Sam is back in the all new Second Episode of his battles against the arch-enemy Mental.
After finding the Sirian spacecraft in ancient Egypt, Sam 'Serious' Stone hijacked it and headed for Mental himself.
But sadly, this was not meant to be, as Sam lost control of the alien craft and crash-landed in...
Sam is back in the all new Second Episode of his battles against the arch-enemy Mental.
After finding the Sirian spacecraft in ancient Egypt, Sam 'Serious' Stone hijacked it and headed for Mental himself.
But sadly, this was not meant to be, as Sam lost control of the alien craft and crash-landed in the South American mountains.
Now surrounded by an even stronger army of Mental's evil forces, Sam is forced to battle his way towards Mental's fortress and put a stop to his plans of world domination once and for all.
Bulldoze your way through hordes upon hordes of enemies
Addictive, fast-paced gameplay topped with cheesy, Duke Nukem-style one-liners
A diverse arsenal of weapons, from the common shotgun to the all-destroying Serious Bomb
Goodies
in-game soundtrack
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Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility.
Notice: Serious Sam: The Second Encounter has an HTML manual available from the Start menu shortcut for the game.
Recommended system requirements:
Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility.
Notice: Serious Sam: The Second Encounter has an HTML manual available from the Start menu shortcut for the game.
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Basically the second half of where the First Encounter stopped and actually manages to step up the action.
The Leveldesign in particular got a massive overhaul with wonderfully designed huge valleys and make the levels feel even bigger and vast than in the First encounter.
And just like the first encounter, you can play The Second Encounter either alone or finish it with a friend via co-op mode.
Both Encounters basically belong together and should be seen as one single game in two episodes. A tribute to the 90s shareware 3D action titles with masses of enemies to mow down. This time also with a chainsaw. The nods and tributes to Doom are very obvious and just like the original Doom, it is still fun to play today if you want something lighthearted and colorful and just stupid fun.
Fully recommended!
Serious Sam is the shooter I've always heard I must play. Hearing about it for years without seeing much footage from it, I never knew what it was.
People seemed to describe it as the next Crysis, so what I eventually got was quite jarring.
Because Serious Sam is a shooter where nothing matters.
The levels don't matter, the enemy types don't matter, the plot doesn't matter. All you do is run & gun, being attacked by dozens of enemies at once.
It is repetitive, not very imaginative, hardly fair, but surprisingly very enjoyable.
The only problem I could find with Serious Sam is that having played one game, the following one in the series won't be as fun.
There just isn't that initial thrill & surprise of being attacked by dozens of enemies of various types, seeing them coming from a mile away, and knowing you have no chance of stopping them all before they reach you.
It's quite a ride trying not to get yourself killed. But the game being so repetitive, by the time I played my second Serious Sam game, The First Encounter, I was already ready for it.
I knew where to stand, where the traps were likely located, where enemies will spawn, etc.
Serious Sam works best as a first experience, and that is its biggest flaw.
Play one level & you instantly know if you'll like this game. But play one level & you played 50% of the levels this game has to offer.
Having dozens of enemies running in your direction means the game needs large open levels to make the game survivable. So no matter where the level takes place, a large part of it will be set in large open areas, regardless of how many buildings are around.
And if you are in a closed environment, more often than not the game will take it easy on you, opting for cheap deaths & surprise traps to kill you - sending a few enemies your way at just the right moment to get you frustrated enough to want to re-start the level, rather than quit.
Serious Sam is simply an arcade game, with all its benefits & detriments.
I used to play this with my cousin, he used the mouse and right part of the keyboard while I used the left part of the ykeyboard by remapping all the keys. Multilpayer was really fun. Lots of secret and enemies in single player. Definitely a great game. I tried to play this on a lan years ago but it lagged, don't know why.
Cool quotes, antic locations, and a lot of stupid enemies ! = a lot of fun !
HD version of game (its not this one) has modern graphic
Much better (for me) than serious sam 3 (modern locations) and a bit 2 also
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