![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re the sort of strange person who cares about story in old school FPSes (I know I am and I’m still wondering whether Doomguy’s real name is Flynn Taggart or Stan Blazkowicz), then here’s a quick recap: in the end of The Second Encounter after finding a new spaceship in medieval times, Sam was flying to Sirius to deal with Mental (the series’ Big Bad). The PC players never saw these changes and were unprepared for what happened to Sam 2, which was developed for both PC and Xbox. First, the game was ported to Xbox with some changes – and while the obvious ones like new weapon models and smaller levels could be understood, there were some others, like a complete redesign for Sam and the inclusion of comedic cutscenes between levels were rather questionable. It was well received by the old school FPS crowd for fast and exciting gameplay, lots and lots of enemies and the main character’s habit of churning out one-liners, reminiscent of good old days of Duke Nukem. The first game was released on PC in 20 in form of Serious Sam: The First Encounter (currently not covered on FFG) and Serious Sam: The Second Encounter (reviewed by Stoo here). ![]() Why did they make such a drastic change? Well, let’s go back to the past. And while such a transition could work (look no further than the Saints Row series which went from a GTA clone both gameplay and story-wise to a wacky comedy sci-fi romp), here it didn’t, partially because most of the humour is painfully unfunny. In Serious Sam 2, however, the art style was drastically changed into a cartoonier one and the story was turned into an outright comedy. Serious Sam, while having a lot of humour in form of Sam’s one-liners, has remained more or less, well, serious, throughout both of its halves, (or Encounters as they are called). When I first launched the game and watched the intro, I was wondering what the heck am I looking at. In general the game doesn’t look too shabby.įirst of all, I’d like to thank Rik and Stoo for the opportunity to do this guest review and for FFG as a whole. ![]()
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