There's the Sirian Werebull, a fleshy creature with horns that charges headlong at you, unless you can take it out with a few well-timed blasts from your double shotgun. If you've played Serious Sam before, you'll recognize most of them. The alien horde has already won, but the resistance hopes to score a strategic advantage by tracking down the Holy Grail, which is actually an alien artifact hidden somewhere among the art and architecture of an impressively unspoiled Italy.Īs Sam embarks on this quest, he faces down a familiar horde of enemies with a familiar arsenal of weapons.
In this outing, which functions as a prequel to The First Encounter, Sam and a small group of resistance fighters are attempting to push back the villainous Mental's assault on Earth. Croteam is simply willing to throw a ridiculous number of enemies at you at all times and it has the tech to pull it off. But, in this newly crowded landscape, Serious Sam 4 has a secret weapon. It's been nine years since the last mainline entry, and in that time we've witnessed the revival of circle-strafing shooters thanks to games both big (Doom) and small (Dusk). And, as in First and Second Encounter, the gameplay is razor-sharp and front-and-center. As in Serious Sam 2, there's vehicular combat and humor to spare (and a surprising portion of the jokes land). As in Serious Sam 3, the graphics are realistic (though a little stiff).
It was never broken, but each game finds the developer trying to fix it.Įnter Serious Sam 4, yet another reinvention that seems to draw from every period of the series' long life. But, at times, that loop has been obscured by some of the strange decisions Croteam has made with the series.
You will always back-pedal, you will always circle-strafe, and you will always fight dozens of Sam's memorable cadre of alien enemies at once. Through each entry, developer Croteam has held onto the core gameplay loop that defined Sam's initial jaunt across Egypt.
0 kommentar(er)
