

2001's Serious Sam was the kind of mindless fun t. Despite this it's an lot of fun to go back to the basics once in a while. Since then it has moved on to loftier frontiers, better stories, bigger things. Enemies can be gibbed, but when the bits fall on the ground they burst into a puff of the enemys blood color. Pools of blood can be seen at times, but are rather infrequent. While blood and gore are present they tend to be big puffs. All man.' give Serious Sam 3: BFE a punt. The genre of the first person shooter was born with simple elements in mind: shoot, strafe, win. The least violent of all of the Serious Sam games. The series famous for relentless intensity is returning bigger, better looking and more frantic than ever before. But if you felt even vaguely like fist-pumping upon hearing the tagline 'No cover. It even spurned a semi-sequel, an Xbox port, and PlayStation 2 and GameCube versions of the game. The gameplay may be unsophisticated but theres plenty of imagination at work to. The return of Serious Sam's most familiar weapons and enemies, at the expense of much new content, will just as likely leave you exhausted as elated. Serious Sam came from the unknown Croteam and became a cult hit among action loving PC gamers. Story takes a much bigger focus in Serious Sam 4 than in other games in the series, featuring more in-depth cutscenes and dynamic storytelling. It looks great and is loaded with lots of unusual characters and situations. It's left to some swanky new particle effects to impress us. There's little beauty in the visuals though, somehow greyer and less expansive than 2005's second Sam.

There are a few moments of beautiful design: the occasional genius placement of a surprise onslaught of kamikaze soldiers, the triggering of a shrewd mousetrap. The game plays out just like Serious Sam, and Croteam jam-packed it with lots of story to get you more intimate with the characters and world instead of just leaving it as your. A heavily templated and mazelike series of levels into which the meatpaste of Serious Sam's sublime and pure death arcade has been pumped. I was skeptical going into Serious Sam 2, being aware of its design and all, but despite that skepticism, the game was actually a pleasant surprise. Survival mode is a distillation of the form, pitting you and (if you like) co-op buddies against waves of increasingly tough enemies in one of two arenas.ĭespite introducing a Duke Nukemlite plot as shlocky as it is charmless, the singleplayer campaign feels like a lingering, grudging concession. Sam IIs wild, random charm makes for a twisted Duke Nukem meets Alice in Wonderland sort of roller coaster ride-a perfect change of pace from the.
