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4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User
The single player and Co-op modes in this game are excellent. The deathmatch is not even close to Unreal Tournament though. This game is made for single player action, and it is one of the best out there.
Definately worth the 20 bucks if you're an action gamer.
Serious Sam is a trip... and LSD trip...
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User
I was just looking for a shoot-em-up game and this one was good. But, like many of the games, you have to shoot the opponent a zillion times to make sure they're dead... The graphics are fantastic, the opponent aliens are weird...but cool...Overall, I figure if I feel I got my money's worth, it's a good game. This one is worth the money...
Seriously, enough!
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User
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.
INSANE!
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User
This game is just, well, my title describes it. I would like to know exactly what these Croatians were on and where I can get some. Imagine your most bizarre dream (or drug trip) and combine it with Quake.
Yeah, Quake. This game really could have been made in 1996. Technically, it doesn't impress and could very well have been released as shareware.
But hey, it's cheap. I'd buy it just to see the guy with the pumpkin on his head and the chainsaw.
If you like "Serious Sam", also check out "Will Rock".
Great, but....
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User
The game has great graphics and tough enemies, but after a couple of levels, it seems all you're doing is destroying everything in sight. The enemies come in such great hordes that you hardly have a second to enjoy the scenery or even look for ammo. So the main technique is to grab the ammo from the enemies you dispense with, hopefully close. The price can't be beat.
The only game worth the cost.
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User
This is the only game I have purchased in the last 5 or 10 yrs which was worth the cost. I like fast paced, action games with lots of shooting and variety of weapons & ammo.
I like to explore and this has fantastic areas to explore, usually filled with bad guys. Some puzzles/problems to solve, yet I didn't spend all evening on one scene, trying to figure how to get beyond it. Challenging in parts, yet never boring or bogged down. I recommend it without reservation.
Seriously Fun and Difficult but married by thin performance!
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User
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.
A perennial favorite...
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User
I love this game: good, clean design, few bugs (well, single player... online is another matter), and runs fine even on my aging Sony. The way that Croteam captured the concept of VOLUMES of baddies attacking at once is just fantastic. The weapons and characters are excellent, the puzzles are fun, the secrets are cool... it's just a lot of fun.
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