Games like serious sam 2 Pc#
Games like serious sam 2 windows#

The premise is that simple – not really developed and a bit embarrassing, but it does the job. To aid you in this quest you’ll have a British accented computer/companion entity telling you what to do, and you’ll meet up with some aliens tribes to fight back the alien invasion. In order to do that, he must travel between different worlds and collect pieces of a medallion, until the final battle. In this game, our hero, Sam ‘Serious’ Stone, has to defeat an extraterrestrial enemy called Mental.

Games like serious sam 2 Pc#

Serious Sam 2 is available on PC via Steam. It’s truly admirable and adds an overall sense of rebellion to the series. It is important to highlight that Croteam created the game’s engine (inspired by Doom), and it’s pretty impressive to see how it handles so many entities on screen without lagging or crashing. Hence, we have the background for the Serious Sam series, games meant to be focused on the fun action of shooting monsters and making things go boom.Įven though the game reviewed here is called Serious Sam 2, it is the third installment in this series, taking place after Serious Sam: the Second Encounter. As the industry progressed, we started to have games with more emphasis in the story and delving into different moods, and some people didn’t quite like this kind of change. Of course the reason of any game to exist is to provide a new way for the player to interact with the world, but in the mid 90’s and early 2000’s, things were simpler and more limited. Games like Blood, Doom, Quake, Hexen and the ones alike were extremely popular, and provided a platform to when people feel at least in control of something. Combining over the top and merciless gameplay with a keen sense of the absurd, it is the sort of guilty pleasure you don’t like to admit you have.ĭuring the so called ‘Golden Age of First Person Shooters’ we had pretty hardcore games with merciless gameplay, in which the main goal of making the player feel badass. In many ways it is completely hideous, but it became almost a time capsule of the time it was created. This game is a piece of video game history. It’s now available on Steam and it runs pretty well on Linux.

Games like serious sam 2 windows#

Serious Sam 2, released in 2005, was developed by Croteam and released to Windows and Xbox.