#SERIOUS SAM 3 BFE GAMEPLAY SERIES#

Despite the modern makeover, the game still employs its oldest tricks, from collecting health packs and armor to discovering secret caches of weapon ammunition. Once again, Serious Sam is all about the shooting and dispatching of millions of monsters, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. May they rot in hell forever) and are looking better in ever…particularly when they are blown up into smaller chunks of red jelly. All of Sam’s classic disposable enemies return (such as the one-eyed Gnarls, the screaming Kamikazes and my personal “favourite”, the highly-damaging Kleers. While it certainly won’t give any of the Triple-A First Person titles a run for their money, the new engine does result in some impressive colours, a stark contrast to the limited colour palette found in other games of the same genre. The rest of the game, however, holds up quite well graphics-wise. That said, the cutscenes depicting Sam in third person are unintentionally bad, as human character models are clearly not developer Croteam’s strong suit. The banter between Sam and his fellow companions (including Quinn, a new female superior who communicates through telephone) is all done with a tongue-in-cheek tone, though thankfully the game never reaches DNF levels of self-indulgence or obscenity.

#SERIOUS SAM 3 BFE GAMEPLAY SERIES#

New to the series are cutscenes and characters that put Sam in a more interactive role beyond his cheesy one-liners (although there are still plenty of those). Sent in by the military (but apparently given special privileges not to follow their dress code) Sam “Serious” Stone must shoot his way through a war-torn urban city, dense deserts, dimly-lit corridors and a planet’s worth of alien bodies left behind his wake. Utilizing a current generation polish while sticking to oldschool twitch gameplay, can the marriage of old and new lead to a new kind of nostalgic mix? At the very least, it can’t be as bad as Duke Nukem Forever….right?ĭespite being called Serious Sam 3, BFE is actually set before The First Encounter (hence the subtitle “Before First Encounter”), chronicling the invasion of Mental’s forces upon the earth. Hard to believe that over a decade ago, FPS games focused more on taking out supernatural forces instead of Nazis (or in Wolfenstein 3D’s case, supernatural Nazis), not to mention finger-mashing action over cinematic presentations where a giant “follow this guy” marker takes up the screen at all times.Īfter two HD re-releases and a balls-to-the-wall 2D Indie game, Serious Sam returns with a new sequel that strives to remind everyone of the golden days of LAN parties and 56k modems.

And yet for all the success these games are making commercially, they do little to stir the imaginations of gamers creatively. Next to rhythm games and pet simulators, no other video game genre is dominating the market like first person shooters.

Serious sam 3 bfe gameplay