Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter

It continues directly from where TFE left off. It keeps the things I liked about the first game and builds on them with more weapons, enemies, power-ups, and much more varied levels. Serious Sam's classic chaotic gameplay is still here; you keep moving forward while shooting through huge hordes of enemies. I think the biggest improvement in the game is the level design. Leaving Ancient Egypt behind and fighting in completely different regions such as Mesoamerica, Mesopotamia, and Medieval Europe was a great change. Some levels also have very creative mechanics. The gravity mechanics in The Pit are especially surprising. Seeing something like that implemented in a simple-looking engine like Serious Engine is still impressive. Being able to walk on walls and different surfaces when the direction of gravity changes makes the level design feel more experimental compared to TFE. Having more traps and environmental hazards alongside the large battlefields also makes the levels more interesting. The new weapons are also good. The XOP Flamethrower works really well against Kleer Skeletons. The RAPTOR Sniper Rifle is also very useful for shooting enemies from a distance. The Serious Bomb …

Serious Sam: The Second Encounter starts right where TFE ended and it continues with the same momentum. Levels and environments are much more interesting than in the first game, more enemy variety and sam's one-liners are spot on once again. But for some reason, Croteam wanted to experiment with random gimmicks on some areas. Few rooms were full of spikes with constantly switching gravitional pull to the sides. Not fun gameplay experience at all. Even if u perfectly pressed A/D to the opposite direction of the pull, it still sometimes just pulled u into the spikes no matter what u did. Also the game ends on a cliffhanger and still no proper sequel. For these reasons i have to rate it lower than TFE. If u want the best experience possible then play the 2010 HD remake of the game. Serious Sam: The First Encounter is a easy 9/10 Serious Sam: The Second Encounter is 7.5/10

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Now I'm seriously serious

Fantastic game - Fun, with great range of weapons and very very silly!

This game improves on everything that worked in the prior title and smooths out what did not. What you're left with is a fun shooter with diverse environments, a well-rounded weapons sandbox (flamethrowers make every game better), and challenging enemy encounters. With all that in place, it might just be the strongest entry in the entire franchise.