![]() Mental orders his seemingly endless army of odd followers against Sam to try and stop him at a consistent rate. The Serous Sam series follows the protagonist Sam “Serious” Stone in his ongoing battle against the alien overlord Mental who wants to destroy humanity. The Serious Sam Collection is a no nonsense first person shooter that gives you big guns and plenty of enemies and aliens to shoot at. ![]() All of these games run off of the disc, and I’m not sure why an install option wasn’t presented to make things easier and hopefully help with the horrendous loading that I’ll get into later. That being said, these are the same versions that were released on Xbox Live Arcade years ago, so if you already own them, there’s nothing new here for you. Essentially you’re getting four separate games and a piece of DLC for one of them. The Serious Sam Collection is just that, and contains Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter (TFE), Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter (TSE), Serious Sam 3: Before First Encounter (BFE) along with its DLC companion Jewel of the Nile, and lastly Serious Sam Double D XXL. Sure, there’s a little backstory to tie it all together, but it won’t matter as you won’t really care, you’ll be too busy shooting attacking enemies running right towards you anyway. Serious Sam never takes itself too seriously (see the irony there), and simply pits you against a massive onslaught of oncoming enemies for you to shoot anything you can. There was no cover based hiding, no regenerating health, no super armor, just simply guns, guns, and more guns. If you’ve never experienced a Serious Sam game, I’ve already essentially explained everything you need to know about it already. Like I said, nostalgia has a funny way of making you remember things better than they actually were. When this came out there was almost nothing better, no story to sit through, no real cutscenes to watch, just simply shoot anything that moved and ran towards you. The Serious Sam games simply threw you into a world with a ton of guns with a horde of enemies running at you and let you have at it. ![]() Back when Doom, Quake, and Duke Nukem were THE games to play, Serious Sam hit the scene as well and tried to do something a little differently. This has happened for me with a few video games as well as I would always play anything I could get my hands on. I’ve had this happen to me many times, as I’ll rewatch a TV show I loved as a kid only to realize that it simply wasn’t that good. It tends to make you remember the better parts about something while you completely forget all the bad things.
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