Serious Sam DD can be handily summed up in two words: gun stack. Raunchy semantics jokes aside, I’ll cut right to the chase. Just like Croteam is saying that the “BFE” subtitle in Serious Sam 3 stands for “Before First Encounter” (har har, it is a prequel and all), “Double D” ostensibly describes the game’s 2-D shoot-em-up format when compared to the three-dimensional FPS format of the rest of the series. “Double D” is an obvious double-entendre. In translating Sam to the gameplay style they know best, MBG has taken “more is better” to heart. The first of the indie series, Serious Sam Double D, is from Mommy’s Best Games, a studio known for their over-the-top 2D actioners. Croteam is getting ready to unleash a Sam prequel next month, but to get fans hyped up they’ve commissioned the Serious Sam Indie Series, a collection of games based on Serious Sam but developed by accomplished independent studios. Then they did it again (naturally) bigger and crazier in 2002 with The Second Encounter. You’re gonna take that cannon and kill a horde of three hundred aliens.Ĭroteam did this insanity right out of the gate with Serious Sam: The First Encounter, back in 2001. Now go take that hardware and kill ten aliens at once. Sure, that rocket launcher is pretty cool, but you know what’s better? A man-portable shipboard cannon that fires expanding, explosive cannon balls. Is that a knife? No, you need a chainsaw.

The prevailing theme of the Serious Sam shooter series seems to be “more is better.” What are you doing with just one revolver? Here take another.

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