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In the Sam tradition of bizarre and humorous enemies, MBG introduces jet-propelled chimps that hurl explosive bananas, and Vuvuzelators-stacks of pancakes that walk on two forks, and have vuvuzelas sticking out of their bodies. At first youвЂ™ll be handling small waves of headless foot soldiers and maybe a Gnaar or two, but before you know it those damn Kleers show up, accompanied by kamikazes, massive biomechanoids and a few new bad guys as well. Just like in the First and Second Encounter, DD starts you off slow with a small selection of classic Sam enemies. Jumping a 3D franchise into retro 2D or vice versa is by no means an easy feat-over a decade since the Dreamcast and Sega is still trying to do it with Sonic-but MBG nails it with DD.

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Through smart understanding of the license theyвЂ™re working with and probably hours spent playing the original games, MBG has translated the classic Serious Sam gameplay almost perfectly into 2D. Of course this wonderfully overkill gun stacking mechanic would be wasted if MBG didnвЂ™t also get the signature Serious Sam enemy horde right, but it just so happens that they do get it right-maybe even a little too right. A shogun might only fire every two seconds, but while the shotgun is reloading you could have a constant stream of auto fire from a Tommy gun or a steady jet of napalm from your flamethrower, with maybe a grenade or rocket in there for good measure. YouвЂ™re better off using a variety of guns in your stack, both to conserve ammo and to combine the damage effects of various guns. The only issue with multiple guns is that they all draw from the same ammo pool if you have four shotguns in a stack your shotgun shells will disappear four times as fast. Hypothetically you could have six of any given weapon locked and loaded at a time, and your inventory also lets you keep various combinations assigned to the number keys. Once you gain multiples of each weapon, you can, for example have two shotguns on top of two Tommy guns on top of two machine pistols. You arenвЂ™t just limited to a single weapon of each, however. This means you can have a machine pistol on top of a shotgun on top of a Tommy gun on top of a flamethrower on top of a chainsaw-or the same in the reverse order. By collecting connector wrenches hidden throughout the levels, you can select any six of the weapons in your inventory and stack them in any given order. Sam needed the ability to fire six of his guns simultaneously, and in any combination that the player desired. While SamвЂ™s entire classic arsenal returns-shotgun, Tommy gun, grenade and rocket launchers, laser cannon etc.-MBG figured that just wasnвЂ™t enough.

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This mechanic is the defining element that DD brings to the table and probably conjures a perfect image of the game in your head-Serious Sam, running through a side-scrolling level, toting a full arsenal of six diagonally stacked weapons. Serious Sam DD can be handily summed up in two words: gun stack. Raunchy semantics jokes aside, IвЂ™ll cut right to the chase. Just like Croteam is saying that the вЂњBFEвЂќ subtitle in Serious Sam 3 stands for вЂњBefore First EncounterвЂќ (har har, it is a prequel and all), вЂњDouble DвЂќ ostensibly describes the gameвЂ™s 2-D shoot-em-up format when compared to the three-dimensional FPS format of the rest of the series. вЂњDouble DвЂќ is an obvious double-entendre. In translating Sam to the gameplay style they know best, MBG has taken вЂњmore is betterвЂќ to heart. The first of the indie series, Serious Sam Double D, is from MommyвЂ™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 theyвЂ™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. YouвЂ™re gonna take that cannon and kill a horde of three hundred aliens.Д¬roteam 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 whatвЂ™s better? A man-portable shipboard cannon that fires expanding, explosive cannon balls. Is that a knife? No, you need a chainsaw.

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