Comment You guys don't know what you are talking about... (Score 4, Informative) 47
First of all RTCW didn't live up to it's expectations cause of problems with another contractor who would take care of the bot teamplay programming.
Cause of this, the engine was offered to SD free, cause of the work they did with mainly Quake 3 Fortress. SD turned this game from a failure to a multiplayer hit. Wolfenstein Enemy Territory is now the second most played game online (after Halflife, http://archive.gamespy.com/stats/) beating Quake 3, BF42 and Call of Duty. So i have no clue how you can say that ET didn't live up to it's expectations....
And it's also no secret that because of ET, SD are now working on the multiplayer mode of Doom3.
And Anonymous Coward i ain't saying that RTCW was a great game. But if you try to compare it with SS that would be crazy. I'm kinda suprised that you like Thief and Metal Gear Solid, but you also say that you like the wide of rooms, corridors spaces of SS more then the small nazi towns in RTCW. Simpler games then Serious Sam you can't get. Simple map design, Simple weapons and yes even simple, massive amounts of opponents. But that is what SS makes fun.