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Serious Sam: The First Encounter

Serious Sam:  The First Encounter (XSX) game cover art
Platform: PC
Tags: Shooter, First-Person
Developer: Croteam

Publisher
Region
Released
NA
03/21/2001
EU
03/30/2001
JP
12/22/2005

Staff Reviews

Serious Sam: The First Encounter review

Reviewed June 06, 2005

Daniel Forbes says: "If a shooter's DNA is in its enemies, then The First Encounter is an impossible monstrosity, all bones and steel and slime, standing ten stories high. Dumb and furious, it hurls anything it can and charges, unconcerned for itself. Why should it be? If it goes down, a million more will follow..."
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Serious Sam: The First Encounter review

Review date unknown

James Gordon says: "While most FPS' these days focus a lot on exploration, key-collecting and even problem and puzzle-solving, SS skips all that and goes right for the action. in the average FPS, even the most ''busy'' of rooms won't likely contain more than 10 enemies, but in SS, the most ''busy'' of rooms go well above the 50's! This is FPS war gone massive. "
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Reader Reviews

Serious Sam: The First Encounter review

Reviewed June 14, 2004

asherdeus says: "I can honestly say that only a few things have ever actually hurt my brain. One thing that I remember as a brain-hurter was when my friend Chris and I took apart this really old TV and broke a tube inside it that was labeled as dangerous. Suffice to say, I have worn glasses ever since. Another thing that made my brain hurt was Chemistry. Never knew what was going on in there, but after an hour and a half of learning it, my brain felt like it got sucker-punched by Muhammad Ali. The only thing els..."
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