Ninjamedic said:
Treblaine said:
Ninjamedic said:
Off topic would you say the serious Sam games are any good?
Probably better than Duke Nukem. Seems to have more original weapons and enemies.
Though it lacks polish that can hold it back in places, not that it gets boring jsut a bit frustrating.
Overall I'd recommend it over 90% of the games that end up of annual Top-10 lists.
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You know what I like about it? You really have to use strategy with each enemy.
See CoD you can play like Time Crisis. Just advance to cover as bullets, explosion fly everywhere and occasionally pop out of cover to shoot the enemies (also periodically popping from cover) with your good-for-every-job assault rifle till they are all dead. Advance, rinse, repeat.
Now in Serious Sam you don't have an assault rifle equivalent, you don't have that one gun that will do it. Think about it, an CoD assault rifle is a full-auto hitscan weapon, 30 round capacity, and kills 1n 1-2 shots. Yet it doesn't FEEL like a powerful weapon and your enemies never put much pressure on you as they rarely root you out from cover you can pick them off at your leisure.
Serious Sam is a game with many different types of guns each that stands of with its owns strengths yet each its own weaknesses.
You meet these skeletal horsemen that charge you, huge HP and FAST but they can't change direction quickly. You basically have to be a bullfighter, daring them to charge you and at the last moment darting to the side and spinning around giving them a full shotgun blast to their broad side. Now try doing that in an arena where 3 or 4 are circling you at the same time! It gets pretty intense.
Well you can use cover but not the usual "duck behind window, that's enough" of CoD, more running around like a rat in a maze as they will chase you down, you can run but you can't hide. Cover in Serious Sam is for flanking, not taking a rest.
The suicide bombers are the complete opposite, attacking in swarms you have to manage them from a distance as they try to pen you in. You can't stand your ground, you've got to move and give up ground to stay alive.
I've come to see how CoD can manage with 2-weapon limit, by equipping you with an assault rifle that is such an overpowered weapon you don't really need anything else. But is that really fun? A weapon that is OK at everything?
Personally I prefer the Serious Sam way. Shotgun, bolt rifle, submachine gun and so on, pushing each advantage for a particular engagement tactic.