50 Fun Facts About Saints Row

Which Hollywood star plays himself as the mayor of Steelport in Saints Row: The Third?

Burt Reynolds appears as himself, the mayor of Steelport, and late in the story he is among the hostages the Boss must decide whether to save.

In Saints Row IV, the leader of the Saints holds which office when aliens attack the Earth?

US president is the Boss's job in Saints Row IV, won after stopping a nuclear missile aimed at Washington, and the White House is destroyed moments into the invasion.

Which color marks territory held by the 3rd Street Saints on the map of the first Saints Row game?

Purple shows Saints turf on the first game's map, against yellow for the Vice Kings, red for Los Carnales and blue for the Westside Rollerz.

The first Saints Row was labeled a clone of which crime series, pushing its sequels toward over-the-top parody?

Grand Theft Auto was the model, and the first game's design director later admitted that most of it was borrowed from Grand Theft Auto III.

Saints Row IV traps the Saints inside a computer simulation of Steelport, parodying which science fiction film?

The Matrix is the main film target, though the story also spoofs Zero Dark Thirty and the science fiction games of its day.

Which wrestling star voices Angel de la Muerte, the former partner of Killbane, in Saints Row: The Third?

Hulk Hogan voices Angel, who helps plan the public humiliation of Killbane at a major wrestling match; Roddy Piper turns up to help the Boss in the next game.

Which actor has voiced the trigger-happy Saints lieutenant Johnny Gat in every one of his Saints Row appearances?

Daniel Dae Kim has voiced Gat in every appearance, including the spin-off Agents of Mayhem, and has said he would like to return for as long as the series runs.

Which Saints Row IV weapon was called iconic of the game by critics and sold as a replica in a limited edition?

The Dubstep Gun became the game's emblem, and Johnny Gat even took it along as a special move when he guest-starred in the fighting game Divekick.

Which 19th-century novelist is revealed as the narrator of Saints Row IV after being woken from alien stasis?

Jane Austen narrates the game because the Boss is a fan, choosing her from the historical figures the alien leader kept in suspended animation.

Which American studio, earlier known for the space shooter FreeSpace, developed every main Saints Row game?

Volition got its name when its founder disliked about fifty staff suggestions and went looking through the books in his living room instead.

Stilwater, home of the 3rd Street Saints in the first two games, was modeled on Chicago and which other American city?

Detroit and Chicago gave Stilwater its look and feel, its developers said, and they set the fictional city in Michigan.

Which emblem of the 3rd Street Saints appeared on a Ouija board in the teaser for Saints Row: Gat out of Hell?

A fleur-de-lis is the Saints' mark, and it carried over to the heroes of the spin-off Agents of Mayhem, whose agency wears it too.

Which festive figure do the Saints rescue from the alien simulation in a Saints Row IV mission pack?

Santa Claus is saved in How the Saints Save Christmas, a three-mission story in which the holiday-hating Boss learns the season's true meaning.

The weapons of Saints Row: Gat out of Hell, such as a cake-batter gun, are themed on which religious list?

The seven deadly sins inspired the arsenal, so the Gluttony Gun coats enemies in cake batter for other people to devour.

Which actor voices Saints leader Julius Little, then plays himself as the Boss's deputy in Saints Row IV?

Keith David voices Julius in the first two games, then returns as himself in Saints Row IV, where he briefly sells out the Saints to the invaders.

Which alien overlord destroys the Earth and traps the Boss in a simulation in Saints Row IV?

Zinyak leads the Zin empire, and he had quietly abducted Johnny Gat years before the invasion because he feared Gat could stop it alone.

The first Saints Row, begun as a PlayStation 2 project, was released exclusively for which console?

Xbox 360 owners had the game to themselves: ports for PlayStation 3 and Wii were both started and then cancelled.

In a Saints Row: The Third escort activity likened to a scene in Talladega Nights, which animal rides in the car?

A tiger is the passenger, an idea Eurogamer's reviewer traced to the Will Ferrell racing comedy.

Which publisher released the first three Saints Row games before collapsing into bankruptcy in December 2012?

THQ collapsed while Saints Row IV was still in development, and the studio and series went to auction, drawing a winning bid of about $22 million.

In Saints Row IV, the Boss's worst nightmare is a simulation modeled on which kind of television show?

A 1950s sitcom world is the first prison built for the Boss, and the gang's hacker is later found trapped in one of her own.

Which Steelport gang in Saints Row: The Third runs its own casino, deals steroids and is led by Killbane?

The Luchadores are styled on Mexican wrestlers, and their boss goes on a rampage across Steelport after he is humiliated in the ring.

Which lieutenant in the first Saints Row turns out to be an undercover cop and later heads Stilwater's police?

Troy Bradshaw was a plant all along, yet as police chief in Saints Row 2 he uses his influence to protect the Saints he helped put in prison.

In the first two Saints Row games, which points from side activities are spent to unlock story missions?

Respect is spent to start each mission, and in Saints Row 2 buying clothes and other items for the character raises how much of it a player earns.

In the first Saints Row, driving through which kind of roadside stop instantly clears the player's notoriety?

A confessional with a drive-through lane wipes the slate at once for a fee, and a visit to a plastic surgeon clears a player's notoriety too.

Steelport, the setting of Saints Row: The Third, is loosely based on which American city?

Pittsburgh is one model for Steelport, along with New York City, and the game explains the city's jumble of buildings by saying it has no zoning laws.

Which famous writer is among the souls Johnny Gat recruits as allies in Saints Row: Gat out of Hell?

William Shakespeare joins the cause in Hell alongside the pirate Blackbeard and Vlad the Impaler, all recruited to get Satan's attention.

Saints Row: Gat out of Hell, in which Satan sings sentimental songs, parodies the animated films of which studio?

Disney films are a great love of the creative director, so the story borrows a Sleeping Beauty birthday party and a princess who defies her father.

Enter the Dominatrix, the expansion that grew into Saints Row IV, was first announced by its publisher as what?

An April Fools' joke in 2012 was how the expansion first surfaced; within months it was real, then cancelled and folded into a full sequel.

Which actor voices DJ Veteran Child, a rival gang lieutenant who kidnaps his ex-girlfriend, in Saints Row 2?

Neil Patrick Harris plays the DJ, who is forced into the kidnapping by his own gang and is killed by the Boss during the rescue.

Which Saints Row 2 gang, led by a man known as the General, makes and sells drugs in Stilwater?

Sons of Samedi is a Haitian Vodou gang whose leader runs it from an armored limousine, which the Saints track down through the city's cameras.

Which Saints lieutenant is voiced by Eliza Dushku in Saints Row 2 and recast for Saints Row: The Third?

Shaundi joins in the second game to dig into a drug-dealing gang, and by Saints Row IV she is one of the Boss's two top lieutenants.

Which former FBI agent and hacker is playable alongside Johnny Gat in Saints Row: Gat out of Hell?

Kinzie Kensington, whose birthday party opens the story, shares the lead with Gat in the first series entry where players do not control the Boss.

Which publisher bought Saints Row at a bankruptcy auction in 2013 and went on to release Saints Row IV?

Deep Silver's parent, Koch Media, outbid Ubisoft, whose offer was roughly a quarter of the winning one, and took both the studio and the series.

Ultor, the corporate villain of Saints Row 2, first appeared in which earlier series by the same studio?

Red Faction shares its villainous Ultor with Saints Row, and a Saints Row 2 add-on even brought in content themed on Red Faction: Guerrilla.

Which country refused Saints Row IV a rating, banning the game until an edited version was approved?

Australia's ratings board turned the game away at first, and the country's later PlayStation 4 release was recalled over a classification error.

Saints Row IV, with its stolen spaceship base and crew romances, mainly parodies which science fiction game series?

Mass Effect 2 is the chief target, right down to romance options with crewmates, and one mission sends up Metal Gear with an unhelpful partner.

Which R&B singer, Johnny Gat's girlfriend, has her death faked in the first Saints Row to hurt the Vice Kings?

Aisha is the Vice Kings' star singer, and her murder by the Ronin in the sequel drives Gat's bloodiest revenge.

The story of Saints Row 2, a tale of betrayal and revenge, drew strong influence from which director's films?

Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill shaped a script of roughly 80,000 lines, twice the length of the first game's.

In Saints Row: Gat out of Hell, Satan kidnaps the Boss to marry which daughter of his?

Jezebel is already rebelling against her father, and she is the one who finds Johnny Gat and takes him to confront Satan.

Agents of Mayhem, the spin-off set in the Saints Row universe, is set in a futuristic version of which city?

Seoul gets a futuristic makeover, and in this rebooted timeline Johnny Gat is a police lieutenant there rather than a gangster.

Steelport's landmark statue in Saints Row: The Third, modeled on the Statue of Liberty, shows which folk hero?

Joe Magarac's statue even comes to life in Saints Row IV, where the player animates it to fight a giant energy drink mascot.

Under which working title did the first Saints Row begin development as a PlayStation 2 game?

Bling Bling grew out of a design exercise among the staff, in which one idea was a gang simulator played as a first-person shooter.

Rapper 50 Cent announced in 2009 that he was working on which project based on Saints Row?

A movie screenplay was his plan, along with optioning the rights, but nothing came of it, and a second attempt at an adaptation was announced a decade later.

The widely criticized Windows port of Saints Row 2 was handled by a team at which Polish company?

CD Projekt's localisation team did the port, which PC Gamer later listed among the worst PC ports.

Which Swedish company closed the studio behind Saints Row in August 2023, a year after the reboot's release?

Embracer Group shut the studio during a debt-cutting restructuring, and the closure cost 183 people their jobs, though the series itself was kept alive.

Which pop-out figure hidden in Saints Row 2's Stilwater was named the top hidden game secret of 2008?

The Easter Bunny was the winner, an Easter egg in the most literal sense, tucked in among the many landmarks and secrets of the rebuilt city.

A radio station in Saints Row: The Third features artists and themes from the shows of which television brand?

Adult Swim lends its artists and show themes to a fictional station called The Swim, one of the playlists drivers can flip between.

The studio behind Saints Row was based in the downtown of which Illinois college city?

Champaign was home from the founding to the closure, and the studio was born when the two partners behind Descent split their company in two.

Which international crime organization, led by Phillipe Loren, rules Steelport at the start of Saints Row: The Third?

The Syndicate bails the Saints out of jail only to demand most of their profits, and their refusal starts the war for Steelport.

Which paramilitary force puts Steelport under martial law partway through Saints Row: The Third?

S.T.A.G., the Special Tactical Anti-Gang initiative, arrives with advanced technology and is overseen by the widow of the Saints' old enemy Richard Hughes.