![]() How you survive wave after wave is up to you. Like previous games in the series, Serious Sam 4 delights in putting you into massive, open areas and dropping loads of enemies in with you. Many first-person shooters of this ilk pack you into maze-like corridors, with enemies ambushing you from various alcoves and altitudes. And Sam's newest recruit, a wet-behind-the-ears soldier named Kenny, is essentially Cyril Figgis.įunny writing aside, Serious Sam 4 is also a really solid shooter, as it continues with the formula that long ago helped it stand out from the crowd. Hearing the team banter back and forth about the correct pun to make when launching a mini-nuke is much funnier than you'd think it would be. The game itself has clever writing with an irreverent, sardonic streak that's reminiscent of games like Borderlands and television series like Archer. Protagonist Sam Stone seems an awful lot like Duke Nukem, but he can actually be pretty funny sometimes. On paper, Serious Sam 4 sounds a lot like other first-person shooters, but it does have a few elements that really help set it apart from other games in the genre. It's big, dumb humor that's smart enough to not be grating and smart enough to not act like it's smart enough, which keeps it from getting annoying. There isn't quite enough here to knock something like Doom Eternal off its perch, but if you're craving a different style of FPS, you should check Serious Sam 4 out. It puts you in fun scenarios with plenty of monsters to destroy and plenty of clever ways to destroy them. ![]() ![]() Serious Sam 4 isn't dramatically more than you'd expect from a Serious Sam game, but it does what you'd expect extremely well. ![]()
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