Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot’s Game of the Month!
The Second Encounter starts where the previous game left off, with Sam traveling to Sirius on the SSS Centerprice. Unfortunately, the starship is accidentally hit by the "Croteam crate-bus" and plummets down to Earth's surface. As the starship falls, Sam reads the coordinates and frets about crash-landing into Egypt again, but instead he crashes into Central America in the Mayan age, with the starship now heavily damaged upon impact. However, not all hope is lost, since the Sirians left a "back-up starship" on Earth, which was a fail-safe in case anything ever happened to the SSS Centerprice. However, since this back-up starship is located in a different time and age than where and when Sam currently is, he will have to uncover the locations of the Sirian portals that will help him reach his destination.
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Intel Pentium 4 3+ Ghz or AMD Athlon64 3500+ | Pentium 4 3 GHz |
| VRAM | 256 MB | 512 MB |
| RAM | 1 GB for Windows XP or 2 GB for Windows Vista | 1 GB RAM |
| OS | Windows XP w/SP1 or newer | Windows XP/Vista/7 |
| Graphics Card | nVidia GeForce 7600, ATI Radeon X1600 | graphic card GeForce 7600 or better |
| Direct X | DirectX 9.0c August 2009 Edition or newer | 9.0c |
| SOUND CARD | Yes | DirectX Compatible |
| HDD Space | 2.2 GB | 4 GB free |
| Game Analysis | The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an AMD Radeon X1600. The minimum memory requirement for Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is 1 GB of RAM installed in your computer. To play Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter you will need a minimum CPU equivalent to an Intel Pentium 4 3.00GHz. In terms of game file size, you will need at least 2 GB of free disk space available. Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter will run on PC system with Windows XP w/SP1 or newer and upwards. | |
-great secrets
-good looking
-good sound
-new weapons are fun for a while
-too long
-not enough variety in enemies
-makes you doze off towards the end
There are definite improvements when compared to First Encounter. Areas are more varied and it really uses Serious Engines high draw distance capabilities to its advantage. It is full of huge areas full of enemies and… well more enemies.To be honest textures are fantastic.
If you have played first game, there isn’t anything new here. Encounters keep getting longer like in the FE, except levels are longer now and so is the game. So by the time you get to the end the fights last for like 20 mins, even with 3 players. New weapons help a quite a bit.
There are some really great Easter eggs and secrets. some rooms are really greatly designed and add fun spin to mostly boring combat. Sound design is also pretty great, music gets you pumped up and all enemies sound distinct.
All in all, its a fun game to play while catching up with friends, and i will be using yell of headless kamikaze as my phone alarm clock.