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The worst first-person shooter on the Game Boy Advance!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 14
Date: May 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

In recent years, the Serious Sam series of first person shooters came onto the scene. And sadly, many games in the series have been, well, downright crappy. And recently, the creator of the series attempted to bring the series to the Game Boy Advance. How does this game measure up? Was making the series portable smart or stupid? Read on for my review.

PROS:
-IT'S A FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER ON THE GAME BOY ADVANCE! Well, that's about all the good things I can come up with to say about this game.

CONS:
-THE PLAY CONTROL IS HORRENDOUS! Sometimes it can take a whole second for my character to move! And when my character finally does move, it's either too much or not enough! This makes aiming extremely difficult.
-THE GRAPHICS ARE ALSO TERRIBLE. The graphics are extremely pixelated (as they often are in Game Boy Advance titles), but these bring new life to bad graphics in Game Boy FPS titles. You don't even have to be close to an object to see how pixelated it is!
-IT'S, RATHER OBVIOUSLY, A DOOM RIP-OFF. And since Doom is much better a game (and also available on the Game Boy Advance for the same price), why not just buy it instead?
-THE GAME DOESN'T EVEN COME CLOSE TO BEING WORTH THE PRICE THAT STORES CHARGE FOR IT. In my opinion, this game is worth, at most, maybe half a cent. That's about it. Hell, I don't even recommend renting this game to try it out!

OVERALL:
Horrible game, plain and simple. I could continue to ramble on about how much this game sucks, but I'm going to stop here and now. This game is so bad, it makes the so-called other bad first-person shooters on the Game Boy Advance look godlike! Take my advice and steer clear.

What a rushed release without any consideration

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The Serious Sam for PC and other consoles have great graphics and with familiar type of controls as that of Doom, Quake, etc. This version for GBA has all the opposite qualties as just described. You can tell each pixels apart and it comes at you like a swarm of bees while jerks up and down, making you dizzy. The controls are simply terrible.

Seriously Sad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 17
Date: May 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Badbadbadbad choppy yucky yucky can't even aim worse than
medal of honor no good yicchy i want my money back yiggy wiggy
wiggy yiggy yuggy yag

"Sam I Am!"

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Serious Sam Advance is the fourth best FPS for the GBA, and the 11th released for the system. The Serious Sam series is known for its huge assortment of weapons and enemies that appear from nowhere and fill the entire screen in massive wide open areas. Can all of that be crammed into a tiny GBA cart? Of course it can! But does it pay off? Of course it does! We get everything from the PC version on the pint-sized GBA! Serious Sam Advance is a serious FPS indeed with a well-deserved "M" rating and a nice arsenal of weapons that are serious as hell. You get a chainsaw (blood gushes from the enemies as it tears through them!), a pistol (no dual pistols, ah man!), a double- barreled shotgun (reloading looks neat), a tommy gun, a mini-gun, a rocket launcher (circular reload from the PC version is intact), a Prion gun (enemies attack each other), a fist weapon (press the button and it drops a piano on your enemy), a microvave gun (clone of the BFG from Doom), and of course, the serious cannon. If all of that wasn't enough, all of our favorite enemies are back (beheaded kamikazi!), but most are new. Before each mission, our Netricsa system updates us with hints on the level, weapon and enemy info, and statistics. Now comes the games downfall. The graphics aren't that bad, but they are a major step backwards from games like Duke Nukem Advance and Ecks Vs. Sever. The framerate also suffers from time to time and it is often hard to target an enemy but, alas, the game is a hectic non-stop joyride from start to finish!

seriously!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this isnt a dissapointment. Its a good game plus it is M rated which this was the first mature rated gba game i bought. The audio is well done. But the two only dissapointment is that its not as bloody as SS for the pc. But, the graphics are bad when u put them in your gba, BUT!!! when u put it in the GBA player, they dont look all that bad. The levels are short and very easy to get through. But, sometimes, u will face a army of huge bulls that ram u and take away a lot of your health. It is challenging when u put in normal difficulty(AKA:Bring it on) i havent played the multiplayer yet. But this is a good game. But if u want classic shooting, dont get this. If u want serious sam to go or a good FPS on your Gba, then buy this, but first, rent this and Wolfenstein 3D for gba which are two M rated games and make a decision your self. Ps: u can rent them at gamefly.com

cool!!!!!!!!!!1

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: October 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ijust bought this game and I bought him becuase all the good things people said so if you have quite a collection of games this is the game for you!

Why the heck are people complaining!?!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Why are people complaining about SS on the GBA. When I had Gamefly, I checked it out and it was SWEET. The ONLY thing about Serious Sam, is that it could have had more levels. I didn't beat it, but I felt like the game was going by too fast. Otherwise Serious Sam Advance is a totally awesome game and I don't know why other people complain so much about it.

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