Serious Sam

As much as I hated Steam when it came out I must say I've warmed to it now. Probably because I realised it it's a great way to get access to awesome indy and smaller dev company titles. 

I might post a top five of the little games I've bought over the last year but for now I'm forgetting about the little, little games and going for an old favourite available now. 

Serious Sam baby! Serious Sam - The First Encounter HD by Croteam is a remake of the original, polished up for our time-machine like graphics cards nowadays. 

It's a little rough at times, and obviously looks quite dated when compared to what's available now, but it is well worth the US$20 for an awesome bit of old school shoot-em-up action.

When Serious Sam came out in 2001 (fittingly enough Croteam's website looks like it was made in 2001) it didn't have the best graphics around, or the most realistic monsters or the most texture-shaded-bumpmapped-gigapixels, but what it did have was awesome gameplay in spades. 

It's a simple formula. Huge arenas, fun weapons and easy to kill enemies... by the thousand. I'm playing on Hard and not all the way through it yet and I have 3600 kills. ha!  

If you have fond memories of the old days of FPSing then I highly recommend this one. 

Those bloody frogs though!