Serious Sam franchise

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The Serious Sam franchise is a series of fast-paced, arcade-style first-person shooter games known for overwhelming hordes of enemies, large open arenas, and a tongue-in-cheek, over-the-top tone.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Serious Sam 1
Serious Sam Stone 1
Serious Sam franchise canonical 1

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Statements (73)

Predicate Object
instanceOf first-person shooter franchise
video game franchise
countryOfOrigin Croatia
creator Croteam
designPhilosophy emphasis on large enemy counts over complex AI
focus on arena-style combat
developer Croteam
enemyFaction Mental's forces
firstRelease Serious Sam: The First Encounter
firstReleaseDate 2001
gameplayElement circle-strafing combat
cooperative multiplayer
large-scale battles
secret areas
wave-based enemy attacks
genre action
arcade-style shooter
first-person shooter
hasMainSeriesEntry Serious Sam 2
Serious Sam 3: BFE
Serious Sam 4
Serious Sam: The First Encounter
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
hasSpinOff Serious Sam 3: BFE
surface form: Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE

Serious Sam Double D
Serious Sam Double D
surface form: Serious Sam Double D XXL

Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter
Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope
Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter
Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack!
Serious Sam: The Random Encounter
influencedBy classic shooters like Doom
classic shooters like Quake
knownFor minimalistic storytelling
one-liner jokes
retro-style run-and-gun gameplay
mainCharacter Serious Sam franchise self-linksurface differs
surface form: Serious Sam Stone
notableEnemy Beheaded Kamikaze
Gnaar
Headless Kamikaze
Kleer Skeleton
notableFeature fast-paced gameplay
large open arenas
over-the-top humor
overwhelming hordes of enemies
tongue-in-cheek tone
notableMode local co-op
online co-op
single-player
notableRelease Serious Sam: The First Encounter
surface form: Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter

Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
surface form: Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
notableWeapon double-barreled shotgun
minigun
rocket launcher
platform Nintendo GameCube
surface form: GameCube

Linux
Windows
surface form: Microsoft Windows

Nintendo Switch
PC
PlayStation 2
Sony PlayStation 3
surface form: PlayStation 3

PlayStation 4
Xbox
Xbox 360
Xbox One
macOS
protagonist Sam "Serious" Stone
publisher Devolver Digital
Gathering of Developers
setting science fiction
targetAudience fans of old-school shooters
visualStyle cartoonish violence
colorful

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Doom franchise (via id Software) influenced Serious Sam franchise
subject surface form: Doom franchise
Doom II: Hell on Earth influenced Serious Sam franchise
this entity surface form: Serious Sam
Serious Sam franchise mainCharacter Serious Sam franchise self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Serious Sam Stone