![]() ![]() The game is structured with all of these battle “arenas” some quite obvious like the actual Colosseum, while other combat ensues in the city streets or amongst ancient ruins. ![]() You also get some nifty gear like life injectors, a serum that speeds you up while reducing your damage and inflicting quad-damage to your enemies, and even a gadget that summons a black hole to suck up an entire battlefield of enemies…use cautiously. You start off with a lowly pistol but a few hours into the game you will have a double-ring of weapon slots with everything from single and double barrel shotguns to assault rifles, grenade and rocket launchers, C4 sticky bombs, and a powerful sniper rifle. You quickly learn that Serious Sam 4 is all about reflexes and weapons management. Unfortunately, none of my usual online gaming buds were even remotely interested in playing this with me…something about some small-time indie shooter called Halo Infinite, so I was left to save Earth alone…not the first time. There are areas in the solo game where AI teammates will fight alongside you. Kenny is the first hint of the new cooperative element of the campaign that allows for up to four players to save the world. Sam and the only survivor of the convoy, Kenny, emerge from the wreckage and must fight their way back to the resistance while navigating the monster-filled streets of Rome. 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. The Ancient Khnum is the most dangerous of all Khnum, able to employ various types of Magic.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. This Creature was from a time where there were much larger Khnums, but due to a Great Ice Age, all of the larger Khnums was frozen while the present-day Khnums manage to get lucked out due to their smaller size. Awoken from its deep permafrost slumber, the Ancient Khnum lives to fight another day. ![]()
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