![]() The bad news is a lot of them are pretty bare bones. The good news is Croteam has also added a number of other multiplayer modes to the mix including support for up to four players via split-screen (and how many PC games do that nowadays?). It's as close to a true party game that you can get in a first person shooter title. ![]() Having that many people firing rocket launches or firing mini-guns at hordes of enemies is so satisfying and fun that you cannot wait to go back online and find another gaggle of co-op players ready to do the same thing. Some levels take as long as an hour to complete and the final, and truly, epic final encounter in the game could take even longer to finish up.Īs much fun as Serious Sam 3 is in single player, it's even more fun when you get online and play the campaign in co-op with up to 15 other players. Oh, and be prepared to stick with the single player campaign for a while. The fact that you are one person who battles through and over armies of aliens all by yourself makes this game stand out from any other shooter you can buy. It's that sense of over-the-top massive battles that ultimately makes Serious Sam 3 as fun to play as the previous games in the series have been in single player (again once you get through the first few sections). There are a few new monsters to deal with, including one that's a cross between a lizard and a monkey that can jump on walls. Most of the enemies from the previous Serious Sam games are back the charging Kleer skeletons, the massive running bulls, the bio-mechs and, yes, the headless kamikazes with bombs for hands. It gives you lots of different types of enemies and many of them appear on screen by the dozens. That's the thing that Serious Sam 3 does that no other first person shooters even attempt to do anymore. Aside from pulling some levers or finding some keys to open doors, it's basically, "Go to point A to point B and shoot everything in between." And if you were looking for things like RPG-style gameplay features, well you have the wrong first person shooter. ![]() There are a few locations that are set in dimly lit corridors but those are brief. You start to get more powerful weapons and more importantly the game opens up to show massive settings outside the urban areas. Thankfully, all is forgiven once you get through a quarter or so of the game's 12 campaign levels. Anything else is a bit too easy and anything more is, well, flat out insane and made only for the most hardcore first person shooter players. We would recommend that players who want a bit of a challenge to try out the Normal difficultly level. You want to check out the massive outdoor levels that Serious Sam fans expect. It doesn't help that the game's setting is restricted to smashed up urban areas that feel somewhat confining. The problem is that the early part of Serious Sam 3 feels a bit restricted because the early weapons are so underpowered in comparison to the later weapons. You then get a sledgehammer, a pistol, a single barreled shotgun and so on before you start getting some of the most devastating items the double barreled shotgun, the assault rifle, and more, all the way up to our personal favorite, the pirate ship cannon that you can hold in your hands. ![]() In fact you don't have any weapons at all at the very start you have to kill the first enemy, the one eyed cross between a lizard and an ape, with your bare hands (that's actually kind of fun, though). It's in this early part of the game that may frustrate some players a bit, Croteam decided to slowly give out weapons for the players to use in the single player campaign. The game starts out in a devastated urban environment which has been nearly wiped out by Mental's attack. The truth is while there is technically a plot to this game, complete with in-engine cut-scenes, you can jump past all of it and not miss a thing.īut before we reach the final of Serious Sam 3, the player has to battle aliens in modern day Egypt in the role of Sam. We are not giving away anything when we say that the end of Serious Sam 3 has the main character Sam "Serious" Stone being transported back in time to ancient Egypt where the plotline of Serious Sam: The First Encounter begins. You guessed it that means we are going back to a time before the story (and we use that term loosely) of the first game where the aliens under control of the overlord Mental begin attacking Earth in the 21st century. The "BFE" in the game's title means "Before First Encounter". While the game has made a few minor tweaks to the series' basic formula (some good, some bad), fans of the previous games should feel right at home. 10 years later, the game's development studio Croteam returns to their tried and true franchise with Serious Sam 3: BFE. That's the basic premise behind the Serious Sam first person shooter series ever since the first game, Serious Sam: The First Encounter, showed up on our PC hard drives back in 2001.
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