Opinion: Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter

With the right mindset and knowing what you’re signing up for, Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter will happily fill the old-school FPS shaped hole in your heart.

With the right mindset and knowing what you’re signing up for, Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter will happily fill the old-school FPS shaped hole in your heart.
Duke Nukem has finally demonstrated that forever doesn’t mean forever, it actually means 14 years. The biggest video game vapourware title has finally arrived, but after this entire wait surely it can’t live up to any hype? Let’s find out.

One of the most loveable games in recent memory returns with a sequel that could easily have been a cynical, opportunistic retread, and is absolutely everything but.

Guerrilla return more confident than ever with everything they established in Killzone 2 and the time and resources to improve on the things that sorely needed it. The good news is that’s mostly what they’ve done. The bad is that’s mostly what they’ve done.
Heeeeelllloooooooo people whom are used to nothing happening in this place. It’s certainly been a while since we put out any sign of life, and that’s kind of the harsh truth of having a games thing that is sorta bloggy but doesn’t want to be the daily word poop thing that blogs so very often spiral into.
Word poop is fine, it’s one of my most prominent traits, but this place is more of a diary of sorts. It’s this heritance to ourselves and others which will eventually serve as a testament and reminder of where all that damn time went. We spent it! All! In one place! In front of a box radiating light with plastic in some configuration in our sweaty, spastic embrace.
So what’s going on, why this sudden burst of self endulgent nostalgia? Well, I think it’s time to re-establish what M7 is because it’s kinda been spinning its wheels in place for a while now. The first thing you should do if you’re interested in updates here is to follow the Mode-7 twitter feed located to your right. We’re also a newly opened group on Steam, located here. It’s open to all, just come join us if you want to chat us up, play games or whatever.
As some of you are at least somewhat aware, the site got an overhaul before christmas by Simon the pig-like fascist on some sort of dilerious high, stomping around in the belief that it should all be grayscale + yellow. That was a horrible mistake; a vibe a more perceptive person than Simon the pig-like fascist would’ve picked up on, hearing all those people go “YOU’RE MAKING A HORRIBLE MISTAKE!”. Being stuck in a pig-like fascist state, I didn’t hear those people and promptly went on to spend ridiculous amounts of time turning the site grayscale + yellow.
Ssssso. Ahead for me now is to undo that mistake by bringing colour back to this place. We’re talking headers for every single review over in our Opinions section, the heart icon to your left. And then there’ll trickle in some content at a rediculously slow pace, M7 style!
Seeya around!


Moar cut and paste! Next up is my Sonic Riders review, this one from Eurogamer’s reader review section. Incidentally, I still really like this game, more than its sequel Zero Gravity in fact.