An excellent game, at a bargain price. A bad Gamespot review. (Kasavin, you should know better than this!).
This is the first Gamespot rating I hated. It had been harshly underrated (SHAME ON YOU KASAVIN). How did the 8.9 and 9.1 ratings of the FE and SE suddenly shrink to a 6.9 in the sequel? I found the graphics to be amazing colorful and bright in contrast to Half-Life 2, and Doom 3. Even the sound was great, except from that little annoying "Extra Life" voice that nobody seems to like either.
The gameplay is simply FUN. Not many games can even remotely match the amount of creatures on screen as can be done in the Serious Sam series. The weapons although wierd looking, are all unique in their own way. And what other game has a CLAWDOVIC suicide parrot bomber? Honestly?
The games humour is great too, although some of it is inside humour and can only be understood by a select few. Serious Sam has always been a series that would appeal only to some people, either it being ridiculous or awesome. What a lot of gamers don't understand is this game is meant to be simplistic, with little or no plot, and the destruction of hundreds and hundreds of monsters every mission. It's more of a stress reducer, then a serious shooter, and what's wrong with that? It's cheaper than almost all the new released games.
Overall Sam 2 is a refeshing and superb game that deserved more respect and a higher rating. It is a great game of unbeatable value, and is my new personal favorite.