Like Galaga, where memorizing each wave is critical, you have to deduce the correct weapon and strategy for most areas. The physics engine permits both "realistic" stages and bizarre arcade levels that remind you of Strider.Īlthough SS2 is a pure shooter, you'll be pleasantly surprised by the amount of strategy and tactics required to beat each level. Croteam's Serious Engine handles everything in spectacular fashion with up to 50 enemies onscreen at once with no appreciable slowdown. All the levels dazzle with brilliant displays of color and surprisingly varied design: indoor, outdoor, courtyards, corridors, and expansive stretches. Since Mental traveled back in time, the worlds of SS2 are set in the past ( Babylon, Meso-America) but populated with the same genetic monstrosities as the original game.
The story is, appropriately, an afterthought: Sam's old nemesis, Mental, is trying to conquer the galaxy, again. Most importantly, though, it's loads of fun. Sam Stone, a cheap Duke Nukem clone, is incredibly powerful, but the challenges in SS2 are staggering and Sam needs every super-weapon he finds. Never, ever, will you forget that SS2 is a game, since everything is too outrageous, but that won't stop you from sweating when 50 Kleer skeletons round a corner and gallop towards you waving their sickle claws. Serious Sam: The Second Encounter (SS2) combines the color and arcade action of Mario 64 with the gore and blood of Return to Castle Wolfenstein what's wholly absent is the quasi-realism of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.
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