Octanians have raw, swollen-looking, pustle-covered skin.The Anthropolyps are captured humans whose brains have been scooped out and replaced with a colony of parasitic polyps (causing them to rather resemble the fungus zombies from The Last of Us), then equipped with forearm blades and sent out as more cannon fodder troops.Black Dude Dies First: Jones is the first member of Stone's squad to die, getting his head bitten off by a Khnum boss.Later on, however, he's revealed to be a selfish, traitorous psychopath who sees his own men as tools to be used and disposed of for his own agenda, and he joins Mental's side in the hopes of becoming immortal. Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: General Brand at first appears to be one of the heroes, despite his more pragmatic ways of trying to win the war.Big Bad Wannabe: After Sam kills Lord Achriman, General Brand shows up and not only kills Father Mikhail, but also betrays humanity and steals the Holy Grail to join forces with Mental and his army to become "the last human." However, when presenting a captured Sam as a gift to Ugh-Zan VI in the final level, he is flicked off by the colossal Ugh-Zan, and is later strapped to a nuke being fired at the portal Mental's army was using.Team have to rendezvous with Rome turns out to a shotgun wielding warrior capable of fighting Mental's army. Badass Preacher: The priest Sam and the rest of the A.A.A.You might think he'll be the final boss, but Sam eats 40-foot tall monsters for breakfast, and sure enough a few levels later the skyscraper-sized Ugh-Zan (who Brand summoned in hopes of negotiating with Mental) casually swats Brand away like a bug, thoroughly unimpressed with him, and ends up being the final boss instead. Bait-and-Switch Boss: At the end of the game, after you kill Big Bad Achriman, General Brand betrays you and expresses his intent to join Mental's side and give him Earth, mutating himself into a 40-foot tall monster in the process.Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Ugh-Zan VI, the game's Final Boss, is a towering behemoth, larger than even Ugh-Zan IV.Sam is able to use one to help him, in the form of the Hacked Drone gadget.Attack Drone: One of the new enemies in the game is an army of hover-drones, some of which are ridden on by Octanian Troopers.Art Shift: Hellfire's appearance has changed considerably between Serious Sam 3 and Serious Sam 4, going from her original sort of punk skater girl look to more of a butch military appearance.It's left ambiguous whether the two are lovers or just close friends. When you get there you find she has a companion, Aubrey, who is also a girl. Ambiguously Gay: One sidequest has Sam having to rescue Annabelle, a Southern Belle trapped in a bell tower.Action Bomb: The Beheaded Kamikaze, a running, decapitated soldier who explodes on contact with Sam, is one of the returning enemies."2020 is about to get serious" (Christmas trailer).A first for the series, the game also includes gadgets, items that can be found in secret areas and side quests and are able to be used at will. Vehicles have also made a return from Serious Sam II. The arsenal and gameplay mechanics from BFE have returned as well, so Sam is able to sprint and use iron sighting while mowing down the baddies. It features, once again, Sam mowing down thousands of enemies at the same time. The game is a prequel to Serious Sam 3: BFE, taking place in Europe during Mental's invasion. The game was announced for Q4 2014, though it has been continually delayed since, with the first hints of what it will be like since then coming in 2018.
The game was released for PC (including Linux and Mac releases), Google Stadia (previously an exclusive of the console), and will later be released Playstation 4 and Xbox One. It's the fifth main installment in the Serious Sam series. Serious Sam 4 (formerly known as Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass) is a First-Person Shooter video game developed by Croteam and Devolver Digital released in September 24th, 2020.