Serious Sam : The First Encounter Review
GAMEPLAY - The gameplay involves our hero shooting through hordes of bad guys that come raining in from left and right with multiple weapons involving 13 levels of mayhem. With the new serious engine 3 it shows potential that a new serious sam 3 game would be more than welcome in the near future. I hardly faced any bugs as reported by gamespot but I did encounter one major bug right at the end level when you are about to fight with the final boss.
6/10
SOUND - The sound of the guns and everything hasnt been changed or anything in fact they retained the sounds from the first game.
7/10
GRAPHICS - Graphically it looks amazing and best part about the serious engine is that it can be optimized to such an amount that the game can run on low end PC's without any hiccups or ugly graphics
8/10
STORY - The plot is the same as Serious Sam : The First Encounter released in 2001. It's the remake in HD.
8/10
FINAL VERDICT - Still a great game to play and enjoy after such a long time but even though it's a $20 game I dont find it necessary to recommend it as a purchase as there isnt anything new except for the graphics. If you missed out the first time then surely give it a look but if you already have the original then why not pop in the old CD and relive the glory moments minus the HD and saving those 20 bucks.....
7/10
PS : Requirements - This was another problem that I faced. I recently upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 and one major problem was that it came with DirectX 11 and it is not supported by this game. So if you are installing this game on windows 7 then make sure you install DirectX 9 so as to not face any problems playing the game.