Volition was working on two Saints games before they were merged
We know the plan was originally for developer Volition to release theSaints Row: The Third‘sEnter the Dominatrixstandalone downloadable contentbefore they decided to turn it intoa full-blown sequel. So a lot of you are understandably worried thatSaints Row IVis just going to beSaints Row 3.5. As it turns out, both titles were under development at the same time before they were merged together.
It was around July last year when Volition decidedEnter the Dominatrixwasn’t happening. Jason Rubin who came on board as THQ’s President talked with the studio, and everyone came to the conclusion that it made more sense to combine the two games as there wasn’t going to be enough time to fully element and polish all the featuresDominatrixwas going to have. This also meant the whole studio would be focused on working on the one game instead of dividing their efforts.
So what ofEnter the Dominatrixis inSaints Row IV? “Very little,” according to creative director Steve Jaros. “We had to go and totally gut the story. The story stuff forEnter the Dominatrixwas all totally thrown out. All the voice recordings that we did for it all thrown out, we redid the entire story — the game is the full length of, mission-wise, is the same length asSaints Row 3.
“Plus we added a bunch of other open-world [stuff] on top of it.Enter the Dominatrixhad super powers, [and] beyond that there’s only a few moments that we really pulled [intoSaints Row IV]. And what we did bring in we blew it out so much more. “
For more onSaints Row IV,check out my previewdetailing some of the new content you may expect.
