Serious Sam: Second Encounter
Platform: PC
Developer: Croteam
Publisher: God Games
Genre: FPS
Requirements: Pentium II, 64MB RAM, Open GL
I do not know how you and me for the first Serious Sam just stunned. "Well, it's not serious," - you might say. And what is here, to hell, seriously? Who told you that a "strong" shooter must always be serious, laid-back, gray in color, like everyone else, finally? "Serious Sam" really stood out from the crowd coming along, previously released, or maybe even the projects that will appear after it. On the background of gray, cold landscapes Quake, Unreal and Half-Life World Serious Sam was a bright, warm colors Pestryaev spot. Spot initially clumsy, but soon we saw in him a work of gaming art, perhaps less popular than the more "serious" FPS, but it is extremely attractive and fun.
So the schedule. Perhaps, in this case, this factor is far from determining the quality of the whole game. Year-old engine of the first "Sam" has reached a sufficiently high level, and generally does not need "remaking", yet the developers have presented us a gift in the form of new cosmetic improvements. As a result of "Serious Sam: Second Encounter" in graphic terms rose to the occasion. The huge space has become "great", how would ugly it sounds. Nature has become richer, tropical jungles in the first mission the game look, perhaps more realistic than the Venom. Codename: Outbreak. And there too GSS showed us real beauty, coupled with their Vital Engine'om. Send all feeling after the first few minutes of the game from the brilliance, brightness of the screen can not be creative, you should see for yourself.
Gameplay has retained its hurricanes. High speed frenzied rhythm of the group, the crowd of hundreds, legions of enemies of the sea, railway car with weapons stockpiles - the main difference from other games of the genre. Gameplay "Hardball Sam 2" is still a little different from the first part thereof, but the innovations we need and were not. Clemens remains the same steep. Only now somewhere gone his sunglasses, while its mountains are even more muscle, his face became serious, and clever jokes:) Apparently, not for nothing were traveling in Egypt ....
So, after a Serious Sam finished his zoological studies in Egypt, ending with the closest accomplice Mental'a, he again wanted to "swim" in the old days. But there it was: the capture of the spacecraft and taking the right course, he continues to fly in the hope of success, but ... him added a group of developers from Croteam on a space jalopy, which suddenly cut into the "cool plate (the plate Hardball Sam), than cause a crash. Sam falls to the Andes - a mountain range in South America, which falls into the seemingly hopeless situation.No luck! But now Sam has a new chance to prove their toughness and finally get to the ill-fated Mental'a.
Action game this time is not confined to one area: we'll go to South America, Babylon and medieval Europe. One of the hallmarks of the first part was an abundance of open spaces, "Serious Sam: The Second Encounter" they persist and become more beautiful and detalizovannye. All the weapons and monsters from the first part will be presented in the second, plus we add a few more brand new. From Monster - Zorg Mercenary, Zorg Commander, Fiendian Reptiloid Demon, Cucubito the Pumpkin and Zamb'ul the planet Ras-ad-Nyk. Most notable here has seemed to me Cucubito - this is something similar to a human-lumberjack with a chainsaw. A bunch of other new monsters just monsters and they look like and, perhaps, the least forced me to pay attention to them.
By the way of new weapons is most interesting, and strangely enough, efficient - a chainsaw, in addition she had seen: Raptor 16mm Sniper, XOP Flamethrower, M1-A2 Thompson ... Chainsaw same thing at all remarkable. Despite its frenzied power, it is a perennial type of weapon, and acts on everything: on the bodies themselves enemies, and, most interestingly, the shells produced by them. Automatic Thomson, of course, does not pretend to complete his resemblance with the real prototype, as, in general, and all the cool Sam. Another very original "Fennec" in a Serious Sam: The Second Encounter - a seven-league boots, a kind of bonus, which for some time increases five times the speed of Sam. It is also worth noting that in the second episode appears much more puzzles, which were at the level of intelligent and logical, but not easier. Increasingly, developers will have our sniper skills. It's not just because they typed shestnadtsatimillimetrovy Raptor ...
Multiplayer mode deserves special attention. Above all, the game turned Serious Warped Deathmath, as well as five other types of online battles, including the beloved Cooperative Mode. For all this wealth given to the wolves as much 20 levels.
Well, everything seems to be the most important second part of the Serious Sam'a in my Review, I told him. It turns out that the Second Encounter - an almost perfect game for its genre. She is not in no way inferior to competitors, and in many ways surpasses them.
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