I had good memories with Serious Sam series back then when it first came out. It was one of the funnest mindless FPs killing spree. Playing with a friend is a must else you'd be bored unless you like mindless killing.

The first bull charge which knock me all over the place was a blast. and encountering suicidal-headless-bombers had me running all over. And huge arse boss battle had me gawking under it.

I tried HD in CC, nothing really new with graphics just some polishing up. Buy it if yo haven't play it.. or pass if you did. Not missing anything. cept for novelty.

y i cant play serious sam??
isit region lock?

I can play mine, no issue.

Just tested.

Are you playing the free weekend version or the one you bought during summer sale?

Compare to the old Serious Sam? There's a whole lot of difference in the graphics.

The first Serious Sam was directX7 engine, so there's no any programmable shaders or any dynamic effects. Everything is pre-rendered onto the texture, the lighting effects and shadows are all pre-rendered. If you take away a light source, the shadow and lighting effects on the wall will still remain because they are already pre-rendered on the wall texture.

In Serious Engine 3, most of the lighting are dynamic real time lighting, shadows are real time shadow. Of course there are many other effects as well, using pixel shader, advance reflection and other graphical effects.

And there's also real time physics.

The only serious sam game that is close to current engine is the 3rd one, Serious Sam 2.

i mean the free weekend,
there is nothing in my "serios sam:secone encounter" page
jz purchase only,

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Added on July 8, 2010, 10:26 pmi think the free weekend is not available here...

This post has been edited by LiMcZ: Jul 8 2010, 10:26 PM

same when i press the pre-load button nothing happen then i forward to the serious sam page theres no option to download but purchase only. i would like to give it a try if the game is will consider get it. free weekend does it mean it will be available during this weekend?

yeah,
for me the same thing as well

Serious Sam is still not in the special tab at the steam store page.

Just wait till tomorrow.

Well as you guys might know, NASA released a game called Moonbase Alpha for free on Steam.

Me, Prasys and ecam from KGM decided to give it a go. Surprisingly it was a fun experience being an astronaut. Really needs teamwork.

here's a picture of ecam's robot fail because it got stuck on the tubes.


should give it a try too. playing with 6 people would be fun

I didn't make it clear, but i did say Series heh. I was refering to the latest SS as opposed to HD. Any way point made.

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Added on July 9, 2010, 2:50 amI bet most will ge bored of it after the novelty worn out.

This post has been edited by ashx: Jul 9 2010, 02:50 AM

Lots of price drops nowadays. Dragon Age dropped $10.00 to $29.99 since Dragon Age 2 was announced.

Finally managed to restore everything in my Steam list.

Took awhile.

Still takes quite a bit of time to log onto Steam.

i see 29.99 at steam store

Hm? Well yes, previous price was $39.99. Now its $29.99, a $10 decrease in price.

Did they change the free weekend deal from Serious Sam to Metro 2033? From what I see in my Steam, the weekend free play is Metro 2033 but based on what you guys are talking about it, it was supposed to be Serious Sam.

Just access Steam website.

It is Serious Sam not Metro 2033.

A bit funny to put Metro 2033 since it is a single player game and can be completed within a weekend.

However, the download is approximately 4x bigger than Serious Sam.

yeah the linked the wrong picture..

but the serious sam hd , second encounter 4pack seems kinda cheap..

30USD for 4 copies...

USD30 / 4 = USD7.50 per copy.

Same price with the summer deal.

Except the summer deal came with Serious Sam HD: First Encounter as well.

well maybe for those who bought it at the summer sales, then it would be different..

now they are trying to entice you to buy . by giving you a free weekend ...

Ah, point taken


Anyway Second Encounter is now on sale, 10 bucks only. I bought during the summer sale, was like 13 bucks...