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It’s all about the sweet details. This is one of those game that massively grew on me, if you were to ask me 5 years ago I’d say this game is overrated and Saints row 2 is 100 times better nowadays though I’d still put it slightly below Saints row 2 but for subjective preference. Saints row 2 prioritizes gameplay and keeping the player on a steady supply of dopamine, GTA 4 prioritizes placing the player in a believable city with some very good writing and driving mechanics if you’re patient enough to learn it. The story takes risks with a sort of slow burn in order to give the game some time to develop its characters and for the world building to take its course and it all works out perfectly in a uniquely grim package that is still one of a kind to this day. I’d say this game is the Yang to Saints row 2s Yin and some of the best games ever made. Edit: A couple of goofballs in here posted reviews on the wrong GTA.

Grand Theft Auto IV

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This game is a fun romp, a few annoyances hold it back from being on par with the more prestigious fps games of its time. If the game were remastered they could easily fix these issues that handicap this game. When reloading everything but the weapon model goes blurry which can be a major issue in the later missions, most of the guns feel weak and they are projectile based when this game definitely should have gone for hitscan so that headshots could be more viable on moving targets when the weird sensitivity can’t be changed. I can tell this game could have had a killer multiplayer which it doesn’t and instead all your getting is a short and sweet campaign which gives you silver weapons and unlocks hard difficulty when beat on normal which is a very weak excuse for replay ability. Good) Fun linear shooter Good atmosphere Amazing graphics Cathartic explosive gunfights Bad) Weak automatic weapons Non existent control settings Short campaign No multiplayer

Black

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To address the impatient fools in this review column, it is most definitely possible to beat levels on hard and above you just need a bit of patience and to find answers online (the edf community is very helpful). This game isn’t meat and potatoes, it’s sugar and caffeine. Imagine starship troopers with a dash of Serious Sam and boom you have a formula for one of the most addictive games that does one thing right. This game vindicates my belief that a game can thrive with countless flaws so long as the gameplay is good.

Earth Defense Force 4.1 – The Shadow of New Despair

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This game is decent and it’s better than destiny because you can still play the dlc. The missions are bland errands masquerading as something more than, the smgs are hideous, the missile launchers are pathetic, the snipers are unsatisfying, the map is uninspired brown and grey junkyards and the vehicle combat sucks. With all that being said I still come back to this game because I find the gameplay loop addictive and I’m obsessed with cel shaded games. This game also has some decent replay value with different classes and new game +

Borderlands

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DUSK

This is an all around solid game but beware the difficulty spikes. The level are a lot more varied than your traditional Serious Sam, not a single level in this game is in Egypt. You have Rome, China and Atlantis. This is the only Serious Sam to have China and Atlantis and Rome is also featured on Serious Sam advance. This game is centered around score, you get bronze, silver, or gold at the end of each level, racking up gold metals will unlock extra levels and is what helps this game stand out in the franchise. The enemy/weapon balancing is off and will require adjustments if you’re used to the other Serious Sams some enemies are a nightmare compared to their mainline counterparts whereas others feel completely nerfed. Nonetheless this game is neat and every Serious Sam fan should give it a chance.

Serious Sam: Next Encounter

A mediocre game overall but there is a plethora of annoyances that can be fixed with ease if this game were remastered. I played this game on ps2 and it is incredibly dark, "it’s quiet" nah it’s dark and my eyes hurt dude homie, this game has the sheer gumption to show a brightness option in the menu just to tell me to go to my tv settings and adjust it that way which I cannot do with my specific model. Every single gun in this game is either inaccurate or has terrible hit registration, and their secondary fire is usually redundant like making the gun semi auto while still being inaccurate. The enemies are interesting enough for me to forgive their "It’s quite" battle cry. The Tau are done a massive disservice when their weapons in this game are incredibly inaccurate which is the complete opposite in the lore. This game could thrive and gain new fans with a proper remaster otherwise avoid this exasperated sigh of a shooter.

Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior

This game is gorgeous and doesn’t try too hard to impress the player. The skill tree doesn’t feel tacked on and adds some replay value due to the unique weapon upgrades which make some guns look insane enticing you to replay the game in order to see the upgrades you missed out on in the first playthrough. The enemies are quite varied and their aesthetics are very cool, they even display them in test tubes later down the line in order to take it in. The level design is pretty good and the story took me by surprise. Would recommend giving a shot and I’m excited to play the sequel.

Forgive Me Father

Rainbow six lockdown is a step down from Rainbow six 3 in many ways. The level design is rough and leaves little room for a tactical approach, imagine you walk into a room and once you get to the middle of that room enemies flood in surrounding you, it could also be enemies forgetting themselves while they run at you in a straight line setting you up for easy target practice. The friendly ai is useless never mind they are actually worse than useless, they will do their best to walk into your line of fire or star walking into you to push you into enemy fire when I’m trying use the janky leaning mechanics to peak around a corner, their are also a few clown closet’s meaning enemies won’t stop spawning in until you push past and leave the area. This game has good ideas that are over ruled by the horrible jank.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown

The gameboy advance might arguably be the best handheld ever made, even years after the switch. It isn’t oversized and it’s library is up there with the snes. The gba is pretty much a mobile snes except the gba being a 2000s handheld was chasing trends of its time. First person shooters don’t work on the gba, heck they don’t even work on the switch unless there’s a hefty amount of aim assist. The hardware and button mapping on the gba make fps games a failure to launch on this device, Serious Sam advance is a perfect example. Serious Sam advance has terrible frame rate, unreliable hit detection, migraine inducing sound design and terrible controls if it wasn’t obvious. The one saving grace this game has is personality, the spirit of Serious Sam is still intact. The Toy Story font, beheaded Kamikazes, sirian werebulls(imagine trying to dodge them with gba controls), the classic weapons are all here. This is enough to elevate it above the other hogwash fps games on gba which is a low low bar. If you insist on playing this dastardly game just play it on emulator with save states and remap the controls, there’s no reason to play on native hardware unless you’re a collector.

Serious Sam Advance