To do this, he'll need to travel to different worlds to collect medallion pieces from their oppressors. 'Serious' Sam Stone, casually dressed in a T-shirt and jeans, has been summoned to rid the universe of Mental and his nefarious forces. Sam is back in Serious Sam II, and this time he'll have to shoot his way through a whole bunch of levels filled with lots of enemies. Serious Sam II has a lot of levels and a few good laughs, but its simple shooting action is less likely to get your adrenaline pumping as it is to make you go numb. The bad news is something's been lost in translation, perhaps due to the passing of time or due to the new 3D graphics engine, or-more likely-because of a combination of each. The good news is that this is Serious Sam all right, packing in all the silly humor and massive shooting-gallery-style levels you'd expect from the previous games. Serious Sam has made appearances a handful of other times since then, but only now has a full-fledged sequel finally arrived. The game delivered fantastic-looking, incredibly intense first-person-shooting action without any of the genre's pretenses of grandiose storytelling, all with its own unique style and for a bargain price of $20 at that. When Serious Sam: The First Encounter quietly appeared in 2001, it was a real breath of fresh air.
