Serious Sam: The Second Encounter

aka: Serious Sam 2, Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter, Serious Sam: 2nd Encounter, Serious Sam: Drugie starcie, Serious Sam: O Segundo Confronto, Serious Sam: Second contact, Yingxiong Samu: Er Ci Chu Ji
Moby ID: 5623
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Serious Sam: The Second Encounter continues where The First Encounter left off. While on his way to Mental in the Sirian spacecraft he discovered in ancient Egypt the ship collides with something and crashes in Mesoamerica. With the ship damaged beyond repair Sam is once again trapped in hostile territory. But it seems the Sirians left a second backup spacecraft somewhere on earth.

To reach the spacecraft you have to fight your way through Mentals hordes that attack in great number and several waves across the ancient temples of Mesoamerica and Babylon to finally reach Medieval Europe where the final boss Mordekai the Summoner awaits. The game offers several new weapons like a chainsaw, flamethrower, sniper rifle, and a device called the Serious Bomb that will kill all enemies in a certain radius. New enemies include Cucurbito the Pumpkin a creature wielding a chainsaw, Zorg mercenary and commanders armed with rifles, large creatures called Zumb'uls wielding a twin rocked launcher and Fiendian Reptiloid Demons that attacks with fire balls from a great distance.

In 2010 the game received a HD remake.

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  • Serious Sam: המפגש השני - Hebrew spelling
  • Крутой Сэм: Второе Пришествие - Russian spelling
  • シリアスサム セカンドエンカウンター - Japanese spelling
  • 英雄萨姆:第二次遭遇 - Simplified Chinese spelling

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Average score: 83% (based on 36 ratings)

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Average score: 4.1 out of 5 (based on 73 ratings with 7 reviews)

Just when you thought Serious Sam couldn't get more serious!

The Good
The gameplay in Serious Sam is unlike any other FPS to date. Unlike normal FPS games, you are thrust into battle with wave after wave of enemies. The battles are intense, satisfying and almost make you forget to breathe at some moments. The graphics engine handles everything perfectly, even with hundreds of enemies on the screen charging right at you. Even better, this second incarnation of Serious Sam has even more of the sadistic humor of the first. One-liners such as "Hey, didn't I kick your ass two rooms back" result in great laughs.

Even the multiplayer package is top-notch, with cooperative play, deathmatch, capture the flag and several other modes of play. The engine even supports split-screen play. You can get on the internet with three of your friends all plugged in to the same computer and play online. No other games out there can do this except for the first Serious Sam.

Still not sold? How about the fact that the game only costs $20!!! It's a game you can't afford to ignore.

The Bad
The only thing not to love about Serious Sam: The Second Encounter is that the single player game is somewhat short. Thankfully if you decide to dig up all the secrets you will find the game becomes much longer.

The Bottom Line
Simply put, Serious Sam is the fastest and the purest FPS ever released. In my opinion it is currently one of the best games of all time.

Windows · by NeoMoose (1231) · 2002

Like Doom on steroids-a rare FPS experience these days!

The Good
I vividly remember my time with Doom (and Doom II). The game was nearly plotless - you were pitted against adversaries from Hell, and then left on your own. No cinemas, no talking heads - just A LOT of fragging.
Serious Sam is the first FPS I've played in years that completely captures that feeling of senseless, breathless slaughter. Not once are you bogged down in bullshit (and lets face it, even the better plotted FPSs these days seem like they were written by some pimply-faced dork in Mrs. James' sophomore English class). You just have to kill what seems like millions of bad guys through the game's three worlds and 11 stages. I like the weapon selection - you get your standards, plus interesting weapons like the cannon and the flamethrower (now rapidly becoming an FPS mainstay). The enemy AI is so simple it's laughable - bad guys either run straight at you as fast as they can (the Kleer skeletons), or run toward you slowly while firing as fast as they can. But you don't play Serious Sam for the AI - you play it for the non-stop, glorious carnage. Plus, Croteam (the designers) have a whacked-out sense of humor that pervades every aspect of the game. From the strange one-liners that Sam spits out once and a while to the odd text messages left for you by your computer-based ally, there's a lot of strange, vaguely European-translated into English-jokes to make you laugh (or at least, wonder what they were thinking when they programmed that).

The Bad
I already noted the lack of sophisticated AI. Apart from that, there's nothing really all that bad about Sam, besides the occasionally too tough encounter (some of the situations you'll find yourself in are so damn hard you'll want to resort to cheats - real men don't, however). Furthermore, it can all get a bit tedious - I found myself unable to take any more than an hour of Sam before it all got to be too much.

The Bottom Line
A Doom-style FPS that completely flies in the mold of every other FPS out there today. Don't miss it if you're tired of all the stupid dialog, pointless puzzles and endless key hunting that bog normal FPSs down.

Windows · by Lucas Schippers (57) · 2002

Onslaught of action in great environments.

The Good
First, read the review for the part one.

Now, after reading... This is the sequel. It has the same advantages as the original; it does not cost very much and there is still no plot, but there are MORE monsters, MORE gore and MORE action. Additionally, the Second Encounter solves one of the biggest flaws of the original game- the constant Egyptian environment. You'll face many new scenarios, from lush jungles to fearsome medieval castles.

The Bad
The game has many battle scenes; while each one is original, some of them are very annoying, especially those that involve monsters zooming chaotically around the screen. Luckily, there are only two such short scenes in the entire game.

The Bottom Line
Still no plot and still no thinking required; just tap the mouse button as fast as possible, frag as many meanies as you can, and play till your head falls off.

Windows · by El-ad Amir (116) · 2002

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The additional developer, "A Few Screws Loose", helped develop the multiplayer code.

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Game added by NeoMoose.

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Game added January 26, 2002. Last modified January 19, 2024.