Seriously below-par.
The central joke of Serious Sam is that he isn’t very serious at all. And nor are his games. In fact, they’re extremely silly, and if they don’t start behaving they’re not going to get any sweets. Yes, Croteam’s long-running flagship FPS is a gleefully daft blaster that revels in throwing as many enemies at you as possible, creating huge, ridiculous battle sequences that can be genuinely exhilarating.
This Switch incarnation of the Serious Sam Collection offers a generous assemblage of Sam content at a very nice price point. You’re getting Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD, its follow-up Serious Sam: The Second Encounter HD, Serious Sam 3: BFE and all their respective DLC expansions; Legend of the Beast (Second Encounter) and Jewel of the Nile (BFE). It’s a hefty package for sure, going above and beyond what we expected for the price. There are some omissions – the Xbox 360 version included the marvellous side-scroller Serious Sam DD XXL, and the under-rated Serious Sam 2 is entirely absent (Second Encounter is, confusingly, not the same thing). While we’re dreaming, we’d love to see a re-release of the GameCube’s brilliant Serious Sam: The Next Encounter, but that’s probably never happening.
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