This game is pretty bad.
It has really awful character models and animations.
Performance is weak and loading times are abismal.
Some design changes over the previous games are questionable at the very least.

And I can recommend the hell out of it.
Because it's FUN.

It's fun to tear hordes of enemies into pieces. It's fun to overcome tough challenges and improve your skill. It's fun to look for series' signature secrets and experience their goofiness. It's fun to dual-wield two super shotguns and shoot all four shells into a single headless kamikaze, no matter how stupid and inefficient this action is. It's fun to hear Sam's bad puns over all of it.

I love this. Thank you, Croteam, for all the fun.

UPD: For those saying "Better go play the first three games" - maybe that would be better if you never played SS games before, yeah. First and Second Encounters HD are wonderful and BFE is pretty nice too. But I will still consider this game worthy to stand among them - because I'm not picking favorites, I'm having fun.

UPD2: You know, in the last couple of days I have played First Encounter HD with my friend a bit and have completed SS4. SS4 is better. I would say it's SE -> SS4 -> SS3 -> FE