All I can say is that I laughed out loud at the way it's told here, and that certainly wasn't for the last time. It's all in the delivery: there's a brilliant gag involving a ridiculously long health bar that I'm certain would have fallen flat elsewhere - and may indeed have been done before. It just about gets away with both by virtue of being genuinely funny. 'There's a faint whiff of missed opportunity about Enter The Dominatrix, but four or five really good laughs are enough to warrant a cautious thumbs-up.' This is not good satire, even if I did stifle a mild chuckle at Kinzie's rant about 'four consecutive escort missions'. Secondly, it does that horrible thing that a great many other games have done, in satirizing game mechanics by simply presenting them and pointing out how dreadful they are.

As great and influential as the Wachowskis' pioneering sci-fi was, we should, perhaps, be past referencing it some 14 years after its original release. Somehow, it works, and it does so despite committing two cardinal comedy sins. The Saints, including characters from previous games that didn't make the cut in 4, comment on events throughout, winking to camera during the interstitial interview snippets, and in one case - namely, SR4 absentee Donnie - moaning about their lack of screen time. The action is framed as previously unseen footage, revealed by the cast to journalist Jane Valderama on her TV show. It all hangs upon a very post-modern conceit that, in other hands, could have been horribly smug or indulgent. This isn't a particularly great expansion in mechanical terms, but the way it's presented papers over a lot of cracks. Which is probably for the best, as it turns out. Volition opts not to take the opportunity to discuss the vagaries of game development, and instead plays it for laughs. This, then, presents a shorter, alternative take on the Zin invasion, with the simulated Steelport in which the Saints are trapped taken over by a rogue AI program, the titular Dominatrix. In its nascent form, it was an expansion pack for Saints Row: The Third until THQ decided it merited a full-blown sequel. Enter the Dominatrix is potentially a fascinating case study in how games evolve.

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