Difficulty:

Just Right

Time Spent:

40 to 100 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Masterpiece"

I'd never heard of any of the serious series until I'd search for Dukem equivalent games some time ago, and to my delight this game appeared. Have played the death out of dukem, I needed something to tingle my senses, so the Serious game playing began...

Of course this game's 5 years old but its still one of the best and certainly set the standard for future 1st person shooters. Clearly aimed at the shooters among us, you instantly thrown in the environment after a short movie about beating the previous Serious Sam game, first encounter.
After dropping into a pool of water, you can head out into the field of nasties, or possibly look around for something to aid your adventure. The levels are big, you spend a time running around looking for addon, weapons, powerups and the occassional super nastie which unless you've got a portable nuclear bomb launcher, is going to take a few hits to get rid of. Scattered around is hidden entrances, or other type bonuses (you'll have to figure that out yourselves) which add to your score. The nasties range from a strange looking monster that'll just bite you to the mega nasties I mentioned before so stock up on ammo. All levels lead you in open air, caves, under water, pyramids, mazes, so much variety to play thru. The music and sound effects aid your quest as the music pumps up giving you some insight that something's coming, the in game talk from Sam is also quite amusing. The graphics were second to none at the time and still look quite good to play. You can play on-line with 8 other plays or play against someone on the other side of the world.

Its a pity that game companies just stick to basics such as this game and give the player a game to complete one mission, survive!!

Totally thumbs up and recommend to all 1st person shooter gamers out there.