![]() We had a great time playing Serious Sam 4 co-op slaying hordes of monsters with lots of laughs at the hilarious and perfectly-timed one-liners.You won’t have to wait too much longer for a Serious Sam revival. Once we finished the campaign playing co-op, we all felt no need to return to the game unless there’s more content added. ![]() It was impressive how the game handled the sheer volume of monsters on scree at once and still delivered a smooth gameplay experience. Some of the fights we had against thousands of enemies were crazy and exhilarating, especially with us shouting to each other over voice comms. Whilst some of the character animations weren’t the best, some of the level environments were amazing. If you’ve played any of the Serious Sam games, you’ll likely remember they never were outstanding in the graphics department, mainly due to having so many monsters to fight on screen at once. Loading into each level chugged the game too, however I imagine that would perhaps be the legion system loading in all the monster assets for that level. Thankfully we could suicide and respawn without losing progress, but these small issues soured our experience a little. However the character models looked dated comparing to other current games, and there were times some of us got stuck in the ground or in a door. There is a decent story throughout the game that’s easy to follow. There were times where all three of us couldn’t keep up the slaying. When I did try single player, I died a hell of a lot more due to the sheer number of monsters overwhelming me. We all did note though that had we played this single player, we probably wouldn’t have played as much as we all did. I played the game exclusively in a co-op team of 3 mates and we had an absolute ball slaying hordes of enemies and cracking up laughing at the well-timed one-liners. We were really pleasantly surprised with how fast it can run, because originally we were hoping for like 10,000 enemies, and now we’ve hit an order of magnitude more.” We have some levels that we’ll actually be able to populate with this many enemies. “This is one of the systems we actually developed for Serious Sam 4. Dean Sekulić, Serious Sam 4’s graphics engineer explained: ![]() This system will allow hundreds of thousands, yes, hundreds of thousands of monsters on screen. On the other hand, it got quite annoying if a headless kamikaze was yelling and running at one of us but got stuck on a low wall or some other obstacle, his scream would just be constant until we found him and killed it.Ĭroteam has prided the series on throwing hordes of enemies at players and for Serious Sam 4, they’ve taken things to the next level with the Legion System. On one hand this made for some easy kills as they were running away from some of us. Whilst playing co-op, we did find that if one or a couple of players split up and do different sections of the map, such as a side quest area while the rest do the main quest, when the hordes of monsters spawned in, they often just started running at one or two of us who may have been hundreds of metres away. Some of these functioned like the usual monsters you get in these co-op games like Left 4 Dead, but they still look awesome in this latest instalement. Brand new enemies include the frantic Processed, repulsive Belcher and the hard-hitting Zealot. Monsters from previous Serious Sam games are back, such as the hilarious at first Headless Kamikaze, who’s ‘AARRGGHHHHHH’ got a bit tiring after a few hours, Beheaded Rocketeer, Kleer, Scrapjack and Werebulls. Once you unlock some S.A.M perks, you can even dual wield most weapons to devastation effect. There are 15 different weapons to find in the game with the auto shotgun and minigun being highlights, and 8 different gadgets to alter your playstyle such as grenades, mini-nukes and black hole portals. Serious Sam 4 is still the chaotic arcade-style shooter where you’ll be constantly strafe-shooting and backpedaling fighting insane numbers of monsters, while finding the right tool for the job. The developers came into this game with the attitude of “if it works, don’t fix it”, so if you’ve played a Serious Sam game before, you’ll know what to expect. The level with Mt Vesuvius exploding with lava in the background was impressive. It’s more been about blowing up waves and waves of monsters, and man have Croteam upped the ante in the waves of monsters department! The environment graphics and effects are top notch, particularly for the size of some of these maps. The one-liners in this game are hilarious and the story builds around these, which is it’s saving grace as the Serious Sam games have never really had too rich a story. ![]() The voice and the character’s look is very reminiscent of Duke Nukem, and so is the humour, puns and one-liners. As soon as we saw Serious Sam in-game and heard his voice, I was glad that the original voice actor John J Dick was back again.
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