Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, the highly anticipated arcade action FPS sequel to the Serious Sam: The First Encounter, is a high-adrenaline arcade-action shooter heavily focused on frantic arcade-style…
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter is an indie developed by Croteam, released 24 January 2002 on PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $1.19 at GOG. This page lists 5 cheat codes for it.
What Serious Sam: The Second Encounter is
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter is an indie game developed by Croteam and released in 2002. It was published by Gathering of Developers. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Serious Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter is a 2002 first-person shooter game developed by Croteam and published by Gathering of Developers. It is the successor to Serious Sam: The First Encounter and the second game in the Serious Sam series. Taking place immediately after The First Encounter, it follows the soldier Sam "Serious" Stone, whose spaceship crashes back to Earth on his way from ancient Egypt to Sirius, requiring him to seek the Holy Grail to continue his journey. As Sam, the player traverses linear levels, either enclosed or set on open plains, and battles increasingly large waves of enemies with an expanding arsenal. The gameplay builds on that of The First Encounter while adding…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
How it was received
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter holds a critic score of 91 out of 100. That places it above 97% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 23 points above the year average. Players rate it 85, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 17 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 24 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $1.19, that works out to about $0.07 per hour of the main story, or $0.05 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD K6-3 400MHz, Pentium II or Celeron-A 300MHz, 64MB of RAM and full OpenGL compliant 3D accelerator. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.19 at GOG, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter launched on 24 January 2002, within three weeks of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Metal Slug 4, La Pucelle Tactics and Star Wars: Racer Revenge. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Metal Slug 4, La Pucelle Tactics, Star Wars: Racer Revenge.
Cheats and codes
We have tested and published 5 cheat entries for Serious Sam: The Second Encounter — 5 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.
Official trailer
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Every code labelled
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter cheat codes
Open the console
Opens the command console. Cheats must be enabled in the options menu first.
Press the tilde key during play.
God mode
You take no damage.
Open the console and type the command.
All weapons
Gives every weapon and full ammunition.
Open the console and type the command.
Fly
Move freely in any direction.
Open the console and type the command.
Dlc
Remasters
Quick answers
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