| 📰 Title: | Serious Sam 3: BFE | 🕹️ / 🛠️ Type: | Game |
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| 🗃️ Genre: | Adventure & Action | 👁️ Visual: | 3D |
| 🏷️ Category: | Adventure & Action ➤ FPS ➤ Fantasy & Sci-fi ➤ Serious Sam | 🏝️ Perspective: | Third & First person |
| 🔖 Tags: | FPS; Adventure; Aliens; Sci-fi; Gore; Comedy; Time travel; Egypt; Co-op; Local Multi; Local Co-op; Split Screen; Funny; Difficult; Controller | ⏱️ Pacing: | Real Time |
| 🐣️ Approx. start: | 2011-11-22 | 👫️ Played: | Single & Multi |
| 🐓️ Latest: | 2013-08-28 | 🚦 Status: | 04. Released (status) |
| 📍️ Version: | Latest: 20130828 | ❤️ Like it: | 9. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License type: | 💰 Commercial | 🎀️ Quality: | 7. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License: | Commercial | ✨️ (temporary): | |
| 🐛️ Created: | 2013-01-18 | 🐜️ Updated: | 2024-10-10 |
| 📰 What's new?: | 👻️ Temporary: | ||
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| 💡 Lights on: | 🎨️ Significant improvement: | ||
| 👔️ Already shown: | 💭️ New version published (to be updated): | ||
| 🎖️ This work: |  |
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| 👫️ Contrib.: | goupildb & Louis | 🦺️ Work in progress: | |
| 🎰️ ID: | 12775 |
| 📜️[en]: | A prequel to Serious Sam: The First Encounter, a humorous tone FPS with fierce, fast-paced combat. It's a glorious throwback to the golden age of first-person shooters, when men were men, only amateurs took cover and pulling the trigger blew everything up. The action takes place during Earth's final struggle against Mental's legions of beasts and mercenaries, amidst the ruined temples of an ancient civilization and the decadent Egyptian cities of the 22nd century. | 📜️[fr]: | Un préquel de Serious Sam: The First Encounter, un FPS au ton humoristique avec des combats féroces et rapides. C'est un glorieux retour à l'âge d'or des jeux de tir à la première personne, où les hommes étaient des hommes, où seuls les amateurs se mettaient à couvert et où appuyer sur la détente faisait tout exploser. L'action se déroule pendant la lutte finale de la Terre contre les légions de bêtes et de mercenaires de Mental, au milieu des temples en ruine d'une ancienne civilisation et les cites égyptiennes décadentes du 22ème siècle. |
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🕹️ Title: Serious Sam 3: BFE
🦊️ What's: A prequel to Serious Sam: TFE, a humorous tone FPS with fierce, fast-paced combat
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📚️ Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel to Serious Sam: The First Encounter, a humorous tone FPS with fierce, fast-paced combat. It's a glorious throwback to the golden age of first-person shooters, when men were men, only amateurs took cover and pulling the trigger blew everything up. The action takes place during Earth's final struggle against Mental's legions of beasts and mercenaries, amidst the ruined temples of an ancient civilization and the decadent Egyptian cities of the 22nd century.
📜️ "A prequel to Serious Sam: TFE, a humorous tone FPS with fierce, fast-paced combat" 📜️
Steam:
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a first-person action shooter, a glorious throwback to the golden age of first-person shooters where men were men, cover was for amateurs and pulling the trigger made things go boom.
Serving as a prequel to the original indie and Game of the Year sensation, Serious Sam: The First Encounter, Serious Sam 3 takes place during the Earth’s final struggle against Mental’s invading legions of beasts and mercenaries.
Key Features
✅️ Frantic Arcade-Style Action – Hold down the trigger and lay waste to a never-ending onslaught of attackers or face being overrun by Mental’s savage beasts. No cover systems, no camping – it’s just you against them. All of them!
✅️ Fearsome Enemy Creatures – A new battalion of unforgettable minions including the rumbling Scrapjack and towering Khnum join the legendary Headless Kamikaze, Gnaar and Sirian Werebull to create the fiercest opposition you’ve ever had the pleasure of mowing down!
✅️ Spectacular Environments – Battle across the expansive battlefields of near-future Egypt bursting at the seams with total chaos. The shattered cities of tomorrow lined with the crumbling temples of an ancient world become your destructible playground!
✅️ Destructive Arsenal – Unleash Serious Sam’s arsenal of weapons including a scoped assault rifle, the double-barreled shotgun, the explosive automatic shotgun, the punishing minigun, and the almighty barrage of flaming cannonballs! Carry all of Sam’s weapons at once and switch between each gun on the fly for maximum firepower!
✅️ Brutal Melee Attacks – When the going get’s tough, the tough take matters into their own hands! Rip out the eye of a closing Gnaar, twist off the face of the hideous Scrapjack or snap the neck of an Arachnoid Hatchling for an instant kill!
✅️ Co-Op Multiplayer – Go to war against Mental’s horde with up to 16 players online and annihilate everything that moves across 12 single-player levels of mayhem in Standard Co-Op, Classic Co-Op, Coin-Op Co-Op, Beast Hunt and Team Beast Hunt mode.
✅️ Survival Singleplayer & Multiplayer – Try to survive alone (offline) against wave after wave of enemies with specially created levels in Survival mode or have your online friends join two teams, fighting both each other and enemies, in the relentless Team Survival mode!
✅️ Versus Multiplayer – Fight against each other or other teams in various multiplayer versus modes like Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Last Man Standing, Last Team Standing, Instant Kill and My Burden, along with Team Beast Hunt and Team Survival!
✅️ Split Screen Modes – Play local (offline) split screen co-op and multiplayer versus modes with up to four players on one screen! It even includes the support for multiple keyboards and mice!
✅️ Level Editor* – Create your own levels, MODs, textures and other content with the inclusion of the fully featured Serious Editor 3.5!
✅️ Steam Workshop – Submit your content creation or download new player-created content and modifications for Serious Sam 3!
✅️ Misc Game Options – 5 difficulty levels, quick-save, auto-save, multiple save slots, 3rd person view, co-op gameplay tweaking options, game controller support, localized with subtitles, parental blood & gore control including hippie mode, various color schemes, tons of advanced graphics options to tweak, cheats, console, Steam trading cards, achievements, leaderboards and cloud and much, much more!
* This item is only available on PC
🌍️ Wikipedia:
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a first-person shooter video game developed by Croatia-based indie development studio Croteam and published by Devolver Digital. It is part of the Serious Sam series and the prequel to the 2001 video game, Serious Sam. The game takes place in 22nd-century Egypt, during Mental's invasion on Earth, as implied in The First Encounter. The game features a 16-player online, as well as 4-player splitscreen co-op campaign mode. The game was first released for Microsoft Windows on 22 November 2011. The OS X support for the game followed shortly after and was released on 23 April 2012. The Linux version of the game started being worked on after a high number of requests, where the first Linux-related update was the porting of the game's dedicated server. The game itself, however, was released one day after Valve opened the beta branch for "Steam for Linux", namely 20 December 2012.
Gameplay

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Like previous titles in the series, Serious Sam 3: BFE involves fighting against many hordes of enemies in wide-open environments. However Serious Sam 3 has more closed environments than its predecessors, particularly in the early levels. There are also a larger number of enemies that can attack the player from a distance.
The player can carry an unlimited number of weapons, including a minigun, rocket launcher, assault rifle and a cannon. There are 13 weapons in total, five of which have a manual reload. The signature close-combat weapons from the first game, the knife and chainsaw, have been replaced with a sledgehammer with three modes of attack (vertical strike, 180 turn and full 360 turn).
In the style of old-fashioned first-person shooters, there is no regenerating health, instead there are health and armor power-ups scattered throughout the levels that the player must pick up. Additionally, the levels are full of secret areas, where health, armor, ammo and in some cases, weapons from later levels can be found, following the tradition of the previous games. Some weapons such as the Lasergun and the Sniper Rifle and their respective ammunition pickups are in fact secret-only, and otherwise are not found in the levels normally. There are no puzzles, however the player must find keys, pull levers and find environmental anomalies to progress.
Classic enemies such as the Beheaded Kamikaze, Beheaded Rocketeer and Kleer Skeleton return in the game. New ones include the Khnum and Scrapjack (resembling the Hell Knight and Mancubus from Doom, respectively), as well as the cloned soldiers reminiscent of the Strogg from the Quake series. The Kamikaze has returned to his original design, rather than the Serious Sam 2 design. The Gnaar's design has radically been changed from the original game. It is now much larger, differently shaped and walks on all fours, unlike its bipedal counterpart in Serious Sam.
Serious Sam 3 features some new gameplay mechanics such as sprinting and iron sights. Unlike most other FPS games that have sprinting, you are able to sprint as much as you want, but cannot attack while sprinting. The pistol and assault rifle have the ability to aim down sights, which increases accuracy but only slightly. The player moves slower while aiming down the sight, making it impractical at close range. The player can perform hand kills or kick enemies to conserve ammo, depending on the weapon selected. For example, a Gnaar's eyeball can be ripped out or an Antaresian Spider's shell can be broken.
Plot
Serious Sam 3: BFE serves as a prequel to the original Serious Sam: The First Encounter and depicts the events on Earth before Sam's journey into the past. Prior to AD 2060, humanity had slowly begun uncovering artifacts and ruins left behind in ancient times by the Sirians, the famous and long-thought extinct race from the place of Sirius. Unfortunately, Mental has chosen this time to turn his attention upon Earth. He dispatches his space fleet carrying his endless hordes to attack Earth, leading a three-year conquest that has humanity driven almost to the point of extinction. In a last-ditch effort, the survivors turn to the Time-Lock, a recently excavated device supposedly capable of granting a single person the ability of time travel via an inter-dimensional portal. Through it, that person could reach a pivotal point in time and alter events of the past. But as the device lies dormant, they must first discover a means to turn it on.
Sam "Serious" Stone, part of the Earth Defense force, is dispatched with a detachment of soldiers in Alpha team to modern Egypt, which is occupied by Mental's alien army. Their original mission is to recon, rendezvous and extract Bravo team who are protecting Dr Stein, a scientist carrying hieroglyphics believed to contain instructions for powering up the Time-Lock. Sam's insertion goes haywire as his chopper is shot down and both teams are quickly wiped out. However, he is able to recover the hieroglyphics from Stein's phone in the museum and transmit them to headquarters. Deciphering indicates there is a hidden Sirian chamber below the Great Pyramid. Sam clears himself a path to a tunnel underneath the Sphinx and descends into the Pyramid. He not only discovers the hidden chamber, but recovers crucial information and a bracelet device from the remains of what might have been Earth's last Sirian.
In order to power the Time-Lock, two dormant but incredibly powerful plasma-energy generators need to be activated. Hellfire from Charlie team inserts Sam to bring both online. This is slowly accomplished and Team Charlie is staged to enter the Time-Lock. Sam is relieved of duty and in the process of being extracted from Cairo, but is shot down once again and is forced to flee towards the lost ruins of Nubia. Traversing through more tombs, Sam gets back in touch with Hellfire and learns that Mental's forces have overrun the human military and killed them all shortly before dying herself. Now determined to finish what the Sirians has started, Sam vows to use the Time-Lock himself and kill Mental in the past before he can destroy humanity in the present. Sam then makes one last travel to Hatshepsut Temple, where the Time-Lock is located. The struggle to this destination ends with Sam killing Ugh-Zan IV, the father of Ugh-Zan III from Serious Sam: The First Encounter. With Ugh-Zan IV dead, the Time-Lock then activates, displaying an inter-dimensional portal to 3000 B.C., the timeline where the Sirians became extinct. Sam calls Mental on Stein's phone and is answered by Mental's daughter, Judy. She tells him that Mental is planning to "moon" him. Sam notices the Moon plummeting rapidly within Earth's atmosphere and escapes through the Time-Lock to 3000 B.C. as the Moon impacts Earth, destroying the planet.
Copy protection
The game features Steamworks DRM and a complex system of custom checks as part of its copy protection system. If the game code detects what it believes to be an unauthorised copy, it alters gameplay to make play exceedingly difficult. An invincible arachnoid is spawned: this creature can charge at high speed, melee attack, and attacks from a range with twin chainguns.
Marketing and release
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Un FPS au ton humoristique et un préquel de Serious Sam : The First Encounter, par le studio Croteam.
Serious Sam 3: BFE (Before the First Encounter) est un préquel de Serious Sam: The First Encounter, un FPS au ton humoristique avec des combats féroces et rapides. C'est un glorieux retour à l'âge d'or des jeux de tir à la première personne, où les hommes étaient des hommes, où seuls les amateurs se mettaient à couvert et où appuyer sur la détente faisait tout exploser. L'action se déroule pendant la lutte finale de la Terre contre les légions de bêtes et de mercenaires de Mental, au milieu des temples en ruine d'une ancienne civilisation et les cites égyptiennes décadentes du 22ème siècle.
Steam:
Serious Sam 3: BFE est un glorieux retour à l'âge d'or des jeux de tir à la première personne, où les hommes étaient des hommes, où seuls les amateurs se mettaient à couvert et où appuyer sur la détente faisait tout exploser. Servant de prédécesseur au fameux jeu Serious Sam : Premier Contact, Serious Sam 3 se déroule pendant la lutte finale de la Terre contre les légions de bêtes et de mercenaires de Mental. Prenant place au milieu des temples en ruine d'une ancienne civilisation et les cites égyptiennes décadentes du 22ème siècle, Serious Sam 3 rassemble les combats féroces et rapides des grands classiques et des dernières nouveautés du genre.
PAS DE COUVERTURE. TOUS ENSEMBLE.
Caractéristiques principales
✅️ Un jeu d'arcade frénétique – Appuyez sur la détente et éliminez des vagues constantes d'attaquants ou soyez envahi par les bêtes sauvages de Mental. Il n'y a pas de système de couverture, ne restez jamais immobile - Il n'y a que vous contre eux. Eux tous.
✅️ Les légions redoutables de Mental – Un nouveau bataillon de serviteurs inoubliables comme les Scrapjack et les Khnum se joignent aux légendaires Kamikaze sans tête, au Gnaar et au taureau-garou Sirien pour constituer la force d'opposition la plus féroce qu'il vous soit donné d’éliminer.
✅️ Des environnements spectaculaires – Battez-vous à travers les champs de bataille égyptiens gigantesques d'une Égypte du futur proche au bord de l'annihilation totale. Les villes détruites de demain et les temples en ruine d'un ancien monde deviennent votre terrain de jeu destructible.
✅️ Arsenal destructif – Déchaînez les feux de l'enfer avec l'arsenal de Serious Sam comprenant, entre autre, un fusil à lunette, le fusil à pompe à deux canons, le fusil à pompe automatique explosif, la terrible minigun, ou encore le puissant barrage de boulets de canons. Transportez tout l'arsenal avec vous et faites votre choix en fonction de l'adversité.
✅️ Attaques au corps à corps brutales – Lorsque ça craint, il est temps de passer aux choses sérieuses. Arrachez l’œil d'un Gnaar, explosez la figure d'un horrible Scrapjack, ou brisez la nuque d'une jeune Arachnoïde.
✅️ Chaos en Co-Op – Partez en guerre contre les forces de Mental avec jusqu'à 16 joueurs en ligne et tirez sur tout ce qui bouge dans 13 niveaux. Essayez de repousser les vagues ennemies en mode Survie ou participez au mode Chasse aux monstres (Beast hunt) !
✅️ Pur chaos en mode multijoueur – Lancez-vous contre les meilleurs dans les modes compétitifs tels que "Match à mort", "Capture du drapeau", "Dernière équipe debout", ou bien "Mon fardeau". Voici le dernier né des jeux multijoueurs Serious Sam, et l'enfer tout entier s'offre à vous...
✅️ Modes écran partagés – Mode Coopératif ou Versus jusqu'à 4 joueurs sur le même écran. Eh, arrête de regarder mon écran !
🌍️ Wikipedia:
Serious Sam 3 (nom complet Serious Sam 3 : BFE) est un jeu vidéo de tir à la première personne sorti le 22 novembre 2011 sur PC, le 17 octobre 2012 sur Xbox 360, et prévu pour sortir sur PlayStation 3 à une date indéterminée. Développé par Croteam il intègre le moteur graphique Serious Engine 3. L'histoire de cet opus se déroule avant le premier titre de la série, Serious Sam : Premier Contact.
Système de jeu
Serious Sam 3 reprend les codes de ses prédécesseurs, les niveaux étant pour la plupart largement ouverts et nous mettant face à de multiples hordes ennemies. La vie ne se régénère pas automatiquement, mais grâce à des bonus de santé et d'armure dispersés à travers les niveaux. Enfin, tout comme pour ses prédécesseurs, le titre regorge de zones secrètes contenant pour l'écrasante majorité d'entre elles des munitions, de la vie ou de l'armure supplémentaire.
Quelques ennemis font leur première apparition dans cet épisode, tel que le Khnum, le Scrapjack ainsi que les soldats clonés. Le design de certains ennemis a été modifié, c'est par exemple le cas du Gnaar qui se déplace dorénavant sur quatre pattes.
Le titre introduit de nouvelles mécaniques, plus communes aux jeux de tir à la première personne actuels, tel que la possibilité de sprinter ou de viser à la mire, mais aussi l'obligation de recharger avec certaines armes.
Enfin, de nouvelles armes ont été introduites avec cet épisode :
• Masse : il s'agit de la première arme que le joueur obtient dans le jeu.
• SOP38 : pistolet semi-automatique.
• M29 : fusil d'assaut se rapprochant d'un HK416 au niveau de l'apparence. Il remplace le Thompson.
• C-4 : charge explosive jetable.
• A-24 Devastator : fusil automatique tirant des obus explosifs.
• Le mutilateur syrien : un lasso.
Développement
Le nouveau moteur, Serious Engine 3 , supporte totalement l'éclairage pixel par pixel ainsi que l'ombrage (incluant les shadowbuffers) et fournit une accélération de la carte graphique pour les cartes fortement éclairées. Le moteur comprendra aussi une technologie créée spécialement pour augmenter les performances sur des processeurs multicœurs ainsi qu'un soutien intégré au jeu pour les models d'actions/du jeu, ce qui leur permettra d'interagir naturellement avec d'autres objets physiques.[réf. nécessaire]
Accueil
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