I’ve dicided to do some more reviews:
**Name: **Serious Sam IIRealese Date: October 11, 2005Console(s): PC, XboxAge Rating: 12+Rating: 4/5
[CENTER] Serious Sam II is a very good game, it runs ok on my computer and mine isn’t top of the range! Its funny and addictive and is Noob-Friendly but also FPS pwner-friendly with its many diffuculty levels.
*Serious Sam II’*s gameplay is similar to that of its prequel. The main objective remains to defeat hundreds of enemies. In-game riddles are fairly simple, being nearly restricted to finding objects to unlock certain doors or to advance to the next level. One of the new elements in the game is the inclusion of a “lives system” - the number of times the player is allowed to lose all of his health and re-spawn immediately from his last saved checkpoint - taken from the Xbox version of the prequel. Another major difference is the appearance of player-controlled vehicles and turrets. In comparison with Serious Sam First and Second encounter, Serious Sam II seems even less “serious” than its prequel. Lighter colours and upbeat music make the atmosphere of the game feel brighter in comparison with the realistic Egyptian tombs and Mayan pyramids of the earlier games. Blood and gore effects have been improved also - all enemies (excluding bosses) can be [URL=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibs”]gibbed. Living foes can disintegrate into blood and bloody bits, undead entities, excluding Kleer Skeletons, can be reduced to decaying bits and puss, while magical creatures’ destruction is marked with sparkle effects and purple gases. Except design, different levels from the same chapter feature native “chapter specific” enemies, like Primitives for M’Digbo, Witches for Magnor, Martial Arts Zombies for Chi Fang, Harpies for Ellenier, Flying Kleers for Kleer, and Floaters for Sirius. World physics are further developed, for example power-ups are obtainable after destroying certain objects. Also the character is able to pick up a number of objects and manipulate them, somewhat reminiscent of the effects of the Gravity Gun from the [URL=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life_series”]Half-Life series .
[LEFT]I feel the game would make a great present for a PC/ Xbox gamer this christmas.
