Serious Sam 2 has been released on Steam! It costs $9.99 USD and contains the original game, the editor and dedicated server utilities! If you haven't played Serious Sam 2 yet, you should pick it up to see what it's all about, especially for such a low price!
Title: Serious Sam 2 Developer: Croteam Publisher: Devolver Digital Original Release: October 2005 Price: $9.99 | £6.99 | €9.99
About the Game
The iconic Serious Sam brings his trademark relentless intensity to this bigger, bolder, more colorful sequel to the classic Serious Sam: First and Second Encounters! Tasked with rescuing the universe one bullet at a time against overwhelming hordes of time traveling enemies, Serious Sam must battle through thick jungles, murky swamps, frozen tundra, and futuristic cities to bring down Mental and his vile armies. Serious Sam 2 is a shot of adrenaline to the hearts of first-person shooter fans across the world. This is serious!
Features
Frantic Arcade-Style Action – Hold down the trigger and lay waste to a never-ending onslaught of bizarre enemies pursuing Sam from every angle and around every corner.
Fearsome Enemy Creatures – Take up arms against 45 outrageous enemies and 7 intimidating bosses from bomb-toting clowns and windup rhinos to zombie stockbrokers and the iconic beheaded kamikazes!
Spectacular Environments – Battle across more than 40 beautiful, expansive levels spread out over 7 unique environments and gain the support of the quirky native tribes.
Destructive Weapons – Unleash Sam’s classic arsenal with the shotgun, minigun, rocket launcher, and cannon or square off with new guns like the Klodovik. Also, for the first time ever, use the alternative fire button to lob a grenade into an oncoming crowd of monsters and what the bad guys go boom!
Powerful Turrets and Crazy Vehicles – Use powerful turrets to wipe out the relentless hordes of enemies and engage in heart-thumping action atop wild, mountable animals and intense, death-dealing vehicles.
Helpful Native NPCs – Meet different races inhabiting environments and even fight side by side against enemies, to experience an additional bit of cooperative play feeling within the single player campaign.
Co-Op and Deathmatch Chaos – Go to war against Mental’s horde with up to 16 players online and annihilate everything that moves across 45 levels of mayhem or drop the gauntlet and face off in brutal Deathmatch.
Serious Sam 2 is going to be re-released on Steam and GetGamesGo soon, so why not take a look back on the mods and other related fan-created material released for Serious Sam 2?
First off, if you haven't tried Serious Sam 2 yet, why not give it's demo a spin? It's a relatively quick download, and it gives you a basic idea of what Serious Sam 2 is all about. It has two levels, letting newbies get a feel for the game.
Got the original CD/DVD release? Download the 2.070 patch to make sure your game is the latest version. Patching the game to the latest version lets you play every mod out without any problems and gives you access to Serious Editor 2, which lets you make your own content for SS2.
Have Serious Sam 2 all patched up and want to run your own multiplayer server? Get Dwk/Dk's Serious Sam 2 Dedicated Server Utility 1.07 in order to make it as easy as possible to start and maintain your own SS2 server.
Now that the basics are done, let's get to the good stuff: mods. In order to install mods, extract the .zip/.rar downloaded. Most of the mods shown below will require you to activate a .exe, which will install the mod and place shortcuts to it on your desktop.
First up is InSAMnity 2, one of the most famous mods for Serious Sam 2. This mod lets you change things such as the amount of enemies spawned per spawner, lets the player switch what enemies come from spawners, re-adds some old enemies from Serious Sam 1 (like the Beheaded Rocketeer), puts in new enemy types (like a plasma ball-firing T-Mech), lets the player wield two of each weapon, increase the player's speed and a ton of new player models (such as a playable Kleer Skeleton and Serious Sam doll). It is pretty much the go-to mod for anybody that wants more from Serious Sam 2.
Another big Serious Sam 2 mod is Serious Sam Forever. This mod aims to recreate Serious Sam: The First Encounter in SS2. Currently, the mod is on indefinite hold, but a multiplayer demo has been released. This demo recreates TFE's multiplayer, but has a few new elements, such as new levels, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, and bots you can play with offline. The bots are great for those who've never played Serious Sam deathmatch and want to give it a shot. Classic levels, like Desert Temple and Little Trouble are included, letting newbies get a feel for those levels. Overall, it's a great demo, and hopefully development on it will continue one day.
Speaking of multiplayer, check out Serious Sam 2 Deathmatch Pro if you're interested in an improved deathmatch for Serious Sam 2. This mod adds new and modified weapons to both help make deathmatch more balanced and exciting, 10 new levels have been added (including a remake of The Second Encounter classic Yodeller) Instagib mode, integrated dedicated server support, tons of new death messages, and many secrets in the new levels. Plus, the original deathmatch and single player levels are compatible with this mod, so you can play the original levels in this mod without any problems. This mod is a must-have for anyone interested in Serious Sam deathmatch.
Ever wanted the old Serious Sam 1 enemies and weapons in Serious Sam 2? Classic Serious Sam 2, which includes remakes of the old Serious Sam 1 enemies and weapons Serious Sam 2. In addition, it also has new weather effects, remakes of old Serious Sam 1 levels, and adds Serious Sam 1's game mechanics, like fall damage and rocket jumping. The mod can be played in either the original SS2 levels or the new ones in the mod.
If you're playing Serious Sam 2 in widescreen and irritated by how close the weapons are to the screen, download Finzy's Widescreen Fix. This positions the weapons so that they're more like they are while not playing in widescreen.
For those that just want a simple difficulty increase mod, try out X2 Extra Enemies. This mod simply doubles the amount of enemies per spawn, which makes the game harder without changing anything else.
Next up are levels. Levels can be installed by extracting the file downloaded, copying the file with .gro at the end of it found in the extracted folder, and pasting the .gro file into “C:SeriousSam2”, or whatever the name of the folder that has your Serious Sam 2 installation.
First up is a remake of Serpent Yards from Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. This map features close to 1,000 enemies, larger and complex fights, and, on top of it, the level looks really good. The author did a great job at capturing the original Serpent yard while making it work in Serious Sam 2. Download this if you want to go through a classic level with a Serious Sam 2 twist.
Another great level is Haunted Palace. First off, this level looks great and shows off you can make dark-looking levels in Serious Sam 2 and it's default resources. The level's gameplay is also good, but Serious Sam experts should play the level in higher difficulty levels in order to be challenging.
The last level being showcased is Heaven Valley. This level was originally submitted for a Simple Terrain Contest on this site, which involved contestants creating terrain in the editor and making a level around it. The level looks great, especially considering the restrictions, features some good fights, and has a lot of new humor in it. If you're looking for a fun little level with some humor in it, download this level!
As you can see, a lot of good, fan-made stuff has been made for Serious Sam 2 over the years. For those that already have Serious Sam 2, who not download some of these mods/levels and try them out? If you haven't played Serious Sam 2 and plan on buying the re-release on Steam and GetGamesGo, try these mods/levels out when you're done with the normal game. You won't regret it.
Serious Sam 2 is coming to Steam and GetGamesGo on January 31st, 2012! GetGamesGo has leaked the release date on
their page for SS2. However, no price has been set yet. According to the GetGamesGo page, this release of Serious Sam 2 requires you to use Steam. Perhaps Croteam will be adding Steamworks to this release for things like achievements and using Steam's netcode, or maybe Steam will just be the game's new DRM? Irregardless, it's nice to see that Serious Sam 2 will be released to a whole new generation of Serious Sam fans that started out with some of the newer titles.
As an aside, this website is planning on hosting a small Serious Sam 2 gaming event next weekend to coincide with SS2's release on Steam and GetGamesGo. More on that later.
Impulse has added the Serious Sam HD games, Serious Sam 3: BFE, Double D and The Random Encounter to their catalog! Impulse's prices are the same as Steam's. However, Serious Sam games purchased on Impulse require you to have Steam in order to play them.
GetGamesGo is offering a 24 hour deal that has Serious Sam 3: BFE for $13.59 USD or the Deluxe Edition for $16.99 USD for 24 hours. Copies bought on GetGamesGo are registered on Steam, so you can still play the game on Steam without any problems. If you don't have Serious Sam 3 yet, this is an excellent deal to capitalize on! Hurry, though, as the deal will end on 1/28/12 at 18:00:00 GMT!
A new Serious Sam indie game named Serious Sam: The Greek Encounter has been released! Developed by Eric Ruth, the mind behind indie demakes of popular series such as Team Fortress Arcade and Pixel Force: Left 4 Dead, The Greek Encounter is a top-down shooter similar to Smash TV that places Serious Sam against Mental's forces in Ancient Greece. A blend of Smash TV and Serious Sam sounds like a perfect match, since they're both all about shooting a lot of bad guys.
If you want to watch the game in action, watch this video:
You can get The Greek Encounter via the Indie Royale Bundle , along with other Serious Sam games, or purchase it on Desura for just $.99 USD.
The Indie Royale has a new deal featuring all of the games from the Serious Sam Indie Series (Double D, Kamikaze Attack and The Random Encounter), the original Serious Sam: The First Encounter and The Second Encounter, plus an all-new indie game called The Greek Encounter! The Greek Encounter is an overhead shooter where Sam fights through Ancient Greece while fighting off Mental's forces.
This bundle has a somewhat unusual pricing scheme. The closer the deal gets to it's end, the higher the price will be. However, if someone buys the deal for a large amount of money (ex. Someone pays $10 USD for the package when it's $4 USD), the price will decrease. Currently, the price is set at $4.21 USD, which is an excellent price for 6 games!
This deal ends around 94 hours from now, so try to get it before the price gets too high!
Want Serious Sam 3: BFE? 2bitGamers is giving out five copies of Serious Sam 3 on January 14th for free! Go here, then post a comment with "I want Serious Sam 3" in it, and you'll be entered into a raffle. On January 14th, they'll select five people that posted "I want Serious Sam 3" and give each one a copy of Serious Sam 3! If you don't have SS3 yet, then entering this contest is a good idea!
Two new items have been added to Serious Sam 3: BFE's Steam page; the Four Pack and an upgrade to the Deluxe edition. The Four Pack lets you buy four copies of Serious Sam 3 at once so that you can give out extra copies to your friends, and the Deluxe version upgrades the standard edition so that it has extra goodies included with the Deluxe version, such as the soundtrack, art book, “making of” video and wallpapers! The Deluxe upgrade is an excellent if you purchased the standard edition, but now want the goodies from the deluxe edition. The Four Pack costs $119.97 USD, while the Deluxe upgrade costs $9.99 USD.
In Kotaku's Speak Up section, which lets their readers contribute articles for the site, one of their readers has posted an interesting article about why he thinks Serious Sam 3: BFE is the perfect game.
For him, one of the things that makes Serious Sam 3 perfect is it's difficulty and it's relationship with the game's health pack-based health system. Serious Sam 3 is quite difficult for him, even in Normal difficulty, but that's what makes it great to him. He states that, at the start of the second level, he had 25 armor and 100 health. However, when he got out of it, he had 6 health. His low health made the game play much differently, as he had to be cautious and a bit slower than he would with a lot of health. He notes that this type of dynamic gameplay wouldn't be possible if the game had regenerating health because he could easily get back to 100 health by hiding for a few seconds. By giving him a limited amount of health, it made him a better player.
He also believes it's perfect because it makes the player think in ways that's not usually expected in shooters these days. Often, the player has to do things such as consider how many enemies are on screen, what they can do, and what the player can do, then base their actions on those factors. This doesn't sound that difficult, but when you consider how many enemies are usually on screen at once, this can be quite taxing on the brain. Plus, the large weapon selection adds another layer to the decisions the player has to make, as the player has to determine what weapon will work best while considering the above factors. He feels that, despite SS3's gameplay looking dumb at first glance, it's actually one of the smarter FPS games out there.
While he admits the writing and the voice acting isn't the best, he feels that the difficulty and gameplay make it the perfect game. Do you agree or disagree?
Today's the last day for the Steam Christmas Sale , and the Serious Sam games are a part of the “encore” deals! These encore deals are repeats of some of the biggest selling deals throughout the entire event, so the excellent deals on the Serious Sam games are back for today only! Serious Sam 3: BFE is $19.99 USD, Serious Sam HD Gold is $3.99 USD, Serious Sam HD Double Pack costs $2.99 USD, Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter costs $1.49, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter costs $1.99 USD, Serious Sam: Double D costs $1.99 USD and Serious Sam: The Random Encounter costs $1.24 USD! If you didn't take advantage of these deals before, this is another chance to do so!
To all the Serious Sam fans worldwide we would like to thank you for wwebsiting with us through 2011 and we look forward to seeing you again, and again, in 2012!
The big Serious Sam sale ends tomorrow. Congrats to you for keeping Serious Sam 3: BFE the #1 top seller!
Today's daily Steam Christmas deal has huge savings on Serious Sam games! Serious Sam 3: BFE is $19.99 USD, Serious Sam HD Gold is $3.99 USD, Serious Sam HD Double Pack costs $2.99 USD, Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter costs $1.49, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter costs $1.99 USD, Serious Sam: Double D costs $1.99 USD and Serious Sam: The Random Encounter costs $1.24 USD! These amazing deals last today only, so get them if you've been holding out on getting Serious Sam 3: BFE, the indie games, or the HD remakes!
Plus, Serious Sam 3: BFE has an achievement for today's Steam Great Gift Grab! It's Christmas in Cairo, and the goal is to stick a Kleer skull, a Beheaded Rocketeer heart, and a Gnaar eye on a Christmas tree that's near the end of the first level. Get it, and you'll receive either a gift or a piece of coal that's actually an entry for a huge raffle at the end of Steam's Christmas sale!
Depending on what floats your boat, some of you may be into connecting various controllers to your PC to play video games, including Serious Sam 3. In case any of you were interested in the Avenger Controller, you may want to have second thoughts after seeing how they deal with customers, routinely berating them and cussing them out. The best part comes when Penny Arcade gets involved and tells the company they'll never, ever, be allowed a booth at PAX:
From: Mike Krahulik
To: Ocean Marketing
Dec 26, 2011 at 9:08 PM
I am mike krahulik, Pax is my show. Feel free to google me=) I can promise you that you will never have space at any future Pax event.
From: Ocean Marketing
To: Mike Krahulik
Dec 26, 2011 at 9:33 PM
OK Mike whatever you say lol , are you sure hour not in Boston I spoke to the person who ran the show in Boston last year. If you let some little kid influence you over a pre order then we don’t want to be a your show ,Ill be on the floor anyway so come find me , I’m born and raised in Boston I know the people who run the city inside and out watch the way you talk to people you never know who they know it’s a small industry and everyone knows everyone. Your acting like a douchbag not that it matters pax east pax west , e3 , CES , Gamer Con , SSXW ,Comic Con, Germany I’m all over the place. If we want to be there we will be there with industry badges or with a booth you think I can’t team up with turtle beach , Callibur or Koy Christmas , I can’t get Kevin Kelly to pull some strings or G4 , Paul Eibler Ex CEO of take 2 , Rich Larocco Konami , Cliff Blizinski Epic who were working with on a gears version , Activision who were working with on a MW3 and Spider man Bundle , The Convention Center Owners themselves , Mayor of Boston come on Bud you run a show that’s all you do and lease a center in Cities you have no pull in its all about who you know not what you do. I’ll see space where ever I want , with who I want when I want and where I want so many ways around you and so many connections in this industry its silly. Anyway , I have no issue with you Sean Buckley Engadget, Scott Lowe IGN and the list goes on and on. Little kids unhappy with a PRE ORDER starting trouble and you email that to us , he’s a customer unless you’re his boyfriend then you should side with the company not the customer. Be Careful
Read more about the best PR campaign in history at Penny Arcade.
All of us at Seriously! would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and we would like to give a big thank you to all of those who have made this a great year for Serious Sam! By purchasing the games, playing them, and talking about them on our forums and elsewhere you have been a powerful driving force keeping this franchise alive and well. Thank you!
To celebrate this Christmas we have an excellent promo video put together by Devolver Digital. Enjoy!
If you haven't already bought Serious Sam 3: BFE then you should grab it while it is still on sale! It is available through many services like Get Games and Steam. The sales end January 2nd, so act now!
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