Serious Sam II

Serious Sam II it's the sequel to Serious Sam and Serious Sam Second Encounter, two fun games. It's a FPS, not a classical one (find the exit, search for the key, shoot those guys, open the door), not a team-based FPS, no RPG influences... just mindless shooting and mindless fun.

It has beautiful colorful graphics, nice little animated characters, functional physics engine, LOTS-and-LOTS of BIG-BIG-or-FUNNY-LOOKING monsters, IMPRESSIVE-BIG-SHINY-GUNS, some sarcastic comments...

It's cool with me but I was somehow bored by it. You always end up locked in a room and somehow, the bad guys are spawning everywhere. You have to have a minimal strategy but in the end you'll run like crazy, spinning and mindless-shooting everyone in the room, even the last object ('couse it just might get you a medical pill or some bullets). Yeah, it's fun, but you get tired of running like that. "Hey man! If you can't take the pressure, don't play it!" would be the comment, but it isn't like that, because games should give you fun and accessible.

I would give it a 8.5 for the crazy-spinning and disorienting shooting, but else, for the graphics, for the fun, for the comments, for the engine, for the content (characters, monsters, animations, fun, crazy and variated weapons, vast levels) I would give it a solid 10.

Gamespot Serious Sam 2 review.