Serious Sam II demo

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The series famous for relentless intensity is bigger, better-looking, and more frantic than ever. Sam Stone is back to rescue the universe one bullet at a time against overwhelming hordes of time-traveling enemies in Serious Sam 2. Built from the ground up with a completely new engine, Serious Sam 2 will be a shot of adrenaline to the hearts of first-person-shooter fans across the world.

This demo for Serious Sam II includes the single-player level Seriousopolis Uptown, which also can be played over a LAN or online with up to four people. The demo includes five levels of difficulty and language support for German, French, and Italian.

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Editor's review of Serious Sam II demo

If you like first-person shooters, but camping in a dark corner for hours waiting for the perfect opportunity to fire a sniper shot through your enemy's skull is your idea of video-game hell, this sequel might be right up your alley. You just blow away the bizarre foes until you wear yourself out.

The Serious Sam II engine isn't as sophisticated as shooters like Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 (which retail for twice as much), so you won't get fancy extras such as rag-doll physics. However, the environments are impressive, the interface is easy to navigate, and gameplay is smooth even at the highest video settings. Although there's a bit more of a mission-based feel than in the original, the missions are mostly blasting enemies until they're all gone, then moving on to the next checkpoint. Colorful graphics and bright areas are a welcome change from conventional shooters, but a few invisible landscape barriers detract from the wide-open feel of the Seriousopolis Uptown level.

The goofy platform-hopping mid-mission nearly cost this demo a top rating. In the end, though, the unique look, generous free content, easy installation, and multiplayer gameplay push the scales in favor of Sam Stone.

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  A Disappointing Piece of Sludge Residue

  by: Caged Anger on 23-Sep-2005 06:53:09 PM

  Pros: Croteam finally gave an ending to the Serious Sam series

  Cons: The game has lost all the glory it had in past versions. As being a long time Serious Sam player, I found this a grave disappointment in both gameplay, graphics, and sound quality. In shortened words, it has gone from a PC grade level, to a console. (Which has its perks) But is not the sam I'm looking for.

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  Average game !!

  by: Ramesh Ganapathy on 27-Jan-2006 04:52:36 AM

  Pros: The game has a comic storyline and the weapons are good.

  Cons: Graphics lets the game down totally.

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  weird game

  by: i am rick on 11-Feb-2006 08:26:15 AM

  Pros: Oh i cant think of any

  Cons: The game has lost all the glory it had in past versions. As being a long time Serious Sam player, I found this a grave disappointment in both gameplay, graphics, and sound quality. In shortened words, it has gone from a PC grade level, to a console. (Which has its perks) But is not the sam I'm looking for.

  also,I've got Doom III, Quake 4, Half-Life 2, F.E.A.R., Painkiller, Far Cry. Absolutley no problems running any of them at full specs. (AMD 4200 x2, NVidia 7800GTX, 2Gig ram, SB Live 5.1 Platinum, XP Pro 2SP) This game just will not run. I've even installed the patch (.066a)which is supposed to fix some twin core problems. Thought that would do it. Latest drivers for everything are installed. Uninstalled and reinstalled the game. After the first level, once into the second, I just loose all control. The mouse goes from the ground to the sky, continually. Tried to control with the keyboard but can't aim very good that way. Unistalled and reinstalled my Logitech drivers. Tried uninstalling the Logitech and going with the XP default drivers. Nothing works. Uninstalled and reinstalled the game twice. No luck.

  and also I've got a 2.4Ghz P4 with Nvida FX5200, SoundBlaster Live! card. It's a nice fast DELL system, but this game ran very slowly on anything but 'minimal' setting. Jerky video/game play, garbled, scratchy sound - so bad I had to mute. There's some serious problems here. Perhaps after some patches the game will work, but as is I would not purchase - no way! Shooting at multicoloured light flying things - when the background is also multicoloured reflective and moving and I sometimes didn't even know what I was aiming at. Being chased by 6 helicopters could be fun, but it's almost like they used the same code for running animals as they did for helicopters... they would just run into you or buildings and crash themselves. I felt like I got shot 100 times yet nothing happened to me. It's a bit hard to even see that they are shooting at you. Bring back the head-less bombers " Arrrrgggghhhh "

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  frezed

  by: Rare_duckz on 22-Oct-2005 08:42:46 PM

  Pros: it installed

  Cons: right when i started playing it froze

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  Pretty Good

  by: treystheman on 20-Jan-2006 10:02:10 AM

  Pros: Fun; plenty of aliens and guns.

  Cons: Nothing Original

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