![]() Serious Sam 4 has a fun little story that opens with Sam driving through Rome in his military convoy of Humvees with chopper escort when aliens launch their next attack and shit gets real. For me, surviving the chapter and unlocking the next was reward enough. Playing on the normal difficulty I never once beat the par time for any level…came close a couple times but never beat it. Serious Sam 4 is structured around thematic chapters set in unique locations with multi-part objectives and usually two or three optional side missions, but come on…are they really optional? Are you really going to skip major portions of content highlighted with glowing arrows and blue signage just to stay on mission especially when those side missions are usually home to some of the better weapons and upgrades in the game? For those with a competitive streak, these chapters are also scored based on performance and completion time, but unless you are intentionally speed-running the game I wouldn’t stress over the clock. As alien overlord, Mental prepares to unleash his final assault Sam must lead his resistance fighters into battle to save the planet. Makes me wonder if I missed anything in parts two and three? So apparently these incompetent aliens are still trying to take over the planet after all this time, but one man in a skintight T-shirt with the ability to carry a dozen weapons and hundreds of pounds of ammo around in his jeans’ pockets keeps foiling their plans. Now, two decades later, I’m pretty much doing the same thing only with much better graphics and in a new location. I remember exploring Egyptian architecture while blasting endless swarms of crazy monsters into bloody giblets. ![]() At the time it was more of a visual tech demo than anything else. It’s been twenty years since I dabbled around with the original Serious Sam game. As someone who favors the slower more tactical gameplay of games like Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon, Serious Sam is quite possibly the last game you’d expect me to play, let alone enjoy, but there is something refreshingly tactical about managing a huge assortment of weapons while combining ammo conservation, gadget use, and lots of backpedaling amidst some of the most epic carnage you can experience outside a Michael Bay movie. ![]() ![]() In all seriousness, you know it’s a bad year for AAA combat when I’m deleting lemons like Vanguard and Battlefield 2042 to make room for Serious Sam 4. There are numerous signs of the apocalypse dogs and cats living together, an alien invasion that threatens the entire planet, and me reviewing a Serious Sam game. ![]()
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