Serious Sam: The Second Encounter (2002)
The second encounter with Mental's hordes, powered by Croteam's custom Serious Engine.
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter is a 2002 first-person shooter video game developed by Croteam. It is the second game in the Serious Sam series and uses the proprietary Serious Engine created by Croteam.
Quick Facts
- Developer
- Croteam (Zagreb, Croatia)
- Publisher
- GD Interactive
- Release year
- 2002
- Engine
- Serious Engine
- Primary platform
- PC (Windows)
- Genre
- First-person shooter
- Protagonist
- Sam 'Serious' Stone
Lore & Background
The series follows the advances of Sam 'Serious' Stone against Mental, an extraterrestrial overlord who attempts to destroy humanity at various points in time.
Reader's Guide
The game uses the Serious Engine, which supports extremely large environments with virtual view distances of over a kilometre, physics support, and the capability of rendering up to a hundred enemies on screen at a time. The engine was designed to run on low-end computers using original Pentium CPUs.
Did You Know?
- The engine incorporated features from Duke Nukem 3D (up-and-down freelook) and Quake (fully 3D rendered environment) to remain competitive.
- The engine used object path caching and approximated environments with spheres for collision detection, enabling multidirectional gravity in secret areas.
- Serious Sam is voiced by John Dick.
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