With Serious Sam 3 taking too long to become a Serious Sam game and lacking in color, Serious Sam 4 takes those criticisms and starts throwing the horde after you almost right away. There are some odd choices for default settings such as health bars and drab color pallete. You can turn off the health bar and make your crosshair as the health icon like the older games which I recommened you do. Also turning the color pallete to vivid helps with making the world stand out much more with color to make it a little more appealing to look at and slightly closer to Serious Sam 1. Still not as vivid but again closer to what made Sam stand out from the other shooters. The game is much better after the day one patch. However I did enouncter an odd bug when the GOG servers were down and the game wouldn't see any of my save files which were only a couple directories down from the install location (Game supposed to be DRM free right). I was able to load the save file via dragging and dropping the save file onto the exe. Hopefully Croteam fix that bug. All in all, the gunplay is like Serious Sam 3 but better. The level design could use some work to make it easier to move around when avoiding the horde. I prefer to skip all the cutscense so can't give my opinion on it. Load times do take awhile even on an m.2 drive but per pcgamingwiki.com disabling texture streaming may help: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Serious_Sam_4 I am having a lot of fun with the game so I do recommened it to those whole like Serious Sam but I do understand why some people may be dissapointed.
First off, I backed this game on Fig years ago. Even though I got the alpha key, I did not play it as I wanted to wait until it has released. The good: Quick to pick up. Character designs have much improved. Dialog interation is more engaging. Better voice action, Good amount of graphics options. Can disable Motion blur and Depth of Field. Support for high frame rate. Have not played enough to comment on story. More graphic than the last game. The cons: Camera feels slippery when trying to move it. Have not figured out how to select entire party to move with a single key, interface and level design feels more dumbed down than previous game. Sometimes when trying to interact with an object, the icon disappears. Load times little long, even on M.2 drive.
Nightdive did a great job on bringing this classic fps to the modern day. The controls have been update to feel more responsive and the mouse aiming is so much improved. They also added many new options to how you play the game such as difficulty changes and the ability to change how the mouse is interpreted. Also really like the graphical changes such as AA that make the game easier on my eyes and the ability to change the FOV level. The game also supports multiple high resolutions with high frame rate. Killing the cultists has never been as much fun!
Even fps games from this time, the shooting is just passable, the sounds of your gun are very good, but there seems to be some bug with my setup as I can't no audio from enemy gun fire which I was willing to deal with. However, the super linear gameplay and lots of cutscenes with clunky controls and jerking animations, the game is just meh at best to me. Have to say I do like basing it on events though.
This game has come a long way since the beginning. Building a prison from scratch is just as much fun as managing a prison. Having to decide how I want my prison laid out is a crucial factor to the success of the prison. I have never had so much fun building and managing a little sandbox as much as this game. You can assign guards to routes, have dogs look for tunnels, move prisoners around and have different sections of you prison based on prisoner risk factor. You can change the regime and have classes/jobs that the prisoners can do. All in all such a fun game.
Never played this before and really wanted to give it a shot. However with all the bugs I was getting and just issues with the controls, I decided to just give up and move onto to the next one in the series which hopefully works better. Kept having sound issues where the sound would just stop. The camera movement is just sluggish and fights with you the whole time. Randomly the character will slow down for no reason and start moving as if trying to go walk through knee deep water. Sometimes the character will just bounce all over the place and also would get stuck in places too where I would have to use the rewind to get out. All in all, the game kept fighting with me so I ended up just giving up about 1/5 of the way through. Too bad as I really wanted to give it a good fair shot.
First, this is a very short game. So if you are looking for a quick game to beat in one day (possibly shorter if you are good at point and click adventures) then this will be a good fit. The game has an upbeat tone and a good sense of homour. Do not expect this to be a serious game and seems to be self aware about itself. The point and click mechanics work well, no issues there. Music is good. Took me a a bit to figure out how to get the inventory...You have to drag your mouse to one of the upper corners of the screen. Dialog is satisfactory. All in all, game is worth a play. Once you are done, there really isn't any reason to go back.
This game is addicting and imaginative with all the diseases and treatments there are. To give an example of the kind of humor in the game, to treat bloated head syndrome, you send the patient to a doctor, and the doctor pops his head like a balloon and re-inflates it back to proper size. That is the kind of game this is. Making up imaginative diseases and curing them in imaginative ways whilst simulating and managing the entire hospital. The game is fun and will make you laugh.
Let me get this out of the way...This game is hard, but fair. This one of the most brutally and morally bankrupt game I have played in a long time...and it was fun ;) The gun play is excellent, the challenge is well welcomed, and the game design is visually appealing. The only complaint I have about it is that I really did not care for the boss fights. They just felt out of place to me. Overall, the game was worth every penny, and a good addition to my collection.
I have kicked myself for years because I skipped over all the old dungeon crawl games like Wizardry and DnD. However, now that I have finally started playing those games, I couldn't make the mistake again and not pick this one up. If you like Dungeon crawls, and the video/screenshots interest you at least somewhat, do yourself a favor and pick this up. It has good visuals and some good puzzles. It won't disappoint.
