Squeezing your trigger finger is the name of the game and thankfully this pre-prequel packs a punch in the arsenal department. Although the number of puns is more than all 90s action movies combined, and sometimes mildly amusing, the constant barrage feels more like squeezing blood from a stone, just like the story itself. The story is ultimately an excuse to string places together, with Sam’s whole team trying to come up with the best one-liner along the way.

After that, clues inside the Vatican lead them to a French castle and the location of the Grail itself. But it’s swarming with alien nasties and so Sam has to blow Mount Vesuvius to clear the skies. To gain the upper hand, Sam Stone and his military squad are looking for the Holy Grail and their first port of call is Rome. In Sam 4, aliens have invaded Earth and things are looking grim for the human race with small pockets of resistance fighting back. But it does not matter what happened before, or after. Serious Sam 4 is actually a prequel to Serious Sam 3: BFE, which is odd because that too was a prequel.

Serious sam 4 ps4