Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
The glorious high-definition (HD) chaos from The First Encounter continues now in Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, a remake of the classic arcade FPS Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, which originally scored an overall of 85% on Metacritic and was awarded Game of The Month on Gamespot!
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter includes spectacularly enhanced visuals and more special effects like Hippy and Kid’s mode, with trademark frantic Single-play, newly developed Survival and Beast Hunt modes, along with all time favorite Cooperative play. Combine those with intense Versus and Team modes for up to 16 players and in over 18 multiplayer maps, Demo Recording option, Spectators and Dedicated Server support, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is a worthy successor to the original masterpiece.
Key Features
SINGLE PLAYER
- Various Environments and Secrets – Unleash mayhem on 3 different spectacular worlds: South America, ancient Mesopotamia and medieval Europe.
- Discover over 130 secrets including over 15 brand new ones hidden in the fray.
- Unique Enemies and Bosses – Fight with 27 nightmarish warriors in Mental’s army, including old favorites from The First Encounter like Beheaded Kamikaze, Syrian Werebull and Kleer Skeleton. Go head to head against 5 new enemies and 3 new Bosses.
- Special Weapons and Power-Ups – Wreak havoc with a huge arsenal of weapons including 3 new toys: the Sniper Rifle, Flamethrower and Chainsaw. Use Power-Ups to additionally increase your fighting and agility skills.
- Serious Editor 3 – Create your levels and share them on SteamWorks!
MULTIPLAYER
- NEW! (not seen in Classic game) Survival Mode – Try to stay alive as long as you can against continued enemies’ attacks in specially designed survival maps!
- Classic Co-Op Mode – Plunge into chaos with up to 16 players in campaign cooperative mode!
- NEW! (not seen in Classic game) More Co-Op Modes – Play even more along your friends in newly developed Coin-Op and Survival cooperative modes with up to 16 players in campaign game!
- NEW! (not seen in Classic game) Beast Hunt Modes – Fight against other players or teams while also playing campaign levels in Beast Hunt and Team Beast Hunt!
- Versus Mode – Watch all hell break loose in over 8 classic and brand NEW! deathmatch maps with up to 16 players!
- NEW! (not seen in Classic game) More Versus Modes – Fight against your friends in more versus modes including My Burden, Last Man Standing and Instant Kill!
- NEW! (not seen in Classic game) Team Modes – Compete against other teams in team matches including Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag and Last Team Standing!
STEAM FEATURES – NEW! (not seen in Classic game)
- Steam Achievements – Earn 50 amazingly attractive achievements to boost your social standing.
- Steam Leaderboards – See your score recorded in both single player and cooperative leaderboards.
- Steam Cloud – Store your profile online on the Steam Cloud servers, including your bindings, last played level and campaign progress.
Game Discussion
Steam User 4
Well... Fine. This is a shooter you can play FPS or TPS. The graphics are decent. The music is good. The story is also decent, even funny.
No bugs or crashes.
Overall, the game is very entertaining. There are lots of enemies and several weapons to try. It's a fast-paced game with an emphasis on humor, and it offers plenty of content for the price. Plus, it includes cards and achievements.
Now, I do recommend this game, but with a note of caution. Some levels have a significant difficulty spike, becoming very challenging. Rage-quitting is a real possibility. If you're up for a challenge, this game will be a good choice. Save often and enjoy the mayhem!
Steam User 2
With this game (as well as the first HD) you will definitely be able to make new friends who will add you to complete the Diverse Fragger achievement. This friendship will not last long, but still.
Steam User 3
Why not assemble Serious Sam HD First and Second Encounter into one game and call it simply Serious Sam 1? So that we have a series of 1, 2, 3, 4 and maybe others in the future. I know that all chapters of First Encounter HD are included into Second Encounter HD, but they have no order there, they're kinda messy. I'd be nice to have them ordered in a linear way as in original games, but assembled in one. And please name games accordingly so that they get arranged chronologically in Steam Library (or anywhere else).
Steam User 2
My fav shooter series of all time, its simple but great, it takes all what made the first game so great and made more of it, i really like that, its a shame they never made an Third Encounter:
+ 12 maps all are well made
+ great soundtrack
+ good enemy encounters and diversity
+ great graphics
+ workshop maps for endless gameplay content
+ online campaign coop for both main campaign and workshop stuff
I actually prefer the Serious Sam The First Encounter but still this is a really really close second place in the series for me.
Steam User 0
Seriously a frustrating second one. Endless fighting with no performance issues.
Steam User 0
When this HD remake of Second Ecounter was released i was in AWE of how awesome it looked, the textures, the normal maps, shadows, the dust when shooting rockets into the ground and how they updated everything to look just like the OG game but with a new fresh look, and in many ways I LOVE the way this game looks, i love it, love it, love it, they did good on that part.
Now they did however not succeed as well with the level design, because apparently, they could not figure out how to make custom gravity for different areas with the new engine, probably to accomodate physics like ragdolls and bodyparts flying around, but man. People are missing out on the greatest levels that has ever been made by humankind!
The Newtons Nightmare levels.
They're gone, instead of a tube you can run around in to the "ceiling" and "walls" (well you know a tube), we get sort of a rotating grinder thingy, and i just feel the soul of the game just disappeard in those moments, there is just so much fun to have with "gravity design" that first and second encounter has, and its just not there at all in this game, its just so disappointing.
But everything else is there ofc, but man, i wish those levels were included in the HD versions.
Please play OG Second Encounter (classic is on steam).
Enjoyment score for this game is 89%
If they had managed to get the REAL newtons nightmare levels to work on Serious Engine 3.
That would have been SO DAMN GOOD. i would probably have played HD more if they had, like A LOT more.
The gunplay is still good, and i just remembered something they did with the minigun, they lowered its speed to the tommygun's level, making the minigun obsolete really, after some debacle, they at least gave it more damage per bullet, but thats not the point of a minigun, you want to spray and spray a lot, thats one more thing they shouldnt have touched, i even made a mod to fix this a long time ago where i brought the minigun back up to 1200 rpm up from the slow as shit 600.
Steam User 0
Easily my favorite in the whole series, it increased the scale of the levels dramatically, added a few new enemy types AND introduced a chainsaw.
You are also able to play the levels from the first game if you have it installed, more or less like in Left 4 Dead 2.