Serious Sam (GameCube)

Game Diary / January 30, 2005 / John / 0

Wahey! Well, I only had twenty minutes or so to spend on games this weekend (criminal, I know), but it was well spent with a twenty minute blast of Serious Sam on t’cube. It may not sound like a long time but when you have enemies appearing at a rate of fifty-million per second and unlimited ammo in your minigun, you can deal a fair amount of pain 🙂

Best thing about it, though, is the ability to switch off the gore so that things explode into massive funnels of flowers and mushrooms. Makes it more satisfying, for some reason. Or maybe that’s just me. Anyway, there’s no plot, not much in the way of puzzles. It’s like an over the top 2D shooter on speed. It’s kinda where Doom was going before ID disappeared up their own nether-regions. One good thing is that it’s available on just about every platform known to mankind and they’re all virtual identical. It clips along quickly and smoothly with nary a slowdown. Fab.

I guess it’s kinda like the videogame equivalent of power metal. Without the dragons. Actually, no, with the dragons but possibly without the perms. At least I haven’t seen any perms yet.

John

UNIX geek, wannabe cook, musician, book-lover, and all round good-guy.