Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter
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the GameNote: When you purchase Revolution you get Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter and Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter.
Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline arcade-action shooter heavily focused on frantic arcade-style single player action. In a world where cyberpunk meets fantasy-fiction and advanced technology is mixed with black magic and psycho-powers, Sam travels through the beautiful world of ancient Egypt and several diverse planets, confronting countless Mental’s minions on his way to the Mental’s base.
Key Features
- Frantic Arcade-Style Action – Fight your way through 15+ nightmarish warriors in Mental’s army, including the charging Sirian Werebull, screaming Headless Kamikaze and other crazy monsters, and finally challenge the multi-story Ugh-Zan boss!
- Various Environments and Secrets – Unleash mayhem in ancient Egypt. Discover over 80 secrets hidden in the fray!
- Special Weapons and Power-Ups – Wreak havoc with a huge arsenal of weapons including Double Shotgun, Rocket Launcher, Minigun and Cannon!
- Co-Op Multiplayer – Embrace the mayhem with up to 16 players!
- Versus Multiplayer – Drop the gauntlet and let the heavy ordinance fly in incredible Deathmatch and Scorematch!
- Split Screen – Huddle up with up to 4-player local split screen co-op and versus modes!
- Level Editor – Create your own levels, MODs, textures and other content with the inclusion of the fully featured Serious Editor and Serious Modeller!
Game Discussion
Steam User 38
Sometimes it's fun picking up an old game from more than 20 years ago. I noticed that I have the classic Serious Sam games in my library and decided to check how First Encounter fared in 2024 (and on Win 11). In case you don't know the Serious Sam franchise is Croteam's version of the Duke Nukem games: they are fast-paced FPS games with a protagonist similar to Duke in the sense of muscular appearance and one-liners and he even wears sunglasses. He's just not blond. And, naturally, he needs to save the world from an alien invasion. But he does so in Egypt - he travels back to the past to learn about the aliens.
The game runs well and switching to higher resolutions should not be an issue. Graphics, naturally, are dated but the gameplay is still as fast as you need it to be. Controls are reminiscent of the old days with reloading only available for a couple of weapons and there is no regeneration but you have to look out for ammo as well as health packs. Otherwise this plays like it did back then it just doesn't have realistic physics and achievements.
And this brings us to the recommendation part. HD versions of both this and the sequel are already available on Steam. They look better and they have many achievements. There is also a bundle containing both classic games titled Revolution that has enhanced graphics and new features (essentially a fan-made conversion instead of the remastered HD editions with the newer engine). This is currently the cheapest of all and it comes even with a new campaign. The advantage of picking up the HD version, however, is the availability of what is called Fusion in the store: a workshop with lots of mods available for the game you already purchased.
HD versions are better, I think, but I know there are some purists out there preferring the classics or collectors that want to have all the titles (except that silly looking episode titled Serious Sam 2).
Steam User 9
Playing the Original Serious Sam TFE for the first time, and all I can say is this game is a fucking banger!
Compared to the remastered, this one is much better overall. Lighting don't hurt your eyes, the skies and graphics look prettier. And only after playing this, I realized the remastered version had some cut content in it. Defo go for this one, works still fine on modern pcs after 2 decades.
Steam User 8
Certainly a serious game with very serious enemies and serious bossfights
Steam User 7
So urme. .. This dude is named SAMUEL. He is Angry. Stoic even . Because of stupid god damned aliens . He has WEPAONS. Fighting the bad enimes. Good frafics . Very large world .. For 2001. Also . The game is troll. Funny trolololo. With some of the things. Nice geme.
Steam User 6
Probably the best Serious Sam game. Lots of big fights, trapped ammo/health pickups, and silliness. You need to quicksave often because the game isn't remotely fair. The first few levels are a bit slow and annoying because you don't have all the weapons yet.
Unless you're playing on tourist/easy, the gameplay isn't just dumb shooting. You have to prioritize enemies and switch weapons constantly, otherwise you will get overwhelmed. It is a unique type of gameplay.
Compared to the "Classics: Revolution" version: this one works better.
Compared to the HD version (or Fusion), this original version has a few gravity gimmick rooms that weren't ported over. It doesn't matter much.
Compared to The Second Encounter, this has fewer enemy types and weapons, and only one setting (Egypt), but more big difficult fights.
Compared to SS2, this is much less goofy.
Compared to SS3 and later, this has no NPCs talking in your ear, no running, ~no reloading, no aim-down-sights.
Steam User 7
A forgotten classic. This game clearly drew inspiration from the first person shooters at the time like Doom, Quake and Duke Nukem 3D but it also added so many new things that it really becomes its own subgenre of boomer shooters.
I wish more games were like this nowadays.
Steam User 4
It's hard to recommend this to someone. Not because it's a bad game. It's actually far from a bad game. It is an amazingly good and well designed game. It's just that it's designed to be very, very, very hard and a test of your patience. If you're gonna get this, be warned