Their mission is to recon with Bravo Team after they lose contact with HQ. Sam "Serious" Stone, Captain of the Earth Defense Force, is dispatched with a small squad of soldiers to Cairo in Egypt, which has been occupied by Mental's alien army for sometime. But as the device lies dormant, they must first discover a means to turn it on. Through it, that person could reach a pivotal point in time and assassinate Mental in the past and change the future for humanity. In a last-ditch effort, the survivors turn to the Time-Lock, a recently excavated device that, allegedly, is capable of granting a single person the ability of time travel via an inter-dimensional portal. This leads to a three year-long war that has driven humanity almost to the point of extinction. During this time, Mental, an extraterrestrial overlord, is awakened from dormancy by the humans and sends out his hostile alien armies to attack Earth. In the middle of the 21st century, humanity had begun to uncover artifacts and ruins left behind in ancient times by the Sirians, a long forgotten alien race from the planet Sirius. Level Editor* – Create your own levels, MODs, textures and other content with the inclusion of the fully featured Serious Editor 3.Team Alpha in a Black Hawk, on their way to the museum.Split Screen Modes – Play local (offline) split screen co-op and multiplayer versus modes with up to four players on one screen! It even includes the support for multiple keyboards and mice!.Versus Multiplayer – Fight against each other or other teams in various multiplayer versus modes like Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Last Man Standing, Last Team Standing, Instant Kill and My Burden, along with Team Beast Hunt and Team Survival!.Survival Singleplayer & Multiplayer – Try to survive alone (offline) against wave after wave of enemies with specially created levels in Survival mode or have your online friends join two teams, fighting both each other and enemies, in the relentless Team Survival mode!.
Co-Op Multiplayer – Go to war against Mental’s horde with up to 16 players online and annihilate everything that moves across 12 single-player levels of mayhem in Standard Co-Op, Classic Co-Op, Coin-Op Co-Op, Beast Hunt and Team Beast Hunt mode.Brutal Melee Attacks – When the going get’s tough, the tough take matters into their own hands! Rip out the eye of a closing Gnaar, twist off the face of the hideous Scrapjack or snap the neck of an Arachnoid Hatchling for an instant kill!.Destructive Arsenal – Unleash Serious Sam’s arsenal of weapons including a scoped assault rifle, the double-barreled shotgun, the explosive automatic shotgun, the punishing minigun, and the almighty barrage of flaming cannonballs! Carry all of Sam’s weapons at once and switch between each gun on the fly for maximum firepower!.The shattered cities of tomorrow lined with the crumbling temples of an ancient world become your destructible playground! Spectacular Environments – Battle across the expansive battlefields of near-future Egypt bursting at the seams with total chaos.Fearsome Enemy Creatures – A new battalion of unforgettable minions including the rumbling Scrapjack and towering Khnum join the legendary Headless Kamikaze, Gnaar and Sirian Werebull to create the fiercest opposition you’ve ever had the pleasure of mowing down!.No cover systems, no camping – it’s just you against them. Frantic Arcade-Style Action – Hold down the trigger and lay waste to a never-ending onslaught of attackers or face being overrun by Mental’s savage beasts.
Serving as a prequel to the original indie and Game of the Year sensation, Serious Sam: The First Encounter, Serious Sam 3 takes place during the Earth’s final struggle against Mental’s invading legions of beasts and mercenaries. Serious Sam 3: BFE is a first-person action shooter, a glorious throwback to the golden age of first-person shooters where men were men, cover was for amateurs and pulling the trigger made things go boom.