However it lives on as many of the conceptual features have been brought over into Saints Row IV, but Volition plans to release a ”kind of” Director’s Cut with all ETD features post launch.
The assumption has been that Saints Row IV was actually Enter The Dominatrix but just made bigger. This isn’t the case Jim Boone from Volition tells us in our interview.
”We were actually starting on Saints Row IV a little before Saints Row: The Third was actually finished, and so we’re working full speed ahead on that as a full project, but at the same time we also started on this expansion pack for after Saints Row: The Third called Enter the Dominatrix,” Boone begins to explain.
”What ended up happening was that there were features in ETD which ended up working really well conceptually, but part of the trick was that we didn’t have enough time to fully develop them and give them the time they deserved to take these features truly to the next level. We were able to incorporate those features into the full game and I think it’s worked out really well for us that way – we’ve been given the time to really give it some polish.”
However they will give fans a more pure cut of Enter The Dominatrix sometime after Saints Row IV has released in the form of a Director’s Cut, if you will. Boone also reveals that any downloadable content from now on is strictly for IV.
”…so Enter The Dominatrix has kind of gone away now, that’s not happening, but we plan to release it sometime after Saints Row IV as DLC, kind of as a ‘Director’s Cut’, where people can get a chance to see what we were working on there. I mean there’s craziness in Saints Row IV, but I think people will still be surprised by some of the crazy stuff that we didn’t move over from ETD,” he added. ”Then again maybe not, maybe we’ve used up our insanity now.”
”It’s going to be all Saints Row IV going forward.”
Saints Row IV releases on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC August 20th in the US, 23rd in Europe. It’s a direct sequel to Saints Row: The Third where the leader of the Saints has been elected President, and then aliens attacks. Typical.
