You switch to your flamethrower as they close in, charring them to a pile of blackened ashes as they rake at your eyes and throat In the clamour, they set fire to one another. You unleash a spray of bullets from your mini-gun and watch the approaching foe disintegrate.īut still it's not enough. You quickly pick off a few with your sniper rifle. Slowly they begin to loom, gradually metamorphosising into a sea of enemies. The sun beats down on you as you cautiously make your way forwards, growing ever more suspicious of a distant tremor that tarnishes the tranquillity that surrounds you. You enter a valley that funnels down to an openįield housing three majestic temples. Don't believe me? Well shut your eyes (but not now so that you can't read this dummy) and picture this. And that's precisely why it's so entertaining. It really is as simple and basic as that, but it doesn't claim to be anything else. Scattered around these vistas are copious amounts of ammunition, health, armour and power-ups. That's because the Serious engine doesn't just churn out stunning landscapes, it fills them to brimming point with legions of enemies who incessantly attack you until either you or they are dead. What sets it apart from the myriad of other linear shooters out there is that you're rarely pitted against just a handful of opponents. Lets start with the Serious engine then, which - and let's be honest here - is what makes this game what it is. How about I just fill the rest of the space up with a self-indulgent rant about the games industry, a cynical train of thought about lack of originality and the bleakness of a society consumed by virtual worlds in a bid to escape its own. What more is there to say? It looks nice. Like I said, it's a highly entertaining shooter, which is a slight improvement over the last game. Wait a minute? You mean you want me to elaborate? Really? But I've told you pretty much everything there is to know. It provides excellent entertainment in small doses and is great fun in co-operative multiplayer. A superb engine is used to render massive open landscapes in which you engage dozens of rabid enemies at one time with an excellent selection of weaponry and power-ups, while solving a set of rudimentary puzzles. Serious Sam: The Second Encounter is a linear, fast-moving old school FPS in the mould of Doom.
Which means all that's left for me to do now is to tell you about the action and that'll be me done. And that's about it as far as the plot goes. Picking up from where Sam 'Serious' Stone, left off in his last, overly short outing, Serious Sam: The Second Encounter sees you dropped off in Egypt for a second dose of alien blasting. Thankfully though, the preceding action is anything but disappointing.
No surprise then that that's exactly what you're given when you stagger your way through to the end of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. I mean once you've saved the world from inevitable doom, rescued the human race from a hideous, subjugated existence and limped home, propped up against your rocket launcher and having had your nose blown off by a stray fragment of alien skull, all you're generally given is a 'well done' and an ill-thought-out ending. Wouldn't you? But ooooooh no, that's too much to ask, isn't it, developers? Hmmm? You lazy bastards. After all, you think you'd be entitled to some sort of fanfare-ridden, stunningly rendered ten minute cut-scene which generally tells you how great you are, as means of a reward for being so damn heroic. One of these days, someone will write a really good ending for a FPS.
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