The biggest frustration with the familiar Serious Sam formula is that there seems to be no bullet penetration, so you can forget about lining up enemies with bullet-based weapons and scoring multi-kills an addition that would have suited this style of gameplay perfectly. Sure, it’s no Battlefield 3, but it holds its own for what it needs to achieve, even if there are occasional graphics pop-in issues. The latest version of the Serious Engine (3.5), has a totally acceptable level of pretty in this high-definition gaming age. On the other hand, Serious Sam almost needs to be played with others-particularly on any difficulty higher than normal-because of how frustratingly difficult certain bottleneck sections become when you’ve only got a single arsenal to throw at the alien hordes.īFE is more of a prettification and refinement of the Serious Sam formula than an attempt at anything else. On one hand, Serious Sam is a dish best made in banquet portions because the overall hilarity of the gameplay spikes when you’re able to share it with others. You really don’t want to play this game by yourself, though, and with a maximum cooperative player count of 16, Croteam doesn’t want you to do that either. Sometimes, they’ll even get stuck running at you because they can’t navigate an obstacle such is their desire to get to you that they’ll keep sprinting on the spot until you kill them or run past them so they can turn around. Basically every enemy will run headlong at you with zero intelligence in an effort to take you out or make you feel like the ultimate badass as you wax legions of alien baddies. BFE remains faithful to its old-school gaming roots and so it should, because it can still offer a hell of a lot of fun. If you’re looking for revolution or even evolution beyond a new game engine, you’ve come to the wrong game. And then there are the winged Harpies that have ditched their bikini tops but have horrific faces that’ll make you think twice about staring at their boobs.
Headless guys with bombs for hands who can still somehow scream, skeletal quadrupeds that launch themselves at you and the long-armed Cyclops kinsmen that just seem to run at you. All of the old favourites make a welcome return.
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