Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem Reviews

Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem is ranked in the 56th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
6 / 10
Jan 25, 2022

How much fun you’ll have in the bleak, frozen landscape depends on how much you are still smitten with mid-90s first-person shooter mechanics. Serious Sam would rather die than apologize for being what he is. Those looking for an evolution or some sort of next step in gameplay design may as well look elsewhere. All encounters in the game play out exactly the same way they have for the last thirty years. You can mix things up with weapon choices, co-op, and difficulty settings, but that’s about it. 2016’s Doom received loads of (justified) praise for finding a way to push this genre forward. Siberian Mayhem is clearly content to keep touring with the hits. While I won’t drag it for being true to itself, only devout followers of the church of Sam need apply.

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7.8 / 10.0
Jan 25, 2022

As a standalone DLC, Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem lasts the right amount of time and if you love rude and ignorant run & gun shooters, you will also love this hilarious trip to Siberia.

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7.5 / 10.0
Jan 25, 2022

Serious Sam: Sliberian Mayhem offers the similar carnage and heart-pounding action of its predecessors, with some cool new weapons to boot.

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Jan 27, 2022

Even as Siberian Mayhem quickly descends into chaos and sheer pandemonium, there’s always a final word to be had, or one last gunshot to haphazardly fire into the abyss. And when you inevitably fall to the forces of evil—because you’re just one person raking up thousands in terms of bodycount—you just need to try, and try, and try again. There’s little that’s particularly groundbreaking in Serious Sam’s brand of predictability, but there’s also comfort to be found. As Sam said, the fights are their own rewards, after all.

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Unscored
Jan 26, 2022
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JVL
Kikitoès
Top Critic
12 / 20
Jan 25, 2022

Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem is funny because his name is Serious Sam, but that's it. In the end, it brings absolutely nothing to the original game, worse, it is downright less fun and too serious.

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7.8 / 10.0
Jan 25, 2022

A new Serious Sam game! And guess what? You get exactly what you'd expect! Siberian Mayhem is a mindless fragfest that does not overstay its welcome. Just a shame that graphics also seems to be coming from 10 years ago.

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GameMAG
Top Critic
7 / 10
Jan 25, 2022

If you loved the time you spend with original Serious Sam 4, this new expansion can be right up your alley.

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ACG
Top Critic
Unscored
Jan 25, 2022
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5.5 / 10.0
Jan 26, 2022

Ammunition-fueled ATV trips, Mech piloting sequences and taking down squid-operated choppers levels of insane action can’t save Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem. No matter how varied the environments or silky smooth the gunplay and weapons may be this time around, it’s clear the franchise is in need of more of a shakeup. Blowing through waves and waves of extraterrestrial threats doesn’t take long to blur together and once more feels like going through the motions. It’s frustrating too; creating a game with the help of loyal fan modders is arguably as true as the franchise can get. Still, it struggles to impress. Maybe it’s high time the Serious Sam series take notes from its most recent setting: traipsing away on ice for a little while.

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7 / 10.0
Jan 26, 2022

Full of secrets, desolate and still somewhat gorgeous – Siberia might be the home of bloodshed you were missing in Serious Sam 4. All for the low low(?) price of 30 quid.

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GameSpace
Brau3er
Top Critic
6.5 / 10.0
Feb 9, 2022

Serious Sam - Siberian Mayhem is an insanely driving and cool action game that ends exactly when you already want to take a break from the constant screams of opponents, pieces of meat that fill up the monitor and special effects. Siberian Mayhem brings absolutely nothing new to the genre - in fact, the game quite successfully steps on the same rake that the original Serious Sam 4 went on. However, they managed to make a good game that is just fun to play.

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8.5 / 10.0
Jan 27, 2022

Siberian Mayhem recalls Sam's glory days in the best way, providing a bombastic adventure that doesn't overstay its welcome.

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4 / 5.0
Jan 25, 2022

Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem is an excellent entry in the long-running series.

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8 / 10.0
Jan 25, 2022

A lean and mean addition to the Serious Sam family that experiments with a few new toys, and offers more of the same Serious Sam goodness we've been accustomed to. It has the odd instance of unnecessary padding via one too many gunfights, but overall keeps a breezy, brutal pace.

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7.8 / 10.0
Feb 3, 2022

If you're a longtime fan of this franchise, rest assured you'll enjoy the title.

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67 / 100
Jan 28, 2022

Siberian Mayhem improves on Serious Sam 4 in several areas, except where it mattered most: performance. The expansion's poor framerates and tech issues are a shame when it has better level design and fun secrets.

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7 / 10.0
Jan 25, 2022

Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem is another action-packed oldschool shooter with tons of enemies and interesting weaponry. Although the gameplay is good, minor bugs and design mistakes can spoil your impression.

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7 / 10.0
Jan 25, 2022

Inevitably, Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem doesn’t do much to attract newcomers to the series. It is what it is: an expansion designed to offer Serious Sam 4 fans more hair-raising combat encounters, with a sprinkling of new enemies and weapons. It’s disappointing that some of the technical issues that have plagued Serious Sam 4 since launch still persist, but if the idea of having an entire army of Headless Kamikazes running your way yet again gets you hot under the collar, it’s well worth the investment.

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8 / 10 stars
Jan 24, 2022

Siberian Mayhem keeps the experience fresh while sticking to the roots of what makes Serious Sam so great: ruthless alien-killing action with plenty of puns along the way.

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