The First Encounter was the first game in the series. The games are on separate CDs (in the UK version) and are identical to their versions released separately, except for the model of the protagonist in The First Encounter, which was modified to use a version of it in The Second Encounter. The title Serious Sam: Gold Edition was released with the entire contents of The First Encounter, The Second Encounter and Dark Island together. Serious Sam consists of three episodes: Serious Sam: The First Encounter, Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, and package phases made by fans called Dark Island.
Serious Sam has a cooperative play mode, on the same machine (with split-screen) and Internet. The environments include alien planets, Egyptian pyramids and rain forests. Types of enemies ranging from soldiers with rocket launchers that run the giant robots against the player, or even suicidal headless men and two bombs in place of hands. The visual style of the game is fanciful and humorous. The character can carry a number of different weapons, and ammo is plentiful.
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Combat is high and frantic pace: the stages usually consist of a series of well-crafted arenas in which the player must defeat a number of enemies to proceed. The remaining life and armor are represented by percentages on the screen. Life and armor are not regenerative, and can be recovered through items scattered by the phases of the game. Enemies often spawn and attack in large waves through the map, and the player must avoid their projectiles and attacks by dodging and jumping sideways, rather than simply go for some coverage. The Serious Sam games are created in the traditional style of shooters in first-person as Doom and Quake. The game follows the adventures of protagonist Sam “Serious” Stone in his fight against the forces of the notorious leader extraterrestrial Mental, which aims to destroy the human race. Originally only released to the market for personal computers, the emerging popularity of Serious Sam resulted in ports being created for various platforms, including Xbox, GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox Live Arcade, among others. It is a game of first-person shooting (with option to play in third-person ) created by the game developer Electronic Croatian Croteam. Serious Sam is the first game (released in two episodes) Series Serious Sam.