Serious Sam II is an indie developed by Croteam, released 11 October 2005 on Xbox, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 17 hrs to finish.
What Serious Sam II is
Serious Sam II is an indie game developed by Croteam and released in 2005. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on Xbox, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Serious Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Serious Sam II is a 2005 first-person shooter game developed by Croteam and published by 2K Games. It is the third main entry in the Serious Sam series, after Serious Sam: The First Encounter (2001) and Serious Sam: The Second Encounter (2002). The game follows Sam "Serious" Stone as he seeks to assemble the five-piece Medallion of Power, the only tool able to weaken his nemesis, the alien overlord Mental, who has each piece guarded by his forces. As Sam, the player traverses forty-two levels across seven thematic worlds and fights increasingly large waves of enemies with an expanding arsenal, vehicles, and turrets. In multiplayer, up to sixteen players can play the campaign cooperatively…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen. There are 30 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Serious Sam II holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 11 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 75, across 192 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 17 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 24 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.5 GHz Athlon XP or Pentium M or 2 Ghz Pentium 4, 256 MB RAM and DirectX 8.0/8.1 compliant or low-end DirectX 9 3D accelerator (nVidia GeForce3 and 4 series (not MX), GeForceFX 5200 through 5700 series, ATI Radeon 8500 through 9200 and X300 series, S3 DeltaChrome or XGI Volari). At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Serious Sam II launched on 11 October 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV and Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005). All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV, Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005).
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Serious Sam II yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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