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There's a lot of good reviews and I think the game has potential, but it makes a few mistakes imho. It's trying to be two kinds of fps at the same time and it doesn't really work for me. Serious Sam 1 and 2 where mostly circle strafing shooting the most important enemies and trying to avoid getting pinned down. It was a good formula if repetitive. But this one tries to improve by adding modern COD elements like sprinting and reloading. This is the wrong direction imo; it should have gone in the mobility shooter sub genre. Big improvements for me might be:
- allow reloading while sprinting or remove reloading all together
- allow sideways sprinting
- create obstacles that certain enemy types cannot traverse but the player can through sprinting
- remove aim down sights
- remove recoil
- ammo generated doom eternal style so it doesn't disrupt the flow of the game
- put health pickups in predefined spots to make the player think about how to get to them mid fight
I think the sprinting/reloading is just the wrong direction to go. Keep movement speed fast but make the enemies numerous and follow the player like in the original. Reward the player with ammo by killing so they can keep offense uninterrupted but force them to think about where a health pickup on the map is when they need it. Diversify enemy types to force the player to switch weapons. I think that would be the kind of iteration on the genre that would really shine but still set it apart from modern fps.

One if the the most unfinished, janky, unbalanced, unfunny, FPS games ive ever played. It started out ok but the final third of the game is borderline unplayable. The cut scenes look like an indie PS2 game and the dialogue sounds like it written by first generation AI model which i know is impossible because the game came out in 2020. The only good thing about this game is the gun play which is ruined in the final third half because the developer artificially increases the difficult to make the game longer. An example of this is the final boss. The developer though it would be a bad idea to make the final boss hard, he instead decided to infinitely spawn flying hard to hit fodder enemies at a insane rate to artificially increase the difficulty. 4/10 score from me.