Serious Sam Siberian Mayhem is the latest release from the known series, being released January this year. By looking at the game's name you probably know already where the action takes place, cold Siberia!.
You start the mission on the coast with only one pistol and a dream, the dream of annihilating everything that moves. By the way, you have infinite ammo on the pistols, that's why you'll see me spamming it sometimes, so I could save ammo on my other weapons. I've learned from the previous games, that there's never enough ammo 馃槀.
Starting with the first mission you encounter different types from slow ones to fast, melee to ranged, organic or droids, some die pretty fast, two or three body shots or one headshot and they are done, some require you to unload every single ammo you have, or try to backstab them.
The game features plenty of weapons, after roaming around the coast for a few minutes you find your 2nd weapon, a shotgun, and many more over the first level.
The game also features an upgrade system, you can find hidden boxes with a ball inside, that once you destroy a smoke comes and covers your screen and you gain 1 upgrade point that you can use. I've upgraded to dual-wielding weapons, I wanted to use 2 shotguns so I can "melt" enemies faster.
There were two places that were hard to pass, where I've died a little and had to strafe the monsters to survive, one's in a tight hallway with monsters spawning and running towards me, here I actually had to load an older save because the game saved in the wrong moment while I had low HP on the hallway, so each time my game loaded I had that save with low HP and died again in seconds.
| Hallway death scene #1 | Hallway death scene #2 |
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And the second place was an arena, just by the loot on the ground I knew that's going to be a tough fight, like in the old games. My strategy was to move around the room and shoot all the enemies that were following me, there were a few moments when I was overwhelmed by the monsters but escaped with a little luck.
Check the arena previews below.
| Arena Slaughter #1 | Arena Slaughter #2 |
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This last arena fight completed the level. Those are my stats for the first level. The bad part is that I only found 2 out of 16 secret bonuses, I need to pay much closer attention in the next level, I'll check every inch for bonuses. Maybe at the end of the game I can reply the level but keeping the upgrades, maybe I'll try to find the ones in the 1st level.
The game feels fun, the fact that I got so many things in just one level, and that one being the first, makes me think what else happens in the next ones.
I managed to make like 3 or 4 upgrades just in the first level, and grab the following weapons:
That was it for this episode!
Can't wait to check what the next levels bring in, if you want to find out too, drop a follow, until next episode, I was Ady, thank you for stopping by.
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