GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. When Serious Sam: The First Encounter quietly appeared in 2001, it was a real breath of fresh air. The game delivered fantastic-looking, incredibly ...

The PlayStation 5 has a seriously impressive solid state drive, with read speeds of at least 5.5 GB/s. This has, in my experience with the system thus far, resulted in games that load within just a ...

Monster Mania is a weekly column celebrating the unique and varied monster designs in horror gaming. If you were to describe Serious Sam in a word, “Serious” would be at the very bottom of the list.

Developer Croteam has released patch 1.07 for Serious Sam 4, including a Christmas event and performance upgrades. Along with some expected game fixes, the event allows players to decorate a Christmas ...

Chetan Shekar is a marketing professional from Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India. His favorite games include Half-Life, Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, Warcraft, Starcraft, Darkstalkers, Marvel ...

Scott just graduated from Law School. But he didn't let that stop him from gaming, a hobby that he has stuck with ever since he received his NES at age 5. His favorites are Metal Gear Solid, OutRun, ...

God, Who Writes This Stuff? It's less than a year since Serious Sam : The First Encounter was unleashed on to an unsuspecting public, and the arrival so soon of a second game in the series may have ...

A big difference from Croteam’s first VR game, Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope (2017), is the inclusion of artificial locomotion so you can explore the game’s expansive levels in the same vein as ...

Flying in the face of the ever-increasing sophistication of first-person shooters, a little developer called Croteam decided to make an FPS the way they used to be made. The original Serious Sam was a ...

The Xbox version retains the original games' off-the-chart intensity levels, and Serious Sam--which was always an arcade game at heart--feels right at home on Microsoft's powerful console. Serious Sam ...

"Dumb fun" is easy to take for granted. There's a natural tendency to assume that any game which favours action over depth is working at this level, but that underestimates just how smart game design ...

Gameplay Serious Sam isn't to be confused with a thinking man's FPS like Medal of Honor or Halo. Instead, Sam is more of a reaction shooter like Doom. Your goal is to run around and kill everything in ...