When you're fending off hundreds of enemies, having a predictable AI can lend to the fun of approaching Serious Sam 4 as a shooting gallery. Hell, Croteam is probably still using the same audio clip of the Kamikaze scream for the past decade. His only motivation is to run directly at Sam and blow up, all the while screaming nonstop to announce his arrival.
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Just take a look at the Beheaded Kamikaze, a headless guy that's taken up playing Edward Bombhands with his chums and has been a series staple from the beginning. Most grunts will do nothing but run directly at the player, which is certainly nothing new for the series. Unfortunately, the enemy AI is just as stupid when there are only one or two on-screen as well. In order to handle so many enemies on screen, there has to be some concession to the AI, which is true for the most part. There's just something about the mass combat in Serious Sam 4 that satisfies that same part of my brain that's tickled whenever a new Dynasty Warriors game drops. It takes the mundane style of combat and ramps it up to absurd levels as you have to fend off hundreds of braindead AI enemies that are all out for blood. When the enemy count rises and you've got enough ammo in your pair of miniguns to handle the incoming wave, that's when Serious Sam 4 really shines. This gives the overworld maps the ability to spawn in hundreds (they claim thousands but aside from the climactic opener, no other level has come close to matching the body count) of enemies at a time. Serious Sam 4's key new feature is in the inclusion of something the developers have dubbed the 'Legion System'.
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That being said, at least Sam has some charm to him and he isn't just some mute protagonist with a big gun or two. Of course, when you die and die and restart your save a few times, you start hearing those quips at the same time every time and that ruins the magic. It's a cute moment in the midst of gunning down legions of enemies and Serious Sam 4 finds ways to keep layering in dumb referential jokes and stale one-liners at just the right time that I was willing to give them a pass for at least trying to lighten up the mood. With a new rookie named Kenny that's eager to join the fight, Sam's posse tries to teach the new guy the ropes about the proper etiquette of the How, When and Why to drop one lined zingers after defeating an enemy. That's certainly not how things work for Sam Stone and his hodgepodge Earth Defense Force. In Serious Sam's typical fashion, it's about killing as much as you can and spitting out cocky one-liners at just the right time.Īs first-person shooter heroes evolved, most dropped the one-liners and quips to instead take up the mantle of something regarding a serious story. As Sam Stone, you're given a knife, a pistol with an unlimited ammo supply, and sent on your way to go fulfill the most standard checklist of FPS tasks to propel the story along. After that opening act, the game rewinds time and sends the clock back less than a week to explore the events leading up to that climactic battle. No, you're just given a big gun and told to start blasting as your first introduction to Serious Sam 4. This introductory mission gives players a feel for the action right away without having to wade through story exposition, found notes, audiologs, or any of that modern FPS nonsense. Serious Sam 4 opens in the midst of an alien invasion on planet Earth, dropping thousands of enemies in a definitive assault meant to squash out any human resistance in one fell swoop. Set in the idyllic backdrop of Western Europe, from Rome to France and beyond, it's up to one member of the Earth Defense Force to save their mother Earth from a massive alien attack in Serious Sam 4.
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It's been nearly nine years since gamers last stepped into the stressed jeans of one Sam Stone, the titular Serious badass of the series.