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As we’re only six issues into PLAY, we know a thing or two about fresh starts. This issue seems to be all about them, from original games to reboots to existing ones and new approaches to long-running series. It matches the newness of PlayStation 5 itself, still in its first year. This is a great time to look to the future. Saints Row, with its clean title and back-to-basics approach (p54) is the centrepiece of this issue. We dive into why now was the time to bring it back as we speak with Volition about the undertaking, and dissect the gameplay we’ve been shown behind closed doors. It might nix superpowers and the supernatural, but it’s the same zany crime series we grew to love as we played Saints Row 2…