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Serious Sam: The Second Encounter

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4.5/5

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Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
Description
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...
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2002, Croteam, ESRB Rating: Mature 17+...
System requirements
Windows XP or Vista, 1.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 8 (compatible wi...
Time to beat
8 hMain
12.5 h Main + Sides
13.5 h Completionist
10 h All Styles
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Description
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
System requirements
Minimum 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.

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.

Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
8 hMain
12.5 h Main + Sides
13.5 h Completionist
10 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
{{'2002-02-05T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
Size:
455 MB
Rating:
ESRB Rating: Mature 17+ (Violence, Blood and Gore)

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Posted on: November 8, 2016

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Another amazing shooter

This is an improvement from an already amazing first person shooter.


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Posted on: August 10, 2024

LATESTACORONATA

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Games: 741 Reviews: 231

Bigger and Better

... aaaaaaaand that's it. If you played and liked the first one, you'll love its sequel: more monsters, bigger levels (a little too big), more secrets, more ''serious'' humour (actually, this is where the saga will start adopting the funny easter eggs and its ''mental'' plot :)) and... more Sam! A little too ''more'', actually: there are imbalances with enemies number and way too death traps... but you can simply lower the difficulty and should be fine. That said, as one of the luckiest ( Croteam started from nothing, basically) and a true masterpiece among the arena shooter PVE, this is an easy yes! So, time to get ''serious'' >:)


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Posted on: September 7, 2020

Svoranks

Games: Reviews: 1

Let's get Serious

I am not a big fan of the FPS genre, but this game is great. It works well, the gameplay is fast, the difficulty is reasonable according to your skill. Game length is enough to enjoy and not to get bored. The only cons is that game could have a bit more enemy types. I regret that I didn't finish the game when I got it 17 years ago. But now I get it done and it was worth my time.


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Posted on: October 31, 2020

GumVonSchweetz

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Games: 260 Reviews: 9

Nostalgia

Good sequel to a great game


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Posted on: October 19, 2021

KingForKings

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Games: 259 Reviews: 49

Too much!

Serious Sam the broken series made by people who lost the touch. SS4 is just broken and boring. Bigger, less detail, less functioning guns. SSTSE on the other hand is fine but playing it on hard shows they just throw enemies at you without thinking. THEN the death traps. Too many, too badly designed. Made for multiplay, maybe. I only know that big lobbies back in the day insane, full of enemies. Multiplayer Coop has the best integration. Hands down. OG Serious Engine. You can save and load and pull all players with you. Back to the game. SSTFE is just fine and great. Too flat but I love it for the great maps, soundtrack and choice of guns at the right time. SSTSE Is different. Tourist and Easy are fun, but hard throws so many enemies at you. I never noticed different spawns in this compared to 1ST-E. 1ST really differs and adds a lot of foes everywhere including tastefully placed punishments on item pickup. 2nd-E feels just stretched to be as long as possible. So many arenas with physic-games. Not enough health to save scum. Overwhelmed so that I can not even do the work between shotgun and sniper/rockets. First maps do have height. After the first biome it is all again flat. Xmas and Medievil maps are the best hands down. PS. The xbox Encounter Edition is uneditied. More cute looking game which has all maps intact. HD- is different. 1ST has a endboss bug and crashes last level. HD- 2nd Encounter has 1ST-E integration and Lan Play. Fusion is a SS3 built which just ported assets to it from 1st and 2nd which changes enemy speed due to careless gready devs. OG SS2 better than current version due to broken UZI speed and forced dual wielding game redesign and bad beta weapons being added. TLDR TLDR TLDR TLDR TLDR TLDR What I want to say. Multiplayer and compatibility is great. Guns are same, enemies just in punishing amounts between traps, physics arenas and more. The game is like a filler.


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