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Serious Sam: The First Encounter

Serious Sam: The First Encounter

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 reviews
Sales Rank: 9618

Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 7.9 x 1.6

UPC: 717851936760
EAN: 0663593100047
ASIN: B00004ZB7P

Release Date: March 21, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com Product Description
Serious Sam places gamers in the role of special-forces veteran Sam "Serious" Stone. Sam Stone travels back in time to an ancient Egyptian world with the mission of assassinating a great evil: Notorious Mental. Mental has set forth to wipe out Earth and all humans for sheer fun, just as it did with all of the other civilizations throughout galactic history.

Players can defend the world in either single player or multiplayer modes. Multiplayer modes support two to four players in split-screen action on a single computer. In cooperative mode, gamers can join forces against the hordes of enemies.

In Serious Sam, players will travel through beautiful and realistic terrain, both indoors and outdoors. Serious Sam's powerful 3-D technology, based on the company's proprietary Serious Engine, offers directional lighting and realistic-looking daytime scenes. In addition, the game's technology also allows for multidirectional gravity, dynamic volumetric fog and haze, and destructible objects. Players wishing to create their own levels can use the free Serious Editor and Serious Modeler, which are powerful real-time editing tools that include tutorials.


Customer Reviews:   Read 74 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars Fun Fun Fun!   September 9, 2004
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

If you're looking for a complicated, rich storyline, this game is not it.
If you're looking for a first person shooter where monsters come in countless waves and all you gotta do is hold the trigger down, this game is for you.
Serious Sam has been rated by many as a mindless shooter and that's exactly what it is. Great fun.
Multiplayer cooperative matches are simply a blast.



4 out of 5 stars One heck of a blast...   May 23, 2004
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Serious Sam, the only man who can save the Earth, makes his first appearance. Serious Sam is a nice change from all the flashy difficult shooters, because there is very little puzzle work involved. Simply pick up your guns and start shooting anything that moves. It's quite simply a new-born DOOM.

Some of the remarks Sam makes are very funny and the enemies come in all different sizes, from small zombies to giant insects!

However, sometimes the game gets difficult and it has you tearing your hear out. So many enemies coming at you and no cover at all means you have to be quick on your toes and quick on the trigger. Plus it gets repetitive as well. Simply going in, killing everything and going out gets boring after a while.

Plus, the enemies all have the same attacks. And they just run blindly at you with no regard for anything else... which doesn't make a challenge.

However, if you can turn a blind eye to these flaws then Serious Sam is a classic shooting game which has everything a trigger happy guy would like.

GOOD BITS
Fast action
Lots of bad guys
Lots of guns
Plenty of funny bits
A nice change

BAD BITS
Repetitive
Sometimes difficult
Poor A.I

The Verdict: 4 out of 5

ALTERNITIVE'S: If you like this then try Duke Nukem.
Enjoy


5 out of 5 stars One of the best FPS ever   November 29, 2003
 1 out of 3 found this review helpful

Buy this game now. All I have to say. Highly recommended.


1 out of 5 stars SERIOUSLY   October 1, 2003
 0 out of 13 found this review helpful

I guite seriously found this game lacking GUTS.. it's just too squeaky clean computer mindless. Where's the BLOOD PULSE LIVELYNESS DIZZY EXHILITARE, RAZZLE DAZZLE?


5 out of 5 stars One of the Best Games I've played   September 10, 2003
I recommend you to buy it! You are going to find out what is this after you played it.

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