Being able to spin up two mini-guns is awesome. But one skill is the most rewarding: dual-wielding. Decreasing reload speed and reducing splash damage are nice to have as well. One ability lets you melee-kill bigger enemies and another lets you ride atop some of them. As he moves through the story, special crates will give him a skill point to assign. Sam can unlock some basic skills to improve his effectiveness. Thankfully it’s not just weapons and better aim that will get you through the fourteen-hour campaign. The array of weapons at Sam’s disposal is great, and there is much fun had shooting anything that looks a bit weird. Well, unless you do a side mission to get the rocket-powered chainsaw launcher that seeks targets, grinds them to mush, and zips to the next one. Most of them get used all the way to the end, partly because ammo is depleted fast, but there is no denying that the Devastator rifle’s high damage and fast projectile speed means it usually takes preference. The weapons reward accuracy and leading targets. Returning classics are here for Sam to lay waste to enemies, including the rocket launcher, assault rifle, numerous shotguns, laser gun, and the classic cannonball launcher. Squeezing your trigger finger is the name of the game and thankfully this pre-prequel packs a punch in the arsenal department. Although the number of puns is more than all 90s action movies combined, and sometimes mildly amusing, the constant barrage feels more like squeezing blood from a stone, just like the story itself. The story is ultimately an excuse to string places together, with Sam’s whole team trying to come up with the best one-liner along the way. After that, clues inside the Vatican lead them to a French castle and the location of the Grail itself. But it’s swarming with alien nasties and so Sam has to blow Mount Vesuvius to clear the skies. To gain the upper hand, Sam Stone and his military squad are looking for the Holy Grail and their first port of call is Rome. In Sam 4, aliens have invaded Earth and things are looking grim for the human race with small pockets of resistance fighting back. But it does not matter what happened before, or after.
Serious Sam 4 is actually a prequel to Serious Sam 3: BFE, which is odd because that too was a prequel.
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