Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass Review

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There are probably many players — even fans of shooters. — who have only a vague idea of ​​who is Serious Sam series debuted in 2001 and has since spawned four main games and over ten benefits. That's a lot of Sam Serious Sam 4 released in 2020. The game Cream and Revolver Digital has been ported to consoles as the Serious Sam. 4: Planet Badass.

Despite the alarming number of Serious Sam games, the premise remains constant. You play Sam Serious Stone, an imitation of Duke Nuke with a penchant for puns and terrible jokes. Sam fighting an alien force called Mind. Mental forces consist of humanoid monsters, drones, soldiers, in short, all the random nonsense that developers decide to launch Sat Part of the initial appeal of Serious Sam was that it was anything serious main. It was for Dooms and Quakes of the time. There was no Gothic dark about Sam or games. Twenty years later, there still has not. But the fraternity boy who seemed hilarious to 19 or 20 years is not so funny when he is an adult.

The Serious Sam game book also remained consistent. Part 1: fight a swarm of enemy A. Part 2, fight the enemy B. For the final segment, combine A and B. Once Sam fought a type of enemy, he will usually make many more appearances. There are mission objectives like to meet a character or defend a place, but the fight of course is always the same.

Over the years, Serious Sam adopted some mechanisms other shooters like character enhancements and more focused on the story gameplay. The result is that the basic concept of Serious Sam feels increasingly disconnected and repetitive. It's as if your father was trying to become viral on TikTok.

After literally stable prologue, Sam and his team find themselves in Rome, in search of the father Mikhail, who believes that the Holy Grail is the key to defeating Mind. Serious Sam 4 is a kind of travelogue, taking Sam to Pompeii and Rome and Russia. Although there are some great moments, the story is quite aimlessly and has a really disappointing end. There are also side missions, but not surprisingly, they all end roughly by another prolonged battle based on the waves.

From what I can tell, not much about Serious Sam 4 has changed since I launched've reviewed on PC. The opening section of chapter one was (temporarily?) Revamped in a Christmas theme. Pickups armor are hidden in Christmas gifts, there is snow on the ground and skeletons warriors brandishing now candy canes instead of swords. Music is also on the holiday theme.

Most areas are open and sprawling, but most are empty of life except waves of monsters and soldiers. The environments and enemies all look good, but clearly show their age. After all, Serious Sam 4 began its development in 2012. Figurines models look quite the product of the old technology.

Sam has an extensive arsenal of conventional weapons and imaginative. It also starts with nice toys, like a device that creates a holographic copy of itself. There is no lock, and aim down can be frustrating and imprecise because there's really no time to do it in the middle of a circle strafing. The balancing of weapons is also a problem, some guns are more effective than guns, for example.

It seems difficult to worry about it. After all, Serious Sam is an arcade shooting game where the enemies are often ridiculous. The reason why it is worth mentioning is that these are almost absurd enemies weak against a specific weapon. If these weapons are difficult to use or unbalanced, each battle becomes (more) a chore.

Play Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass can be fun. It is also clear that the franchise is at a crossroads. He wants to steal other AAA shooters have believable characters, NPCs and history. At the same time, he shoved with a juvenile who fall for a lame joke man in a suit and gameplay that is heart, lack of creativity and repetitive. Long load times and frame rate issues do not help either. Twenty years later, Sam is not edgy, awkward or ironic. The Schick Sam, and gameplay that accompanies it, are in serious need of a makeover.