Serious Sam: First Encounter, Serious Mode Playthrough - Lvl 10, Metropolis, Complete

** Please watch at 1440 HD resolution for best picture -- KZbin has overcompressed the video at 1080p and below, resulting in unpleasant digital artifacting. **
Playlist with the other videos in this series is here: • Serious Sam: First Enc...
For my complete Serious Mode playthrough of the sequel, Second Encounter, go here: • Serious Sam: Second En...
This is a complete playthrough of level 10 -- Metropolis -- on Serious Mode difficulty, without saving or dying.
Highlights:
This is probably my favorite level in the game. It is slow to start, but once you reach the long alley area after 19:00 the level gets much more interesting and fun.
8:48: Courtyard fight with multiple Reptiloids, Kleers and an adult Arachnoid.
10:50: This is the most annoying area of the level because you have to work your way forward very slowly. Multiple enemy triggers at predetermined points and every time you pick up a scarab means you can't just grab them all and go.
19:20: Blowing up that wall to get the secret SBC Cannon makes this level a LOT easier, especially the Death Alley sections and final arena.
22:31: A huge wave of Kleers.
26:58: Death Alley, wave 1: Werebulls, with a few Kleers mixed in.
28:44: Death Alley, wave 2: Truly ridiculous numbers of Kleers. One of my favorite fights in the game.
31:18: Death Alley, wave 3: Kleers, part 2. This time they spawn just two at a time, easy to handle with the Coach Gun if you want, but they will keep coming for a very very long time (I think about 5 minutes), unless you short-circuit it like I do here by running close enough to the end of the alley to trigger the gates opening. That stops the wave prematurely.
Final Arena:
31:59: Wave 1: Kamikazes! "They never learn."
34:35: Wave 2: A billion Witch-Harpies! Unfortunately after killing the last one I happened to be standing right on the spot where the backpack to start the next wave spawns, triggering it before I was really ready. "That's right, it's all in the wrist!"
36:16: Wave 3: Werebulls!" The secret cannon comes in VERY handy here. "Now that's a lotta bull!"
37:54: Wave 4: Major biomechs and a ton of kleers. Towards the end you can see me panicking as I get backed into a corner but I manage to fight my way out. Sam's "Yeeeeeha!" shout is for the final gate opening, but you can't see that because I'm too busy fighting. In retrospect, I should have used up all my lasergun ammo in this section, it would have made things much easier and you lose all your ammo at the end of this level anyway.
Notes on the video:
I originally played and recorded these demos back in 2001, just after Serious Sam: The First Encounter was released. At the time I was an active member of the Serious Zone community site for Serious Sam fans, and was inspired by Dave Parson, who had posted his own set of Serious-mode complete-level playthroughs, so I recorded this set of demos of me doing the same.
The demos were originally uploaded to (and are still hosted on) the Serious Sam community site www.seriouszone... , now mostly defunct , but I'm now uploading these to KZbin because the original demo files required 1) that you actually have the game to play them, and 2) that you have the out-of-the-box, unpatched version of the game as well. If you had upgraded to the patched version of the game, several of the demos were unplayable past a certain point, so here you can see the levels played from start to finish as I originally recorded them.
Since the game has been remade in HD, almost no one plays the original Classic version of the game anymore, but I wanted these not to be lost to time.

[@lokanathrout1735]

Master player

[@dslartoo]

Thanks!

[@nooraldeen_2004]

Interesting video, my brother, please, can you provide a link to download this game? I hope for a response, because I searched a lot, and I did not find a way to download it via steame

[@dslartoo]

Searching for "Serious Sam" should turn it up, but here is the store page for SE Classic First Encounter specifically: store.steampowered.com/app/41050/Serious_Sam_Classic_The_First_Encounter/

[@nooraldeen_2004]

@@dslartoo Thank you very much

[@ridvan813]

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