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Serious Sam
Overall: If you own an XBox, there's no reason you shouldn't buy this game. Even if you've already played through the PC games, you'll love having it all in one package, as well as being able to play new levels with new skins. The new cutscenes themselves are enough to cover the price of admission. Combine this with endless hours of entertainment, comedy, and high-fiving co-op action with your friends, and you've got what promises to be one of the most fun games in existence.Full Review at http://www.seriouszon
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Gameplay: One of the many strange things you'll encounter are phone booths amidst the fray. These are your save game points, and are usually located just before/after large, difficult battles. Whenever you run out of lives, or turn off your console, your last save game point will be where you start from again. However, the abundance of lives makes these next to useless, aside from when you decide to take a break to refill your caffeine supply. By the final boss battle, I had well over 160 lives. Because of having so many lives, the stress of trying desperately to stay alive in the PC games is completely eliminated. All that's left for you to do is sit back, take aim(optional), hit the trigger, and have fun. One of the nice little features included in the game is temporary invulnerability upon respawning. After dying, you get five seconds before respawning should you choose not to immediately get back in the action. Once you respawn, you get three seconds of invulnerability to prepare for current threats. This is very helpful should you spawn in the center of a circle of kleer skeletons...
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Graphics: Sam is a dated game, there's no denying that. The first game came out over a year and a half ago, while the more recent Second Encounter isn't quite as old, it didn't really feature that big of a graphics improvement. Serious Sam: XBox doesn't improve much, if any, on its PC ancestors. However, just because it isn't up to date with the latest build of the Unreal Engine or Doom III doesn't mean it looks bad. In fact, it's the complete opposite. Serious Sam continues to look amazing on the Xbox, as it has on the PC for over two years.
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Audio: In addition to excellent graphics, Serious Sam: XBox also has amazing sound and music. Damjan Mravunac's work is nothing short of exemplary, engaging you in the best fight music ever to be included in a game. During a heavy firefight the tempo and volume of the music picks up, and while you're running around waiting for the next wave it slows down some into a more moderate, but still awesome, beat. Firing away at tons of enemies while rockets explode all around you, the music thumps, and enemies explode while sitting on your couch with the surround sound turned up has to be experienced to be believed.
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Overall Score: 10.0 / 10
