![]() ![]() The only major difference is a swap in setting, taking place entirely in snow-covered Siberia. Graphically, being a standalone expansion (as in, being the same damn game with different maps), this game looks the same as its predecessor. I can only imagine how annoying this can get on higher difficulties. I had to resort going back to previous save files a few times. Then we have the terrible autosave system, that will just save at specific moments even if you are low on health, such as in the middle of a boss battle, a horde encounter, or even when picking up a weapon leaving you vulnerable. They still do, and for the most bizarre of reasons, with some drops occurring even with plenty of GPU headroom. When I say that framerate drops are slightly less frequent, I don’t mean they don’t occur. It’s still not phenomenal, and a lot of the encounters do end up taking place in giant, open, boring fields, but I do appreciate the improved level designs, as minute as they were.Īt least dialogue can be somewhat amusing… at times.īear in mind, the game is still massively unpolished. ![]() That also results in slightly less terrible framerates as a result. There’s less of the open field with one hundred thousand enemies barrelling down towards you and more design thought put into them. Where Siberian Mayhem does improve upon its disappointing pseudo-predecessor is with its level design, surprisingly enough. ![]() It does occasionally give you a vehicle to drive or mech to control, but these sections are just plain boring. Repeat this for the six or so hours Siberian Mayhem goes on for. You have the same bunch of weapons, and you will be dealing with the same set of enemies. It still feels like a low budget version of a modern Doom game. Siberian Mayhem is very much the same, so if you didn’t like Serious Sam 4‘s core gameplay then this one will do absolutely nothing to convince you otherwise. Even though it was mostly functional, it just felt dated even at the time of release, not to mention unpolished. Unfortunately, Serious Sam 4 didn’t really impress us. It’s the gameplay where Serious Sam put all its effort into. You are pretty much playing this kind of game to mindless blast the living hell out of hordes of enemies anyway. Honestly, by the time you hear any dialogue related to the story, you will just kind of skip it. Still, this game does have a plot… of sorts: Sam and his mates head out to Siberia to hunt down General Brand… for some reason. To say story isn’t exactly the focus of a Serious Sam game is a massive understatement, as it is the one thing where the word “Serious” doesn’t even attempt to get close to. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! ![]()
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