#SERIOUS SAM 4 MINIGUN PATCH#
#SERIOUS SAM 4 MINIGUN SERIES#

#SERIOUS SAM 4 MINIGUN PATCH#

Serious Sam 4 was already delayed a year and then an additional final month from its expected release last summer for a game so long in development, its current state is baffling.įor starters, I’d been playing the game for a week and a half when an enormous, 37 gigabyte day-one patch elbowed its way into my Steam downloads queue. At its core Serious Sam 4 has that old magic, but the surrounding details fall short and bring the experience down, and the headlining features that Croteam promised are either absent or severely cut down.

#SERIOUS SAM 4 MINIGUN SERIES#

Serious Sam, in comparison, is a straightforward affair: give me some guns, a steady supply of ammo, a series of huge, attractive arenas, and a bajillion and a half monsters to shred, and we’re golden. In the intervening near-decade, Croteam have done some incredible work, particularly branching out with the philosophy-puzzler The Talos Principle. This is what makes Serious Sam 4 such a hard pill to swallow. I didn’t think it would take nine years to see another main series entry. In comparison, and in spite of its flaws, Sam 3 was an oasis of defiant mechanics-focused shooting, an enormous, triumphant middle finger erected smack in the middle of the desert. I really enjoyed it, probably to the point of bias, and if you read my now-ancient review you can tell how frustrated I’d become with the focus-tested, games-as-service moneygrubbing in Call of Duty and its endless Yum! Brands tie-in promotions. The last entry in the series, Serious Sam 3: BFE dropped all the way back in 2011. Croteam’s shooter series hasn’t always made sense and it isn’t as insanely polished as, say, Call of Duty or Doom, but you’re at least guaranteed a competent, satisfying romp that straddles the border between cult classic and guilty pleasure. A sadly departed member of my high school martial arts club turned me on to this idiosyncratic first-person shooter series, and ever since, I’ve appreciated its unapologetic dedication to straight-up action, its satisfying mechanics and gunplay, and its delightfully odd, absurdist Eastern European sense of humor. I might not be the most diehard Serious Sam fan, but I’ve been playing his games almost since the beginning.

Serious sam 4 minigun