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Chronological order: SSVR - SS4 - SS3 - TFE - TSE Episode 1 - Bright Island - TSE Episodes 2,3 - SS2 No, the HD versions aren't any different in terms of gameplay. They only improve graphics. I would recommend you play the classic encounters via Revolution. Also it's important to know SS2 is non-canon since Croteam is making a remake of it. Serious Sam games in chronological order. I always wanted to know, do I know it correctly or not? First is SS3:BFE which talls us about the war in our days. And in the end we teleport to the past to save the Earth 2. Second is SS:TFE which talls about the past, where we take the space ship to.

Serious Sam Games In Order
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Serious Sam
Genre(s)First-person shooter
Developer(s)Croteam[a]
Publisher(s)
  • Gathering of Developers (2001–2002)
  • Global Star Software (2001, 2004)
  • Gotham Games (2002)
  • 2K Games (2005)
  • Devolver Digital (2009–present)
  • Croteam Incubator (2019)
Platform(s)
First releaseSerious Sam: The First Encounter
21 March 2001
Latest releaseSerious Sam 4
24 September 2020
Serious Sam Games In Order

Serious Sam is a video game series created and primarily developed by Croteam. It consists predominantly of first-person shooters. The series follows the advances of mercenary Sam 'Serious' Stone against Mental, an extraterrestrial overlord who attempts to destroy humanity at various points in time. The first game, Serious Sam: The First Encounter, was released for Microsoft Windows in March 2001. Several spin-offs were developed by other developers, such as a Palm OS conversion of The First Encounter by InterActive Vision, Serious Sam: Next Encounter (on GameCube and PlayStation 2) by Climax Solent, and Serious Sam Advance (on Game Boy Advance) by Climax London. All three were published by Global Star Software.

Development[edit]

Croteam created a proprietary engine for use in both Serious Sam: The First Encounter and Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. At the time Croteam was making Serious Sam, licensing other engines was costly (upwards of US$1 million), so they made their own from scratch, following the feature set of the first Doom engine, which simulated 3D spaces in 2D, and did not include up or down targeting. As they were creating their own, both Duke Nukem 3D (which added up-and-down freelook) and Quake (a fully 3D rendered environment) were released, requiring Croteam to incorporate these features into their engine for their game to be competitive. Development was further complicated when the first 3D accelerators were released, forcing Croteam to develop for hardware rendering over software.[1] Recognizing they needed to bring something new to what other games were pushing at that time, Croteam decided that they would make their Serious Engine support extremely large environments, with virtual view distances of over a kilometre, physics support, and capable of rendering up to a hundred enemies on screen at a time, and do this on the processing power of what current low-end computers using the original Pentium CPUs could handle.[1] The team devised ways of doing object path caching so that they only had to perform collision detection with environmental features every few seconds rather than every cycle. Collision detection was also sped up by approximating the environment with spheres rather than boxes. This also enabled them to have multidirection gravity which was used for some of the game's secret areas.[1]

Serious Engine 1 is available as open-source software.[2] A more powerful iteration of the Serious Engine was developed for use in Serious Sam 2 and is known as Serious Engine 2. It supports many features of modern GPUs such as pixel and vertex shaders, HDR, bloom and parallax mapping. Serious Engine 3 was used in Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter and Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter. It includes detailed shading, and enemies are re-modelled to look more realistic. This engine is also being developed to harness the full capacity of HDR and high definition mapping. An updated version, Serious Engine 3.5, is used in Serious Sam 3.

Serious Sam is voiced by John J. Dick.[3]

After the release of both HD remakes of the original Serious Sam episodes, Devolver Digital re-released both classic encounters in 2010 and Serious Sam 2 in 2011.

Games[edit]

Main series[edit]

Sam
TitleDetails

Original release date:
Release years by system:
2001 – Windows
2001 – Palm OS
2002 – Xbox
HD Version
2009 – Windows
2010 – Xbox 360
2017 – Linux
2020 – Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Notes:
  • First-person shooter
  • Published by Gathering of Developers
  • The Xbox version of the game is published by Gotham Games, which combines The First Encounter and The Second Encounter into one game
  • In 2003, both The First Encounter and The Second Encounter were compiled into one single collection titled Serious Sam: Gold
  • On 24 November 2009, The First Encounter was re-released with high-definition graphics titled Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter[5]
  • On 31 March 2017, The First Encounter was re-released with virtual reality support titled Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter[6]
  • A unified[clarification needed] version of the original game titled Serious Sam Classics: Revolution was developed by Alligator Pit and was on early access in 2014 until its full release in 2019[7]



Original release date:
Release years by system:
2002 – Windows, Xbox
HD Version
2010 – Windows, Xbox 360
2017 – Linux
2020 – Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Notes:
  • First-person shooter
  • Published by Gathering of Developers
  • The Xbox version of the game is published by Gotham Games, which combines The Second Encounter and The First Encounter into one game
  • In 2003, both The First Encounter and The Second Encounter were compiled into one single collection titled Serious Sam: Gold
  • On 28 April 2010, The Second Encounter was re-released with high-definition graphics titled Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter[9]
  • On 4 April 2017, The Second Encounter was re-released with virtual reality support titled Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter[10]
  • A unified[clarification needed] version of the original game titled Serious Sam Classics: Revolution was developed by Alligator Pit and was on early access in 2014 until its full release in 2019[7]



Original release date:
Release years by system:
2005 – Windows, Xbox
Notes:
  • Developed by Croteam and published by 2K Games
  • Sequel to Serious Sam



Original release date:
Release years by system:
2011 – Windows
2012 – Mac OS X, Xbox 360, Linux
2014 – PlayStation 3
2020 – Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Notes:
  • Developed by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital
  • Prequel to Serious Sam
  • On 10 November 2017, Serious Sam 3: BFE was re-released with virtual reality support titled Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE



Original release date:
Release years by system:
2020 – Windows, Stadia
Notes:
  • Developed by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital
  • Prequel to Serious Sam 3: BFE


Spin-offs[edit]

TitleDetails

Original release dates:
Release years by system:
2004 – GameCube, PlayStation 2
Notes:
  • Developed by Climax Solent and published by Global Star Software



Original release dates:
Release years by system:
2004 – Game Boy Advance
Notes:
  • Developed by Climax London and published by Global Star Software



Original release date:
Release years by system:
2011 – Windows
2013 – Xbox 360(XXL)
Notes:
  • Developed by Mommy's Best Games and published by Devolver Digital
  • An expanded version, Serious Sam Double D XXL was released for Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade in February 2013, introducing a local cooperative multiplayer mode, the Windows version followed after as a free update for the original game



Original release date:
Release years by system:
2011 – Android, iOS
2012 – Windows
Notes:
  • Developed by Be-Rad Entertainment and published by Devolver Digital



Original release date:
Release years by system:
2011 – Windows
Notes:
  • Developed by Vlambeer and published by Devolver Digital


Serious Sam: The Greek Encounter

Original release date:
Release years by system:
2012 – Windows
Notes:
  • Developed by Eric Ruth Games and published by Devolver Digital



Original release date:
Release years by system:
2017 – Windows, Linux
Notes:
  • Developed by Crackshell and published by Devolver Digital[13]



Original release date:
Release years by system:
2017 – Windows
Notes:
  • Developed by Croteam VR and published by Devolver Digital



Original release date:
Release years by system:
2018 – Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Notes:
  • Developed by Binx Interactive and published by Devolver Digital



Proposed release date:
TBA
Proposed system release:
TBA – Windows
Notes:
  • Developed by Gungrounds
  • Published by Croteam Incubator
  • In early access since 2 April 2019



Proposed release date:
TBA
Proposed system release:
TBA – Windows
Notes:
  • Developed by members of SeriousSite.ru, a Serious Samfansite[14]
  • Sanctioned by Croteam[14]
  • A mod for The Second Encounter based on pre-alpha content of the game[14]


Serious Sam Games In Order

Notes[edit]

Serious sam games in chronological order
  1. ^Non-mainline entries were developed by InterActive Vision, Climax Solent, Climax London, Mommy's Best Games, Be-Rad Entertainment, Vlambeer, Eric Ruth Games, Crackshell, Croteam VR, Binx Interactive, and Gungrounds

References[edit]

  1. ^ abcMosettig, Nikola; Manansala, Lee (3 October 2018). 'War Stories: Serious Sam almost didn't happen—until crates saved the day'. Ars Technica. Archived from the original on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  2. ^'Serious Sam's Serious Engine source code released'. Croteam. 11 March 2016. Archived from the original on 12 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  3. ^Martin, Joe (12 August 2009). 'Serious Sam voice actor for hire to fans'. Bit-Tech.
  4. ^'Serious Sam: The First Encounter'. GameSpot. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  5. ^'Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter'. Steam. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  6. ^'Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter'. Steam. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  7. ^ ab'Serious Sam Classics: Revolution'. Steam. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  8. ^'15th anniversary of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter'. Croteam. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  9. ^'Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter'. Steam. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  10. ^'Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter'. Steam. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  11. ^'Serious Sam 2'. Croteam. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  12. ^'Serious Sam 3: BFE'. Croteam. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  13. ^https://store.steampowered.com/app/272620/Serious_Sams_Bogus_Detour/
  14. ^ abc'Serious Sam Origins, a Croteam backed indie...'Croteam. 13 October 2013 – via Facebook.

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