Serious Sam: The next meeting is in a cave in the war where you can find lots of exotic monsters. The action is fast and intense, he stops abruptly and ammunition is not exhausted. Gory, wild, fun, over-the-top - with the pace and without interruption of the act of shooting I love you!
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I have to respect the Serious Sam franchise for knowing exactly what it is, and never mucking up its run-and-gun style with other considerations. With no stealth, few puzzles, and a very light story, Sam is about shooting stuff. Lots of stuff. Pretty much everything you see is there to be mowed down by the might of Sam's various guns.
The core gameplay works really well. The weapons are fun to use, Sam's movement speed is nice and fast, and the sense of humor (the title for this game was originally Word to the Mothership) fits perfectly. To make the hordes of enemies more exciting to plow through, the new Killing Spree speeds you up if you kill 20 aliens in a short time frame. Plus you score double points, which makes the unlockables far easier to obtain.
Hidden levels, new features, and cheats all await the dedicated gamer. However, it will take a seriously patient player to not only finish the game, but to go back and earn the gold medals. Almost all of the enemies can be defeated handily by strafing around them until they drop. The only tough parts are when you get swarmed by a flood of aliens (which happens all the time, of course), since it's difficult to maintain a situational awareness with baddies continually spawning behind you. This formula makes most fights feel very similar, despite the variety of weapons and enemies. Even with the new vehicles, it felt like I was whaling on the same enemies over and over.
Multiplayer on either system does help to keep this vital, though there's nothing really innovative about it. It's still brainless shooting, except that it's your friends (or random strangers, on the PS2) that you're gunning down.
Taking all of its flaws into account, the final tally still comes up in favor of Sam. Sure, it gets old, but $20 for a decently long single-player and well-done multiplayer is more than reasonable.
Concept:
Circle-strafe to your heart's content, blowing up aliens all the while
Graphics:
Surprisingly smooth and crisp for a budget title
Sound:
Repetitive, but not too annoying. Some of the effects make me giggle even after hearing them over and ove
Playability:
Being able to re-map the controls would've been really nice, given the wonky defaults
Entertainment:
Mindless shooting at its finest. Don't expect anything more, though
Replay:
Moderate
Rated: 7.75 out of 10
Editor: Adam Biessener
Issue: May 2004
2nd Opinion:
Life is cheap in Serious Sam's world, and luckily so is this game. An absolute steal at $20, Sam dishes out a good time in bloody chunks of flesh and a humorous tone. The only problem I had was that it is hard to distinguish enemies that spawn behind you. I was surprised by this because sound detection of your foes is a huge part of the game's charm (it doesn't support surround sound). The vehicles I could take or leave, but the Super Combo Killing Sprees are a hoot. This is fitting, as Next Encounter is limited (not being a proper sequel), but you'll find that Sam's penchant for carnage fits like a glove.
Rated: 7.75 out of 10
Editor: Matthew Kato
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From the Manufacturer
Serious Sam gets called into action! An abandoned mothership of Sirian origin is sending strange signals from the past, and there's only one man with the guns big enough to investigate--Sam "Serious" Stone. If Mental's forces beat Sam to this powerful time-traveling artifact, it's last call for humanity! This is serious.
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Seriously Flawed!
As a huge fan of Serious Sam for the PC, and the XBOX, I was expecting this to be the all out best sequel! But this really is dissapointing in every catagory. The graphics are not poor, but not good either, but nothing even close to the XBOX version. The sound has alot of samples from the first two "encounters", the new gun fire sound effects are extremely poor, with the exception of the double-barrel shotgun.
Some classic characters return, like the headless kamikaze bombers, but they are animated differently, which wouldn't be necessarily a bad thing, but that's just it, the animation is poor too. There are new multi-player characters, like Suzi Darko, and Silicon Sam.
Gameplay wise this game just doesn't "feel" like a Serious Sam game, control issues, like no crouch, and a very odd controller setup don't give it that arcade feel that made Serious Sam so fun in the first place. Since I have not played it online, I can't comment on the multiplayer, but the single player game will not inspire anybody to go buy a modem and try.
Unless you're collecting Serious Sam stuff, or you don't own a PC, or XBOX, then you might want to try it out, but otherwise don't bother, it's just not "Serious Sam".
VERY POOR GAME
Serious Sam: Next Encounter really is the weakest of all the Serious Sam games released to date.
If I were to rate the graphics, then I would give them about 2/10 on a good day. The graphics are too rough to look at for extended sessions, the game features simple textures that you'd expect to see on a PS One game, and not on a next gen console like the PS2 or Game cube. You would think that the lack of impressive graphics might be made up for by good game play, but no, the game is dull and repetitive. It really is quite shocking to see such a poor release as this one.
I would not wish this game on anybody. Take note!
Dreadful Game
I cannot believe someone gave Serious Sam Next Encounter 5 stars - it is a dreadful game. The levels maybe huge, they are huge and bland with it and where are all the enemies to shoot - hiding somewhere? - On the PC version there appears to be at times 30 to 40 creatures charging at you all at once, on this the PS2 version there appears to about 8 creatures charging at you at any one time, it really is a very poor interpretation of the PC version. There is no excitement to be had.
What with the lack of excitement and the low level poor graphics - steer clear of this one
Price: $21.99
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