

It is therefore not surprising that, in terms of human interactions and story, this is the meatiest episode in the franchise yet. Serious Sam 4, formerly subtitled Planet Badass, serves as a further prequel to the events of the 3rd numbered game, this time putting Sam in a modern-day Italy as he and a group of soldiers have to face the earlier steps of this invasion. Serious Sam 3: BFE, which served as a prequel, showed Sam fight in Egypt in that hopeless battle before he embarked on his time-traveling adventure. The first games in the franchise, namely The First Encounter, The Second Encounter, and Serious Sam 2, saw our macho hero travel through time, to stop the Mental alien race from doing key elements in history that led them to essentially annihilate Earth’s forces in the future. Here’s our review for Serious Sam 4!įor the chronologically confused about this franchise, let’s sum up the game’s lore a little bit, in layman’s terms.
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What better timeframe to release the console release of the long-awaited sequel to an iconic first-person shooter? But December 2021 of course, pretty much right on top of the latest Far Cry, Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Halo! Serious Sam 4 was certainly very divisive when it hit PCs last year, and as someone who’s played that version at the time, I wanted to dive deep into the Xbox Series X version as well, even available on Xbox Game Pass on its release date.
