite with even more armor[=/=]health and a special combat style (such as the Idols Ravers with twirling glowsticks they can use to deflect bullets, the Panteros Thumpers with shotgun cannons, or the Marshall's Wranglers who use beam rifles and drop lasso traps or Gunslingers who dual-wield homing rayguns and can generate holograms of themselves), and a MiniBoss elite with high durability and heavy weapons (such as the Idols leaders with dual uzis, the 7-foot tall Panteros Gigantes with super-sledgehammers, or the Marshall's PoweredArmor Gatling Gunners).

** Each gang has 3 or 4 special enemy types with armor, enhanced health, and often a special combat style. Typically this is a "light" elite with double health[=/=]armor and a better weapon such as a grenade launcher, wolverine claws, a fusillade rifle, or a beam rifle, a "medium" elite with even more armor[=/=]health and a special combat style (such as the Idols with twirling glowsticks they can use to deflect bullets, the Panteros with shotgun cannons, or the Marshall's Gunslingers who dual-wield homing rayguns and can generate holograms of themselves), and a MiniBoss elite with high durability and heavy weapons (such as the Idols leaders with dual uzis, the 7-foot tall ''Panteras'' with super-sledgehammers, or the Marshall's PoweredArmor Gatling Gunners).

* MiniBoss: Each enemy gang has a miniboss-level special enemy with a ''large'' amount of armor (typically a dozen times the armor of a standard enemy, double that for some members of the Collective and the ''Panteras''). These are the Idols leaders with dual uzis (which includes The Collective as well as sub-leaders), the 7-foot tall super sledgehammer wielding ''Panteras'', and the Marshall's PoweredArmor wearing Gatling Gunners.

** The game still has a number of game-breaking bugs, such as suddenly in the middle of gameplay becoming unable to perform basic functions such as exit vehicles, switch weapons, or use your phone camera. If any of these happen you're required to shut the game down and boot it up again to play normally.

* MiniBoss: Each enemy gang has a miniboss-level special enemy with a ''large'' amount of armor (typically 25 times the armor of a standard enemy). These are the Idols leaders with dual uzis (which includes The Collective as well as sub-leaders), the 7-foot tall super sledgehammer wielding ''Panteras'', and the Marshall's PoweredArmor wearing Gatling Gunners.

** Each gang has 3 or 4 special enemy types with armor, enhanced health, and often a special combat style. Typically this is a "light" elite with double health[=/=]armor and a better weapon such as a grenade launcher, shotgun, or wolverine claws, a "medium" elite with even more armor[=/=]health and a special combat style (such as the Idols with twirling batons they can use to deflect bullets, or the Marshall's Gunslingers who dual-wield homing rayguns and can generate holograms of themselves), and a "heavy" elite with high durability and heavy weapons (such as the Idols leaders with dual uzis, the Panteros minigunners or turret gunners, or the Marshall's PoweredArmor troops).

** Each gang has 3 or 4 special enemy types with armor, enhanced health, and often a special combat style. Typically this is a "light" elite with double health[=/=]armor and a better weapon such as a grenade launcher, shotgun, or wolverine claws, a "medium" elite with a special combat style (such as the Idols with twirling batons they can use to deflect bullets, or the Marshall's Gunslingers who dual-wield homing rayguns and can generate holograms of themselves), and a "heavy" elite with high durability and heavy weapons (such as the Idols leaders with dual uzis, the Panteros minigunners or turret gunners, or the Marshall's PoweredArmor troops).

* EliteMooks: "Tough" enemies have a yellow armor bar over their red health bar, allowing them to take about twice as much damage and making them immune to takedowns as long as they have armor meter. Additionally, they have a little over twice as much base health as regular enemies, which adds up to them being a little over 4 times as tough. The first one you encounter is a Panteros who's treated like a mini-boss.

* GameBreakingBug: In earlier versions of the game, the mission "Drawing Heat" would very often become impossible: at one point, you have to kill every police officer, but some of them will spawn on top of a nearby highway overpass, while you're much lower down at ground level. From this position, it's impossible to hit them, and it's also not possible to get to the top of the overpass, as the only route to get there requires you to leave the mission area, which [[ContinueYourMissionDammit results in failure]]. This was thankfully patched in the September hotfix.

The game was released on August 23, 2022 for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS, and PC (with a timed exclusivity deal with the UsefulNotes/EpicGamesStore).

* HollywoodLaw: [[spoiler: Atticus Marshall tries to legally take over the saints via a non-compete clause in The Boss' contract during their time at MDI. This does, however, ignore the fact that The Boss was fired fully from their job before they did anything that resembled infringement on a non-compete agreement. Technically they could attempt to enforce it but nobody should have taken it seriously before it actually went to court due to the firing meaning The Boss has reasonable grounds to consider the entire contract null and void as well as the "competition" listed being blatantly illegal acts that have nothing to do with the legally established saints brand that could be absorbed by Marshall.]]

You see, Santo Ileso is under the control of three gangs: namely, vehicle focused Los Panteros, the anarchist Idols, and the militarist Marshall Defence Industries. However, you have just [[StartMyOwn started your own gang]] in order to compete with them.

** During the First Strike Dojo Venture (where you're restricted to using Takedowns, the Flaming Punch flow ability, and are at the mercy of the game's [[ScrappyMechanic clunky melee system]] on top of that), you're given unlimited Takedowns and Flow, to ease the tedium of otherwise mashing the melee button until everyone in the immediate vicinity drops dead.

* ObviousBeta: The game launched in an extremely buggy state:
** Commonly encountered bugs include frequent crashes (both hard and soft), various issues that can force one to restart a mission, assorted animation and physics issues, problems with enemy AI, and a bevy of Co-op bugs that can make it almost unplayable.
** One particularly annoying bug would make starting up the game a chore, as the launcher would often display an error message during loading, requiring an unintuitive workaround to start the game.
** While the game uses the same engine as ''The Third'', it is not particularly well-optimized (even on the [=PlayStation=] 5 and Xbox Series), with an extremely short render distance leading to distracting pop-in. The PC version performs better, especially in lower configurations, if ran with the Directx 11 executable instead of the Directx 12 and Vulkan executables.

The game was released on August 23rd, 2022 for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, [[UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS Xbox Series X|S]], and PC (with a timed exclusivity deal with the UsefulNotes/EpicGamesStore).

!!''Saints Row (2022)'' provides Examples of:

** The genre of the radio station ''Flex'' is listed as "Internet Rap" even though most of the musicians featured on the station are connected to the real-life ''SoundCloud Rap'' genre.

** The Bright Future sidequest was patched to be completed with only 5 trucks instead of the 13 it originally asked for. In addition to being very touchy about docking your total reward if you get tapped wrong you have to drive trucks, which are slow and bulky, from across the map to one point which can just be time consuming even without the challenge. The rest are still there uf you want the money, however.

* BusmansHoliday: The "Corporate Retreat" mission. [[spoiler:In order to help the Nahuali integrate with the rest of the team, Boss sets a day aside for fun team-building activities without any of the usual mass-murder. Except everywhere they go, they get attacked by gangs and Marshall forces.]]