Saints Row is famous for pushing the envelope with extremely crude content and humor, so it’s a little surprising to learn that the new expansion was inspired by wholesome Disney movies.
Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell has players taking on the role of Johnny Gat or Kinzie Kensington and descending into hell to liberate the boss from a marriage the Devil's daughter.
“I’m pretty certain that we’ll be the only open-world game that comes out with a full-blown musical number in the middle of the critical path,” creative director Steve Jaros told Destructoid.
“One of the things that we lean on [heavily] for inspiration for this is Disney movies. I’m a big Disney fan. For instance, if you remember stuff like in Sleeping Beauty or Cinderella, the beginning of the movies [have] the ornate story book that opens up. It’s illuminated text and story-book pictures, and a narrator – that’s kind of our story structure,” he continued.
“Jane Austen narrates you through this fairy tale; [Satan's daughter] Jezebel is very much a sort of Disney princess.”
And no, Gat Out of Hell isn’t a parody or piss take of Disney movies – it just “echoes some of those themes”, Jaros said.
The expansion releases in January for PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, and PC.
