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Worst Sam Of All

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 25
Date: October 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you want the Serious Sam experience...buy "Second Encounter". This one...:"Sam 2" is a bunch of crap compared to anything previously done. What makes the Sam franchise unique and blissfull has been abandonded here. Really bad graphics in cut-scenes, loss of keen humour (it's toilet humor now), and simply un-enjoyable level design. It's clear that the folks who did the original two "Sam"s are gone. This is a twisted version of what you used to love. Avoid at all costs.

Same Developer. Same Sam. Better Game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 15
Date: October 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've seen a review here and there that say this game was 'corporatized'. Bolognie. This was Developed by Croteam.
The same small group of guys who made the first games.
And, other than the fact that Sam's one-liners aren't as funny this time around, this game is flat out better.
I LOOOVVEEE the Zombie Businessmen. Those guys are hilarious.
And, the backgrounds are simply amazing. Pure and lush. Very colorful. You best have a power rig if you wanna get this baby goin' full steam, though. I've got a P4 3200 with 1 GB DDR ram and a PCI-Express 256 MB DDR ram video card.
I STILL wasn't able to get all of the features kicked to high.
Close, but not all the way.
Lots of new baddies, including some re-imagined versions of the old ones.
The voice of Sam seems to be deeper and a little less comical. I guess you could say, more 'serious'.
Overall, if you've got 4 GIG worth of hard drive space, like a game that NEVER lets up from the action, and have 30 bucks lyin' around, you can't fail with this.
There's even a bit of an actual story-line with this one!
Not that it matters. You'll be too busy getting blisters on your fingers to care.

Nice darn game, especially for the price

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 21 / 23
Date: October 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Unfortunately, this game got some bad early writeups because of a semi-weak demo released a couple weeks before the game itself.

However, the new engine is great and smooth, and the new game is well true to the originals. Wide open space shootouts (loved in the originals) aren't quite as common due to the improved ability to handle more things on-screen in closer areas, but this game *rocks* no matter what.

Great graphics, great gameplay, great humor, and one of the smoothest engines out there. Secrets, different strategies, etc., lead to ready replay, as well.

Fully recommend, especially for the price. As far as I'm concerned, this is what games should be like. Now that a new engine has been developed, hopefully sequels are on the horizon as quickly as they occurred with the original Serious Sams.

Outstanding as far as I'm concerned, and fully recommended. Very polished and *almost* 100% bug-free, too.

Especially if you've played prior games in the Serious Sam series, this is a no-brainer.

Excellent game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: October 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I played the first 2 Serious Sam games and loved them. I feel that there is MORE graphics in this version for those who know how to set the graphics right for their computer systems of course. This game runs best on AT LEAST 2.2 GHZ of processor speed and at least an Nvidia Geforce 5700 Ultra. This game like others are pushing the limits for graphics so updating will be necessary no matter what. I will have to disagree with the person who only gave this one star. He also rated everything else in his review list bad to, so that person has a very negative outlook on something like Serious Sam 2 that he simply did not enjoy like I did. And they have a LOT of monsters to kill and enemies and more so than in the last game. The outside graphics are more varied now. This is NOT meant to be exactly the same as the first game and they added the flying machines Sam can use which I like to. More weapons and a great game for the price at 29 bucks on Amazon. To the one who missed out, shame on you!!!

Infantile

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: October 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is designed for a twelve year old mentality. The jokes are childish, stupid and the gameplay is repetitious, predictable and boring. Entirely script driven; advance till you hit a trigger point, kill 80 million monsters, get an extra life and some other rewards, advance to the next trigger point, repeat, repeat. Basically, you are required to navigate down a highly defined, pre-determined "go-right" path with no variation. Want to jump on some barrels, get on top of that building? Nope, off-limits, move along now.

Graphically it looks pretty good, but the cutscenes are pre-rendered, the water effects are static (guess I'm stilled spoiled by HL2). At least it was only $30.

Mindless fun that's worth it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Gameplay is mindless and repetitious, but that's to be expected. The game has more enemies than any 5 shooters have combined. Collecting medallions to save the universe is a lame plot, but the enemies and end bosses are tougher to defeat than before. For the price, it's worth it to shoot stuff up for hours. Good game length, maybe 10-15 hours or so, more for the harder difficulty levels. The `serious' difficulty level is tough but well within most gamers' potential. 3rd person view can save the day at times to look beyond obstacles at incoming enemies. Graphics and sound aren't too shabby. I'd give it an 81% rating.

sam is a fun game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this is graphically one of the coolest games ever. its also funny. and has great weapons. its basically just kill, kill, kill, a zillion monsters. well worth the money if you like this sort of stuff. oh and playing online with others in coop matches is alot of fun.

Awesome Sam

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is great fun. Sam is back and ready for action. The maps are huge and very nicely rendered. Check the system requirements though, especially the graphics requirements. If your system isn't quite up to snuff, your gonna have problems. I had to update my video card to even run it. Happily though, it is was worth it. This game is huge and goes on forever. The only down side I've seen is the final boss, which appears to be unbeatable even in the easiest mode.
If you liked the previous Sams, I think you'll really enjoy this outing.

NOT THAT GOOD, BUT OKAY!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Oh my god! A new SERIOUS SAM game! Alright!! Wait,before you rush over to the nearest game store, listen up! Okay, to begin with, the game's graphics suck on PC. Very good graphics on XBOX. Next, the framerate is the worst! It always bogs down! Next, Some of the humor in the game is to....well... bad! They try way to hard on coming up with humor. Everything else is alright. The level designing, weapons, sound, and blood and gore, and very weird monsters! Buy it if you must, but try to rent it for the XBOX or borrow from a friend and try it out first. mr.jawsbiteme.

ah man......

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: February 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

OK, I love first person shooters. This one looked good. Looked even better when I installed it. Looked like Crap 60 seconds into the first level because it crashed my computer. Every time I tried playing it, it would crash. Sigh, oh well. Uninstalled it, taped up the box and got my money back.

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