It’s a really neat addition, but not really needed.

This time around, Serious Sam 4 introduces the skill tree which makes you increase health and stuff, but it doesn’t change the fact that the game at its core is still shoot everything up. Some people might not care for a story, but I thought it was still a good addition to Serious Sam 4. It’s not the focal point, but it’s a pretty neat experience.Īs with the gameplay, there’s still nothing much to explain other than you either like the story or not. As you would expect in a Serious Sam game, the bad guys come down to earth, and Sam comes to screw everything up again.įor me, I enjoyed the story and it’s cheesy humor and dialogue, it’s was makes Sam… Sam. While not really a big element of Serious Sam 4, there is a story mode. There’s really not much to say about its gameplay just because it’s Serious Sam! To quickly sum it up, the gameplay is still seriously awesome, the arsenal of weapons is seriously awesome, and mindlessly shooting everything is still seriously fun. I didn’t really mind this because I love how there is a challenge to keep things fresh and challenging. I played on normal difficulty, but I still found myself dying over and over again. Something else I want to point out too is that this game is seriously hard, but a good kind of hard. Mindlessly shooting everything that comes your way and blowing up everything is seriously fun, and Serious Sam 4 get’s this right. There’s a certain punch and feel to the weapons that just shooting over and over again doesn’t get old. It’s fun to play Serious Sam 4 and just mindlessly shoot as many enemies coming your way and what really helps too is the weapon selection is still seriously awesome.

Essentially, the core gameplay is run and shoot. That’s a fact, but something that I really need to give the credit for is that Serious Sam 4 did not change its formula one bit and that’s a good thing. This Game is Hard, but a Good Kind of HardĪt its core, Serious Sam has never taken itself seriously. There’s something charming about running around like a dumbass shooting as many enemies coming your way or to put it more professionally, strategically running.ĭeveloped by Croatian-based developer Croteam, Serious Sam 4 is the blah blah blah, I’ll just get straight into the review. To get to the point, do I think this is the BEST Serious Sam game to date? No, but I do think this is a pretty fun Serious Sam game overall that obviously doesn’t take itself seriously because that’s what makes this game unique. It has been almost a decade since a new Serious Sam game came out, so when Serious Sam 4 finally came out, I was pretty excited to get back on the Serious Sam grind. As someone who has a soft spot for the Serious Sam series, I was pretty excited when Sam would be returning for another iteration.

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