“ | Awwww, momma's little man's all grown up. | „ |
~ Sam upon seeing Raahloom. |
Raahloom is the final boss of the Jewel of the Nile DLC for Serious Sam 3: BFE.
It is the first prototype of Mental's Necromechanoid project, a dangerous behemoth constructed from the corpses of massive creatures both killed by Mental or that were once in his service. Sam was faced with Raahloom's brutality after activating the Time-Lock.
Appearance[]
Raahloom is a significantly larger predecessor to the Scrapjacks that Sam encounters throughout Serious Sam 3: BFE and Serious Sam 4. Like the other Scrapjacks, Raahloom is sewn together from parts of other creatures and has a circular head with three faces on it. It wears red-coloured armor and wields a massive hammer in its right hand and a cannon built into its left arm.
Biography[]
Despite Sam activating both of the Sirian generators hidden under Luxor and Karnak to power up the Time-Lock, an ancient machine capable of time-travel and the last hope humanity has of surviving complete annihilation at the hands of the alien overlord Mental, it turned out that there was still one more step required to gain access to its function. A safety switch that prevented it from coming fully online had to be turned off, but nobody knew where it was besides a vague area it could be in. A disgruntled Sam was sent to Philae to look for anything that might help with locating it, which lead him to Abu Simbel and finally to the tomb of Sethirkopshef.
Once there, Sam used the seal of Set he received in the Sirian chamber in Abu Simbel to unlcok the control room and finally brought the Time-Lock online. Mental's forces immediately started breaking off to head for the Time-Lock, but when Sam exited the chamber he found Raahloom waiting for him amongst the ruins, which wasted no time in trying to kill him. Raahloom's incredible body mass rendered conventional firepower useless, forcing Sam to get close to Raahloom and plant C4 on its body to injure it. Raahloom obviously didn't just wait around for Sam to kill it, using its massive cannon arm and hammer to try and pulverize Sam. The cannon balls fired by Raahloom had enough volume and velocity to tear both Sam and any buildings in the area to shreds upon contact, rendering all cover meaningless and requiring him to constantly stay moving. Getting close made it charge up a devastating ground-slam with its hammer, affecting everything in a wide radius.
After a lengthy balancing act of getting close enough to plant C4 and running away to avoid its cannon and hammer attacks, Raahloom finally succumbed to its injuries and collapsed. This provided an opening for Sam to be picked up via helicopter and brought back to base, his mission fulfilled. Unfortunately, Mental had other plans and escalated the war into its final stage.
Trivia[]
- In the original version of Serious Sam 3: Jewel of the Nile, Raahloom does not have a NETRICSA description. It received one in the Serious Sam Fusion version.
- In the original version of Serious Sam 3: Jewel of the Nile Raahloom does not have a special battle theme for its boss fight, simply using the normal fight theme for the level. In the Serious Sam Fusion version it uses the theme used for the first battle with the Alcor Class Warship in the main game.
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