Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
The glorious high-definition (HD) chaos from The First Encounter continues now in Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, a remake of the classic arcade FPS Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, which originally scored an overall of 85% on Metacritic and was awarded Game of The Month on Gamespot!
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter includes spectacularly enhanced visuals and more special effects like Hippy and Kid’s mode, with trademark frantic Single-play, newly developed Survival and Beast Hunt modes, along with all time favorite Cooperative play. Combine those with intense Versus and Team modes for up to 16 players and in over 18 multiplayer maps, Demo Recording option, Spectators and Dedicated Server support, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is a worthy successor to the original masterpiece.
Key Features
SINGLE PLAYER
- Various Environments and Secrets – Unleash mayhem on 3 different spectacular worlds: South America, ancient Mesopotamia and medieval Europe.
- Discover over 130 secrets including over 15 brand new ones hidden in the fray.
- Unique Enemies and Bosses – Fight with 27 nightmarish warriors in Mental’s army, including old favorites from The First Encounter like Beheaded Kamikaze, Syrian Werebull and Kleer Skeleton. Go head to head against 5 new enemies and 3 new Bosses.
- Special Weapons and Power-Ups – Wreak havoc with a huge arsenal of weapons including 3 new toys: the Sniper Rifle, Flamethrower and Chainsaw. Use Power-Ups to additionally increase your fighting and agility skills.
- Serious Editor 3 – Create your levels and share them on SteamWorks!
MULTIPLAYER
- NEW! (not seen in Classic game) Survival Mode – Try to stay alive as long as you can against continued enemies’ attacks in specially designed survival maps!
- Classic Co-Op Mode – Plunge into chaos with up to 16 players in campaign cooperative mode!
- NEW! (not seen in Classic game) More Co-Op Modes – Play even more along your friends in newly developed Coin-Op and Survival cooperative modes with up to 16 players in campaign game!
- NEW! (not seen in Classic game) Beast Hunt Modes – Fight against other players or teams while also playing campaign levels in Beast Hunt and Team Beast Hunt!
- Versus Mode – Watch all hell break loose in over 8 classic and brand NEW! deathmatch maps with up to 16 players!
- NEW! (not seen in Classic game) More Versus Modes – Fight against your friends in more versus modes including My Burden, Last Man Standing and Instant Kill!
- NEW! (not seen in Classic game) Team Modes – Compete against other teams in team matches including Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag and Last Team Standing!
STEAM FEATURES – NEW! (not seen in Classic game)
- Steam Achievements – Earn 50 amazingly attractive achievements to boost your social standing.
- Steam Leaderboards – See your score recorded in both single player and cooperative leaderboards.
- Steam Cloud – Store your profile online on the Steam Cloud servers, including your bindings, last played level and campaign progress.
Steam User 2
我有一把大枪,一身肌肉,还有,一堆怪物……
简介
《英雄萨姆:二次接触》(Serious Sam The Second Encounter)是一款以爽快射击著称的第一人称射爆游戏。作为《英雄萨姆》系列初作的两个分支之一(另一部是The First Encounter),该游戏将战场置于南美丛林之中,玩家将扮演人形军火库——Sam,在密林中射爆形态各异的外星人,很多国内玩家也是因此作得知了《英雄萨姆》。作为HD版本,画面上可以说是诚意十足,开发商不仅优化了抗锯齿表现,也精细化了怪物的建模,从过去的多边形粗粝建模,到如今可以看出肌肉的细致纹理,这一点必须要给予好评。除去画质之外,游戏的手感依旧“原汁原味”,那种熟悉的左右横移速度和前进速度一致的感觉,让我遥想到了那个久远的午后,第一次游玩时的触动。最后,我必须称赞开发商严谨的态度,对于一款冷门游戏而言,在支持了带鱼屏的画面比例之外,也增添了第三人称视角(游戏内按H即可切换),我终于可以边欣赏着Serious Sam那如同盾牌一样的后背带来的安全感,边用千奇百怪的枪械射爆眼前的怪物浪潮,奏响孤身拯救世界于水火的英雄乐章。
体谅和接受
我们必须铭记一点的是,Serious Sam发生的故事距今已有20余年,若是以如今的眼光去评价这一款诞生在21世纪初期的淳朴游戏环境,当时与《毁灭战士》、《毁灭公爵》两部射爆作品齐名的作品,无疑是过为苛刻,这也并不公平。但正如“没有批评的赞美毫无意义”,《二次接触》在游戏的玩法上很好体现了那个时代的粗暴与直接,《英雄萨姆》系列因此而腾飞,也因此而落寞。开发者赋予了玩家用以射爆的巨大平台,给予了玩家从刀、左轮、霰弹枪、机关枪、榴弹和火箭弹、喷火器和等离子电浆枪、巨大铅弹炮和狙击枪、Serious Bomb大杀器等多样武器以供选择,还有诸如飞毛腿、无敌金身、地狱火等BUFF,还有那些应接不暇的怪物和在逼仄与平坦的两极间切换的游戏场景!但是一场又一场的射爆下来,玩家难免会感到单调重复和审美疲劳。我必须重提前文所提及的游戏开发背景,《二次接触》是20余年前的游戏,在那个时代来看,一切都很好。只是不太适合于经受了快节奏工业社会洗礼的玩家所偏爱了。
总结
如果你在一天的洗礼过后,感到内心无比疲惫,只想要找到一款简单直接的作品,享受最原始的暴力冲动,让双眼饱览血肉横飞的暴力美学,同时有一些救世英雄情结,那么《英雄萨姆》系列是你无法绕开的作品。
最后,我由衷希望《英雄萨姆》的开发者们可以找出一条适合于Sam的道路,以便让这个作品不至于就此落寞。