SummarySam is back in the all new Second Episode of his battles with his arch-enemy Mental! After finding the Sirian spacecraft in ancient Egypt, Sam "Serious" Stone hijacked it and headed for Mental himself! But this, sadly, was not to be, as Sam lost control of the the alien craft and crash landed in the South American mountains. Now, Surrounded by an... Read More
Rated Mfor Mature
Developer:Croteam
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
Released On:
Feb 4, 2002
Metascore
Generally Favorable
85
User score
Generally Favorable
8.5
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
85
95% Positive
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93
Imaginative levels, great graphics, memorable enemies.
90
This game kicks ass, some SERIOUS ASS!!...A perfect game for the gamer who really don’t care too much about solving a bunch of puzzles and would rather mow down literally hundreds of enemies per level.
User score
Generally Favorable
8.5
82% Positive
320 Ratings
320 Ratings
15% Mixed
57 Ratings
57 Ratings
3% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
Sep 21, 2023
10
One of the best oldschool shooters, and it's for everyone: be it an utter casual (Tourist difficulty level), or a true enthusiast (Mental difficulty level that unlocks after Serious). Plus, it's engine is great: virtually no technical issues and some advanced stuff it can handle, like gravity (in a FEB 2002 game?). I really can't count how many times I've started playing this game and how many times I've actually managed to complete it, but I was never bored. Even tried to create my own levels as the game comes with an SDK. If you want to complete the game on hardest difficulty with your off-hand instead of main hand (left is my off-hand), then you know the game is great. And I need to do that six times in total, because that's the number of difficulty levels in the game and I have had to start from scratch (no prior experience in my off-hand), so this game truly is for utter casuals. By the way, I've already completed the game on Mental "normally," so I know what I'm talking about.
88
The most fun I've ever had in a multiplayer mode.
83
It's like the videogame version of a really bad (read: good) B-movie.
80
Taking the best elements of first-person shooters that preceded it, what we have here is a magnificent homage to the genre rather than an attempt to introduce significant novelty or redefine its boundaries...Clearly superior to its predecessor.
80
This is a slightly better game than its predecessor, though the improvements are in a "Godfather vs. Godfather II" vein.
40
Given that all you're doing is shooting everything around you, it's almost essential to give the player a continual sense of progress and achievement by opening up new locales frequently. Otherwise the whole exercise collapses under its own redundancy.
Dec 28, 2021
10
Never played such a good title as a free CD-Copy :) Thx Croteam for this one ;) - I paid for every SS-Title after this one, i swear!
Jun 2, 2020
6
The game is sorta repetitive and frustrating to play, I really don't think it stands up to 2020 standards, no reason to purchase it or play it outside of nostalgia nowadays.
May 25, 2022
4
Игра почти ничем не отличается от первой части. Сюжетных катсцен вообще нет.
Jul 20, 2013
3
If you've ever played the first encounter then you've already played the second one. Same weapons, same enemies, and a lot more painful to play through.
