Serious Sam: The First Encounter

This is what I imagine a game made by a retarded person would look like.

Yourself

First things first: this game is awesome. Pretty much the same kind of mindless shooter as Painkiller is, and almost as much fun. As you wander from area to area, an insane amount of monsters will spawn from every corner, wont let you progress, until you blast all of them back where they belong. Just as in Painkiller, you have to walk through HUGE maps, and your state saves at checkpoints, so you don't have to start over the whole level, if you mess things up. However, in this case, each level takes place at the same, egypt-like setting, instead of Painkiller's varied level designs. They make up for this with even faster and more furious action, a cartoony, arcade-ish feel, a tounge-in cheek attitude, and our hero: The kid-friendly lovechild of Duke Nukem, and Ash from Evil Dead. Sam is an mindless thug, but a likeable one. And he doesn't swear, so even your 9 year old nephew can play this game. (another similarity between this game and duke is the optional 3rd person view, which looks hillarious especially when larger weapons are equipped) The weapons in this game are large and loud, as they should be, and this is also true to the enemies (my favorites are the screaming, headless bombermen). The music is cool, and the graphics were brilliant at their time. All-in-all, a totally mindless shooter, but there's nothing wrong with that, if it's done well. And Serious Sam is a rare gem: endless fun from start, to finish. One thing I don't understand though. Why only The "First encounter"? Where is the second? (not to be confused with Serious Sam 2, which wasn't near this good) I guess, both games would be a bit too much content for ten bucks, but seriously... ... I sense a weekend promo approaching...;)

Positives: + State of the art graphics + Nice looking large levels + Good sound + Nice humour + Some puzzles + Some cool weapons and enemies Negatives: - Horrible difficulty spikes - Hordes of enemies coming at you again and again for the entire game - On higher difficulty levels its ridiculusly hard - Frustrating and annoying - Never ending enemies - All levels are just large arenas that are made almost the same - Absolutely no variation in gameplay - The music gets very repetitive Sorry Sam, this is was a serious disappointment. Its more like a tech demo to show of the fantastic graphics engine than a full-fledged game. The gameplay is so simple and ridiculus, it makes Doom a tactical shooter in comparison. Total Score: 3.5/10

Doesn't work "out of the box" for me on windows 10.