Looks shamelessly bad for a game that runs this horrendously, but besides those glaringly obvious technical deficiences I still vibe with this series immensely. Virtually all of the new weapons are hits, and the added option for duel-wielding any two combination of guns means that battles can be staged at an even more ludicrous scale than before. It's not even near the same level of design mastery as DOOM: ETERNAL, but the singular nature of Sam as a franchise still ensures that there really is no other shooter series available that allows you to, for example, annihilate 200 enemies at once with a damn portable blackhole, or grind footsoldiers to a pulp while riding through a grotesquely picturesque French countryside on a combine. It's the little things here in life, ey?

Reviewed on Feb 28, 2023


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