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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.

Embarassingly bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: February 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The first Serious Sam, which was called "Serious Sam, The Second Encounter," was a hoot because it was a first person shooter carried to a ludicrous extreme. You didn't have a dozen enemies, you had hundreds and in a few cases thousands. The arenas were huge, and looked pretty darn good. It was fast and intense, even if it was mostly overkill.

The game play is much worse, every five seconds you stop with another conversation or a cut scene. It also seems like some marketing maven decided cute was better, You have to do things like protect the little blue people with big eyes. There's a big difference between being funny and stupidly juvenile. I kept feeling like I was playing a Fisher-Price game with guns.

The graphics didn't look good, and the game engine seems to have some stability problems, it crashed my computer auto-detecting the video card. Setting up the controls was also one of the most confusing dialogs I've seen.

Pretty much this entire game is a miss. Buy the first Serious Sam, it's much better.

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.

Green eggs and Sam

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I really loved Second Encounter, so I persisted for several hours before
uninstalling. The game has such a kiddy feel you find yourself looking for
that purple dinosaur we all love to hate. Mood of the background music is
just wrong, the cut-scenes are often distracting, and the level design
is cramped compared to Second Encounter.
My thanks to Croteam for their earlier work - never died so many times
while laughing! But this...just gonna pass.

Are you serious!?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Ok the previous games were way better than this.
They've kept the humor of the game but as for the game play itself, it was just flat out bad.
I think what they did here was aimming this game at a younger audiance.
The game desigeners made all the enemies look like they were cartoons like in one part; there these giant mechanical spiders that screem and shoot acid balls at you. Realy lame. And by hearing these this screem all the time will just make you want to put the game on mute. And they've put way to many enemies in it, I mean WAY to many, even for the game itself. The game bogs down if it has to many programs all running at once. They made this game on impossable levels to play and if thats not bad enough, they made a level setting called "Mentel" witch I don't even know how anyone can get past the entire game with that.
They did have a couple of things that were good like; In the early stage of the game you can get into this giant orb and run down a bunch of guys, but thats it, its nowhere to be found threw out the rest of the game.

All in all, you can beat the game but its REALY streesfull. There will be times you'll ask yourself "Can anyone beat this game?!"

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.

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.

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.

You want deep, meaningful game play...go play HL2!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is all about blowing s#!t up! I love it, just like I loved Second Encounter (for the record, Second Encounter was not the first game as indicated by an earlier review. Hence "Second" being in the title!) It's all about run and gun, and too many targets to count. Yes, the humor is juvenile, so what?! Funny is funny. The engine can push your system if it's not up to date, but what current title doesn't? There is no deep story here; you're the chosen one (maybe), you save the poor little whatever inhabits the planet you're on, you blow the bad guys to hell, repeat! This isn't as easy as it sounds though, at times the screen is covered in enemys. I have a midrange system; 2.8G P4, 2gigs of DDR, and a 6800GS vid card and the game flys. I'm sure the reviewers who complain of poor graphic in gameplay (the cutsceens don't look that great on any system) might need to upgrade video cards. The game is bright and cartoon-y, most likely to offset the massive violence you commit. It's not like F.E.A.R. headshot kinda violence, but you do kill alot of things. Lots of fun, but not much thinking. Circle-strafe and watch your ammo!!!

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.

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