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 3
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 2
It is a lot of fun and I would highly recommend. the jokes are great and the action is awesome
Steam User 2
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 1
This game has been my whole adolescence. Probably the most fun i have ever had in a multiplayer game. Fragging since 2012
Steam User 0
it is serious sam 2. online is as dead as the first game. buy and play at your leisure for the single player i guess? if i want to be critical, i think the maps are too big. 1 kinda suffered of this, but on a smaller scale. 2 takes it to the next level. i get that it is a horde shooter and space is required, but there's such a thing as a bit *too* much space, which makes backtracking tedious. still an alright time, and decent gunplay.
Steam User 0
Somehow way better than The First Encounter. Just wish there was more unique weapons because most of them are useless or not fun to use. But the addition of powerups and levels being more dynamic just make this way superior to the first game (but if you own that one you can play the entire campaign in this one for free).