It’s about blowing things up as fast as possible and pretending that your nine-foot-long minigun isn’t compensating for something else. It’s not about the dialog or the subtext. It’s not an in-depth story-driven shooter and it doesn’t contain a nice blend of action, adventure and stealth that lets you wield full control over how you progress. It’s important to keep that violence in context though and to understand what Serious Sam is really meant to be. Then again though, the ancestry and chronology of the series is by far the least absurd thing about Serious Sam – where pretty much everything is exaggerated to insane levels and the level of cartoon violence and chauvinism is enough to make Duke Nukem look like Mary Poppins.

I hope you're taking notes, there will be a test. The real Serious Sam 2 was therefore the third in terms of story and the sixth game in the series. What should have been Serious Sam One was broken into two pieces, The First and Second Encounter, and the history of the series has since been diluted by too many remakes and ports to mention. It seems absurd that even though this is eighth title released in the Serious Sam series it’s still actually the first in the official chronology – or the second half of the first instalment, to be specific. Serious Sam: The Second Encounter HD Review Publisher: CroTeam

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