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Serious Sam: The First Encounter

This solid first-person shooter plays like Timesplitters' loopy cousin. You are Serious Sam Stone, a bull-necked bodybuilder type whose broad shoulders bear the fate of the world. They also bear a large amount of guns, bullets, and knives as you travel through time looking for the only artifact that
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79%Game Brain Score
79% User Score Based on 255 reviews
Critic Score 83%Based on 3 reviews

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Serious Sam: The First Encounter is a single player and multiplayer shooter game with a science fiction theme. It was developed by Croteam and was released on March 21, 2001. It received positive reviews from critics and mostly positive reviews from players.

A first person shooter extravaganza where you take the role of Serious Sam, a badass killer whose goal is to defeat monsters commanded by Mental, an extraterrestrial entity that wants to destroy humanity. 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 m…

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Serious Sam: The First Encounter is a shooter game with science fiction theme.

Serious Sam: The First Encounter is available on PC and Xbox.

Serious Sam: The First Encounter was released on March 21, 2001.

Serious Sam: The First Encounter was developed by Croteam.

Serious Sam: The First Encounter has received mostly positive reviews from players.

Serious Sam: The First Encounter is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

Similar games include Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Serious Sam: The First Encounter, Hurricane, Smells Like a Mushroom, Serious Sam 3: BFE and others.