Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter

Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001!

Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter is a action, fps and classic game developed by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital.
Released on August 30th 2019 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 3,053 reviews of which 2,927 were positive and 126 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 5.89€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter into these genres:

Action FPS Classic Shooter Gore Co-op Indie Comedy Multiplayer Singleplayer Local Co-Op First-Person Sci-fi Great Soundtrack Split Screen Difficult Old School Funny Adventure Violent

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Requirements

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Windows

Minimum

OS *: Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 5), Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating system
Processor: AMD K6-3 400MHz, Pentium II or Celeron-A 300MHz
Memory: 64MB
Graphics: full OpenGL compliant 3D accelerator
Hard Drive: 600MB free hard disk space
Sound: 100% Windows compatible sound card

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

Certainly a serious game with very serious enemies and serious bossfights

Aug. 2024

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.

June 2024

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

May 2024

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.

April 2024

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 ).

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Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter

5.89€

9.2

2,927

126

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Developer

Croteam

Publisher

Devolver Digital

Release 30 Aug 2019

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