In short, you’re looking at three worlds with only a handful of stages for each, studded with five rather challenging bosses.
That’s not to say that the overall quality is lacking, there’s certainly more than enough high octane heart-pumping combat being dished out here, it’s just that it won’t take you very long, at all, to battle your way through it. Surprisingly enough, then, the RPG setting is quite a welcome change to Serious Sam – after all, The Random Encounter (or TRE, as I’ll refer to it from here on out) is quirky, fun and highly accessible just about everything you’d want from a budget turn-based RPG title.Īnd TRE really is a budget game. Part of the Serious Sam indie series, and the brain child of small-time indie developers Vlambeer, The Random Encounter is actually an RPG, and follows in the footsteps of Serious Sam: Double D – by applying the Serious Sam mould to alternative gameplay types.
#SERIOUS SAM THE RANDOM ENCOUNTER SERIES#
Settled quite happily in this field, the series has received rather generous reviews, flourished through a committed fan base, and grown from a once PC-only title into to a multi-platform epic.īut Serious Sam: The Random Encounter is different. For over a decade, Serious Sam has been the badass, gun toting, laugh inducing pin-up icon of the first person shooter genre.