When aliens ruled by the evil Mental attack Earth, it is up to Sam "Serious" Stone, one of the toughest guys on Earth, to time-travel back to Ancient Egypt in order to change history by defeating Mental back in the ancient times. The First Encounter tells about the first part of Sam's voyage through Egypt.

Serious Sam: The First Encounter is a high-adrenaline first-person shooter heavily focused on frantic arcade-style single player action. The game goes "back to roots" of the first-person shooter genre; it does not feature intricate story, character interaction or the need for careful tactics which were becoming common in the FPS's of its time, instead concentrating on epic battles where the player, armed with powerful weaponry, takes on tens or even hundreds of enemies at once.

Sam travels through deserts, Egyptian temples, palaces and cities, killing countless enemies and occasionally stopping to solve a more or less easy puzzle. There are many weapons to be found; they are all classic FPP armaments - shotguns, chainguns, rocket launchers etc., up to the most powerful weapon: a cannon which shoots devastating cannonballs. There are also many pick-ups, of course, containing ammo, health and armor.

The enemies come in many varieties - headless suicide bombers, giant bio-mechanical creatures that shoot missiles, scorpions with chainguns, bulls that charge at Sam, etc. There are also a couple of powerful bosses.

Sam has a mini-computer which contains basic info about the levels he's travelling through, weapons he collects and enemies he kills.

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Alternate Titles

"Крутой Сэм: Первая Кровь" -- Russian spelling
"Serious Sam: המפגש הראשון" -- Hebrew spelling
"Serious Sam: Premier contact" -- French title
"Serious Sam: Pierwsze Starcie" -- Polish title
"Serious Sam: O Primeiro Confronto" -- Brazilian title
"Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter" -- Steam title
"Serious Sam: 1st Encounter" -- Informal title
"Krutoj Sam: Pervaja Krov'" -- Russian title
"シリアスサムファーストエンカウンター" -- Japanese spelling

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Serious Sam: The First Encounter	Windows	$0.06
	Serious Sam: The First Encounter		$5.99
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User Reviews

My parents stopped me from playing this game, So I SHOT EM UP HARD-STYLE	Maw (849)
The Sun is God	Ashley Pomeroy (230)
Contains ludicrous amounts of action that will liquify your brain.	Trixter (8804)
Serious Sam is here to stay!	Archagon (103)
You wouldn't hear me talking about this game after 5 years.	BigJKO (68)	unrated
The best FPS you'll play for a long time	El-ad Amir (110)
Solid, Fast-Paced FPS Action	NeoMoose (1106)

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The Press Says

Daily Radar	2001		100
Fragland.net	Sep 18, 2002	92 out of 100	92
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Mar 10, 2001	9 out of 10	90
Gameplanet	Apr 30, 2001		90
GameSpot	Mar 26, 2001	8.9 out of 10	89
4Players.de	Apr 05, 2001	89 out of 100	89
GameSpy	Mar 26, 2001	84 out of 100	84
Game Over Online	Mar 31, 2001	84 out of 100	84
Gamesmania	Apr 04, 2001	81 out of 100	81
Power Unlimited	May, 2001	72 out of 100	72

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Trivia

The first Serious Sam demo was a technology demo for the Serious Engine by Croteam, not a demo for a game in particular. The folks at the Old Man Murray website praised the game so much that eventually the guys at the Gathering of Developers got wind of it and sponsored a complete, full game based around the demo.

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by Cromaa (512) on Mar 28, 2001.