Blood color, from red to to Halloween, which makes the blood and guts pumpkin bits and candy. This all made for a lesser experience for me.Īs mentioned before, there’s a setting for performance or graphics, but this is far from the collection’s vast settings. Other issues arise with the game’s rather poor first impressions, with it being more enclosed spaces, some of which get rather dark, almost too dark. Now, mix that with what Serious Sam is known for and it’s not quite a good look. Switching it to performance mode, helps, but it still doesn’t feel like a smooth 60fps like the previous games. The mode prioritizing graphics was on by default and the game does not run well. Both of the first two games ran pretty well, and if you cared, you could change the game to either look or run better, but I never had to with either of those.
None of this was quite what I was expecting initially, but I was willing to put up with it, if only because some of the melee moves were incredibly satisfying to pull of. The game starts out not in an exotic area, but in a war torn middle eastern city. There’s sprinting, there’s looking the sights, there’s melee finishers.
For all intents and purposes, this is a modern shooter inside of a Serious Sam game. The first game is fun, but I’d sooner play the sequel if only because it has improvements, while not changing anything up too big. Sam was a bit quip’ey in the first game, but is much more vocal this time. You also will get weapons much faster, and just playing the game, as opposed to hunting everything down. There’s a new setting, stages are much wider, and there’s even more powerups like one that speeds you up, which in some stages almost feels mandatory. It’s more of the same, but bigger and looking much better. The Second Encounter feels like a proper sequel. It’s not often enough to get annoying, so when it happens it’s funny most of the time. You’ll hear the lead Sam speak quite often, usually with quips, self aware references, and so on. If you play like a modern, more Call of Duty esque game, you aren’t going to get far…at all. Enemies are fast, they almost all charge at you, with one even exploding when they come near you, those ones are constantly yelling, so you know when they’re coming at least. If you’ve ever played an old school shooter, you’ll probably be familiar with the strategy of “never stop moving”, Serious Sam as a whole lives by that. My failure to actually find a good hunk of the secrets meant I did miss out on quite a few potential additions to my arsenal, yet even with the shotgun, I never really felt at a disadvantage. While the handgun has infinite ammo, it’s weak and does reload, so as soon as you find one, the shotgun becomes your best friend. Luckily, at least initially, nothing is too hidden early on, as long as you pay attention. You’ll start with a handgun and a knife, and if you want anything else, you better start looking for it. Huge, wide open stages, and not even ten minutes into the game, a quite impressive number of enemies.
It definitely feels it’s age, though whether or not that’s a bad thing is up to you. Lets discuss all three games a bit, starting with The First Encounter. There’s always secrets to find, which include the fun weapons, bonus health, and even little neat shortcuts or big troves of ammo and armor. These are all old school style games, which can be easily defined by two things. You’ll get Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, Serious Sam 3, as well as The Legend of the Beast and Jewel of the Nile expansions for TSE and 3 respectively. There’s the original trilogy and expansions too, which makes this super serious. you serious about old school shooters? You should be very serious about them because Serious Sam is a serious game for people serious about old school shooters. The hordes demanded Serious Sam Collection on #NintendoSwitch and who are we to argue.ĭrops November 17. And while there’s no indication that Devolver Digital will be doing a physical release of the collection, given that the “hordes” demanded this collection in the first place, Devolver just might pony up for a physical version if the demand is high.Ĭurrently, the latest entry in the series, Serious Sam 4, is available now on Steam. While no preorder links are up just yet, the collection is listed on the Nintendo eShop for $29.99. Set for a November 17 release, the Serious Sam Collection will include Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, and Serious Sam 3: BFE as well as The Legend of the Beast and the Jewel of the Nile expansions.
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Devolver Digital is putting their recent acquisition of Croteam to good use, as they’ve announced that the Serious Sam series will be getting a retrospective collection on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
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