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Serious Sam: The First Encounter

Developer
Croteam
North America March 21, 2001 Gathering
Europe March 30, 2001 Take 2 Interactive
Japan December 22, 2005 Cyberfront

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Serious Sam: The First Encounter review

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…

Daniel Forbes · June 6, 2005

Serious Sam: The First Encounter review

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''…

James Gordon

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Serious Sam: The First Encounter review

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…

asherdeus · June 14, 2004

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