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Serious sam enemies11/26/2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() There are 15 levels and most of them are enormous. The series has always been about fighting hordes of enemies but this one really turns things up to 11. It’s familiar but bigger, faster, and more ridiculous than before. If you’ve played any other game in the series, you’ll have a general idea of what to expect from Serious Sam 4. Which is fine, although it’s kind of weird that the story hasn’t moved forward for Sam after 15 whole years. The overall story here is almost completely irrelevant to the franchise as a whole. It’s not uncommon to listen to them bicker about proper one-liner deployment, and their ceaseless use of snide remarks and snark fit right in with the ridiculous chaos happening at nearly all times. The characters are cliched but their voice actors do a good job and their banter is endearingly asinine, even if Sam’s voice sounds a bit off after all this time. The vast majority of the dialogue is meant to be funny and, while the game is endlessly stupid, it’s very frequently successful in its attempts at humor. Thankfully, that game’s grittiness is gone. Serious Sam 4 features slightly earlier versions of characters from the third game and similarly has a focus on their military outfit. After a couple of minutes (or seconds, if you manage to get yourself killed immediately), the story goes back to the beginning, with Sam and the other members of the Alien Artifact Acquisition team moving via a convoy in Rome for the purposes of meeting a Russian priest who knows where to find the Holy Grail. Hundreds of enemies fill the screen along with a hail of gunfire, which is quite a sight to behold. The game begins at the very end, with Sam leading the charge against Mental’s forces in Tunguska. But it takes place in a slightly different timeline than the third game, which isn’t a spoiler because it really doesn’t matter. With it, Croteam have created the strongest game in the series that fans will likely greatly enjoy regardless of which of the other games they prefer.Īlthough it’s billed as the fourth game in the series, Serious Sam 4 is actually a prequel to the third game, which was a prequel to the first game. Serious Sam 4 successfully brings back much of what people wanted to begin with while also updating various aspects of later entries. Although the first entries in the franchise are well-loved by fans, many were turned off by the cartoony direction of the second game and the military FPS-like focus that the third game offered. Sam Stone has had a rough go in regards to sequels. ![]()
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