A lot of backbreaking, grueling, soul-destroying fun.' Review aggregation website Metacritic gave the game a score of 72 out of 100 based on 53 reviews. Destructoid gave it an 8.5, saying 'It's a lot of fun indeed. Game Informer rewarded the game a score of 7.75 and praised the game for its graphics and the heavy metal score while being true to its original concept. Eurogamer gave the game a 7 out of 10, praising it for what Duke Nukem Forever failed to deliver, however criticizing the redundancy of the title's gameplay compared to its previous iterations in the series. Serious Sam 3: BFE has garnered mostly positive reviews. Sam then makes one last travel to Hatshepsut Temple, where the Time-Lock is located. With Sam now officially the Last Man on Earth and knowing what needs to be done, he plans to use the Time-Lock himself and kill Mental in the past before he can destroy humanity in the present. Now determined to finish what the Sirians has started, Sam vows it is not over until he has wiped out every last one of Mental's forces from the face of the universe. The Gnaar then picks up Hellfire's comm-link and tells Sam that it's all over and that Mental has won. A Gnaar then ambushes Hellfire and kills her, thus ending the human race forever. With her last breath, Hellfire urges Sam to find someplace safe and if any of the humans survive, they will find him. When Sam asks Hellfire what is happening, she tells him that Headquarters has been compromised by Mental's forces, Quinn was killed, Team Charlie was completely wiped out and only she remains. He picks it up and uses it to contact the Earth Defense Force, only to be contacted by Hellfire, who is surprised that Sam is still alive. Traversing through more tombs, Sam finds a dead member of Team Charlie with a working comm-link. Sam is relieved of duty and in the process of being extracted from Cairo, but is shot down once again and is forced to flee towards the lost ruins of Nubia. This is slowly accomplished and Team Charlie is staged to enter the Time-Lock. Hellfire from Charlie team inserts Sam to bring both online. In order to power the Time-Lock, two dormant but incredibly powerful plasma-energy generators need to be activated. This also enabled them to have multidirection gravity which was used for some of the game's secret areas. Collision detection was also sped up by approximating the environment with spheres rather than boxes. The team devised ways of doing object path caching so that they only had to perform collision detection with environmental features every few seconds rather than every cycle. Recognizing they needed to bring something new to what other games were pushing at that time, Croteam decided that they would make their Serious Engine support extremely large environments, with virtual view distances of over a kilometer, physics support, and capable of rendering up to a hundred enemies on screen at a time, and do this on the processing power of what current low-end computers using Pentium One CPUs could handle. Development was further complicated when the first 3D accelerators were released, forcing Croteam to develop for hardware rendering over software. As they were creating their own, both Duke Nukem 3D (which added up-and-down freelook) and Quake (a fully 3D rendered environment) were released, requiring Croteam to incorporate these features into their engine for their game to be competitive. At the time Croteam was making Serious Sam, licensing other engines was costly (upwards of US$1 million), so they made their own from scratch, following the feature set of the first Doom engine, which simulated 3D spaces in 2D, and did not include up or down targeting. Serious Sam Classics: Revolution (2014, Steam Early Access)Ĭroteam created their own engine for use in both Serious Sam: The First Encounter and Serious Sam: The Second Encounter.Serious Sam: The Greek Encounter (2012).Serious Sam: The Random Encounter (2011).Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter (2017).Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter (2017).Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter (2010). Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter (2009).Serious Sam: The Second Encounter (2002).Serious Sam: The First Encounter (2001).The series follows the adventures of protagonist Sam 'Serious' Stone and his fight against the forces of the notorious extraterrestrial overlord Mental who seeks to destroy humanity.
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