Serious Sam HD

I have to talk about this game called Serious Sam. Before, I rant on about this game, I just want to clearly state that my gaming background isn’t very great. It started off with board games, followed by free online games. All these type gaming only started just when I enrolled myself in polytechnic.

I remember cringing when one of my course mate asked out loud. “You mean you never played Super Mario before?” Yes. Sadly, I am from the small pool of group that wasn’t allowed to play video games. So with that being said, we can now jump into serious sam.

I bought Serious Sam on impulse. Just like my other purchases. It was on sale, the game trailer was acceptable and I was like why not? So, I bought it and didn’t play for few weeks until one day I decided to just give it a try.

Initially, when I started the game, I didn’t really had much impression of it. My impression changed only after experiencing my first legit fight in the game. At that second, I knew this game isn’t so bad afterall.

If you play it in tourist or easy mode, your health bar constantly replenishes for every injury you receive. If you play it in normal or hard, your health bar deters in every attack you receive. Levels were getting progressive challenging. The amount of enemies, the types of enemies, the amount of ammos are given increases as level progress.

To me it was a game that made me panic everything I see ammos and health pack nearby. I am not much of a shooter gamer, but whenever I see plenty of resources, I know that I have to face another row of enemies that shows no mercy.

It may not be so magical or complex as the current demo version games before. Spec ops, Kayne & Lynch: Dog days, Call of Juraez  and even call of duty are games I had to strategically think on how to survive or to be move around smartly.

In this game, I just shoot at whatever I see. The enemy is too strong? Use the strongest weapon without hesitation. Are plenty of enemies chasing you on land and few giant airplanes shooting lasers at you? Run for your life. Shoot enemies and throw parrot designed bombs on airplanes.

To me, I felt as though it gave me the” living in the moment feeling.” I am given this set of weapons with certain level of ammos. Things are attacking me at the same timing. I just use whatever I have to kill them as much as possible. I didn’t feel the need to strategically think like maybe shoot the airplane so that it crashes on the enemies or set up traps.

I just do my best not to lose life and just attack whichever is closer to me. I am not sure the exact reason why I appreciate this game so much, but all I know is that games have changed so much. I am quite sure Serious Sam should have been quite a bad*ss game during that season.

I wouldn’t mind finishing the game if only my save files were not corrupted.  I have restarted from level 1 and who knows? It might be one of the few games that I will officially complete thanks to its simplicity of the game.

10/10 would recommend to those who are bored and wants to take a break from high quality graphical games hint hint *GTA*  hint hint *Skyrim* can actually give serious sam a go!

Screenshots of Serious Sam Game: