Again, I know that this is kind of Serious Sam ‘s MO, but even as a fan of the genre I couldn’t help but get tired of the constant assault after a short while.
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That fight kind of surmises my time with Serious Sam 4 enter room, get absolutely bombarded with enemies, die repeatedly, gradually figure out a strategy, and after much trial and error graze through by the skin of my teeth. Those skeletal horse things are right bastards, and one fight saw dozens of them having at me in a small arena which was hard enough, let alone the whacking great alien bulls that then came in to assist them.
It feels like every few encounters we’re introduced to yet another new foe that is going to utterly rinse Sam’s health until we figure out where they lie in the combat hierarchy. In fact, the most impressive part of the game is just how diverse the enemies are. Pretty much from the word go, we get absolutely bombarded with headless suicide bombers, alien creatures, giant exploding bloaters, undead horse skeletons, and many, many more varieties. That would be the gunplay which is absolutely fucking nuts. The story on offer is simple yet fairly generic, and is clearly not the focus of SS4. quip about the situation around them often, and these were generally the best one-liners or character moments. The caricatures of general war game tropes are all here – the newbie, the tough as nails female, the bull headed captain etc – but it’s all played for laughs, and did actually get a few chuckles out of me. The story is delivered as ham-fistedly as you may expect from the series, with Sam, Kenny, Jones and more all quipping one liners and very little else. We play as Sam ‘Serious’ Stone, and are firmly plonked in the middle of an alien invasion in this prequel to Serious Sam 3. So when Serious Sam 4 dropped into Game Pass, I thought I’d give it a go because, well, why not? While the same criticisms can be levelled against it, I ended up having quite a fun time once I got into the flow. Of course, that’s the point of the game and it certainly has an audience, it just never sat well with me. The few times I’ve tried one I found them to be overly chaotic to the point of annoyance, with endless waves of enemies barrelling at Sam with no real nuance or tactical play. Despite my enjoyment of many old school arena shooters, I’ve never really clicked with the Serious Sam games.
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