Contents GameplaySerious Sam 3: BFE takes place in 22nd century Egypt, during 's invasion on, as implied in The First Encounter.Like previous titles in the series, the main theme of the game involves fighting against small to massive-scale hordes of enemies, often in large, open environments. Compared to previous games, however, Serious Sam 3 has more closed environments than its predecessors, usually in the early levels. There are also more ranged enemies than before. The player can also carry an unlimited amount of weapons, including a minigun, rocket launcher, assault rifle and a cannon. There are 13 weapons in total. 5 of them have a manual reload.
The signature close-combat weapons from the first game, the and, have been replaced with a that has three modes of attack (vertical strike, 180 turn, and full 360 turn).There is no regenerating health, instead, there are health and armor power-ups scattered throughout the levels that the player must pick up. Additionally, the levels are full of secrets, where health, armor, ammo and, in some cases, weapons from later levels can be found, following the tradition of the previous games. Some weapons such as the and the and their respective ammunition pickups are in fact secret-only, and otherwise are not found in the levels normally. There are no puzzles, however the player must find keys, pull levers and find environmental anomalies in order to progress.Classic enemies such as the, and return in the game. New ones include the and (resembling the Hell Knight and Mancubus from the Doom series), as well as that are reminiscent of the Strogg from the Quake series.
There's plenty of health, armor, and ammo in the center if you need it. Prioritize the Scrapjacks and Arachnoids with the cannon and deal with the others with the minigun. Eventually, Sam will mention that this is getting serious, and Major Mechs. Will start arriving. When Sam says things are getting too serious (OO) Khnums will start attacking.
The Kamikaze has returned to his original design, rather than the design. The 's design has radically been changed from the original game. It is now much larger, differently shaped and walks on all fours, unlike its bipedal counterpart in Serious Sam 1.Many features found in Serious Sam 2, such as vehicles, have been removed. The score system is still in place, and like in, top scores are uploaded to online leader-boards, letting people around the world compete for the best scores. Secrets are also common, like in previous games.Several new features have been added in order to spice up gameplay and give the game a more realistic feel. The first of these include the implementation of bullet spread for weapons such as the and, which causes the weapons to fire inaccurately unless the iron sights mechanic featured for select weapons are used, which allow for more precise aiming but reduces the player's movement. The player can also sprint, letting them run from one location to another with ease.
Finally, some guns, such as the assault rifle and the pump-action shotgun, feature magazines that must be reloaded manually.has also changed; rather than having multiple tabs showing data for enemies, areas, weapons and so on, there's now only one list all acquired information is displayed in. Additionally, rather than showing an image of the subject on the left and an info dump on the right, NETRICSA now shows a 3D image of the subject, automatically panning around it and describing individual parts using text boxes.
Also, like in Serious Sam 1, she doesn't speak like she does in.Characters. (Not seen). Miller's co-pilot. Unnamed EDF soldier.Enemies.
(Boss). (Jewel of the Nile only). (Boss) (Jewel of the Nile only). (Boss).ModesSerious Sam 3: BFE features several gamemodes for both online and offline.
Offline, the player can play the single-player campaign and survival. Online multiplayer is also back and split-screen from Serious Sam 1 has been re-introduced. This lets one enjoy multiplayer with friends without having to connect online. Other players can play using Xbox 360 or Xbox One controllers, other keyboards, and a mouse.Online and in split-screen mode, the player can play standard co-op, classic co-op, coin-op co-op, and.Weapons.: One of the classic Serious Sam weapons returns, but this time the shotgun has to manually reloaded.
It retains the same damage, spread and range as it did in the previous installments.: A heavily modified, powerful automatic shotgun that fires explosive rounds. The rounds are fired with such force that they literally pierce the target.: A stationary sentry weapon that will fire at anything that moves and can tear through multiple targets in seconds.: A wooden melee axe which functions exactly like the sledgehammer. Appears only in DLC.: A powerful explosive that can do extreme damage over a wide area. It can be thrown at a target and it will attach to it with the use of universal hooks.
It can also be used to destroy enviromental obstacles to make traversing through them easier.: A double-barrel shotgun that reappears from the classic games, though it now has somewhat heavy recoil.: An automatic assault rifle featuring a holographic sight, which can allow the user to fire more accurate shots from a distance.: A unique feature which will always kill the intended target, provided that they are close enough for it to be used. It can only be performed on certain enemies.: A powerful semi-automatic sniper rifle. It uses 16 mm armor-piercing Kevlar-coated bullets, which will pass right through most small to medium-sized targets.: One of the most iconic weapons in the series, this portable cannon is one of the most powerful weapons in the game, and is capable of mowing down many opponents thanks to its extreme piercing capabilities.: A strange device of origin that is worn on the wrist. The bracelet can fire a beam which can lasso onto as many as five targets at once, though this depends on the enemy's size.: An ordinary sledgehammer which deals a powerful blow to enemies up close, but leaves the player vulnerable to other attacks.: A semi-automatic handgun with a 10 round magazine and is useful for elimination of several weak targets, but not very effective against tougher opponents.: Experimental rocket launcher designed to fire a fast barrage of unguided missiles that can penetrate through most known armor types. The loading mechanism is noticeably different from its classic counterpart.: An energy weapon which can fire slowlight energy pulses that have an extremely high rate of fire, which enables the user to take out targets at long range with ease.: An iconic and powerful weapon with roughly the same damage output and rate of fire from the previous games.PlotTeam Alpha in the Black Hawk, on their way to the museum.During the middle of the 21st century, humans have bled Earth dry of its resources, and as a result, mankind tis on the verge of collapse. However, one day, a huge discovery is made. During an archaeological expedition, an is uncovered in the process.
The scientific implications of this discovery leads humans far and wide across the universe, colonizing on other planets far away from Earth. For humanity, this opportunity seemed perfect.However, as humanity has made such an impact, the last of an extraterrestrial species known as the Hum-Tah, is awakened from dormancy, and sends out his hostile alien forces to annihilate mankind. His forces fight against the humans from Alpha Centauri all the way back to, where the planet stands as humanity's last stronghold against the invaders. The humans fight back hard, but are no match against Mental's armies. This leads to a three-year conquest that has driven humanity almost to the point of extinction. As people begin to struggle to fend off the alien invaders, world leaders turn to the Time-Lock as a last resort. In order to so, however, they had to find a way to activate the Time-Lock.An opening cutscene shows an piloted by and his co-pilot.
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On board, members of team Alpha;, and another soldier are en route to, which became abandoned and overrun by Mental's forces sometime during the invasion. As the helicopter makes it way towards Cairo, a large plume of sand erupts from the ground, where a attempts to devour the helicopter. Luckily, Miller and the co-pilot manage to avoid it in time.Annoyed by the sudden events, Rodriguez complains about how today is his birthday, impatiently stating that he should be snorting coke off a stripper's butt instead of being on an important mission. With the chopper getting closer to the city, Sam reports that Bravo team were protecting in in Cairo, but they lost contact with HQ.
Sam says that the guy they're looking for has important information about powering up the Time-Lock. The helicopter approaches the ruins of Cairo, but soon after they get into the city, a volley of rockets attempt to hit the helicopter. As the helicopter dodges the missiles, Sam is left hanging over the side due to not wearing his seatbelt. After many desperate attempts to evade the rockets, one of them hits the tail of the Black Hawk and Sam is sent flinging out of it and far from his squad.After recovering from his fall, Sam gets in contact with intelligence officer, who asks about the current status of the helicopter. Sam tells her the chopper is, but that he's still going to the museum, then ends the call. Soon after, calls back, confirming he's alive and comedically berates Sam for not wearing his seatbelt.
After a little snip from Sam, Rodriguez tells them that they're at the museum and that Sam needs to get his ass in gear.Sam starts fighting through the city while only armed with a sledgehammer and his bare hands. Along the way, he gets a call from, who tries to tell him something, but a detonates in the background which cuts him off and ends the call. Sam continues his fight through the city, and acquires a along the way.When Sam reaches the plaza near the museum, he comes across the remains of the helicopter wreckage and the mutilated remains of his team. He calls and reports this, only to be set upon by more of Mental's forces.
Afterwards, he makes his way to the museum alone.After entering the museum, HQ informs Sam that Stein has important information, but will not give it to the until he is rescued from the museum. Sam makes another quip and goes to rescue him. However, after fighting through the museum, Sam finds Stein has been brutally killed by the monsters inside, only finding his severed hand with his phone still held. His cell phone is still intact, so he grabs it and uploads the data on it to headquarters, then requests a helicopter to get him out of Cairo. With his main objective completed, Sam travels back through the basement to the surface.
Right before he tries to leave, an confronts him outside, leading to a long battle that ultimately results in Sam's victory.After exiting the museum, Sam is called by the helicopter pilot,. He offers to extract Sam from the city, but requests he make his way to the nearby mosque, as it's the only safe place to land. Sam reaches the center of the mosque and clears it out, but before the helicopter can land, a shoots the helicopter down and engages Sam in another fight, but he manages to kill the cyborg. Afterwards, he calls and tells HQ what happened and states that he's going to see if he can find the crash site and save the pilot.Garret's helicopter is shot down before Sam can be extracted from Cairo.Sam continues to fight through the ruined city and reaches the crash site. He tells HQ that he's found the helicopter. Before he can get a good look at it as he's approaching, an unknown creature falls from the sky and impacts the helicopter's wreckage, turning it into a that immediately lifts off and begins to attack Sam.
Lacking any sort of explosive weapon to breach the helicopter's armor, he runs past it and enters a part of town that is filled with minigun turrets. He deactivates them while avoiding fire from the helicopter and the enemies that have been teleported in to stop him.After making his way through the maze of streets, Sam obtains a and an ammunition crate loaded with rockets near a gate.
He uses the rocket launcher to destroy the Technopolip. With the Technopolip neutralized, he calls HQ and tells him that he manages to “secure the bird”. Quinn knows that the explanation is something she doesn't know about, though she then tells Sam they're going to send another helicopter to pick him up and send him to the Great Pyramid in order explore what professor Stein found. As it's too hot for anyone to land and extract Sam safely without being shot down, Sam refuses the offer, and tells Quinn that he would rather take the 'scenic route', by actually walking out of the city on foot. As he walks out, Quinn berates the risky situation that he will be getting himself into, but he cuts her off.After going through the gate, Sam spots a perched on a tall building.
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Quipping to himself about how apparently 'beautiful' the creature is, the creature hears him and reveals its true, more grotesque face, causing Sam to kill it in disgust. Soon after, more appear that are perched on ruined buildings. Sam kills them all, along with some other creatures that have appeared. He gets near an overpass, and decides to transform it into a shortcut by tossing C-4 charges on its support pillars. He blows the pillars up, creating a ramp onto said overpass and a shortcut over much of the city. Quinn asks what the hell he's doing, but he just replies with a cocky response.Sam continues his fight through the city, and eventually reaches a very large field filled with supplies. After killing more Harpies and other enemies, a warps into the air over the ruined area and begins attacking Sam, beaming down many enemies and firing a large scorcher beam along the ground as it flies over.
He manages to critically damage the ship by firing into the hatches that open each times it beams down an enemy. After the ship flies away to avoid destruction. Sam calls HQ to tell them that he encountered a warship and managed to 'scare if off'. He also finds transportation to the Great Pyramid;. Quinn tells him that they believe the Great Sphinx has a clue to figuring out what they need to discover and that it's hiding something. Sam says he'll go over there and disconnects.Sam drives to a slum located near the, and is contacted by Quinn. She tells him that the researchers at headquarters are trying to figure out a riddle that Stein found that relates to opening up the Sphinx.
Sam, disinterested, then disconnects and fights through the slum to eventually reaches the ruins near the Great Pyramid. After fighting though the ruins, he finds the Sphinx. Sam calls HQ and sees if they've made any progress as to how to enter the Sphinx. Quinn says they're still working on it, so Sam tells her he's going to use his 'Plan B,' which turns out to be utilizing the nearby C-4 crates to strap the timeless Grand Sphinx with C-4. After calling HQ to check if they've solved the riddle one more time, which they haven't, he unhesitatingly detonates the C-4, causing the sandstone statue to crumble and reveal a secret passage in the ground, much to the chagrin of Quinn and the rest of HQ.After going through the hole and avoiding traps along the way, Sam comes across a room with pillars in it with a metallic hallway at the end. Unfortunately, the hallway has a door that's impossible to open, so he looks around to see if there's a way to open it.
Hidden in the pillar room is another room that has a large alien mummy with a on its left wrist. Sam picks up the device on to see what it does. He walks back to the door, and the device opens the door. Past the door is an elevator that leads to a gigantic room with a hologram of Karnak and Luxor on it. Sam contacts HQ about it uploads some pictures of it, along with uploading data in the map. HQ then tells Sam that he should leave the pyramid because there's a helicopter arranged to get him out.He then finds another door on the other side of the room and rides it down. It leads to more ruins, but a is waiting for him.
Sam discovers that the Sirian Mutilator can be used as a weapon, and uses a beam it fires to decapitate the Rocketeer. He then leaves the pyramid through a small shaft. When he gets out he finds that he's at a large field that's past the Sphinx he destroyed. However, a large group of enemies, including sever Major Bio-mechanoids, attack.
When they're all dead, his transport helicopter appears. He hops in it, and discovers that the pilot is a friend of his,. She tells him that the data from the Great Pyramid is actually information about two power generators needed to power the. HQ has decided to send Sam to power them on.After some flirting, Sam and Hellfire reach the outskirts of Karnak, the first location with a power generator. She asks if Sam needs some help, but he says he's fine. Sam fights through the outskirts and enters an old ruined building. Inside it, he discovers the (whom Sam refers to as 'space monkeys').
After defeating them, he solves a quick switch puzzle and finds a way back to the surface.Sam appears in Karnak now, and continues to more forward while fighting Mental's forces. Eventually, he ends up near a dig site that leads to another metal door. This one is opened by finding four medallions in Karnak. Sam travels forward, where the finds four buildings that each contain a medallion. The Sirian Mutilator is needed for him to access each one.After more fighting and finding a keycard, Sam manages to get all four Sirian artifacts and uses them to open the door. Past it is an elevator, which leads down to an enormous area filled with blue lights on pillars. The bottom of the elevator leads to another door, behind which is a large pyramid-shaped object.
Sam waves the Mutilator near it, which re-activates it. When it's active, Quinn calls back and tells him that the first generator for the Time-Lock is back online. She also gushes about how humans have never managed to activate Sirian technology until now, but Sam cuts her off so that he can ask where to activate the second generator and get back HQ and enjoy some cold beer. She tells him that it's in Luxor, and that when he's done, he can go back to HQ.After the ride back up, Sam finds that one of the walls in the dig site has been knocked down, and that the door to the medallion area no longer works. With nowhere else to go, Sam jumps over the wall into an area filled with pillars. Soon after, a enters the area to face Sam alone.
Utilizing multiple explosive weapons and his new Sirian Mutilator, he dispatches it after a lengthy confrontation. With the Khnum dead, Sam continues his travels through Karnak. After fighting off some enemies, he finds a, who tries to crush him to death using her telekinesis. Despite that, he ultimately kills the creature.After leaving the Witch-Bride arena, he discovers an. After letting it work its magic against an insurmountably large horde of Kleers, he grabs the mounted minigun and takes it with him.
He continues his travel through Karnak and eventually ends up in a huge yard that links Karnak with Luxor. More enemies appear to stop him, but he manages to kill them and enter Luxor.Inside Luxor, Sam finds another Sirian metal door in a dig site. As with the other one, it requires that one needs to find four emblems scattered throughout Luxor to open it. Once again, Sam finds the emblems, which are scattered around a bit more this time, and returns to the door. He opens it, which reveals another elevator that leads to a power generator. After activating the second power generator, the time-lock is finally online.
Quinn contacts Sam to tell him that the time-lock is online, that its activation finally gives humanity a chance to defeat Mental, Team Charlie is being prepared to enter the time-lock and that Sam can finally get back to base and have a hot meal and a beer.Sam returns to Luxor's ruins, and finds that a ladder that leads from the dig site has fallen off. Thankfully for him, there's an old ruin that he can go through. He travels through it, finds a on a throne, kills it, and then blows up a lot of old ruined walls. After blowing them up, he travels through another hallway that leads outside. Unfortunately, there are a lot of enemies waiting for him. However, he finds a and uses its extreme power to carve through the horde of monsters waiting for him.He manages to reach the outskirts of Luxor. After clearing out yet more aliens there, Quinn tells him that the is in the area again and that the area can't be used as an extraction point.
Soon after, the warship appears. Using his now-complete arsenal, Sam easily dispatches the Warship a second time, this time damaging it to the point where it can't warp; upon the ship attempting to anyways, its thrusters all explode, causing it to crash.After defeating the Warship, a helicopter lands. Sam hops in and starts talking like the pilot is Hellfire, but it's actually.
When Sam is on-board, the helicopter takes off and starts flying to HQ. While in the air, Sam tells Wilson that it feels like he killed 'half of the known universe' back in the ruins. Wilson tells him he had it easy, as Team Charlie is getting ready to enter the Time-Lock and try to kill Mental in the past.
While talking about “milk runs”, Sam notices a rising from the sand below. Despite Sam's warnings, Wilson fails to notice, allowing it to easily shoot down the helicopter, sending Sam flying out of it a second time.Sam recovers from the crash, and finds that his weapons were flung from his person in the crash, except for his Sirian Mutilator. He tries to contact HQ about what happened, but his communicator was damaged when he fell. Without any support from HQ, Sam decides to move forward through the sandstorm he's landed in the middle of and see if he can find Wilson. After some walking, he finds another Sledgehammer and soon after finds some ruins with more of his weapons near it. It turns out that Sam has landed at.
After some fighting, Sam finds his helicopter and Wilson's corpse. Since there's nowhere else to go, Sam pushes forwards through the temples, fighting enemies like Technopolips, Major Bio-mechanoids and Khnums in the process. Near the end of the temples, he finds a huge canyon filled with enemies. Sam clears out the canyon and discovers that there's an entrance to an underground temple at the end of it. Sam travels through the temple and avoids several traps, such as a rotating pillar and a room filled with.After traveling through the temple, Sam discovers that Team Charlie have been taken out. Sam contacts HQ using the earpiece of a dead soldier nearby. Surprisingly, instead of Quinn, Hellfire picks up and informs him that Mental found the Earth Defense Force's base and they're currently under attack, claiming they won't last much longer and that Sam's only hope is to stock up on ammo and last as long as he can.
Soon after, a pounces on her from the top of the metal building she was taking cover behind and kills her. The feral creature picks up Hellfire's earpiece and begins to taunt Sam. After a brief verbal scuffle, the Gnaar responds back by telling him that Mental is going to “moon” him. Perceiving this as literal, Sam tells him that he'll 'shoot Mental's ass off and hang it on a wall', and promptly hangs up.
Sam then deduces the fact that he is likely the last human left on, and decides to head to the Time-Lock to use it himself.Sam fights through more ruins, and ends up in a slum. He finds a car that he can use to drive to the Temple of Hatsheput, where the Time-Lock is, but finds out that the car needs gas. Thankfully, there are several gas cans scattered throughout the slum, but Mental's forces continue to appear in order to kill him.
Sam manages to put enough gas in the car, and finally drives off to the Temple of Hatshepsut. Unfortunately for Sam, his car runs out of gas near a large canyon.
He then heads for the canyon, as he narrowly avoids being devoured by a. With no car, he is forced to travel by foot through the canyon. Even worse, Mental sends a huge amount of his forces in order to stop Sam from reaching the Time-Lock, including multiple Technopolips, Khnums and legions of. Fortunately, Sam has since reacquired all his guns and finds the SBC Cannon on the ground, and thus he proceeds through the canyon vengefully.Against all odds, Sam manages to defeat every enemy that appears, and ends up in a large, sandy area with the Time-Lock on the other side.
After entering the area however, a thunderstorm starts brewing overhead and one of Mental's highest-ranking disciples, rises from the Sand as a last-ditch effort by Mental to stop Sam. However, soon after Ugh-Zan appears, a Sandwhale bursts from beneath the sand and attempts to attack Ugh-Zan IV. This gives Sam an opportunity to run to some nearby ruins. Sam manages to find a jetpack in one of the ruined buildings. Soon after, Ugh-Zan wrestles the Sandwhale away from him and begins attacking Sam.
Utilizing several metal scaffolding poles he finds lying around the arena, he takes advantage of the Sand-Whale occasionally rising from the sand to attack Ugh-Zan to fly up to the creature's back and throw them like javelins into it. After doing this enough times, lightning strikes Ugh-Zan, stunning him long enough for Sam to attack without worrying about the creature's regenerative abilities.With Ugh-Zan IV dead, Sam gets to the Time-Lock. Sam calls Mental in order to threaten him one last time. However, his daughter, picks up the line. He asks where her dad is, and she says that he's off destroying. He then told her that he's going to kill Mental, in which she responds to 'Are you serious?'
And Sam says 'Why yes, as a matter of fact, I am'. She then tells him that he needs to hurry, because Mental is going to moon Earth at any moment.
Sam asks what she means by 'mooning', having heard the Gnaar state this before, only to look up and discover what they really meant; rather than the slang term for mooning, Mental has literally destabilized the entire Moon out of its own orbit and sent it hurdling towards Earth like a titanic meteor. This prompts Sam to hang up and make a mad dash to the Time-Lock.Soon after Sam hops into the Time-Lock, the moon crashes into Earth, destroying it. Humanity and Earth are now gone in the present, but there is still hope left thanks to Sam entering the Time-Lock.Sam warps to the Temple of Hatshepsut of the past, and begins his to kill Mental.Downloadable contentThe only DLC released so far has been the. It was released on October 16, 2012 for the PC and Mac versions, and October 17, 2012 for the Xbox 360 version.
It contains three all new single player levels, two, a and a for $9.99 USD or 1200 MS Points. There are also new achievements included.Marketing and releaseBefore the release of Serious Sam 3: BFE, three indie games were announced to be in development. All were released around the release of Serious Sam 3.Gold EditionThe Gold Edition of Serious Sam 3: BFE has many features compared to the normal version of the game.
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