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good game all the way

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

What a great game this is. Do you want a good firt person shooter? Get this game. The graphics are great and the gameplay is excellent. Does shooting alien scum with over 10 different weapons get boring? No fricken way. If you want a serious first person shooter this game is for you.

Serious Sam 2: To Buy or not to Buy?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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....

By far one of the best games I've played in several years.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Being a hardcore old skool retro-gamer, I've found myself constantly disappointed with the 'modern' PC game. 'Serious Sam: The Second Encounter' really brought it all back for me. It's fresh, funny, challenging, and beautiful. Quite honestly I love the engine, I agree it may not be as complex or flexible as some of the other FPS engines on the market today, but it has many fantastic things about it that really create the right atmosphere for gamers like myself.

One of the most appreciated features that 'Serious Sam: The Second Encounter' has, is the ability to play the single player levels with a few buddies over a LAN. This is incredible amount of fun! I sort of bought this game on whim, hearing a few good things about it from friends, I thought it might be worth a boo over the LAN - and was it ever! We stayed up all night blasting are way through wave after wave of enemies, cooperating to solve the game's puzzles, and stomping the massive boss creatures into the dirt.

To conclude: My expectations were blown out of the water, and quite honestly this is by far one of the best games I have played in several years. I'm very thankful that these type of games haven't been forgotten, and they certainly haven't lost their charm! Mad props to Croteam, and I hope to see even more 'Serious Sam' sequels in the future!

excellent game for price

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this is a good game in fact both are! I got mine on e-bay for 20$
for both. Just buy both and it will keep you distracted from the
rest of this annoying world for a time.

DONT MISS IT OR YOU'L L REGRET!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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.

A worthy successor

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

SS:SE is the perfect sequel to Serious Sam. It's more of the same great gameplay with new settings and great new levels. I enjoyed it every bit as much, altough it's my opinion that the ending was not as good.

Every bit as good as the first, and it's an inexpensive title too, so get it!

Serious Sam : The Second Encounter

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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.

This game is Serious fun.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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.

LA REHOSTIA DE LOS JUEGOS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 14
Date: July 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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

old-skool really is COOL!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I liked every moment in Serious Sam 1. That is why I am looking forward to getting this game as soon as possible. It is fun, that is all that a game should be - just FUN! and Serious Sam is the definition of fun - it gets it all right: graphics, weapons, swarms of enemies, and gorgeous locales.

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