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Summary: A great sequel to a great title
Review: Serious Sam 2 picks up where Serious Sam left off. The game essentially has the same engine with some improvements. It also contains new weapons, enemies and of course brand new levels. Serious Sam 2 is even more fun than the original and multiplayer cooperative matches are simply a blast!
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Summary: Serious Sam : The Second Encounter
Review: Serious Sam : The Second Encounter is a first person shooter, It is an expansion pack but you do not need the orginal game to install or play. The single player gameplay is excellent, The gameplay is just shoot every thing that moves and proceed to the next level but it is still fun playing. The level design is superb with very long levels and lots of enemies but unlike the first game there are many jumping puzzles and they not fun playing which is why i gave it only three stars. The multiplayer gameplay is not that great but the co-operative gameplay is outstanding, It is one of the best co-operative games i have ever played. Serious Sam is built on the serious engine. I played it on the OpenGL video mode and it runs great. Direct3D is also available but not as polished as OpenGL. The game runs great even when there are hundreds of enemies on screen at the same time. Serious Sam SE is an excellent game if you like doom type fps.
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Summary: Seriously Fun and Difficult but married by thin performance!
Review: Serious Sam the Second Encounter has no story, just oldskool gameplay. The graphics are nothing special, pretty neat effects, but nothing that raises the bar past unreal or quake. The sound system is pretty unique and realistic, and the music eyecandy is cool. The gameplay is fun and tough, literally hundereds of freaky and hard big enemies and you using big guns and armor at the same time in huge interesting levels with great arcitecture. At maxed settings at high resolutions, the game performs pretty disapointing on low and med-end system setups, but on hi-end system setups the game performs decent.The game is seriously meant for multiplayer. Poly counts are kind of low. Its' a great game overall but not the best.
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Summary: Seriously, enough!
Review: Serious Sam's main strong point is some great set design. A little cartoony, but the various cities you run though are huge, wonderfully detailed and beautiful in appearance.Otherwise the game takes a good idea and does it to death. Sam is kind of like a PG rated Duke Nuke'em, and the game is deliberately not to be taken seriously. The standard FPS shooter theme is played out with the twist you mow down ludicrous hordes of enemies. Trouble is you've met all the types of enemies by the end of the first few levels, and the game play is set at being stopped at in each level by a door over and over and having to either mow down enough bad guys or find pieces of a puzzle (usually two) to unlock the door and move on. The first football field sized alley of endless enemies is a hoot, but after the third or fourth one it becomes a drag. Despite some variety such as rooms that rotate or have low gravity the game doesn't have much of a plot and becomes pretty darn monotonous after a while.
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Summary: Great Deal for the Money
Review: Serious Sam: 2nd Encounter is how games should be done these days. The game is fun to play, looks great, and is priced to move. You have to wonder if a game this good can be put out for so cheap, why can't others. Buy this game and support the idea of good games for cheap.
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Summary: Buy it, buy it, buy it! Don't wait, order it now!
Review: Serious Sam: Second Encounter will be better than the first SS.
How do I know? I just finished playing the demo and was once again amazed. ITEM: Eye Candy - The graphics are simply amazing. The developer, Croteam, has leased the Quake 3 Arena engine for their Serious Sam games and it shows. The vistas are incredible. You will be fighting monsters in open areas that seem to stretch for miles. ITEM: Monsters - By the dozen, skeltons that run, sound and look like horses, headless guys that scream at the top of their lungs (go figure) and blow up when they get close to you, buffalo like creatures that sound like rolling thunder and will smack you about 50 feet in the air of you let them, big multi-limbed baddies that shoot green plasma balls that will track you, winged devils (in the form of women) that fly overhead shooting you with their ranged attack or drop out of the sky to give you a deserving punch, scorpions that shoot machine guns, and what about the pumpkin-head guys that run after you with a chain saw (no kidding). I could go on but you get the picture. ITEM: Fun - Croteam has once again provided a game with the concept of "fun" being the key. Serious Sam gives out fun by the basket full and will have you laughing out loud. Item: Price - At a time when most newly released games hover around the better part of 50 bucks, Croteam and their publisher are keeping the price at 20 dollars. This has got the be the best deal ever in PC gaming. ITEM: How does it run? - My machine is 5, count em, 5 years old. Its a P2450 with a 32 Mg Geforce 2 card & 256 RAM. The game runs without a hitch. ITEM: Second to Last Item - I have several friends that have played the first Serious Sam and can't wait for the second. GameSpot has made it their "Game of the Year" and deservedly so. Simply put, if you like first person shooters this one is a must. Item: Last Item (honest) - Serious Sam 1 or 2 is not for your nine year old. It is rated "Mature", as it should be.
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Summary: Fun and difficult, but repetitive
Review: Serious Sam: the Second Encounter (SSSE) is a very good game, but it's got one trait I had trouble with: It's not serious! Oh but the graphics are great! Croteam really deserves credit for a job well done. Sunlight, rain, and special effects are rendered very nicely in this game, and amazingly it ran smoothly even on my Pentium III system. The weapons are good too. SSSE brings back all the weapons from Serious Sam but also includes a great flame thrower that can set a tree on fire. But as I mentioned, this game isn't serious, and I found that annoying. Shooters and lame jokes just don't mix. When I travel to an alien planet to battle hordes of scarey monsters, I want to have white knuckles and a feeling of awe. The humor in SSSE just seems misplaced. I guess it's like laughing at a funeral. Don't let that stop you from buying this game, however. It's well worth the price, and it'll hold its own with any shooter out there.
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Summary: Should be More Serious
Review: Serious Sam: the Second Encounter (SSSE) is a very good game, but it's got one trait I had trouble with: It's not serious! Oh but the graphics are great! Croteam really deserves credit for a job well done. Sunlight, rain, and special effects are rendered very nicely in this game, and amazingly it ran smoothly even on my Pentium III system. The weapons are good too. SSSE brings back all the weapons from Serious Sam but also includes a great flame thrower that can set a tree on fire. But as I mentioned, this game isn't serious, and I found that annoying. Shooters and lame jokes just don't mix. When I travel to an alien planet to battle hordes of scarey monsters, I want to have white knuckles and a feeling of awe. The humor in SSSE just seems misplaced. I guess it's like laughing at a funeral. Don't let that stop you from buying this game, however. It's well worth the price, and it'll hold its own with any shooter out there.
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Summary: An Excellent Value Shooter
Review: Serious Sam: The Second Encounter is a fabulous first person shooter made by no other than Take-Two, and I've never given any of Take-Two's products anything less than a 4/5 stars. In fact, the majority of them deserve 5/5 stars. On to the game, for ..., this game is a steal and could be priced for ...and still sell well. Sam's voice is the funniest thing I've ever heard in a video game. When you get to the level where it says "Double your gun, double your fun," you'll know what I mean. Great graphics, great levels and concepts. While it doesn't compete with the Medal of Honor series (they are actually 2 different games, yet they are nonetheless both of the FPS genre), this game is definitely worth purchasing. The online play is great and the monster detail is incredible. Highly recommended for monster killing fun.
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Summary: Best Graphic Engine!
Review: Serious Sam: The Second Encounter is made by Croteam and powered by the Serious Engine.
The game itself is not exactly a brainbuster, but yet very fun. You just run around and kill anything that moves - not much thinking. It is really a spoof of first person shooters.
What attracts me to this game is the powerful graphics engine.
The graphics are gorgeous and is best damn graphics engine out there. Unfortunatley, it has not got all the media attention it deserves yet. But with some great looking mods out soon, the world will see what a real graphic engine is about.
If you are a graphics enthusiast, then I urge you to check out the demo or some screenshots; you will be amazed.
Though the game is fun, the real emphasis is to promote their graphics engine. I am running:
AMD Duron 750
256MB RAM
GeForce 2 400MMX Here is my summary of the game:
Graphics: 10+
Animation: 8.5 (The models skate and that is a real turn off; however, some details are pleasant, like the moving muscles of the werebull)
Sound: 6 (If the sound was 3D, I would have given it at least 8)
Controls: 8 (Still, I can feel a little slipperiness, but at least I kind bind the keys all I want - that in any game, is much appreciated)
Gameplay: 7 (Kill monsters all day and the game is quite long. Again, the slipperiness of the action is a little annoying. The AI cheats by seeing you through walls. They are not very smart by the way.)
Power Management: 8 (Hard to tell, I get lag when I am online in Co-op, but only the more powerful computers don't lag; however, the deathmatch, which has no monsters and oonly humans runs fine)
I probably forgot more things to criticize on, but I can't think of anything more right now. Just try the game out for yourself. Soin my unprofessional score for the game (not the engine): 47.5/60*100 = 79.1%. But there is my Graphic engine bonus, So let it slide to %80. I bought this game at a local [store] for only [money] Canadian!
It is about [money] American. Once again, the graphic engine will blow you away. I promise you, there is no better engine out there right now. I can't wait to see the mods that come out of this engine, or even better, a major company licencing this engine and making a blow away game. Great work Croteam; your hard work, care of your product, and inconceivable low price makes me want to never sail my pirate ship again.
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