Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Jun 01 '01
Pros: lots of weapons, ugly twisted monsters and fast and furious gameplay.
Cons: weak ending, seemingly impossible to beat on normal
Summary: Serious Sam may look like a total dud. In fact the cover, though not quite the same, reminded me of a Duke 3D clone called Redneck Rampage, a humorous take on some insane farmers looking to wreck havoc. I was afraid Serious Sam would be a ...
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Jul 30 '02
Pros: Intense action, quirky humor, hilarious one-liners, beautiful graphics, wide variety of enemies
Cons: Action can be too intense and confusing in some parts
Summary: First off, I should point out that I'm not a hardcore gamer. I'm a writer, and that's what I do with most of my spare time. But sometimes I need to take a break or release some pent-up aggression, so I use a game to blow off some steam now and then....
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Jul 11 '02
Pros: Bang for your buck, stays true to FPS roots, great engine
Cons: Overrated, gets dull after a few levels, uninteresting weapons + enemies
Summary: Nowadays, every FPS wants to be different, and more sophisticated. Nobody wants to do the keycard hunt, made so famous in the Doom games. But I feel that in many games, that keycard is simply turned into something like a microchip. So the gameplay is...
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Jun 16 '02
Pros: Low price, unbelievable graphics, convincing sound, simple/fun gameplay, nice interface, revolutionary engine
Cons: Unbelievably challenging without codes, high system requirements, may cause post-traumatic stress syndrome :-)
Summary: Many have never heard of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. Many just play their $50 Quake 3 Arena and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, oblivious to the fact that at their local game store, for a paltry $20, lies one of the best first-person shooters ever...
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Jun 05 '02
Pros: More weapons, bigger areas, more carnage, some ingenious levels
Cons: Slow downs, repetitive
Summary: "Serious" Sam Stone is back!
In Serious Sam: The Second Encounter (SS2), Sam is back with more of everything!
In a stand alone package (you don't need the first Serious Sam to play this), SS2 delivers an action packed sequel...
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Apr 14 '02
Pros: Nice eye candy. Mindless shooting fun.
Cons: The mindless shooting gets repetitive. It's all over before you know it.
Summary: I came across Epinions a while ago, way before I became a member I read dozens of reviews and took in a lot of information. It wasn't until four weeks ago I signed up and started work on my first ever opinion of a product. If you've been reading my...
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Mar 23 '02
Pros: almost everything
Cons: very tough at times
Summary: Serious Sam did one thing which people like me should be really thankful for. It bought the simple ‘Kill em all’ kind of action gaming back to the gaming world. I think we should all blame it on people at the Valve who by made the epic game...
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Sep 21 '01
Pros: Beautiful graphics, lotsa baddies to blow away.
Cons: Gets very repetitive.
Summary: While wandering through the local shrink-wrapped software outlet I was in search of a game. You see, I have a problem. I moved in with my girlfriend. My girlfriend does not play games. My roommates bought and played games. So, before I had to plunk...
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Sep 02 '01
Pros: Lavish Engine. Exciting weapons and enemies.
Cons: Virtually no AI. The British Public wuz Robbed! "To be continued??!"
Summary: In the post-era of Single-player games where you have to think, and talk, and sneak and generally mooch about trying to creep past that big enemy because he’ll cut you to ribbons if you even look at him, it’s nice to pick up a game and just shoot. Yep...
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Aug 27 '01
Pros: Amazing gameplay. Wonderful humor. Old school!
Cons: No secondary weapon.
Summary: In the day and age of everyone taking Quake/Quake III's engine and re-modeling the levels, it is hard to find an original, quality FPS.
The game takes place in an Egyptian type background, and kind of reminds you of The Mummy meets...
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Aug 06 '01
Pros: Fast action, multiple monsters on screen at once, pick-up and play
Cons: Price in AU, old game in new skin, feels more like an engine demo.
Summary: Serious Sam is fun. Real fun. It sees a return to the days of doom when plot was minimal and intensity was all. Puzzles are there, but they are mostly of the find the key, clear the room sort. True, the gameplay can get tired after continued play, but it...
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Aug 04 '01
Pros: Really well-rendered graphics.
Cons: Not very original, and heavy system requirements.
Summary: The Technical Stuff
Whoo. Got to say right off, the graphics in this game are really gorgeous. Perfect lens flares, grain-of-sand rendering in extreme closeups, and smoothly animated goblins, ghoulies and things that go crunch in your...
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Jul 23 '01
Pros: Really funny one-liners throughout the game, nice graphics...
Cons: Demands too much from hardware, silly story...
Summary: I generally like FPS games, but Half-Life ruined me for life now because I don't like FPS unless they have a cool story line attached to it. Serious Sam has a really weak plot, and all you do is kill creatures left and right endlessly without really any...
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Jul 08 '01
Pros: Great assortment of weapons & enemies, many different options, excellent multiplayer capabilities (especially cooperative!)
Cons: No movies of any sort-you just move from one level to the next
Summary: At the dawn of the 21st Century, mankind make a startling discovery. Beneath the sands of the earliest known human civilization, traces of another, even more ancient- but technologically advanced- civilization are uncovered. The profound scientific...
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Jul 06 '01
Pros: Fast, twitchy gameplay that makes one nostalgic for the younger days of the FPS genre.
Cons: Well...you run and shoot, shoot and run and then repeat ad nauseum
Summary: A Real Steal
I bought this game on sale and actually only paid $15, for a new release, this was “unreal”! For the full weekend of enjoyment it provided, it was a great piece of budgetware! This low, low price only helped boost my overall...
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Jun 24 '01
Pros: It's seriously intense.
Cons: It's seriously intense.
Summary: When looking at the cover for Serious Sam, all you see is a big tough guy with a big weapon, warding off a bunch of creatures. When you play the game, that's all you get,
and alot of it. The game doesn't try to pretend to be something it is not. It...
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