2005 FPS Serious Sam 2 just got a big update for reasons known only to God

Serious Sam replicates the 'Big-chinned guy with hand on another guy's shoulder' meme. — (Image credit: Croteam)

Serious Sam 2 just got a meaty patch from the devs at Croteam featuring UI updates, graphical improvements, changes to the multiplayer, and bugfixes. George W Bush is president, and the subprime mortgage market can only go up, up, up, baby!

Wait, no, sorry. It is in fact 2025, but all those things I said about Serious Sam 2 remain, inexplicably, true. To mark SS2's 20th anniversary, Croteam returned to the game to give the whole thing some new polish and "keep those Serious vibes alive for years to come!"

Whatever the hell is going on in Serious Sam 2 — (Image credit: Croteam)

Croteam has form for this, after all: SS2 got a 15th anniversary update a mere—hang on, let me do the maths—five years ago. So I guess see you in five years for the 25th anniversary update, which will make the game run well on the HUDs of our military AR headsets in the Water Wars.

One of Josh's first memories is of playing Quake 2 on the family computer when he was much too young to be doing that, and he's been irreparably game-brained ever since. His writing has been featured in Vice, Fanbyte, and the Financial Times. He'll play pretty much anything, and has written far too much on everything from visual novels to Assassin's Creed. His most profound loves are for CRPGs, immersive sims, and any game whose ambition outstrips its budget. He thinks you're all far too mean about Deus Ex: Invisible War.

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