Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass for PlayStation 5 Reviews
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Humanity is under siege as the full force of Mental’s hordes spread across the world, ravaging what remains of a broken and beaten civilization. The last remaining resistance to the invasion is the Earth Defense Force led by Sam «Serious» Stone and his heavily-armed squad of misfitHumanity is under siege as the full force of Mental’s hordes spread across the world, ravaging what remains of a broken and beaten civilization. The last remaining resistance to the invasion is the Earth Defense Force led by Sam «Serious» Stone and his heavily-armed squad of misfit commandos.
Croteam returns with a high-powered prequel to the Serious Sam series that scales up chaos to unprecedented levels. The classic Serious Sam formula is revamped by putting an unstoppable arsenal up against an unimaginable number of enemies that requires players to circle-strafe and backpedal-blast their way out of impossible situations.… Expand
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For those who want a brutally raw retro-styled shooter where constant carnage is the order of the day, Serious Sam 4 will sate the bloodlust of even the most maniacal gamers. Not only that, but it’s genuinely funny and well-written, and the trials and tragedies Sam experiences tugged at my jaded heartstrings far more than I expected them to. Many would not enjoy Serious Sam 4 because gunning down endless waves of slavering aliens and mutants becomes brutally relentless – but if you’re a hardcore shooter purist, that’s exactly what you’re looking for.
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I’m not the world’s biggest fan of shooters, but I have a soft spot for Serious Sam. It’s partly because it exists to make fun of the rest of the genre, and do so in a colourful, easy-going way such that it’s the equivalent of a Sunday morning cartoon. It’s also all-action, but in the right way. I find more realistic shooters stressful when I’m being swamped from all sides, but Serious Sam does such a great job with the power fantasy that you’ll look at a screen filled with 100 ugly beasties. .. and wish they had brought friends. I enjoyed getting re-acquainted with Serious Sam earlier in the year with the collection. With Serious Sam 4 I have a game that should have done better on the PlayStation 5 hardware, but is a new favourite shooter anyway.
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Serious Sam 4’s biggest sin is its lack of ambition. It is otherwise a decent and fun entry for its series of games.
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Playing Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass can be fun. It’s also clear that the franchise is at a crossroads. It wants to steal from other AAA shooters, to have believable characters, NPCs, and a story. At the same time, it goes all-in with a lame-joke cracking juvenile in a man suit and gameplay that is rote, lacks creativity and is repetitive. Long load times and framerate issues don’t help, either. Twenty years on, Sam isn’t edgy, goofy or ironic. Sam’s schtick, and the gameplay that goes with him, are seriously due for a makeover.
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Serious Sam 4 is exactly what you’d expect from a Serious Sam game but not what we’ve come to expect from a PS5 game. It’s a simple but action-packed FPS that is full of enemies and carnage but it hasn’t been ported across very well.
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While fitfully fun and well designed, Sam 4 disappoints as both a sequel and a next-gen product. While it wasn’t particularly optimised on PC it still represents a low for PS5 performance. A compromised port of a game that’s only slightly above average in the first place. A serious shame.
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A return to classic linear FPS gameplay is lost beneath a pile of broken mechanics, terrible dialogue, repetitive villain design, and some of the most boring environments I’ve ever seen. Serious Sam 4 is a remarkably dated game that should be reserved for the most “serious” of Serious Sam fans.
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One of the best shooters I played! I heard this game had major performance issues on PC, but my PS5 experience has been smooth for the mostOne of the best shooters I played! I heard this game had major performance issues on PC, but my PS5 experience has been smooth for the most part, it runs at 60 frames per second with few minor dips here and there, but nothing major, it also looks like an eye candy after you turned the saturation all the way up in the options menu.
Overall, I honestly love this game as much as Doom Eternal, both are similar and different at the time, but going against hundreds of enemies at the same time in a first person view video game is very unique to Serious Sam, as I never seen any other game able do that before, and it’s extremely fun for me to kill them with all the amazing meaty sounding weapons this game provides. I hope/wish the developers will keep supporting and adding new things to the game because it’s really very special and extremely fun. 10/10.… Expand-
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My personal favourite shooter game, had a lot of fun playing it! Thanks to the Croteam for this awesome game!
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Best shooter on PS5 so far. Really, buy this instead of latest CoD and Battlefield
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-Best shooter on PS5 so far. Really, buy this instead of latest CoD and Battlefield
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by Eric Halliday Follow @Eric_Halliday
Title: Serious Sam 4
Developer: Croteam
Publisher: Devolver Digital
Platforms: PlayStation 5 (reviewed on)
Release Date: December 7, 2021
The Serious Sam series is a bizarre thing to me and honestly, one I would have never thought in a million years would still be around for a 4th game — especially after the weirdly well-written Matt Hazard ended up flopping. (For real though, it was a satire of everything in the gaming universe from JRPG characters overusing ellipsis and forced plot twists. It also had Neil Patrick Harris as the main villain. Why’d y’all sleep on this?)
But for Serious Sam 4 to come out on the PS5 near the end of 2021 is just baffling. Not only that, the character was designed as a knock-off of Duke Nukem who was purposely designed as the antithesis to other games like Doom. He’s like a knockoff of a knockoff. But it’s 2021, we’re in the worst possible timeline, and Serious Sam is still here. Seriously.
Dear reader, I want you to understand, I went into this game hoping for a fun time. While I never got into hyper-violent stuff, I genuinely miss the days of linear FPS games where you just fight demons and find weird secrets everywhere without having to worry about some competitive multiplayer added on. This game has all of that, but unfortunately, it feels like most of those were delivered via Wish.
The intro of the game delivers a weird monologue from the majority of the characters. Once Sam gets his opportunity to force some swearing through the gravel in his throat the camera swoops down to the planet where the camera pans over a sea of enemies.
Now, before I show you, I want to remind you that Kingdom Hearts 2 came out in 2005 on the PlayStation 2 and pulled off thousands of enemies way better than this. Watch what the game does on a PS5.
Do you see that? I thought my PS5 was going to yeet itself off my mantle in anguish. It makes no sense. Now pair that with incredibly long loading times that rival Skyrim’s when it first came out and it brings up a lot of questions about how “seriously” they took the coding.
The weapon system is also a weird mess. As I said, I don’t really play a lot of shooters but I understand them. So when I can’t hit a damn thing with a scoped rifle but am taking out snipers from afar with a single blast from a shotgun that raises questions. My primary sniper rifle throughout the entire game wasn’t the sniper rifle or anything with a scope, by the way. It was the handgun you default to should you run out of ammo. Here’s me taking out ridiculously far away enemies with it. This gun has more range than Henry Cavill.
The game occasionally has its fun parts — especially early. The cycle of this game is to introduce an enemy with a new mechanic, have you fight a bunch, introduce another enemy and have you fight those. Then you’ll fight a bunch of both at once. Every time you fight a new enemy, you fight a bunch of them and then a swarm of everything you’ve encountered thus far. It’s an interesting gameplay loop for the first three or four houses of the game but by chapter 4 of this 15 chapter game, it gets old fast.
Here’s an example of the chaos. In this video, I’m currently fighting slashing zombies, screaming gentlemen with bombs, massive bull demons that charge, slow-moving acid-filled giants that explode, vampires, things that throw energy attacks, and, at some point, I think a boney fellow or two. There’s a lot going on here.
And in every slow minute of the game, instead of swarming you with enemies, the game swarms you with terrible dialogue. The script for this game is more stilted than a house built off the Gulf Coast. Here is Sam placing a beacon. I hope you like the bacon joke because he does it like four more times.
Again, I wouldn’t have made it this far if I didn’t desperately want to have fun with this game but beyond the ridiculously dated graphics, the character models that move like PS3 NPCs and horrifically broken mechanics, Serious Sam 4 is not a game I could seriously consider worth getting.
A return to classic linear FPS gameplay is lost beneath a pile of broken mechanics, terrible dialogue, repetitive villain design, and some of the most boring environments I’ve ever seen. Serious Sam 4 is a remarkably dated game that should be reserved for the most “serious” of Serious Sam fans.
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Serious Sam 4 | Launch Bundle for PS4 PS5 — price history, screenshots, sales • USA
To play this game on PS5, your system may need to be updated to the latest system software. Although this game is playable on PS5, some features available on PS4 may be absent. See PlayStation.com/bc for more details.
The Serious Sam 4 Launch Bundle comes with the Serious Sam Collection, which includes all content from Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, and Serious Sam 3: BFE, including The Legend of the Beast and Jewel of the Nile expansions.
Humanity is under siege as the full force of Mental’s hordes spread across the world, ravaging what remains of a broken and beaten civilization. The last remaining resistance to the invasion is the Earth Defense Force led by Sam “Serious” Stone and his heavily-armed squad of misfit commandos.
Croteam returns with a high-powered prequel to the Serious Sam series that scales up chaos to unprecedented levels. The classic Serious Sam formula is revamped by putting an unstoppable arsenal up against an unimaginable number of enemies that requires players to circle-strafe and backpedal-blast their way out of impossible situations.
HORDES OF INVADERS
The iconic cast of alien invaders returns with some new reinforcements! Fight your way through unbelievable numbers of Mental’s minions including the iconic Headless Kamikaze, Beheaded Rocketeer, Kleer, Scrapjack, Werebull, and Khnum! Square off against brand new enemies and towering monsters like the frantic Processed, repulsive Belcher, the hard-hitting Zealot, and more.
EXPLOSIVE ARSENAL
Armed with a slew of devastating weapons, pick your tool for any situation. Lay waste to Mental’s Horde using the powerful double-barreled shotgun, the punishing minigun, the powerful chainsaw launcher, a brand new auto shotgun, and the iconic cannon. Upgrade your toys, and enjoy the violent beauty of the lock-on rocket launcher, and the mighty laser beam of death.
COOPERATIVE MAYHEM
Smash through the action-packed campaign with friends in 4-player online co-op mode! Tackle exciting primary missions and thrilling side quests in modified difficulties for an extra challenge.
LEGION SYSTEM
Serious Sam 4 unleashes some of the biggest moments in the series’ history with the new Legion System and battlefields teeming with thousands of enemies!
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A system software update may be required to play this game on PS5. While this game is supported on PS5, some features available on PS4 may not be available. For more information, see PlayStation.com/bc.
Serious Sam 4 Launch Bundle includes the Serious Sam Collection, which includes all content from Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter and Serious Sam 3: BFE (including The Legend of the Beast and Jewel of the Nile).
Humanity is under siege, Mental hordes are spreading throughout the world, destroying the remnants of a broken and broken civilization. The last obstacle in the way of the invaders is the Earth Defense Army, led by Sam Stone, nicknamed Tough Sam, and his squad of soldiers armed to the teeth.
Croteam is back with a powerful prequel to the Serious Sam series, expanding chaos to unprecedented proportions. The classic Serious Sam formula is updated with an unstoppable arsenal and an unimaginable number of enemies, challenging and inviting players to whirl in the dance of death.
INVADER HORDS
The iconic alien invaders are back, this time with reinforcements! Rush through incredibly massive armies of Mental’s servants, including the already-famous Headless Kamikazes, Headless Rocketmen, Clear Skeletons, Salvage Rocketmen, Sirian Were-Bulls and Khnums! Plus, take on new enemies such as the rabid Crafted, the obnoxious Burgers, the obnoxious Zealots, and more.
EXPLOSIVE ARSENAL
Armed with a bunch of devastating weapons, choose the tool that best suits the situation. Wreak havoc in Mental’s army with a powerful double-barreled shotgun, a punishing minigun, a fearsome sawgun, the latest automatic shotgun in the series, and an iconic cannon. Upgrade your toys and enjoy the frenetic beauty of the auto-guided rocket launcher and the mighty laser death beam.
CO-OP CHAOS
Play through an action-packed campaign with friends in 4-player co-op! Complete exciting tasks and exciting side quests on various difficulties.
LEGION SYSTEM
Bad Sam 4 reveals one of the most significant moments in the history of the series with the new Legion System and battlefields infested with thousands of enemies!
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