Also, if you're like me and still don't like to save, turn on "Autosave" in the Game Options," so you don't lose progress. Save the Serious Bombs! You can hold a whopping 6 in Serious difficulty, and these should only be used in a failsafe or "OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT" situation. This DOESNT affect your achievement, but it does affect my opinion of you and your gaming skills. You won't be as SERIOUS if you do it, but you can turn on "Unlimited Ammo" if you wish. This makes it less likely to run out of ammo at the most inoportune time. This means ammo pick ups give you double the ammo as well (100 MG bullets instead of 50, for example). You have double the ammo as in other difficulties (except Tourist). Enemies hit REALLY, REALLY hard (Kleers for example deal 50 points of damage), and there are more of them. Serious difficulty can be played at anytime, but be warned, its HARD. According to 2K Games, other levels include a planet of Elvis worshippers (!), a King Kong-inspired level, and an obligatory lava level.Are you serious? You must be if you are going for this achievement. Instead of trees, huge blades of grass form the landscape, occasionally broken up by a empty soup can or some other ginormous object. or at least what Hong Kong would look like if you put it on another planet and populated it with swarms of bad guys with churning sawblades for hands.Īnother level is set in a world of giants, and, bizarrely enough, looks like something ripped straight out of Pikmin. As you might expect, the worlds are bright, colorful locations, starting with a Hong Kong level. There's some wacky story where the denizens of a planet called Sirius recruit you to gather parts to a medallion to help defeat Mental, but it's really just an excuse to send you planet-hopping and from one frantic firefight to the next.Īlong the way, Sam will visit seven different worlds over the course of over forty levels, reportedly longer than both Serious Sam and The Second Encounter combined (more on that shortly).
Serious Sam II picks up at the end of The Second Encounter, as Sam chases down the villainous Mental into space. This week, the fine folks at 2K Games invaded GameSpy HQ to give us an even closer look at the game, scheduled for release this fall.Įxpect a lot of debris whenever Sam's around. Aside from some console versions and a brief showing at GDC, there's been virtually no news on the Serious Sam front until this year's E3, where we got our first in-depth preview of Serious Sam II.
And it was a mere $20, which was worth it just for the co-op play - we had one memorable night where we eight of us finished the game in a few hours, and we're still talking about it today.Īfter the release of The Second Encounter in 2002, however, things have been pretty quiet on the Serious front. Granted, the idea of flooding the screen with waves and waves of enemies wasn't particularly brilliant in itself, but it was done with so much style you had to take notice of the surprise game from Croteam, a developer that virtually no one knew of to that point. The original Serious Sam is considered a classic here at GameSpy HQ.
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