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Summary: Serious Sam is serious garbage
Review: If I had reviewed this 2 days ago, I would given a rave review. At first it has all the elements of a classic shooter, great weapons, varied enemies, funny one liners. But by about level 3 everything goes downhill in the level design department. You get bombarded from every direction by hundreds of enemies. I'm no tournement player, but geting smacked from every angle doesn't really appeal to me. The A.I. sucks, and the "Mob Rules" mentality is the only thing driving the monsters. In the end it doesn't matter if you finish it, there isn't really a story to speak of. I'm sticking with Half-Life 2 and Doom III
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Summary: Great
Review: If you are tired of the dark, indoor enviroments of the Quake type engines and are ready for great outdoor enviroments with plenty of exploration and secrets then this game is for you. Do not let the price fool you. I am running the game in 1024X768 on an Athlon 850mhz/256megs ram/Radeon 8500 DDR/ Win2k Sr-2/ and it plays wonderfully. The only thing I notice is the occasional frame rate drop when entering a new area, but it is minor and probably can be corrected with a few tweaks with the video settings. The graphics are way better than in the first SS
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Summary: The True Successor to "Doom"
Review: If you miss the excitement of the first-person-shooter (FPS) that started the craze, then look no further."Serious Sam" has brought us back to the roots of the FPS. The uncountable number of targets and the exhausting hold-your-breath excitement that they bring are back. If you scoff at the high production values of "Half-Life" or are bored with the seemingly one-at-a-time pace of "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" and you just want to mow down hundreds of monsters at a time with a scatter-weapon, "Serious Sam" is exactly what you need. "Serious Sam: The Second Encounter" is simply more of what "The First Encounter" was: a thread-bare plot line to support a reason to blow up lots of monsters into little giblets, just like "Doom 2". The graphics are as impressive as anything this side of "Unreal Tournament" and you will need a 1 GHz machine with a 64 MB graphics card to really look good. Unlike what its bargain price would suggest, this is a top-tier title. Kudos to CroTeam for bringing back the fun to first-person-shooters.
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Summary: DONT MISS IT OR YOU'L L REGRET!!!!!!!!!
Review: Ive been playing this game for five days and i am still amazed with the great graphics that this game has.
This is a game that you will have to kill about 50 enemies when entering a new area a not one by one but altogether they will rush on you furiously and will scare the s**t out of you.
So you have to be extremely fast otherwise you will die within 5 seconds.
You will be able to use a dozen of really cool weapons and will face many different monsters.
Also this game has the most vast and colorful areas i've seen in my life.
A must have for any FPS fan.
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Summary: Great Sequel
Review: Let's face it. a lot of games we loved start to suck in their sequels. this isn't the case with SS2, however. great graphics, same fun gameplay, this is a great game. huge, bright environments, and cool sound. without the sound, the game would be much weaker. it picks up when there are a lot of enemies around, and every enemy has their own sound which makes it much easier to catch them before they get you, like the beheaded kamikaze, whose scream is the only way you could see him before he blows up on you. overall great game. with the new unreal games still a few months away, and no other great shooters coming out on the pc for a while, it's a great buy. plus it's really cheap, half as much as most games in its genre. two words, BUY IT!!!
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Summary: Best sequel ever
Review: One thing about this game is that you need a very fast computer to play. Anyway, When you first start the game, it starts the same way as the demo version. You run up to the temple battling several monsters along the way. Several things change once you get in the temple. When you first go in, you think that it will be easy because you mastered the demo. YOU ARE DEAD WRONG. Everything is different and turned around and several new weapons appear before you think they should. You must play the full version to get the real feel of the game because the demo left you hanging.
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Summary: LA REHOSTIA DE LOS JUEGOS
Review: PARA DESCRIBIRLO EN POCAS PALABRAS ES LA BARBARIDAD DE DIVERTIDO, NO PUEDO PARAR DE DISPARAR AUNQUE LO DESEE, ES MUY ADICTIVO Y SU MULTIPLAYER ES LA MEJOR DIVERSION FAMILIAR QUE SE HA VISTO EN MUCHO TIEMPO
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Summary: Correction to Leo C Robinson's Review
Review: Reviewer does not have his information correct. Serious Sam 1 and 2, by Croteam, does NOT use the Quake 3 Engine. Serious Sam (1) was originally merely a tech demo for a graphical engine, now known as the "Serious Engine". The game was later built around this engine, when the engine proved to be so popular and impressive. Serious Sam 2 uses a modified/extended version of this engine.
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Summary: This game is Serious fun.
Review: Sam's story? Somewhere out there in the nether regions, but it's solid in the same way that DOOM's was (though there are lenghty writeups for the story, history, and characters that inhabit the game world at Croteam's website, if you're so inclined to spend half an hour) with a minimally invasive plotline. Sounds? More than auditory filler; enjoyable to listen to indeed. The sound effects are pretty awesome: grabbing a +100 life heart fills the air with an onimous (yet comical, in its own way) fading noise that works exceptionally well in conjunction with the doors closing about you and the light fading. Sam's scenery and sights are wonderfully scenic and impressive both due to and in spite of their huge size and low polygon count: Croteam sure knows architecture. In this title they've even thrown in a large number of plants that may prove to be deadly in one form or another. Even without the non-stop show special effects seen in the original Serious Sam demo, the game seems more impressive than more densely built, smoother looking FPS titles thanks to its sense of scale and the frenzied pace of its battles. Sam arguably outdoes Rise of the Triad in terms of plain fun and wackiness--but here it's not just buried in deathmatch or cheats and command line parameters. Sam is crazy ALL the time. Lots of stuff done here has been seen before in Duke Nukem--from the ubiquitous voice-overs to the movie set in a room, but here it meshes into the product and is quite a bit more easygoing. It's a telling point that where 3D Realms would make a gigantic alien with rockets, Croteam would build a mechanical, hugely stereoid dependent chicken of roughly the same size--and then throw 5 of them at you in a field, along with a hundred lesser enemies. Play this game co-op, turn on Infinite Ammo if you're so inclined, Extra enemies, and of course diallow clients pausing the game. While I do have issues with the complexity of the administrative control, co-op is often a very smooth affair on a good connection. Competitiveness in Serious Co-op is simply everybody running around showing each other where the secrets are while trying to bag more than their share of the monsters, and this experience should not be missed by any. There aren't campers, PKs, item thieves or smacktards in Serious Sam. The game's general tone, as it works out, is less like two birds at the same feeder than DOOM and more rewarding for people to come to another's aid--since you have to go that way in any case. Serious Sam should not be missed.
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Summary: Serious Sam 2: To Buy or not to Buy?
Review: Serious Sam 2 is an amazing sequel to the First Encounter, and I pretty much have nothing to complain about this game... Anything you can see or hear is amazing..the graphics, sound, etc. There is alot you can do... Go through Pyramids, climb over mountains. I reccomend this game to anyone who DOESN'T have a weak stomach, and for parents out there, There is so much gore and violence in this game you shouldn't think about purchasing this for your child. but if your are like me, rush out the door and pick up a copy of Serious Sam:The Second encounter and you'll be glued to your seat for the next few hours! It will not take you long to learn controls.. took me about 5 minutes to get used to it....
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