Serious Sam is a part of my life and it is without a doubt my favorite game series.
As a player with thousands of hours of gameplay in Campaign mode , i can say that Serious Sam : Revolution is the best option to play the Classic version of the First and Second Encounter.
The reasons of playing the Revolution version are multiple and i will count right here:
- One of the most important reasons is containing both first and second encounter in a single game
- This version has Full HD resolution (1920x1080) and it was optimized for modern PC , along with split screen for multiplayer gameplay with maximum of 4 players.
- Along with Both Encounters , Revolution comes with a new campaign called Bright Island made by the studio Aligator Pit and later optimized by Croteam.
- 3 new weapons were added in the game hidden in the Serious Sam levels (Beam Gun "Ghostbuster which is a laser beam weapon for close-range encounters and can be found in the Alley of the Sphinxes in First Encounter, the Destructive Minelayer , a weapon that launches explosive mine traps which can be triggered by enemies stepping in the mines or by activating the mines which is found in the Land of the Damned in Second Encounter and the CDF-ST-005 Plasmathrower , an energy weapon pretty similar with XL2 Lasergun but with a slower fire rate and it has an alternate fire, it fires powerful plasma shots and it can be found in the Citadel in the Second Encounter.)
- Alligator Pit added Survival mode with 4 levels that can be played solo or in co-op mode.
- 2 new difficulties were added in the game , the Mental difficulty that was added from HD games which is literally Hard difficulty with invisible enemies and ball stretching I am Ugh-Zan difficulty which is Serious difficulty on Steroids with tougher enemies , and enemies that slows and burns the player.
- The introduction of Steam Workshop , that allows the Serious Sam players to make creative and mind-blowing mods and custom levels in order to try something new in the game.
- New enemies were added such as Beheaded-Commando , the Bio-mechanoid Spawner , Bio-mechanoid Dominant (a cannonball throwing freak) , elemental golems and Elder Arachnoid.
- The most significant of the changes is a greatly-expanded versus mode. They added Capture the Flag and Control Zone from Seriously Warped Deathmatch, along with Serious Sam HD's Insta-Kill mode, in order to give versus players a lot more options.
In conclusion , Serious Sam : Revolution is a better way to have fun in the gorgeous classic version of the Serious Sam First and Second Encounter and not that , but trying to play a variety of new custom levels and learning to create mods by using the Serious Editor.

Serious Sam is a part of my life and it is without a doubt my favorite game series. As a player with thousands of hours of gameplay in Campaign mode , i can say that Serious Sam : Revolution is the best option to play the Classic version of the First and Second Encounter. The reasons of playing the Revolution version are multiple and i will count right here: - One of the most important reasons is containing both first and second encounter in a single game - This version has Full HD resolution (1920x1080) and it was optimized for modern PC , along with split screen for multiplayer gameplay with maximum of 4 players. - Along with Both Encounters , Revolution comes with a new campaign called Bright Island made by the studio Aligator Pit and later optimized by Croteam. - 3 new weapons were added in the game hidden in the Serious Sam levels (Beam Gun "Ghostbuster which is a laser beam weapon for close-range encounters and can be found in the Alley of the Sphinxes in First Encounter, the Destructive Minelayer , a weapon that launches explosive mine traps which can be triggered by enemies stepping in the mines or by activating the mines which is found in the Land of the Damned in Second Encounter and the CDF-ST-005 Plasmathrower , an energy weapon pretty similar with XL2 Lasergun but with a slower fire rate and it has an alternate fire, it fires powerful plasma shots and it can be found in the Citadel in the Second Encounter.) - Alligator Pit added Survival mode with 4 levels that can be played solo or in co-op mode. - 2 new difficulties were added in the game , the Mental difficulty that was added from HD games which is literally Hard difficulty with invisible enemies and ball stretching I am Ugh-Zan difficulty which is Serious difficulty on Steroids with tougher enemies , and enemies that slows and burns the player. - The introduction of Steam Workshop , that allows the Serious Sam players to make creative and mind-blowing mods and custom levels in order to try something new in the game. - New enemies were added such as Beheaded-Commando , the Bio-mechanoid Spawner , Bio-mechanoid Dominant (a cannonball throwing freak) , elemental golems and Elder Arachnoid. - The most significant of the changes is a greatly-expanded versus mode. They added Capture the Flag and Control Zone from Seriously Warped Deathmatch, along with Serious Sam HD's Insta-Kill mode, in order to give versus players a lot more options. In conclusion , Serious Sam : Revolution is a better way to have fun in the gorgeous classic version of the Serious Sam First and Second Encounter and not that , but trying to play a variety of new custom levels and learning to create mods by using the Serious Editor.