Posted on: January 27, 2018
chlop
Verified ownerGames: 2575 Reviews: 106
Poorly designed Serious Sam clone
If you never played Serious Sam before, you might enjoy this game. At least I did when I first tried it. Painkiller being my introduction to this type of game, and it having a horror theme and a half-decent soundtrack, I was into it. I found it difficult, so it was fun. But one corrupted save & 2 Serious Sam games later, and this feels like Serious Sam for kids. Every enemy behaves the same, mindlessly running towards you, and are easy to avoid and gun down from a distance. And because all enemies simply run at you they crowd together, and are easy to kill with a grenade. Also, having played Serious Sam it's incredibly easy to guess where enemy spawning points are located, and where cheap deaths are located - those places that if you reach them, you'll cause 10 enemies to spawn around you. All I really had to do was stand next to a spawning point & wait, to kill every enemy in the level. You see, you need to kill all the enemies to advance, which turns this game into a chore. Enemy AI is fairly stupid, so more often than not they get stuck behind some item & you have to go search for them. Think of searching for a camper in Count Strike. Not very fun. To make that chore much easier, you're given an arrow that points at enemies, and when they're all dead, points at the exit. Which does make things more bearable, but makes the game easier - when an enemy is rushing you from behind, or spawning behind you, you'll know. I would have much preferred killing all enemies to be an achievement, not a requirement. Getting from A to B, or having to kill 80% of the enemies would have been much more fun. And frankly, that's the biggest problem with this game - it being a chore. It's like a Serious Sam game made not fun. Levels all look the same, enemies are stupid & easy to kill, and they all behave the same. You have collectibles to go after, like gold, but there's no point to it. And when the game does become hard, like when fighting a boss, it only becomes more of a chore.
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