Everyone buy Serious Sam Next Encounter NOW

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2004-05-22 12:38pm

It's a 20-dollar direct to bargain bin game for PS2, and if you like 40 levels of massive blood bath killing sprees against repetitive enemies this is the game for you. Basically you advance through the levels killing things and periodically arrive at large arenas in which you must fight waves of attackers from all directions for a while. There are also a limited number of puzzles and generally to advance you need to kill everything in certain areas first, so the game play isn't linear. The visuals aren't particularly high quality but the environments look very nice.

It is however a game which must be played co-op, playing alone can get boring since your not competing with anyone for kills. But with my friend, well we've played at least 10 hours in three multi hour blocks in the last two days... the only thing that stops us is the shear amount of time required, each level takes 10-15 minutes, and the fact that your hands will cramp up

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2004-05-22 02:30pm

I don't suppose there's a PC version too?

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-05-22 02:41pm

Yea there is, it's old but great fun!

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-05-22 06:52pm

Alyeska wrote:I don't suppose there's a PC version too?

There is. Once again, keyboard and mouse triumphs

The joy of walking into an arena, seeing the large health and armour power ups sitting there and knowing whats about to happen. The battle in the field just before the final boss was epic

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2004-05-23 04:35am

The PC version kicks major ass, but make sure you get the First Encounter, as well. It's the superior of the two, I think, and the end boss is REALLY bad ass... if I recall correctly, he's something like 400 feet tall.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2004-05-23 04:44am

SPOOFE wrote:The PC version kicks major ass, but make sure you get the First Encounter, as well. It's the superior of the two, I think, and the end boss is REALLY bad ass... if I recall correctly, he's something like 400 feet tall.

The end Boss of next encounter is easily 400 feet tall; and so fucking annoying to kill. You have to blow off all his armor, and then shoot him in the head to cause damage, only his armor will respawn after about a minute and all the while he's shooting at you and other crap is spawning to attack you. Playing Co-Op it took a good 15 minutes to do it (this was on easy difficulty).

Chris OFarrell · Post by **Chris OFarrell** » 2004-05-23 05:38am

Sea Skimmer wrote:
SPOOFE wrote:The PC version kicks major ass, but make sure you get the First Encounter, as well. It's the superior of the two, I think, and the end boss is REALLY bad ass... if I recall correctly, he's something like 400 feet tall.
The end Boss of next encounter is easily 400 feet tall; and so fucking annoying to kill. You have to blow off all his armor, and then shoot him in the head to cause damage, only his armor will respawn after about a minute and all the while he's shooting at you and other crap is spawning to attack you. Playing Co-Op it took a good 15 minutes to do it (this was on easy difficulty).

SS at a Lan is just INSANE. Everyone running every which way blasting away, trying to cover each other as insane monsters come charging at you at VERY high speeds....

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-05-23 06:16am

Serious Sam is one of the coolest games ever- however, I'm sure the PS2 version looks like horse-shit compared to the PC version.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2004-05-23 04:47pm

Am I the only person in the world who didn't like Serious Sam?

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-05-23 04:52pm

PeZook wrote:Am I the only person in the world who didn't like Serious Sam?

Yes now shut up

Serious Sam rocks.

Hmm new poll is forming in my head.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2004-05-23 05:06pm

Faram wrote:
PeZook wrote:Am I the only person in the world who didn't like Serious Sam?
Yes now shut up

Serious Sam rocks.

Hmm new poll is forming in my head.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Now I shall return to my immense collection of games with actual plots, and won't bother you further

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2004-05-24 01:34am

Serious Sam is one of the coolest games ever- however, I'm sure the PS2 version looks like horse-shit compared to the PC version.

You kiddin'? The Serious Engine is very no-frills, focusing more on creating a world where killing hundreds of enemies is possible.

Larz · Post by **Larz** » 2004-05-24 12:58pm

There is something very satisfying about the fact that if you miss the target you intended to hit, your bullet won't be wasted as it must hit one of the 20 other badies behind him.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-05-25 05:39am

Larz wrote:There is something very satisfying about the fact that if you miss the target you intended to hit, your bullet won't be wasted as it must hit one of the 20 other badies behind him.

Or use the cannon balls to smash several monsters in a row.

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-05-25 05:47pm

SPOOFE wrote:
Serious Sam is one of the coolest games ever- however, I'm sure the PS2 version looks like horse-shit compared to the PC version.
You kiddin'? The Serious Engine is very no-frills, focusing more on creating a world where killing hundreds of enemies is possible.

Actually, he's right on in that assesment. Check it out for yourself. The Xbox version looks good though if you really want a console Serious Sam.

Tolya · Post by **Tolya** » 2004-05-31 04:09pm

Can you use nukes in that game?

Im seriously looking for a game that let's you drop a nuclear warhead on someone...something...maybe a military base or a city.

F18 Korea had the B-61 warheads, but it's old now...

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2004-05-31 05:15pm

The ion painter in UT2Kx is the closest thing to a nuke I can think of. Hold the painter's lazer on a point for 2 seconds, then 3 space-based ion cannons fire beams that converge on the target.