After finding a way off planet at the end of the first game Serious Sam promptly crashed back on Earth, but at least it was nowhere near ancient Egypt. It wasn’t exactly Shakespeare, but seeing as the story was an excuse to throw lots of enemies at a heavily-armed player it didn’t need to be. Serious Sam: The First Encounter told the “story” of Sam Stone, last hope of Earth against the overwhelming might of alien overlord Mental’s twisted freakshow horde. In this case, it moves us to Serious Sam: Second Encounter VR, which is as big, explosive and ridiculous as it’s ever been except now the player is inside it all. It’s a circle of life, and it moves us all. The remasters paved the way for Serious Sam 3, VR allowed for the creation of Serious Sam: The Last Hope and fan desire to move around The Last Hope‘s maps led to experimenting with VR in the HD remasters. It had an amazing engine for the time, capable of rendering huge areas and populating them with tons of enemies, but not so amazing that the HD remasters a few years back didn’t need to rebuild everything from scratch. Serious Sam: The Second Encounter came out only a year after The First Encounter, way back in 2002, and like the first it was a mere $20 for some of the finest Doom-style first-person shooting available. Serious Sam is known for shooting up Egypt, but his best adventure actually started in Central America.
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