Serious Sam 4 Review (Steam)

Serious Sam 4 reignites the classic FPS series in a high-powered prequel loaded with an explosive arsenal, intergalactic carnage, and perfectly timed one-liners.

Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• Download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Controller support.
• Graphics-fullscreen, resolution, graphics API, max 3D rendering MPIX, window mode, multi-sample anti-aliasing, v-sync, rescaling filter, variable rate shading.
• Performance settings-CPU speed, GPU speed, GPU memory, max fps, auto-detect.
• Color settings-color scheme (standard/cold/vivid/grayscale/bright/apocalyptic/noir) brightness, contrast, gamma correction and saturation.
• Blood and gore-on/off but can change the color to red/green/hippie/kids/Halloween.
• Motion sickness settings-mouse sensitivity slider, the field of view slider, view bobbing slider, weapon bobbing slider, and preferred view-first person or third person left shoulder and third-person right shoulder.
• Hud scale can be tweaked with sliders.
• Tobii eye-tracking support.
• Can rebind controls for both keyboard and controller.
• Controller settings-Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, vibration, auto Centre, vertical view snapping, auto-aiming, and look acceleration.
• Two-mode types-single player and Co-op.
• Benchmark option-set duration to 30 seconds, 60 seconds, 2 minutes, or 5 minutes. Then pick individual levels to test.
• Steam workshop support.
• Five difficulties-Tourist, easy, normal, hard, and serious.
• First/third-person shooter gameplay.
• Fast-paced combat.
• End of chapter breakdown of score and performance.
• Pick up ammo/health/armor in the game.
• Save/load when you want.
• open-world style levels.
• Markers to show where to go.

Cons:

• Small text in menus.
• Can’t change the controller stick layout.
• Long loading times.
• Ugly textures in places.
• Doesn’t play as well in the third person.
• Hard to see interactive elements.