Serious gamers, enter here. Those looking for story time and tralala orchestral music don't bother.

User Rating: 8.5 | Serious Sam: The First Encounter PC
Guns, guns and guns, baby. This game is all about'em and don't you dare to bother me about anything else while I'm playing. Serious Sam is a very serious game and I'm a very serious man. I just can't be bothered. I need to shoot headless rocket launching freaks with my shotgun. I must blow up transgenic boulder-sized bulls with a cannon ball as big as your old 60-inch CRT television set. These things I must do. Why should I bother talking to non-player characters? Who cares why I'm in Egypt? I'm here, right? And I have a dozen pieces of artillery to enjoy wasting hordes of skull monsters and cyborg chickens three stories high.

This game is just pure action. There has never been a more frantic single player shooter. This game is as twitchy as an old-school top down space shooter. You need sharp reflexes to survive out there; they have headless kamikaze freaks after all.

Unlike many other shooters out there that give you many choices of guns yet restrict ammunition supply and kill your freedom, this game gives you plenty to shoot with. Unlike modern FPS games that pit you against small groups of sophisticated enemies that hide behind cover and whatnot, the enemies in this game are plumb stupid, but there are so many of them and they charge at you from all directions. The challenge here is far more exhilarating than any I've encountered in any modern shooter outside of perhaps Halo when it is at its finest.