This makes the game feel much more traditional as a campaign-based FPS. In this game though, you get more of a linear FPS type of level design with specific paths and alleys to go through that link up larger areas. The first game was set in rather plain arenas that were just absolute filled with just a stupid amount of enemies.
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Having jumped from the first game to this one without really spending any time with the others, it is interesting to see where the series has gone. Sam gets pistols, shotguns, rifles, grenade launchers, rockets and more with which to take on the aliens as well as gadgets such as decoys, healing packs and time-dilation devices. Thankfully though, this is a Serious Sam game and so you’ve got the arsenal you need. Your squad is really just there to give someone Sam to wisecrack at although they do occasionally get involved in combat but, for the most part, you’re really on your own. It all goes to hell pretty quickly though and so its up to you to get through the game’s fifteen chapters and hunt down Mental (well, as much as you can, this is a prequel after all). In Serious Sam 4 you start off in Rome where you are trying to find the Ark of the Covenant which turns out to be a powerful alien artifact that might be able to stop Mental and you’ve got a small squad of soldiers with you. There’s not much point trying to explain the plot beyond that but it is worth noting that this is a prequel to the third game and the second game was a prequel to the first, so god knows how this all falls into place. You play as Serious Sam Stone who leads a unit in the Earth Defense Force who are protecting the planet from forces led by Mental, an extraterrestrial overlord who wants to destroy humanity. We’ve not kept up with the Serious Sam games but that first one lives long in the memory. The first thing was Sam himself who was your standard wise-cracking bad-ass in the Duke Nukem style but the main thing was how the game built up in intensity, starting off feeling like a fairly straightforward Doom clone but ending up as just an absolute spectacle of total madness.
While it was just a fairly straightforward FPS, it did two things that made it stand out. The original Serious Sam was something of a revelation. This series started way back in 2001 and has included three other main games and a heap of VR spin-offs. Serious Sam 4 is a first-person shooter developed by Croatian coders Croteam who are best known for, well, all the other Serious Sam games. Decemin PS5 / Reviews tagged croteam / fps / linear / serious sam 4 by Richie