You haven’t seen Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell until you’ve seen its musical trailer

By Will Fulton Published December 5, 2014

Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell, the upcoming follow-up to Saints Row IV, has taken the series’ trademark absurdity to a new level with a full-blown, Disneyesque musical number in a new trailer released by publisher Deep Silver. Who could have guessed that the series which began with prosaic gang warfare in 2006 would somehow arrive at a flame-wreathed Satan belting to his daughter in a rich baritone about her arranged marriage? Feast your eyes and ears:

Developed by Deep Silver Volition and High Voltage Software, Gat Out of Hell is a pseudo-sequel to Saints Row IV. After liberating Earth from aliens in the previous game, the leader of the Saints/president of the United States is kidnapped by Satan, who intends to marry the stolen Saint off to his daughter, Jezebel.

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You play as Johnny Gat and Kinzie Kensington in Hell, trying to free their boss and “shoot Satan in the face.” The game features historical icons, old friends, and a talking gun, along with all the genre-savvy, open world silliness that fans have come to expect from the series.

Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell will be available for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox 360, and Xbox One on January 20, 2015 for $20. Its release coincides with the remastered and content-complete Saints Row IV: Re-Elected, which brings the series to PS4 and XB1 for the first time.

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Will Fulton is a New York-based writer and theater-maker. In 2011 he co-founded mythic theater company AntiMatter Collective…

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