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Serious Sam: The First Encounter
Description
In the near future, during their first interstellar travels, humans encounter a great evil that has been roaming the galaxy for the last few eons. This evil being is an incarnation of the last ancient immortals called Notorious Mental. Mental has set forth to wipe out the Human Race, just for fun, as it has with all the other civilizations in galactic history.
But the enemy has underestimated Earth’s defenses, a secret weapon left by the Sirians, an ancient race which fought against Mental on Earth in ancient times. This device, called the Timelock, will enable Special Forces veteran Sam 'Serious' Stone to return to the time of ancient Egypt and assassinate Mental, saving Mankind from extinction.
In a world where cyberpunk meets fantasy and hi-tech devices are mixed with black magic and psychic powers, Sam travels from the beautiful world of ancient Egypt through many diverse planets, confronting hordes of Mental's hideous minions on his way to the final showdown at Notorious Mental's lair.
But the enemy has underestimated Earth’s defenses, a secret weapon left by the Sirians, an ancient race which fought against Mental on Earth in ancient times. This device, called the Timelock, will enable Special Forces veteran Sam 'Serious' Stone to return to the time of ancient Egypt and assassinate Mental, saving Mankind from extinction.
In a world where cyberpunk meets fantasy and hi-tech devices are mixed with black magic and psychic powers, Sam travels from the beautiful world of ancient Egypt through many diverse planets, confronting hordes of Mental's hideous minions on his way to the final showdown at Notorious Mental's lair.
- Fight off wave after wave of countless cannon fodder and save mankind
- Addictive, fast-paced gameplay topped with cheesy, Duke Nukem-style one-liners
- Good level design with items, bottlenecks and cover in just the right places
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in-game soundtrack
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility.
Notice: Serious Sam: The First Encounter has an HTML manual available from the Start menu shortcut for the game.
Recommended system requirements:
Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility.
Notice: Serious Sam: The First Encounter has an HTML manual available from the Start menu shortcut for the game.
Time to beat
6 hMain
8 h Main + Sides
12.5 h Completionist
7 h All Styles
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Posted on: March 2, 2017
tgw105
Verified ownerGames: 127 Reviews: 24
Great shooting fun
I'm not sure why it took me so long to get hold of this, but when I played it I really loved it. Definitely one of those games which is mostly very fun although occasionally infuriating when you hit a difficult bit. The weapons are on the whole very satisfying although I’d like to have had the ability to alter the order they came up in - for example, for slot 4 the minigun comes up first, but with the minigun's slow warm-up and faster ammo use, I’d prefer the tommygun for tight situations. People are absolutely right to say you need to be fairly tactical, as in the big fights you need to work out how you’re gonna take on each wave. Fortunately there’s no checkpoint-saving rubbish – you can quicksave and ‘hardsave’ whenever you want. I played on the ‘hard’ setting and this was ok for most of the time, though I did have to improvise at times – I discovered if you could get yourself knocked up onto a wall buy a bull, or rocketjump up there, it was a great help. But for the last couple of levels I admit I used cheats a bit – it was just too intense. The final bossfight is predictably rubbish, but overall the Egyptian setting made it a really attractive game, with enough variety in the enemies (though I’d have settled for less variety if it meant no skeletoids and suicide bombers…) and weapons to keep the interest. A good price on here so go for it.
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Posted on: February 13, 2018
RagingPoet
Verified ownerGames: 124 Reviews: 20
True heir of classic storyless FPS
Serious Sam alone revived the adrenaline fast-paced shooters. It inherited fast paced action and high difficulty from Doom while also having it's own unique style.
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Posted on: August 31, 2021
Vivek_Fichadiya
Verified ownerGames: 167 Reviews: 1
played this series' game for first time
even for being old game from 2001, its still fun, even after it dosnt have wide screen support, i enjoyed this game, thanks gog for giving this for free
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Posted on: September 14, 2021
Astrohero
Verified ownerGames: 261 Reviews: 3
Great FUN!
I'm shocked how well this game aged. I remember playing the 2nd game as a kid, surprised by how good the 1st part is, definetly fun to play and a nice introduction to Serious Sam series!
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