Croatian Games
When you are from a small country everything is harder to achieve if you want to reach the global market. To create great game developers need to raise a lot of money and that can be almost impossible to do in countries like Croatia, but from time to time some brave developers rise to the occasion and great example of that is Croteam, team behind Serious Sam series and Talos Principle. There are some small developer teams that try here and there but nothing big comes out of it. Here are some games made in Croatia worth mentioning.
Serious Sam: The First Encounter
Serious Sam series is probably know by everyone. It is a first person shooter series with it's first game released in 2001 that was immediate success. Game is fast action paced with a hero like Duke Nukem named Serious Sam that kicks ass like no other. Clean, fast and sharp graphics are also big draw for this game. Some enemies you encounter through out the game are very memorable like headless dudes that yell and rush at you with two bombs, imagine hundeds of those enemies rushing at you at the same time and you will have an idea what Serious Sam games are. FUN!
The Ward
This is one of the first point and click adventure games from Croatia released in 2000. It is a SF game about mission on the moon where things somehow went horribly wrong and it is up to you to explore and find clues what happened and survive the encounter with aliens.
Gas Guzzlers
Gas Guzzlers is a combat racing game from Gamepires released in 2013. Game that reminds of old racing games like Twisted Metal and Carmagedon. It is a decent driving experience if you like arcade driving and destroying other cars with mounted guns, rockets and other tools of destruction. There are 18 different cars that include some Balkan oldtimers and I'm sure that is a nice draw for the local boys.
The Talos Principle
Another great game from Croteam is a puzzle game released in 2014. Game received decent reviews from most of the gaming media. In this game you take control of a robot with human mind and you need to finish many number of puzzle maps. This game reminds me of Portal games with added dose of philosophical and more mature approach to the game, any game that can do that is worth looking at.
I just bought a 4 pack of the Zombie Army Trilogy which is currently 80% off on Steam.
Part of the reason I bought it is because it is fun co-op like Serious Sam.
Ha! That game seems fun, destroy Nazzi plan C :)
Upvoted! LOVED Serious Sam: TFE as a kid. Got it for my 13th birthday (2003), and I swear, from first play, I became addicted! Croteam really nailed it on that one. Even the second one wasn't too bad, but TFE will always be my favorite from the Serious Sam franchise. Awesome post!
They truly did nail it with the first game, a true classic. Tnx :)
oooooh, I have to resteem this to have it in my blog;)
#balkanos ;)
I loved first two Serious Sam games! Thanks for bringing back the memories. :)
Yeah, you can have huge amounts of fun playing Serious Sam games :)