In any case, the gameplay as it exists is solid. Everything in this picture wants to blow everything else in it up. ![]() You probably know which you are, dear reader. I’m sure there are people out there who would be delighted to see a shooter boiled down to its bare essentials like this, without the bells and whistles of many of its contemporaries, just as there are those who would feel it’s not enough. At the same time, it’s definitely shallower than the most recent DOOM games or even the modern Wolfenstein titles, but whether that’s a good or a bad thing comes down to personal taste. There’s an elegant simplicity to the straightforward nature of Serious Sam, moving from one firefight to the next, the formula only occasionally interrupted by classic-style secrets. One might even go so far as to say that it is, for better or worse, the epitome of the boomer shooter. The phrase “boomer shooter” comes to mind, both because it embodies the spirit of that era of early first-person shooters from the late 80s and 90s and because its formula remains largely unchanged from 2001’s Serious Sam: The First Encounter. The Basics: Serious Sam 4 is a first-person shooter title about the action-hero equivalent of Just Some Guy mowing down hordes of alien invaders with an arsenal of slightly wacky weaponry. Still, they must be doing something right, because Serious Sam 4 is out now on PlayStation 5, has been out for a while on PC, and By George I actually had a pretty decent time with it. I only recently became aware that it’s older than I thought it was by about a decade, because I had never questioned that the first title would be released in 2009 with an “HD” appended onto its title without any prior versions of it existing, it just seemed like the sort of game that would do something so tongue-in-cheek. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone actually discuss the franchise and yet it keeps receiving new entries and spin-off titles which are evidently doing well enough financially to warrant development of further titles. ![]() Serious Sam is a weird series to me because it has, as far as I can tell, a minimal cultural footprint. Developer: Croteam Publisher: Devolver Digital Genre: First-Person Shooter Reviewed on: PlayStation 5 Also Available for: PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X
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