Serious Sam Next Encounter – Gamecube Game

The game is fully working. It’s the cartridge / disc only.
Serious Sam is a fast paced arcade shooter revolving around Sam’s various exploits during his attempt to save the world. An abandoned mothership of Sirian origin is sending strange signals from the past, and there’s only one man with the guns big enough to investigate – Sam “Serious” Stone. If Mental’s forces beat Sam to this powerful time-traveling artifact, it’s last call for humanity! For the first time ever, put Sam behind the wheel of three serious vehicles: The Serious Jeep, The Serious Sub, and The Serious Combine. A new scoring system encourage players to get high scores and earn Gold Medals. Collecting Medals allows players to unlock hidden levels, new features, cheats and more.

Product Details

UPC: 710425241505
Condition: Used
Genre: Shooter
Platform: Nintendo Gamecube
Region: NTSC (N. America)
ESRB: Mature
SKU: GC_SERIOUS_SAM_NEXT_ENCOUNTER

This game is fully clean, tested & working. Includes the Disc/Cartridge Only. May have some minor scratches/scuffs. This description was last updated on October 28th, 2020.

Serious Sam: Next Encounter

Serious Sam: Next Encounter is a 2004 first-person shooter game developed by Climax Solent and published by Global Star Software. As a spin-off in the Serious Sam series, it follows Sam “Serious” Stone, who tracks an unidentified enemy through ancient Rome, feudal China and Atlantis, and eliminates the forces the enemy controls to eventually uncover their identity.

However, the player controls Sam through enclosed levels, fighting waves of enemies with an assortment of weapons and, occasionally, vehicles. And defeating enemies is a prerequisite to advance in a level and killing twenty in rapid succession temporarily grants a strength, speed and score boost in a “Super Combo”. Two players can complete the campaign cooperatively and up to eight players can engage in versus modes.

Gameplay

Serious Sam: Next Encounter is a first-person shooter. The player, controlling Sam “Serious” Stone, traverses enclose levels frequently composed of narrow corridors and open areas. So, there are forty-two levels, distributed among three thematic worlds. And in each level, the player encounters various enemies, of which some use melee and others fire projectiles at Sam. However, foes are teleported into a room and can approach from any side. But the player often needs to clear a room of one or more waves of enemies before proceeding to the next room. In other instances, multiple objects need to be collected and inserted into pre-determined slots to unlock the way forward. Also the game features some platforming elements and secrets hidden within levels.

Weapons

Moreover, next Encounter contains various weapons, among them ten range weapons and a chainsaw for melee. By default, Sam brandishes two handguns that have limitless ammunition. Some guns have several types of ammunition that can be switch between. By holding down the down the button to fire a weapon causes guns to discharge continuously. With an optional setting, enemies are automatically target. Every few levels, the player can use a vehicle—a jeep, submarine, or combine harvester—and kill enemies by running them over or using the vehicle’s attach weaponry.

However, killing enemies and collecting hidden treasures increases the score. Base on the final score in a level, the player is award a medal, where collecting certain amounts of gold medals unlocks additional “lost levels”. And killing twenty enemies in quick succession activates a “Super Combo”, which increases Sam’s movement speed and his weapons’ rate of fire and damage against villains. And doubles the score obtain for every further enemy. So, this state lasts approximately ten seconds. When Sam’s health is deplete, gameplay pauses, the character is reset to most recently pass checkpoint, and the player receives a score penalty. But a four-step difficulty setting adjusts how easily either Sam or the enemies defeat.

So, two players can complete the campaign cooperatively in a local split-screen mode. And there are three versus modes: “Deathmatch”, “Pass the Bomb”, and “Hold the Flag”. Up to four local players can compete via split-screen on the GameCube.

Description

Serious Sam: The Next Encounter takes you into a den of warfare where you’ll take out piles and piles of alien monsters. However, the action is fast and intense, the shooting never stops and the ammunition doesn’t run out. Gory, wild, over-the-top fun — with the frenetic pacing and nonstop shooting action you love!

• Platform elements in the thrilling action shooter ammo and enemies are everywhere, so hold down that fire button and keep moving.
• Incredible new weapons with new powers and limitless ammo.
• Jump into a Hummer and run over the alien zombies, or blow them away with missiles.
• Power up with killing combos – Get 20 kills in a row and you’ll go into Super Combo Mode, becoming more Serious than ever.