The story of Serious Sam 4? What story? The game is about a Duke Nukem wannabe who throws cheesy one liner and shoots at things. It's basically a enemy killing simulator posing as an FPS. The developers didn't even bother coding levels, they just created large empty spaces and spawn points for mobs to appear out of.
The Good:
- Dual welding weapons
- Enemies and graphics are improved
- They kept the formula so there is nothing to complain about when it comes to the gameplay, its exactly like in the prequels.
- You can do melee attacks which wasn't featured in other Serious Sam games.
- The levels are quite long (around 50min per level)
- The bosses are interesting because they require some strategy instead of just shooting at them for 5min straight. So they did balance the boss combat a bit.
- I like the weapons available in this game. There are tons of new weapons not featured in other SS games.
- They added Giant mechs and motorcycles.
- Some new one liners but most of them are recycled from the old games.
- Interesting new enemies to fight with enemies having different weaknesses to different weapons.
The Bad:
- The music is repetitive; there is no soundtrack just like 4 tracks in a row
- The NPCs and the voice acting are awful..The dialogues are super stupid.
- The game feels rushed and abandoned. Like they just stopped developing halfway in hopes of making it up after the CoronaVirus pandemic with updates. It just feels like they stopped caring and never finished it properly.
- The story is worse than all the previous entries by trying to be funnier they ended up being cringy.
- The levels are not interesting. Serious Sam 1,2 and both encounters had beautiful landscapes with temples and deserts. This one lacks any beauty and the levels are really boring.
- They give you items to help you fight monsters, but you lose them at various points in the game when you get kidnapped or sometimes happens. If you collect something like a Nuke or black hole, use it ASAP, don't keep it like me...
- The upgrades/skill tree are stupid and should be incorporated in the game when you start. Why would i put skills points to be able run and shoot at the same time, shouldn't all FPS have this ability included by default? Half the skill tree is useless.
- Some graphics look good while certain parts look underdeveloped and really really ugly.
- The last boss is the easiest of all the serious Sam games.
- The worst of the serious Sam series according to me.....
I would seriously not waste money on this game, wait for them to fix all the bugs and improve the game.
ITS NOT A FINISHED GAME I AM SERIOUS LIKE SAM!